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Global Apartheid examines the impact of postindustrialism, postmodernism, and globalization on international migration, racial conflict, and ethnic nationalism.Throughout the developing world, there are mass movements of population from rural to urban areas, driven by overpopulation and poverty. Refugees are a growing element in the population movements associated with the new world order that followed the collapse of the Soviet Union. Superpower confrontations in Africa, Central America, the Middle East, and Asia have led to population displacement across international borders. In addition, millions have been displaced within their own countries because of civil wars, ethnic conflicts, or environmental disasters.In response to increasing numbers of immigrants and refugees, the wealthy countries of North America, Europe, and Australasia have instituted repressive and restrictive policies to restrain the number of migrant workers and refugees from developing countries, whom they perceive as threats to their territorial integrity and privileged lifestyles. The result is a form of global apartheid.This book is about these radical demographic and sociological changes in the world system. Canada's response to the crisis is compared with that of the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and other countries.

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• List of figures and charts
• Preface and acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Part 1 Sociological theories
• 1 Theoretical perspectives
• 2 Postindustrialism, postmodernism and ethnic conflict
• 3 Proactive and reactive migration
• 4 Environmental refugees
• 5 'Race' and urban violence
• Part 2 Comparative aspects
• 6 Comparative perspectives on immigration and ethnicity
• 7 Immigration and structural change: The Canadian experience
• 8 Immigrants and refugees in Canada and the United States: Policy dilemmas
• 9 Racism and immigration: Britain and Canada
• 10 Immigration and multiculturalism in Canada and Australia
• Part 3 New world order
• 11 Migration, ethnic conflict and the new world order
• 12 Global Apartheid: Migration, racism and the new world system
• 13 Alternative visions
• Appendix 1 Extracts from the 1951 UN Convention relating to the Status of Refugees and the 1967 Protocol
• Appendix 2 Statistical Tables
• Bibliography

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CHOICE Review

Richmond has written an excellent book about a contemporary problem and fact of life in the final years of the 20th century. The book is divided into three parts: part 1 deals with the sociological theories of racism; part 2 is a comparative analysis of immigration and the refugee problem that arises from the existence of racism; part 3 is a look at the new world order and what it means to migration, apartheid (which is not limited to South Africa), and the status of refugees. Richmond estimates that some 16.3 million refugees and asylum seekers exist in the world. The countries contributing the most to this figure are Afghanistan, Palestine, Mozambique, and the former Yugoslavia. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees acknowledges some 6.6 million people as refugees. This is an important and well-written book about a subject filled with pathos and tragedy--it should make the rich, secure, and mean-spirited feel uncomfortable. All levels. E. W. Webking; University of Lethbridge

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Anthony Richmond is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology and a Senior Scholar in the Centre for Refugee Studies at York University. Born in the UK, he received his PhD from the London School of Economics and then immigrated to Canada in 1965. He is presently a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.