Migrants, Refugees, and Foreign Policy U.S. and German Policies Toward Countries of Origin
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Om bidragsyterne
Rainer Münz is Head of Research & Knowledge Center (Erste Group), Non-resident Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute, Washington DC, and Senior Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI). He studied at Vienna University, where he earned his PhD in 1978. In 1979 he joined the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Until 1992 he was director of the Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Science. Between 1992 and 2003 he was head of the Department of Demography at Humboldt University, Berlin. He was visiting professor at the Universities of Bamberg (1986), University of California at Berkeley (1986, 1989, 1997-98), Frankfurt (1988), Klagenfurt (1996, 1998), Vienna (2001-02) and Zurich (1992). He also was Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics of Finance, Technical University Vienna (2001-2002). Since 2010 he teaches at the University of St. Gallen. His main fields of research are European Migration, ethnic and linguistic minority issues, and the impact of demographic change on social policy.
Foreign policies have always played an important role in the movements of migrants. A number of essays in this volume show how the foreign policies of the United States and Germany have directly or inadvertently contributed to the influx from the former Yugoslavia, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the former Soviet Union. Now being faced with growing resistance to admit foreigners into their countries, both governments have once again been using foreign-policy instruments in an effort to change the conditions in the refugees' countries of origin which forced people to leave. This volume addresses questions such as which policies can influence governments to improve their human rights, protect minorities, end internal strife, reduce the level of violence, or improve economic conditions so that large numbers of people need not leave their homes.
Chapter 1. The Impact of German Policy on Refugee Flows from Former Yugoslavia
H. J. Axt
Chapter 2. The Impact of U.S. Policy on Migration from Mexico and the Caribbean
C. Mitchell
Chapter 3. Migration in the Russian Federation since the mid 1950s
C.Dornis
Chapter 4. German Policies towards Ethnic German Minorities
V. Ronge
Chapter 5. German Policies towards Russiaand other Successor States
B. Dietz and K Segbers
Chapter 6. The New Labor Migration as an Instrument of Foreign Policy
E. Hönekopp
Chapter 7. Bad Neighbors, Bad Neighborhood: an Inquiry into the Causes of Refugee Flows, 1969-1992
M. Weiner
Chapter 8. Economic Instruments to Affect Countries of Origin
P. Martin
Chapter 9. Can Military Intervention Limit Refugee Flows?
B.Posen
Conclusion: Policies to Reduce Refugee Flows and Pressures for Emigration
M. Weiner and R. Münz
Notes on Contributors
Bibliography
Index
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Rainer Münz is Head of Research & Knowledge Center (Erste Group), Non-resident Fellow of the Migration Policy Institute, Washington DC, and Senior Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI). He studied at Vienna University, where he earned his PhD in 1978. In 1979 he joined the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Until 1992 he was director of the Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Science. Between 1992 and 2003 he was head of the Department of Demography at Humboldt University, Berlin. He was visiting professor at the Universities of Bamberg (1986), University of California at Berkeley (1986, 1989, 1997-98), Frankfurt (1988), Klagenfurt (1996, 1998), Vienna (2001-02) and Zurich (1992). He also was Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Mathematics of Finance, Technical University Vienna (2001-2002). Since 2010 he teaches at the University of St. Gallen. His main fields of research are European Migration, ethnic and linguistic minority issues, and the impact of demographic change on social policy.