Cross-Border Labor Mobility Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

This revised and updated book provides unique insight into cross-border labor mobility, from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day. With a focus on the economic factors that underpin human mobility across the world, it charts the different forms of migration from African and Amerindian slaveries, to modern global migration and human trafficking. By highlighting the economic and political conditions that drive human mobility and anti-immigrant sentiments, a nuanced and detailed understanding of the drivers of forced and voluntary cross-border mobility are presented.

This book presents a multidisciplinary understanding of the patterns and processes that define human mobility. It will be of interest to students, researchers, and policymakers working within labour economics and migration studies.

1. Empirical Trends of Human Mobility—Ancient to Modern Periods.- 2. Cross-Border Labor Mobility— Cross-Disciplinary Theoretical Expositions.- 3. Slavery in the New World—the Saga of the Amerindians.- 4. Slavery in the New World—the Saga of Black Africans.- 5. Indentured Servitude—The Saga of the Indians and the Chinese.- 6. Temporary Movements of Forced Labor in the Twentieth Century.- 7. Cross-Border Labor Mobility—the United States.- 8. Cross-Border Labor Mobility—Post-World War II Europe.- 9. Neo-Slavery in the Twenty-First Century.

Caf Dowlah is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Miami Law School. He formerly served as a Professor of Economics at the State University of New York and the City University of New York. His latest book, titled Economic and Financial Sanctions of the United States: Legal Perspectives, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2024.