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This volume identifies the national policies that the United States Congress has passed in order to shape migrant admissions over the years 1965-2008 and to analyze the causal reasons for the various legislative actions over the years. The explanatory analysis takes into account the role of skill bias in migrant admissions policy as a response to economic and public demands, as well as the interplay between supermajoritarian decision-making procedures in the Congress and organized pro- and anti-immigration groups in relation to nature and (in)frequency of policy change. The author also describes his methodological innovation of "post-coding aggregation," which he argues is a method of independent data collection that minimizes data loss, increases transparency, and allows analysts to decide best how to aggregate information to produce measures. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
