ABSTRACT
Many nations invite foreigners to work within their borders, but few welcome them. When nations wish to welcome foreigners, they offer them the same political rights that their own citizens already enjoy. Citizenship is the most basic right (Brubaker, 1989). Of the many nations that accept or tolerate foreigners, only five now encourage foreigners to migrate, to settle permanently, and then to obtain citizenship and naturalization. 1 These are Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, and the United States (Salt, 1989: 447-49). Because so few countries welcome foreigners, those that do welcome them receive torrents of immigrants, a pressure that analysts expect to intensify as demographic and social pressures mount in the less developed countries of the world (Montalbano, 1991).
