Publisher's Synopsis
The issues of immigration, multiculturalism, multiracialism and ethnic conflict have become key public policy issues in migrant-receiving countries in the West, especially the United States. While there is substantial public opposition to further immigration in all of the Western migrant-receiving countries ? to the extent that in Australia and New Zealand explicitly anti-immigration parties are making electoral inroads ? there has been little academic criticism of immigration. Indeed for a variety of ideological reasons academics have taken it upon themselves to defend immigration and multiculturalism with a passion that sometimes borders on religious fervour. The few brave critics of immigration and multiculturalism in the academy ? be this in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada ? have found that their careers have suffered, even if their criticisms have been based on environmental and economic grounds and not on the taboo topics of race and ethnicity. - - Recently this situation has changed. Large American publishing houses are now releasing books critical of America?s immigration policy. Until now, there was no book which attempted to understand this debate in all of its aspects. This book, based upon articles originally published in the American Journal The Social Contract, brings together most of the major critics of America?s immigration policy who examine the economic, social, cultural and ethno-racial problems generated by mass migration to America. - - Immigration and the Social Contract is required reading for all concerned about the fate of America, for embodied in the fate of America is the fate of the West.
