"This chapter makes the standard economic case for free immigration. It outlines the massive global gains in output that eliminating immigration restrictions could create. It reviews the increased earnings and productivity of people based on place specific productivity, it revie…
"Economic arguments favoring increased immigration restrictions suggest that immigrants undermine the culture, institutions, and productivity of destination countries. But is this actually true? Nowrasteh and Powell systematically analyze cross-country evidence of potential nega…
1. Conceptualizing the migration industry / Ruben Hernandez-Leon -- 2. The migration industry in global migration governance / Alexander Betts -- 3. Migration trajectories and the migration industry: Theoretical reflections and empirical examples from Asia / Ernst Spaan and Feli…
<P>Migration has become business, big business. Over the last few decades a host of new business opportunities have emerged that capitalize both on the migrants' desires to migrate and the struggle by governments to manage migration. From the rapid growth of specialized transpor…
Understanding migration with macroeconomics
This edited collection includes (but is not limited to) contributions in the form of chapters from the participants of the Workshop on the Macroeconomics of Migration at the University of Sheffield in June 2018. Migration is one of the most debated issues currently and is a perv…
Understanding migration with macroeconomics
'From a politics of hospitality but also backlash to a nuanced analysis of cultural politics and the race question, Bose deftly examines refugee resettlement in Vermont in both local and global contexts. Refugee resettlement is usually an urban phenomenon. Newcomers narratives o…
'From a politics of hospitality but also backlash to a nuanced analysis of cultural politics and the race question, Bose deftly examines refugee resettlement in Vermont in both local and global contexts. Refugee resettlement is usually an urban phenomenon. Newcomers narratives o…
Economist Caplan makes a bold case for unrestricted immigration in this fact-filled graphic nonfiction. He makes the case for unrestricted immigration easy to follow and hard to deny. American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and wha…
"American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and what kind of immigrants to allow to live and work in the country. Those in favor of welcoming more immigrants often cite humanitarian reasons, while those in favor of more restrictive la…
"American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and what kind of immigrants to allow to live and work in the country. Those in favor of welcoming more immigrants often cite humanitarian reasons, while those in favor of more restrictive la…
"American policy-makers have long been locked in a heated battle over whether, how many, and what kind of immigrants to allow to live and work in the country. Those in favor of welcoming more immigrants often cite humanitarian reasons, while those in favor of more restrictive la…
Introduction -- The criminalization of immigration in the United States -- The police and immigration -- Immigration and the courts -- Detention and Deportation of immigrants -- The consequences of criminalizing immigration -- Framing the immigration problem. "Presents the hist…
"Presents the history of immigration to the United States; its criminalization under the Trump administration; debates over criminalization; effects on immigrants, U.S. residents, and the U.S. economy; and this country's relationships with other nations"--.