Us and Them? explores the distinction between migrant and citizen through using the concept of 'the community of value'. The community of value is comprised of Good Citizens and is defined from outside by the Non-Citizen and from the inside by the Failed Citizen, that is figures like the benefit scrounger, the criminal, the teenage mother etc. While Failed Citizens and Non-Citizens are often strongly differentiated, the book argues that it is analytically and politically productive to consider them together. Judgments about who counts as skilled, what is a good marriage, who is suitable for citizenship, and what sort of enforcement is acceptable against 'illegals', affect citizens as well as migrants. Rather than simple competitors for the privileges of membership, citizens and migrants define each other through sets of relations that shift and are not straightforward binaries. The first two chapters on vagrancy and on Empire historicise migration management by linking it to attempts to control the mobility of the poor. The following three chapters map and interrogate the concept of the 'national labour market' and UK immigration and citizenship policies examining how they work within public debate to produce 'us and them'. Chapters 6 and 7 go on to discuss the challenges posed by enforcement and deportation, and the attempt to make this compatible with liberalism through anti-trafficking policies. It ends with a case study of domestic labour as exemplifying the ways in which all the issues outlined above come together in the lives of migrants and their employers.

Us and Them?: The Dangerous Politics of Immigration Controls

Politics & Social Sciences

Anderson, Bridget

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Who Needs Migrant Workers?: Labour Shortages, Immigration, and Public Policy

Are migrant workers needed to "do the jobs that locals will not do" or are they simply a more exploitable labor force? Do they have a better "work ethic" or are they less able to complain? Is migrant labor the solution to "skills shortages" or actually part of the problem? This book provides a comprehensive framework for analyzing the demand for migrant workers in high-income countries. It demonstrates how a wide range of government policies, often unrelated to migration, contribute to creating a growing demand for migrant labor. This demand can persist even during economic downturns. The book includes quantitative and qualitative analyses of the changing role of migrants in the UK economy. The empirical chapters include in-depth examinations of the nature of staff shortages and the use of migrant workers in six sectors: health; social care; hospitality; food production; construction; and financial services. The book's conceptual framework and empirical findings are of importance to academic and policy debates about labor immigration in all high-income countries. The final chapter presents a comparative analysis of research and policy approaches to assessing labor shortages in the UK and the US. It examines the potential lessons of the UK's Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) for current debates about labor shortages and immigration reform in the US. The book will be of significant interest to policy-makers, stakeholders, academics and students.

Business & Money

Ruhs, Martin

Economics

Politics & Government

Love creates its own rules Ascending the corporate ladder has consumed most of Tayler Carter's adult life. Now the savvy Atlanta VP and female-empowerment speaker is ready for a well-deserved retreat. A fabulous antebellum mansion turned B and B in rural Kentucky is the perfect change of pace. But her host is no unsophisticated farm boy. Rugged hunk Rollin Coleman is educating Tayler in the wonders of natural food and down-home passion. Transforming his family's struggling homestead into an organic cooperative is starting to pay off for Rollin. But without the right woman, it's a lonely existence. Until he introduces his alluring new guest to the pleasures of the countryside. And once his small-town community embraces her, can Rollin count on Tayler to leave her fast-paced world behind and together create a place they can both call home?

When I Fall in Love (Coleman House)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Harlequin Kimani

There's no mistaking the real thing Everything in Corra Coleman's world is looking up since she agreed to run the gift shop at her family's antebellum B and B. The job offers a fresh start after her unhappy marriage—and a tantalizing temptation in the form of tech millionaire Christopher Williams. Her brother's high-school buddy has come home to their small Kentucky town and is now pursuing her with a passion she's never known, but definitely reciprocates. Though he grew up poor, Chris has realized his childhood ambition of becoming one of Danville's wealthiest sons. As he restores the town's oldest mansion, he already knows who he wants to share it with. Corra is all grown up—gorgeous, warmhearted and no longer off-limits. But with her newly returned ex trying to win her back, can Chris show her the way love's truly supposed to be?

The Only One for Me (Coleman House, 2)

Harlequin Kimani Romance

The Longing For Belonging: Giving Up Ashes To Find Beauty

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Beauty for Ashes Publishing

Four interconnected stories follow sisters Maxine, Morgan, Taylor, and Samantha as they each inherit a case to solve when their father, the founder of Georgia's only African-American-owned PI firm, passes away, forcing them to come to terms with their past and embrace the future. Original. 30,000 first printing.

Where There's a Will: Curtains/The Bad Penny/Identity Crisis/Redemption

Hailstock, Shirley

Lewis, Shelby

Wlalker, Margie

Dafina

From four exciting writers comes a compelling collection of stories about four sisters whose lives take an unexpected turn when their PI father's will is read, and they discover that they have each inherited their own cases to solve. Reprint.

Where There's a Will

Hill, Donna

Walker, Margie

Rendezvous (Arabesque)

Romance

Contemporary

Pinnacle Books

JOURNEY TO MY HEART The fiery beauty playing bodyguard to a bank heist witness arouses FBI agent Cooper Talbot’s suspicions…and desire. Independent contractor Olivia Carrington could be concealing her own complicity. But Cooper can’t fight the combustible attraction that leads them into a clandestine romance. Can he put aside his past for a woman in danger? Or is he falling for Olivia at his own peril? THE SWEETEST AFFAIR Pastry chef Tracee Coleman dreams of opening her own café. But when a chance encounter with a hotel heir literally sends her flying into his arms, her vow to avoid romantic distractions goes up in flames. Tall, strong and sexy, Laurent Martin is as commanding in the boardroom as he is in the bedroom. But will Tracee be able to forgive him when his true business intentions are exposed?

Journey to My Heart & The Sweetest Affair: A 2-in-1 Collection (Harlequin Kimani Romance)

Little, Terra

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