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Panel on Survey Options for Estimating the Flow of Unauthorized Crossings at the U.S.-Mexican Border
Publisher
National Academies Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"The liberal legal ideal of protection of the individual against administrative detention without trial is embodied in the habeas corpus tradition. However, the use of detention to control immigration has gone from a wartime exception to normal practice, thus calling into question modern states' adherence to the rule of law. Daniel Wilsher traces how modern states have come to use long-term detention of immigrants without judicial control. He examines...
Author
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"This book explores how immigration laws, while aimed at discouraging undocumented migration, actually sustain it. It documents the circumstances that have caused previously documented migrants to become undocumented and explores the impact of their changing status on their families and on their own employment opportunities. The authors argue that undocumented migrants are forced into the most precarious types of work, and changes in the way that...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Language
English
Description
"Illicit work, social security fraud, economic crime, and other shadow economy activities are fast becoming an international problem. This second edition uses new data to reassess currency demand and the model approach to estimate the size of the shadow economy in seventy-six developing, transition, and OECD countries. This updated edition argues that during the 2000s the average size of a shadow economy varied from 19% of GDP for OECD, to 30% for...