MILLER, Mark J
Les régularisations de la population clandestine dans les démocracies industrielles : un bilan comparatif - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1988
The united States, Spain and Italy recently joined France in offering legal status to qualified illegal residents. Legalization programs are components of broader efforts to reform immigration policies which seek above all to reduce illegal immigration to industrial democracies. The US legalization policy which is the major focus of the article, actually involved several distinct programs, the most important of which were one ope to all alieans who lived in the US since 1982 and one for agricultural workers. The Us programs differed in significant ways from those in Europe. In particular, the major US program did not include a provision for immediate, derived legalization for family members who did nor qualify for legalization. The five years gap between the date of eligibility for legalization, January 1, 1981 and the start of the program, May 4, 1987, also was unusual. Results of the Spanish, Italian and US programs fell short of official expectations. Illegally resident populations are resistant to legalization, but the need for such programs in the future is likely to be recurrent
Les régularisations de la population clandestine dans les démocracies industrielles : un bilan comparatif - Paris : IIAP, juil./sept. 1988
The united States, Spain and Italy recently joined France in offering legal status to qualified illegal residents. Legalization programs are components of broader efforts to reform immigration policies which seek above all to reduce illegal immigration to industrial democracies. The US legalization policy which is the major focus of the article, actually involved several distinct programs, the most important of which were one ope to all alieans who lived in the US since 1982 and one for agricultural workers. The Us programs differed in significant ways from those in Europe. In particular, the major US program did not include a provision for immediate, derived legalization for family members who did nor qualify for legalization. The five years gap between the date of eligibility for legalization, January 1, 1981 and the start of the program, May 4, 1987, also was unusual. Results of the Spanish, Italian and US programs fell short of official expectations. Illegally resident populations are resistant to legalization, but the need for such programs in the future is likely to be recurrent
