Download or read book Western Hemisphere Immigration and United States Foreign Policy written by Christopher Mitchell and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book adds a wealth of new data on the political significance of inter-American migration, through case studies of the policies of population flows from Cuba, Central America, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. This theme has received only preliminary attention fully ten years after the Mariel boat-lift from Cuba. The contributing scholars bolster an emerging trend in the broad study of international population movements, emphasizing the effect government policies on migration is a social process quire insulated form the effects of public policy.