Exceptional People How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future

Name: Exceptional People How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future
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ISBN: 9780691156316

ISBN-10: 069115631X

ISBN-13: 9780691156316

Edition: 2011

Authors: Ian Goldin, Geoffrey Cameron, Meera Balarajan

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Throughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and laid the foundations for a global economy. In a world more interconnected than ever before, the number of people with the means and motivation to migrate will only increase.Exceptional Peoplelooks at the profound advantages that such dynamics will have for countries and migrants the world over. Challenging the received wisdom that a dramatic growth in migration is undesirable, the book proposes new approaches for governance that will embrace this international mobility.The authors explore the critical role of human migration since humans first…

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/16/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



List of Illustrations and Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Past



Migration from Prehistory to Columbus


Early Migration


Connecting Humanity


Migration and Humanity



Global Migrations: Toward a World Economy


The Age of Exploration


Imperialism and Coercion


Unfree Migrations: Slavery and Indentured Labor


Global "Free" Migrations (ca. 1840-1914)


Builders of the Modern World



"Managed" Migration in the Twentieth Century (1914-1973)


The End of the Liberal Period


The Interwar Period: Economic Decline and Regulated Migration


Post-WWII Migrations


Finding Reasons to Regulate



Present



Leaving Home: Migration Decisions and Processes


Micro-Level: Individuals and Families


Meso-Level: Networks and Systems


Macro-Level: Demographic, Political, and Economic Conditions


Individual, Society, and National Influences



Immigration and Border Control


Channels and Flows of Migration


Economic Migration


Social Migration


Refugee Migration


Border Control


Beyond Border Controls



The Impacts of Migration


Impacts on Receiving Countries


Impacts on Sending Countries


Impacts on Migrants


Impacts on Societies and Migrants



Future



The Future of Migration


The Backdrop of Globalization


Supply of Migrants


Demand for Migrants



A Global Migration Agenda


Thought Experiments


A Long-Term Vision of Freer Movement


Principles for Global Migration


The Need for Global Leadership


Notes


References


Index