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migration policy in the twenty-first century
edited by David Hall
239 pages
'Border regimes involve policy choices - and where there is choice, there are questions of fairness.' (Cover) Contents: Introduction : on borders and fairness / David Hall -- From mainstream to manaaki : indigenising our approach to immigration / Tahu Kukutai and Arama Rata -- Temporary migration : non-citizenship and a fair chance at the future / Francis Collins -- Fairness and the borders around political community / Kate McMillan -- International migration : the great trade-off / Hautahi Kingi -- The language of immigration / Andrew Chen -- Shifting borders / Evelyn Marsters -- Climate change, refugees and migration / Nina Hall -- Refugees without end, for ever and ever and ever / Murdock Stephens
Summary: 'Our migration policy impacts on New Zealand citizens, on recent immigrants and on people who are never permitted to set foot on this land. It creates prosperity for some and hardship for others.' Debates over immigration are heating up - with grave political consequences. Fair Borders draws together a broad set of writers to discuss whether New Zealand's immigration policy offers a 'fair go' to those just arriving, and to those who arrived a long time ago. This edited collection includes new and diverse perspectives that go beyond the boundaries of popular debate, in which migrants are too often treated as numbers, not people. (Back cover)
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