International migration : globalization's last frontier /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moses, Jonathon Wayne, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bangkok, Thailand : Black Point, N.S. : Bangalore, India : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia : Cape Town, South Africa : London ; New York : New York : White Lotus ; Fernwood Pub. ; Books for Change ; SIRD ; David Philip ; Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Colección:Global issues series (Zed Books)
Temas:
Emigration and immigration.
Emigration and Immigration
Émigration et immigration.
migrations (events)
immigration.
Migration period (Medieval culture or period)
emigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • A timely argument ...
  • ... a good argument ...
  • ... but a difficult argument
  • 2. Two paradoxes of globalization
  • Economic inequalities
  • Political inequalities
  • Growing demand for migration
  • 3. Some historical perspective
  • Migration in the long arc of history
  • The mercantilist period
  • The liberal period
  • The new liberal period
  • Conclusion
  • 4. The moral argument
  • Mobility as a universal right
  • The instrumentalist argument
  • Conclusion
  • 5. A political argument
  • The problem with closed borders : the case of apartheid
  • A market-based approach
  • The political benefits of free migration
  • 6. An economic argument
  • Host-country benefits
  • Sending-country benefits
  • International benefits
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Who opposes free migration?
  • Public opinion
  • The undying state
  • Diffuse and particular interests
  • 8. Questioning conventional wisdom
  • The great flood of immigrants
  • Brain drain
  • Migration's effect on culture
  • The challenge of political realism
  • Security concerns
  • 9. Conclusion and policy responses
  • Policy responses
  • Broadening the debate.

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