Nation and Immigration

Nation of Origin Bias and the Enforcement of Immigration Laws by the Immigration and Naturalization Service

The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is charged with the task of administering citizenship requests, providing for the proper documentation of temporary foreign workers, and apprehending illegal aliens. The apprehension of illegals, the most controversial duty of the INS, has placed the agency squarely in the headlines. The recent raid to seize Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relative...

National Security and Immigration

This paper considers the relationship between economic factors and national security. While considering a broad number of issue areas, the principal theme of the course is the way in which economic factors (as immigration) fundamentally influence the national security of the region, and the way in which those factors shape and constrain the strategies chosen to pursue that security. South-South...

The Global Welfare and Poverty Effects of Rich Nation Immigration Barriers

Most rich nations maintain very tight restrictions on immigration despite widespread opening of trade and international capital flows since World War II. This paper uses a two-region, one-sector, dynastic growth model with a continuum of skills to assess the welfare effects and poverty implications of these barriers. Similar to other global studies of migration, I find that rich nation migratio...

Immigration Policy and Immigration Flows: A Comparative Analysis of Immigration Law in the U.S. and Argentina

Effects of immigration on malaria incidence and its foci classification

Introduction: Population movement and immigration from malarious areas to non endemic will increase the risk of malaria transmission. Immigration could be lead to role back malaria and changing clear up to potential even residual active foci. The purpose of this study is the effect of foreign immigrant on the malaria incidence and focal malaria classification in Konarak County, Iran. Met...