International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market

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Douglas S. Massey, J. Edward Taylor
OUP Oxford, 25 mars 2004 - 394 pages
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.
 

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Introduction
1
PROSPECTS
13
Population Growth and International Migration
15
The Effects of Political and Economic Transition on International Migration in Central and Eastern Europe
35
Trends in International Migration in and from Africa
59
International Migration in the AsiaPacific Region Emerging Trends and Issues
77
Immigration and the Labor Market in Metropolitan Buenos Aires
104
Mexican Migration to the United States The Effect of NAFTA
120
Return Migration in the Philippines Issues and Policies
212
International Migration Identity and Development in Oceania A Synthesis of Ideas
230
POLICIES IN RECEIVING NATIONS
259
Have the Occupational Skills of New Immigrants to the United States Declined Over Time? Evidence from the Immigrant Cohorts of 1977 1982 and ...
261
Admissions Policies in Europe
286
A New Paradigm for the European Asylum Regime
295
Immigrants and the Welfare State in Europe
318
The Legacy of Welfare Reform for US Immigrants
335

Immigrants in the US Economy
131
POLICIES IN SENDING NATIONS
155
Remittances Savings and Development in MigrantSending Areas
157
Labor Export Strategies in Asia
174
The Role of Recruiters in Labor Migration
201
Controlling International Migration through Enforcement The Case of the United States
352
PROSPECTS AND POLICIES RECONSIDERED
371
Back to the Future Immigration Research Immigration Policy and Globalization in the Twentyfirst Century
373
Index
389
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