Trading barriers : immigration and the remaking of globalization / Margaret E. Peters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peters, Margaret E., 1980- author.

Contributor:

George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

Emigration and immigration--Public opinion.

International trade--Social aspects.

International trade.

Labor and globalization.

Physical Description:

xv, 321 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Why have countries increasingly restricted immigration even when they have opened their markets to foreign competition through trade or allowed their firms to move jobs overseas? In Trading Barriers, Margaret Peters argues that the increased ability of firms to produce anywhere in the world combined with growing international competition due lowered trade barriers has led to greater limits on immigration. Peters explains that businesses relying on low-skill labor have been the major proponents of greater openness to immigrants. Immigration helps lower costs, making these businesses more competitive at home abroad. However, increased international competition, due to lower trade barriers and greater economic development in the developing world, has led many businesses in wealthy countries to close or move overseas. Productivity increases have allowed those firms that have chosen to remain behind to do more with fewer workers. Together, these changes in the international economy have sapped the crucial business support necessary for more open immigration policies at home, empowered anti-immigrant groups, and spurred greater controls on migration. Debunking the commonly held belief that domestic social concerns are the deciding factor in determining immigration policy, Trading Barriers demonstrates the important and influential role played by international trade and capital movements. Book jacket.

Contents:

Immigration and the shape of globalization

Immigration, trade, and firm mobility : a political dilemma

Immigration policy and two eras of globalization

Changing industry preferences in the United States

Policy-makers' responses to firms in the United States

Immigration policy in small countries : the cases of Singapore and the Netherlands

The rise of anti-immigration sentiment and undocumented Immigration as explanations for immigration policy

Immigration in an increasingly globalized world

Appendix A: Collection and coding of the immigration policy variable.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9780691174471

0691174474

9780691174488

0691174482

OCLC:

956633789