An expansive history of how an economic shock a half century ago
created a world that is addicted to mass migration. The oil shock
of 1973 changed everything. It brought the golden age of American
and European economic growth to an end; it destabilized Middle
Eastern politics; and it set in train processes that led to over
one hundred million unexpected—and unwanted—immigrants. In War,
Work, and Want, Randall Hansen asks why, against all expectations,
global migration tripled after 1970. The answer, he argues, lies in
how the OPEC Oil crisis transformed the global economy, Middle
Eastern geopolitics and, as a consequence, international migration.
The quadrupling of oil prices and attendant inflation destroyed
economic growth in the West while flooding the Middle East with oil
money. American and European consumers, their wealth drained,
rebuilt their standard of living on the back of cheap labor—and
cheap migrants. The Middle East enjoyed the benefits of a historic
wealth transfer, but oil became a poisoned chalice leading to
political instability, revolution, and war, all of which resulted
in tens of millions of refugees. The economic, and migratory,
consequences of the OPEC oil crisis transformed the contours of
domestic politics around the world. They fueled the growth of
nationalist-populist parties that built their brands on blaming
immigrants for collapsing standards of living, willfully ignoring
the fact that mass immigration was the effect, not the cause, of
that collapse. In showing how war (the main driver of refugee
flows), work (labor migrants), and want (the desire for ever
cheaper products made by migrants) led to the massive upsurge in
global migration after 1973, this book will reshape our
understanding of the past half-century of global history.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Authors: |
Randall Hansen
(Canada Research Chair in Global Migration)
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
336 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-765769-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-19-765769-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780197657690 |
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