ABSTRACT
A reviewer of this book could comfortably say that its contents fill in gaps or answer questions concerning the manner in which inter- and transnational immigrants have evoked official governmental and popular discourses, legislation and coercive enforcement by receiving countries. In turn, these have prompted corresponding effects on and responses to them by immigrant populations and groups. Despite the complementary needs of the migrants and host countries for work and labor force replenishment, the contradictions raised by exclusionary governmental practices, conventional discourses and popular sentiments serve punitive-disciplinary agendas that conceal exploitation, deny human and civil rights and check resistance to them. Moreover, the implications of the work herein suggest that, if anything, these articles elicit the complexity of the forces, processes and responses that continue to shape immigrant-host relations in all of these nations.
