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Appendix F: Bibliographic Sources of Information
Appendix F: Bibliographic Sources of Information
Pages 304-324
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This appendix includes a description of an annotated bibliography published by the Immigration and Naturalization Service in 1979; an overview of a guide to sources of information on immigration and refugee policy issued in 1982 by the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress; and selected abstracts of immigration literature drawn from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) data base along with other references provided by the Congressional Research Service.
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It also provides appropriate search terms for locating information in printed indexes and on-line data bases. The guide lists nearly 150 citations, including books, journal articles, legal resources, legislative information, executive department publications, statistical sources, and bibliographies.
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Indexes are published monthly and annually. The subject teems that can be searched in the Index to find material on immigration are listed here: IMMIGRATION: ALIEN LABOR: ILLEGAL ALIENS: REFUGEES: Immigration Aliens Citizenship Alien workers Aliens Aliens Refugees Cuban refugee program Indo-Chinese refugee programs The PUBLIC AN FAIRS INFORMATION SERVICE BULLETIN (PAIS)
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Congressional Research Service. Illegal aliens: selected references, 1978-1981, by Marsha Cerny.
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A final section lists additional abstracts for the 1979-1982 period. These references, prepared by Marsha Cerny of the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, are divided into two categories: general sources and illegal aliens.
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The empirical findings include results on the heterogeneity of the Hispanic population, the earnings growth of Hispanic immigrants, the labor supply behavior of Hispanic men, and the impact of Hispanics in the labor market. The empirical analysis is based on the Survey of Income and Education.
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The report is a series of papers devoted to seasonal agricultural labor markets. The titles of the papers are as follows: Introduction to the Seasonal Farm Labor Problem; Some Analytical Approaches for Human Resource Issues of Seasonal Farm Labor; Seasonality of Farm Labor Use Patterns in the United States; Migration in Farm Labor Markets; The Off-Farm Work of
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Attempting to Rationalize Agricultural Labor Markets: A Review of Experiences with Citrus Harvesting in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Texas University at Austin.
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It would also establish a worker program to permit agricultural employers to bring legal foreign workers into the United States to replace illegal workers, but only when domestic workers are unavailable for farmwork. The proposed worker program would be a revision of the current H-2 temporary foreign worker program operated by the Departments of Labor and Justice.
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This study provides information on legal and illegal alien workers in 19 countries and Hong Kong. Specifically, GAO compiled information on the countries' laws and policies concerning guest workers, national identification documents, employer responsibilities, illegal alien workers, and law enforcement.
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The study found that all indices of migration to the U.S., legal and illegal, have increased markedly during the eight years studied, and that the indices of illegal migration appear to be rising more sharply than those of legal migration. Apprehensions of illegal aliens, for example, increased 213% between 1970 and 1977.
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In addition, response error data are presented for six population characteristics which had been collected in previous decennial censuses: Nativity, citizenship, year of immigration, country of birth of parents, year moved into present house, and number of children ever born. Illegal Aliens Chiswick, Barry R., and Francis A
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The data gathered suggest that the majority of the garment workers in Los Angeles are Hispanic undocumented and that the prevailing wage level for sewing machine operative jobs, the main production job in the industry, is the minimum wage or below. The data also indicate that very few unemployed Blacks and Hispanics would be willing to work as sewing machine operatives at the prevailing wage level, and that employers prefer to hire Hispanics over Blacks as sewing machine operators.
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General Accounting Office, Human Resources Div. Administrative Changes Needed to Reduce Employment of Illegal Aliens.
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Hurh, Won Moo, and Kwang Chung Kim. Korean Immigrants in America: A Structural Analysis of Ethnic Confinement and Adhesive Adaptation.
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The following groups have been identified with the Hispanic population: the Mexican Americans; the Puerto Ricans; the Cubans; and those from Central and South America and from Spain. In 1950, the Hispanic population was primarily of Mexican origin, concentrated then, as now, in the Southwestern U.S.
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The report examines the policy dimensions of the H-2 Program (Temporary admission of foreign workers) in teems of legal and administrative provisions; numbers and trends of H-2 workers; functions of H-2 workers; the need for foreign workers; the capacity to absorb foreign workers; and the available policy options.
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The following countries were selected for review: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Federal Republic of Germany, France, Great Britain, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and Venezuela. From each country specific data was requested concerning visitors, foreign students, guest workers, refugees, permanent resident aliens, citizenship, and immigration problems.
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These recommendations include "tougher enforcement, higher quotas, amnesty for most current illegal aliens," and a reliable means for checking the legal status of workers. Reimers, David M
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12, July 26, 1980: 1234-1237. "If you count Cubans and Haitians, some 364,000 refugees are flocking to the United States this year, only to be greeted by a patchwork of government and voluntary agencies that have little in common except a shortage of money that many feel is necessary to cope with the problem." Illegal Aliens Abrams, Elliott.
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28, spring 1980: 207-229. As a solution to the problem of illegal immigration into the United States, analyzes the effect of converting illegal aliens to the status of guest workers.
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