这本主要著作的第三版对包括美国在内的一些主要国家在处理移民和移民问题方面所做的努力进行了系统的、比较性的评估，特别关注它们的移民政策目标和结果之间不断扩大的差距。
新版继续全面报道移民建立的国家和移民历史较新的国家，特别关注后殖民移民造成的紧张局势，并探讨各国如何试图控制合法和非法第三世界移民的入境和就业，他们如何应对这些新移民潮的社会和经济融合，以及如何应对强迫移民。
Controlling Immigration: A Global Perspective, Third Edition
The third edition of this major work provides a systematic, comparative assessment of the efforts of a selection of major countries, including the U.S., to deal with immigration and immigrant issues― paying particular attention to the ever-widening gap between their migration policy goals and outcomes.
Retaining its comprehensive coverage of nations built by immigrants and those with a more recent history of immigration, the new edition pays particular attention to the tensions created by post-colonial immigration, and explores how countries have attempted to control the entry and employment of legal and illegal Third World immigrants, how they cope with the social and economic integration of these new waves of immigrants, and how they deal with forced migration.
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