ROUTLEDGE TRANSNATIONAL CRIME AND CORRUPTION

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This is the first book in English to examine irregular migration from former Soviet states to the United States. It discusses reasons for migration: the profile of migrants: how the process works how migrants obtain U.S. visas: where they work once arrived: and if they intend to return home.This book is the first in English to examine irregular migration from postSoviet states focusing in particular on migration to the United States. Due to globalization and the end of the Cold War citizens of the former Soviet Union are on the move as never before. The political economic and social changes that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in widespread poverty and unemployment and also created a large pool of potential migrants. Thousands of individuals from poor postSoviet countries migrate to the West in search of betterpaid work in an effort to provide for themselves and their families both through legal channels and in their absence illegally. In recent years immigration has become a topic of heated debate in many Western countries: the estimated number of undocumented immigrants in the United States has reached 11 million precipitating a new legislative focus on reforming the immigration system culminating in the highly controversial Border Protection Antiterrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act passed by the House of Representatives in 2005 but eventually killed in the Senate. This book examines all these issues discussing the reasons for migration the profile of the migrants how the process of migration works and how the migrants obtain their U.S. visas where they work once in the United States and their intentions with regards to their possible return home. This book explores the reality of postSoviet migration where the mostly welleducated former professionals end up in lowwage unskilled jobs as domestic workers child care givers and construction workers sometimes in exploitative labor situations. Overall this book provides a detailed account of postSoviet illegal migration to the United States focusing in particular on Central Asian and Georgian migrants and will be of interest to scholars of US politics as well as Russia Central Asiaand the Caucasus specialists.1: Introduction 2: Kyrgyzstan Within A Central Asian Perspective: Historical Background And Migration Trends 3: Migration Policies In The United States And In Kyrgyzstan 4: Leaving The Homeland 5: In The Golden Land 6: Conclusion

Data Publikacji: 2009-08-20
Wymiary: 234 mm 156 mm 408 gr