Immigrants : your country needs them / Philippe Legrain.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Legrain, Philippe, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--United States.

Immigrants.

Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.

Emigration and immigration.

United States--Emigration and immigration.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (391 pages)

Edition:

First Princeton edition / with a new preface.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed--or so we are told. At a time when National Guard units are deployed alongside vigilante Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico border, where the death toll in the past decade now exceeds 9/11's, Philippe Legrain has written the first book about immigration that looks beyond the headlines. Why are ever-rising numbers of people from poor countries arriving in the United States, Europe, and Australia? Can we keep them out? Should we even be trying? Combining compelling firsthand reporting from around the world, incisive socioeconomic analysis, and a broad understanding of what's at stake politically and culturally, Immigrants is a passionate but lucid book. In our open world, more people will inevitably move across borders, Legrain says--and we should generally welcome them. They do the jobs we can't or won't do--and their diversity enriches us all. Left and Right, free marketeers and campaigners for global justice, enlightened patriots--all should rally behind the cause of freer migration, because They need Us and We need Them.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Migration Isn't Just for the Birds

1. War on Our Borders

2. Border Crossing

3. Why We Need the Huddled Masses

4. The Global Talent Contest

5. Cosmopolitan and Rich

6. Stealing Our Jobs?

7. Snouts in Our Trough?

8. 'Our Heroes'

9. Brain Drain or Brain Gain?

10. It Needn't Be Forever

11. Alien Nation?

12. Huntington and Hispanics

13. Stranger, Can You Spare a Dime?

14. Learning to Live Together

15. Illiberal Islam?

16. Open Borders

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9780691165912

0691165912

9781400865413

1400865417

OCLC:

1132223558