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The partly full text database Academic Search Premier might be a good place to start. It is available at most academic and a few large public libraries, sometimes under the title "Ebsco databases". It gets 93 articles for the search: Capitalis* and immigration and (law or laws or legal*), 54 of them if you click "scholarly/peer reviewed".

Most large university libraries will have Dissertations & Theses Full Text, and as with other databases, even members of the public can get access if they are on campus. Dissertations and Theses defaults to full text search, so for the above search, I would first try advanced search, to limit to "all fields- no full text" - because dissertations can be well over 100 pages long, and the words could be many pages apart and totally unrelated. This limited search gets 34 dissertations. If you do decide to try full text search, it's best to replace AND with the "proximity operator" - w/10, w/25, w/40, etc. ; to find dissertations that have those words within a set number of words of each other, at least in one place in their full text. This full text gets 130 results, for the search: Capitalis* W/30 immigration W/30 (law OR laws OR legal*). However, I am always a bit leery of trying to group words together for a proximity search. I recommend trying law, laws, legal.... Etc. separately; to see if that 130 total sounds reasonable when using all 3 in parentheses.

Unlike Dissertations & Theses, Academic Search defaults to title, journal title, abstract, subject, and author. If you "Select a field" TX All Text, Ebsco's proximity search is n10, n25, n50, etc. Please note that this proximity includes VERTICAL distance - n5 might get words in adjacent sentences or even several sentences apart, if one is right above the other in the text.

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QUESTION: immigration laws and political economy

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Hi! I am looking for journal articles or books that can provide some kind of analysis on the relationship between the extreme "crack down" on (im)migrant labourers / undocumented labourers, and political economy. Given that so many states, especially border states, and so many provinces, seem to benefit from the exploitation of workers in programs such as the temporary foreign workers program, seasonal labour programs, and from businesses that hire undocumented workers -- how do such harsh immigration laws work within the logic of capitalism? Or do they run up against it? Where could I find a discussion about the relationship between these things? I am interested in both liberal and anti-capitalist perspectives.

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