New Immigration Articles from SSRN

Here are some new immigration articles from the Social Science Research Network (www.ssrn.com):

 “Citizenship at Work: An Australian Perspective” ‘Travail et citoyenneté: Quel Avenir?’ (WORK AND CITIZENSHIP. WHAT FUTURE?), pp. 71-108, M. Coutu, G. Murray, eds., Laval University Press, 2010 Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 11/17 RONALD MCCALLUM, University of Sydney – Faculty of Law.  ABSTRACT:  This paper analyzes the literature on industrial citizenship and unpacks its meaning through a process of categorisation. These categories are, aspirational citizenship, explanatory citizenship, welfare citizenship and global citizenship. The writings of Sidney and Beatrice Webb, Harold Lasky, and William B. Forebath represent aspirational citizenship. Explanatory Citizenship is gleaned from the labour law literature from Australia, the United States and Canada which has sought to explain the operation of their labour relations systems. If read broadly, these writers can be impliedly taken to endorse an approach to a type of industrial citizenship suitable for their nation. Welfare citizenship is explained through an examination of the seminal writings of T. H. Marshall and also through the recent work of Hugh Collins. In comprehending global citizenship, the writing of Linda Bosniak is examined. It is suggested that all writers on industrial citizenship argue that workers should receive fair wages and reasonable terms and conditions of employment, including protective legislation in the areas of unfair termination, privacy and occupational health and safety. More interesting, however, is the notion that industrial citizens should be given an input in to the processes of employer decision-making. It is also obvious that a re-working of industrial citizenship is essential to take account of the needs and aspirations of immigrant workers, of part-time and casual employees, of home workers, of labour hire employees, and of those workers who are receiving remuneration as independent contractors and consultants.

“Asylum Rights and Wrongs: What the Proposed Refugee Protection Act Will Do and What More Will Need to Be Done” Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. 38, No. 247, 2010 Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No. 2011-02 MICHELE PISTONE, Villanova University School of Law.  ABSTRACT: The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA) added major new restrictions to U.S. asylum law. Several other laws passed in the wake of 9/11 produced additional restrictions. Various proposals to modify or even eliminate the changes made by IIRIRA and the post-9/11 laws have been introduced over the years; the Refugee Protection Act of 2010 (RPA) is the most prominent recent example of these efforts. As this Article details, the RPA has much to commend within it, especially its proposed elimination of the one year deadline for asylum applications that was originally imposed by IIRIRA.

“Border-Crossing Stories and Masculinities” UC Davis Legal Studies Research Paper No. 247 LETICIA M. SAUCEDO, University of California, Davis – School of Law.  ABSTRACT:  In 2008, sociologist M. Cristina Morales and I visited Hidalgo, Mexico, the sending state of many of the workers in residential construction in Las Vegas, Nevada. This trip and the interviews we conducted were part of a larger project involving over 100 male and female workers who discussed with us their work conditions, their migration patterns, and their involvement in organizing or grievance efforts in the U.S. workplaces (Saucedo and Morales 2010). In Hidalgo, Mexico, we interviewed 32 male migrants who had worked in the United States and who had returned to their hometowns. Among the topics of conversation with these workers were discussions about their own migration and border crossing stories. By focusing on their border crossing stories, this chapter explores the behavioral responses of border crossing migrants between the United States and Mexico to restrictive immigration measures and to economic and social conditions. The stories explain the migration pattern and the reasons for it, and correspondingly, the reasons that individual immigrants journey across the border.

“Immigrants and Welfare Receipt in Ireland” IZA Discussion Paper No. 5516 ALAN M. BARRETT, Economic and Social Research Institute, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). CORONA JOYCE, affiliation not provided to SSRN. BERTRAND MAITRE, affiliation not provided to SSRN.  ABSTRACT: Since 2004, Ireland has included in its system of social welfare payments criteria for receipt which limit the extent to which immigrants can receive welfare payments. In this paper, we compare the rates of receipt of welfare for immigrants and natives to see if the outcome is consistent with the operation of this policy. Using data from 2008, we generally find lower rates of welfare receipt among immigrants. While the numbers of immigrants claiming unemployment-related payments surged at the outset of the recession, there appears to have been a quicker stabilisation in the number of immigrants claiming such benefits relative to natives, based on official data from 2007 to 2010. This would be consistent with the on-going implementation of the type of criteria introduced in 2004.

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