Workers Without Frontiers : The Impact Of Globalization On International Migration Book

	List of Illustrations
	Foreword
1	Globalization in Perspective	1
	What Is Globalization?	2
	Globalization in History	3
	A Global Consciousness	6
	The Modern Era	8
	The Retreat of the State	9
2	Convergence and Divergence	11
	The First Era of Convergence - Europe Catches Up	11
	The Second Era of Convergence - Barriers Fall in Europe	14
	Divergence Between OECD Countries and the Rest of the World	17
3	The New Age of Migration	21
	International Wage Disparities	21
	Modern Migration Patterns	26
4	Sending Goods Instead of People	35
	The Real World	35
	The New, New Economic Order	36
	The Effect of Trade on Overall Employment in Industrial Countries	38
	The Effect of Trade on Immigrant Employment in Industrial Countries	41
	The Impact of Free Trade on Emigration	47
	Export-Led Growth to Keep Immigrants at Home	51
	Links Between Industrial-Country Exports and Immigration	56
5	Capital to Workers, Not Workers to Capital	59
	Equity and Debt	59
	Foreign Direct Investment	64
	Export-Processing Zones	69
6	Reducing International Wage Disparities Through Migration	75
	The Effect of Emigration on Sending Countries	75
	The Effect of Immigration on Labor Markets in Receiving Countries	82
	The Effect of Immigration on Economic Growth	90
7	The Shock of the New	93
	Political Disruption	95
	Economic Disruption	98
	Social Disruption	100
	The Migration Hump	103
8	The International Skill Exchange	107
	The Brain Drain	107
	The Globalization of Education	108
	Transnational Employers	109
	Return Migration	112
	The New Skill Exchange	113
9	Lubricating the Flow	117
	Messages from the Media	117
	Telecommunications and Transportation	118
	Migrant Networks	120
	The Migration Industry	122
10	The Demand for Immigrants	131
	The Persistence of the Dual Labor Market	132
	The Demographic Factor	135
11	A Question of Time	139
	Bibliography	141
	Index	153
	About the Book	163