This research is an examination of the generalizability of a Likert-type scale originally devised to measure attitudes toward illegal immigrants (IA) in the United States. The current authors administered this scale across 4 national samples using several methodological procedures. Undergraduate students (631) responded to the IA scale (R. Ommundsen & K. S. Larsen, 1997) at the University of Os...

This paper aims to identify illegal immigration phenomenon and the responsibility of international community towards it. It also causes, motivations, justifications immigration. The researcher used both an inductive approach a comparative by drawing upon literature related found several results, which include: knowing historical evolution immigration, chronological development since it started ...

"Tensions, conflicts, and community instability associated with heightened immigration--especially of nonwhite immigrant groups--threaten to balkanize America. This article highlights the root causes of the growing opposition to both immigrants and U.S. immigration policy--the nativist backlash, presents a typology of the community-level conflicts that have arisen as a consequence of heightene...

Immigration remains a powerful and recurrent feature of American politics. Of the issues related to immigration, controversy over government policy for controlling illegal immigration occupies a central position in the debate. One increasingly important and prevalent type of control policy that has received little scholarly attention is worksite employment eligibility enforcement, otherwise kno...

Deportation may work severe hardship, causing a complete break of established social and economic ties. This fact has led to a doctrine of judicial leniency towards aliens ordered to be deported; the deportation statutes are to be strictly construed and all doubts as to their construction are to be resolved in favor of the alien.' While recognizing the continuing existence of this doctrine, the...