Examples of immigration

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At the individual level, cultural and national identity, economic interests and the level of information about immigration are all important predictors of attitudes.
The results suggest that there is an interaction between comparative estimates of immigration levels and the absolute level of misperception of the immigrant population.
Moreover, the mere presence of anti-immigrant parties can push mainstream parties towards a tougher line on immigration for fear of being outflanked.
The survivors were seen as a useful political tool to obtain immediate immigration rights by capitalizing on international sympathy, and edging closer to statehood.
Immigration has become a highly salient political issue in many of the world's affluent democracies.
They did not seem to take into account that the play, among other things, denounced the exploitation often surrounding immigration.
Although population pressure, immigration and trade disrupted all the frontier regions, intelligent local policies could have prevented friction and forestalled revolt.
The first half of the new volume, which traces the story from the colonial period to the era of mass immigration, looks very familiar.
Intergenerational programs to address the challenge of immigration.
Instead, certain functional equivalents-such as the kangany system-organised immigration and coordinated supply and demand.
The dramatic rise in population suggests that immigration, as well as natural population growth, contributed to population levels in the region.
Immigration from those regions could therefore have accounted for an increase in seropositivity of approximately 0n76 % between 1986 and 1995.
However, it is probable that most seroconversions are due to vaccination and immigration rather than continuing viral transmission.
However, the pastor attributes the problems of unemployed and underemployed church members, or those without the necessary immigration papers, to witches and evil forces.
Thirdly, immigration pressure from sources outside of the experimental plots was intensive during the experiment.
However, since the deaths were now offset by immigration, the final population was not as low, so that stability could be reached sooner.
Also, an insect monitoring system is crucial for warning of successful immigration.
However, it is precisely this flexibility which will be increasingly difficult to achieve as immigration rules are further tightened.
Colonial history thus becomes the melting pot that scholars of immigration jettisoned years ago.
Our principal dependent variable therefore measures beliefs about the appropriate level of immigration into one's country.
Both naturalization and longer residence weaken the effect of immigrant status on opinions of immigration.
Projection has been carried out making five assumptions regarding fertility and five assumptions regarding further immigration.
During the following three years, up to the election in 1994, the populists' immigration rhetoric was radicalized.
Apparently, 5 years after immigration, a gap existed between the immigrants' hopes of occupational and financial success and their actual material conditions.
The results were compared with those obtained in a previous study for a sample of the same cohort of immigrants in their first year post-immigration.
In this instance the important question is whether the divergences are related to different immigration regimes.
First, there is a four-fold classification of countries by size of social housing sector (large/small) and immigration history (long/short).
Not surprisingly, the government funded an official immigration programme.
Recruitment of new individuals to local populations therefore depends on local reproduction rather than on immigration.
Their combined expertise includes resource development, organizational management, technology, migrant and immigration law, access and intake systems.
The eager advocates of laissez-faire have forgotten the second part of their ideology which called for laissez-passer, and have closed their frontiers to mass immigration.
We have seen the government use the immigration laws as a tool in its counterterrorism effort.
The detainees were lawfully held on immigration charges.
Indeed, the range of views on this troubled subject was defined well before the mass immigration that began in the 1880s.
At the height of the anti-alien campaign in the 1900s he published a trenchant and widely admired defence of immigration.
The prominence of race and immigration in politics were indicators of the changing atmosphere.
The 1924 immigration laws gave rise to prolonged investigation of incoming foreign students at immigration stations.
Moreover, the island was largely closed to immigration and emigration so that losses could be assigned strictly to mortality.
The programmes they advocate are wide-ranging, impinging on immigration, trade, industrial development, child labour, food quality, and corporate structures.
Such situations also require populations to be relatively discrete with little external recruitment through immigration.
Once the conservative parties seriously adopt an anti-immigration/antiforeigner platform, the democratic adjustment dividend may also fade for the radical right parties.
Although this method consumes more energy than passive or negative pressure ventilation, it reduces insect immigration while ventilating and cooling the greenhouse.
Although the tin tickets proved to be a considerable success, the planters and the government adopted further measures to supervise labour recruitment and immigration.
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