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Record Nr.

UNINA9910170996403321

Autore

Moses Jonathon Wayne <1962->

Titolo

International migration : globalization's last frontier / / Jonathon W. Moses

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bangkok, Thailand, : White Lotus

Black Point, Nova Scotia, : Fernwood Publishing

Bangalore, India, : Books for Change

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, : SIRD

Cape Town, South Africa, : David Philip

London ; ; New York, : Zed Books

New York, : Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

ISBN

1-350-22080-9

1-84813-709-5

1-78032-697-1

1-281-25900-4

9786611259006

1-84813-105-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

Global issues

Disciplina

325

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Annotation