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FEB 3, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Immigration Administration Control in Japan

Japanese immigration policy seeks to balance the needs of migrants and refugees with the harmonious functioning of Japanese industry, society, and employment.

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FEB 1, 2010 Article

Obama and Democracy Assistance: Challenges and Responses

Although Obama has largely avoided the term democracy assistance, in fact he has delivered a considered and astute response to overcoming Bush's tarnished legacy--a response ...

JAN 26, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Managed Rights, Managed Migration

While international migration is yet to be seen as an international public good, the international regime for orderly movement of people may eventually become a ...

JAN 26, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Englishization of Higher Education in Asia and Migratory Flows of International Students

The Malaysian case of English-medium higher education represents what may be called a postcolonial pattern of English-mediated globalization wherein the old center-periphery arguments of linguistic ...

JAN 26, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Linking Ethics and Self-Interest in Human Mobility

The ethical and self-interested choice in migration policy is to seek liberalized and rationalized migration that combines positive incentives with clear and fair entry criteria ...

JAN 25, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Ethics of Undocumented Migration

Using fieldwork data through participant observation and interviews, this paper explains the causes of undocumented migration out of Fujian and explores the ethical frameworks within ...

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JAN 22, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: The Right to Move

A collection of essays from our joint Sophia University-Carnegie Council conference exploring the ethics of an international right to migration.

JAN 21, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Cosmopolitanism as Virtue

Without high levels of migration, and a related ethical commitment to cosmopolitanism, nation-states will fail to develop the individual and collective virtues suitable to "living ...

JAN 21, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Capabilities Approach and Collective Ownership of the Earth

If people of a particular country are using more than their proportionate share of the collectively owned planet, they should allow for immigration.

JAN 21, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Precarious Lives

If existing refugee protection and international humanitarian regimes are already under serious strain, how can global cooperation be extended for the protection of vulnerable persons ...