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3 UCLA J. Int'l L. & Foreign Aff. 497 (1998-1999)
Human Rights Norms and Immigration Control

handle is hein.journals/jilfa3 and id is 505 raw text is: HUMAN RIGHTS NORMS AND IMMIGRATION CONTROL Jeannette Money I. INTRODUCTION In the waning years of the 20th century, immigration has become politically controversial in most, if not all, advanced market-economy countries. Public opinion polls demonstrate that large majorities in all these countries would prefer fewer immigrants. Yet wealthy western countries continue to accept new entrants and have refused to reduce their legally resident foreign populations by any but voluntary means. This picture presents a stark contrast to other countries around the world which host immigrants. Oil rich Middle Eastern countries, for example, have exerted considerable efforts to reduce their immigrant populations at different points in time. It also represents a substantial departure from some past practices of western nations when foreign labor was shipped home at the time it was no longer needed.' Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis. I would like to thank Christopher Rudolph for extending an invitation to participate in the UCLA conference on migration, the original impetus for the preparation of this paper. I would also like to thank him, Gary Freeman, Martin Heisler, Christian Joppke and Marc Rosenblum for reading an earlier draft of this paper and providing comments that aided in the paper revision. 1 See Christian Joppke, Why Liberal States Accept Unwanted Immigration, 50 WORLD POL. 266, 269 (1998), for an example of the contrast between the Bonn Republic [that] allowed its guest workers to stay, while Wilhelmine Germany practiced resolute rotation and mass expulsions.... 497

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