The ease of transportation, the opening of international immigration policies, the growing refugee movements, and the increasing size of unauthorized immigrant populations suggest that immigration worldwide is a phenomenon of utmost importance to professionals who develop policies and programs for, or provide services to, immigrants. Immigration occurs in both the wealthy nations of the global North and the poorer countries of the global South; it involves individuals who arrive with substantial human capital and those with little. It has far-reaching implications for a nation's economy, public policies, social and health services, and culture.The purpose of this volume, therefore, is to explore current patterns and policies of immigration in key countries and regions across the globe and analyze the implications for these countries and their immigrant populations. Each of its chapters, written by an international and interdisciplinary group of experts, explores how country conditions, policies, values, politics, and attitudes influence the process of immigration and subsequently affect immigrants, migration, and the nation itself.No other volume explores the landscape of worldwide immigration as broadly as this does, with sweeping coverage of countries and empirical research, together with an analytic framework that sets the context of human migration against a wide backdrop of experiential factors that take shape long before an immigrant enters a host country. At once a sourcebook and an applied model of immigration studies, Immigration Worldwide is a valuable reference for scholars and students seeking a wide-ranging yet nuanced survey of the key issues salient to debates about the programs and policies that best serve immigrant populations and their host countries.

I. Introduction1. The Immigration ProcessUma A. Segal, Nazneen S. Mayadas & Doreen Elliott2. Immigration Worldwide: Trends and AnalysisDoreen Elliott, Nazneen S. Mayadas & Uma A. SegalII. Nations with Large Immigrant Populations3. The Changing Face of the United States of AmericaUma A. Segal4. Immigration to RussiaVladimir Iontsev, Irina Ivakhnyuk & Svetlana Soboleva5. Immigration in GermanyAndrea Schmelz6. Immigration to France: The Challenge of Immigrant IntegrationInes Michalowski7. Immigration to CanadaUsha George8. The Dynamics of HospitalityRanabir Samaddar9. Immigration in the United KingdomWill Somerville & Betsy Cooper10. Spain: A 'New Immigration Centre'David Corkill11. A Land of ImmigrantsMel Gray & Kyile Agllias12. Refugee History and Policies of Pakistan: An Afghan Case StudyShireen S. Issa, Gail Desmond & Fariyal Ross-SherifIII. Nations with Increasing Immigrant Populations13. Immigration to GreeceAnna Triandafyllidou14. From emigrant to immigrant society-transition and change in the Republic of IrelandTreasa Galvin15. The New Immigration to Israel: Becoming a de-facto Immigration State in the 1990sRebeca Raijman & Adriana Kemp16. Amorphous Population Movements into Poland and Ensuing Policy ChallengesAleksandra Grzymala-Kazlowska & Marek Ok?lski17. Changing tides in the South Pacific: Immigration to Aotearoa New ZealandRichard D. Bedford & Jacques Poot18. Immigration to PortugalJo?o Casqueira Cardoso19. The Immigration and Integration Experience: the case of SwedenPieter BevelanderIV. Nations with Low or Declining Immigrant Populations20. Immigration to EgyptAyman Zohry21. Immigration to Thailand: The Case of Migrant Workers from Myanmar, Laos and CambodiaSupang Chantavanich & Ratchada Jayagupta22. Immigration to TaiwanJoseph S. Lee23. China: a New Pole for ImmigrationKim-wah Chung, Ji Qi, & Wenruo Hou24. Immigration to Post-Apartheid South Africa: Critical ReflectionsBrij Maharaj25. Immigration to GhanaA. Essuman-Johnson26. Experiences of Immigration in NigeriaAdejumoke A. Afolayan27. Immigration in Brazil: The insertion of different groupsZeila de Brito Fabri DemartiniV. Regional Movements28. Return and Resettlement: A Survey of Refugee Law and Policy in AfricaAndrew J. Novak29. Immigration and the European UnionKaren Lyons & Nathalie HueglerVI. Concluding Chapter30. Emerging Themes and ImplicationsDoreen Elliott, Uma A. Segal & Nazneen S. Mayadas