TITLE

Immigration policy for a post-industrial economy

AUTHOR(S)

Chiswick, Barry R.

PUB. DATE

March 1995

SOURCE

American Enterprise;Mar/Apr95, Vol. 6 Issue 2, p46

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Focuses on the persistence of tension between proponents of increasing and restricting immigration to the United States. Historical image of the country as a land of immigration; Accounts on the contradictions of government policies on immigration; Need for the reconciliation of immigration policies.

ACCESSION #

9503150840

Tags: UNITED States -- Emigration & immigration

 

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