International migration: globalization's last frontier/ Jonathon W. Moses
Material type: TextPublication details: London: Zed Books, 2006Description: xiv, 253 p. : ill., maps ; 21 cmISBN: 9781842776582Subject(s): Emigration and immigration | Forced migrationDDC classification: 325Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University (Yangang Campus) General Book Section | 325 MOS/I (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P11862 |
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.
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