Updated through 2012 with all-new material in every chapter, Schain's book provides a detailed, comparative look at the policies that drive and inform immigration politics in three Western countries, and shows how immigration policy has political sources far beyond labor market needs.

MARTIN SCHAIN Director of the Center for European Studies and a professor of Politics at New York University, USA.

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