Exodus How Migration Is Changing Our World

Name: Exodus How Migration Is Changing Our World
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ISBN: 9780195398656

ISBN-10: 0195398653

ISBN-13: 9780195398656

Edition: 2013

Authors: Paul Collier

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As never before, young people in the poorest countries are aware of opportunities elsewhere. Most of them want to migrate to the high-income countries. The response of the high-income societies has been schizophrenic: the European former colonial powers display a mixture of guilt and resentment; North America oscillates between seeing immigrants as a new wave of opportunity and a threat to living standards. Potentially, the scale of migration driven by international inequality is so huge that it could make nations as we know them obsolete. Both host countries and sending societies may become multi-national; host countries may find themselves composed of many distinct societies co-existing…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 8.50" wide x 6.10" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Prologue



The Questions and the Process



The Migration Taboo



Why Migration Accelerates



Host Societies: Welcome or Resentment?



The Social Consequences



The Economic Consequences



Getting Migration Policy Wrong



Migrants: Grievance or Gratitude?



Migrants: The Winners from Migration



Migrants: The Losers from Migration



Those Left Behind



The Political Consequences



The Economic Consequences



Left Behind?



Rethinking Migration Policies



Nations and Nationalism



Making Migration Policies Fit for Purpose


Notes


References


Index