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Cities and Labour Immigration Comparing Policy Responses in Amsterdam, Paris, Rome and Tel Aviv
By Michael Alexander
Copyright 2007
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger relations, this book explores the response of cities to the arrival and settlement of labour immigrants. Comparing the local policies of four cities - Paris, Amsterdam, Rome and Tel Aviv - Michael Alexander charts the development of migrant policies over time and situates them within the broader social context. Grounded in multi-city,... Read more
Contents: Preface; Strangers at the city gates; Host-stranger relations in theory and practice; Local policies toward migrants - a typology; Rome: from non-policy to delegation; Tel Aviv: the limits of liberalism in a guestworker regime; Paris: a century of assimilation; Amsterdam: pluralism and its discontents; Summary and conclusions; Appendix: list of interviews; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Michael Alexander
