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International Migration - Prospects and Policies in a Global Market (Hardcover)
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International Migration - Prospects and Policies in a Global Market (Hardcover)
Series: International Studies in Demography
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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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