International migration globalization's last frontier

Moses, Jonathon Wayne 1962- (Author).

Summary: Annotation Abolish border controls? Let in large numbers of immigrants? Can this author can be serious? That may be the immediate response to this book's evidence in favour of getting rid of costly, often inhumane and only partially effective barriers. But the whole apparatus of passports, visas and fenced borders is relatively new in history. It never used to be regarded as necessary. The United States, Canada and the Latin American countries were built on migration, while Europe has over the past fifty years actively encouraged largescale immigration. Jonathan Moses puts the arguments in favour of free mobility, and counters those against. His conclusions are clear and profound: free International migration can lessen the huge inequalities and injustices of globalization.

Record details

ISBN: 9781848131057 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1848131054 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1842776584 (hbk. : Zed)
ISBN: 9781842776582 (hbk. : Zed)
ISBN: 1842776592 (pbk. : Zed)
ISBN: 9781842776599 (pbk. : Zed)
ISBN: 1552661946 (Fernwood)
ISBN: 9781552661949 (Fernwood)
ISBN: 1842776282 (hbk. : Zed)
ISBN: 9781842776285 (hbk. : Zed)
ISBN: 9781842776282 (hbk. : Zed)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xiv, 253 p.) : ill., maps.
Publisher: Bangkok, Thailand : White Lotus ; Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood Pub. ; 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.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.