International Migration

TRAMA

This study offers a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of global patterns of international migration and the policies employed to manage the flows. It shows that international migration is not rooted in poverty or rapid population growth, but in the expansion and consolidation of global markets. The insertion of non-market societies into global networks of trade unleashes structural transformations that displace people to create migrants. Globalization also creates infrastructures of transportation, communication, and social networks to put developed societies within reach.

NOTE EDITORE

International Migration: Prospects and Policies offers a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of global patterns of international migration and the policies employed to manage the flows. It shows that international migration is not rooted in poverty or rapid population growth, but in the expansion and consolidation of global markets. As nations are structurally transformed by their incorporation into global markets, people are displaced from traditional livelihoods and become international migrants. In seeking to work abroad, they do not necessarily move to the closest or richest destination, but to places already connected to their countries of origin socially, economically, and politically. When they move, migrants rely heavily on social networks created by earlier waves of immigrants, and, in recent years, professional migration brokers have become increasingly common. Developing countries generally benefit from international migration because migrant savings and remittances provide foreign earnings to finance balance of payments deficits and make productive investments. Some developing nations have gone so far as to establish programs or ministries dedicated to the export of workers. Developed nations, in contrast, focus more on the social and economic costs of immigrants and seek to reduce their numbers, regulate their characteristics, and limit their access to social services. Over time, receiving nations have gravitated toward a similar set of restrictive policies, yielding undocumented migration as a worldwide phenomenon. Globalization also creates infrastructures of transportation, communication, and social networks to put developed societies within reach. In the latter, ageing populations and segmenting markets create a persistent demand for immigrant workers. All these trends are likely to intensify in the coming years to make immigration policy a key political issue in the twenty-first century.

SOMMARIO

1. - Introduction2 - Population Growth and International Migration3 - The Effects of Political and Economic Transition on International Migration in Central and Eastern Europe4 - Trends in International Migration in and from Africa5 - International Migration in the Asia-Pacific Region: Emerging Trends and Issues6 - Immigration and the Labor Market in Metropolitan Buenos Aires7 - Mexican Migration to the United States: The Effect of NAFTA8 - Immigrants in the U.S. Economy9 - Remittances, Savings, and Development in Migrant-Sending Areas10 - Labor Export Strategies in Asia11 - The Role of Recruiters in Labor Migration12 - Return Migration in the Philippines: Issues and Policies13 - International Migration, Identity, and Development in Oceania: A Synthesis of Ideas14 - Policies and Immigrant Skills: Evidence from the U.S. Immigrant Cohorts of 1977, 1982, and 199415 - Admissions Policies in Europe16 - The New European Asylum Regime17 - Immigrants and the Welfare State in Europe18 - The Legacy of Welfare Reform for U.S. Immigrants19 - Controlling International Migration through Enforcement: The Case of the United States20 - Back to the Future: Immigration Research, Immigration Policy, and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century

AUTORE

J. Edward Taylor is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He was an Appointed Member to the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform from 1995-97, and is author of a number of publications on migration. Douglas S. Massey is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, Princeton University. He is author of a number of publications on migration, Latin American society, and urban sociology.

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199269006
• Collana: International Studies in Demography
• Dimensioni: 242 x 27.2 x 163 mm Ø 733 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: Numerous figures and tables
• Pagine Arabe: 408