International Migration Prospects and Policies in a Global Market

by Massey, Douglas S.; Taylor, J. Edward

• ISBN13: 9780199269006
• ISBN10: 0199269009
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-03
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This study offers a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of global patterns of international migration and the policies employed to manage the flows. It shows that international migration is not rooted in poverty or rapid population growth, but in the expansion and consolidation of global markets. The insertion of non-market societies into global networks of trade unleashes structural transformations that displace people to create migrants. Globalization also creates infrastructures of transportation, communication, and social networks to put developed societies within reach.

Author Biography

J. Edward Taylor is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis. He was an Appointed Member to the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform from 1995-97, and is author of a number of publications on migration. Douglas S. Massey is Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs, Princeton University. He is author of a number of publications on migration, Latin American society, and urban sociology.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
List of Figures	xi
Introduction	1	(14)
Douglas S. Massey
J. Edward Taylor
PART I. PROSPECTS
Population Growth and International Migration	15	(20)
Hania Zlotnik
The Effects of Political and Economic Transition on International Migration in Central and Eastern Europe	35	(24)
Marek Okolski
Trends in International Migration in and from Africa	59	(18)
Aderanti Adepoju
International Migration in the Asia--Pacific Region: Emerging Trends and Issues	77	(27)
Graeme Hugo
Immigration and the Labor Market in Metropolitan Buenos Aires	104	(16)
Alicia Maguid
Mexican Migration to the United States: The Effect of NAFTA	120	(11)
Philip L. Martin
Immigrants in the U.S. Economy	131	(26)
Min Zhou
PART II. POLICIES IN SENDING NATIONS
Remittances, Savings, and Development in Migrant-Sending Areas	157	(17)
J. Edward Taylor
Labor Export Strategies in Asia	174	(27)
Graeme Hugo
Charles Stahl
The Role of Recruiters in Labor Migration	201	(11)
Manolo I. Abella
Return Migration in the Philippines: Issues and Policies	212	(18)
Graziano Battistella
International Migration, Identity, and Development in Oceania: A Synthesis of Ideas	230	(31)
Richard Bedford
PART III. POLICIES IN RECEIVING NATIONS
Have the Occupational Skills of New Immigrants to the United States Declined Over Time? Evidence from the Immigrant Cohorts of 1977, 1982, and 1994	261	(25)
Guillermina Jasso
Admissions Policies in Europe	286	(9)
Catherine Withol de Wenden
A New Paradigm for the European Asylum Regime	295	(23)
Daniele Joly
Astri Suhrke
Immigrants and the Welfare State in Europe	318	(17)
Martin Baldwin-Edwards
The Legacy of Welfare Reform for U.S. Immigrants	335	(17)
Michael Fix
Wendy Zimmermann
Controlling International Migration through Enforcement: The Case of the United States	352	(21)
Frank D. Bean
David A. Spener
PART IV. PROSPECTS AND POLICIES RECONSIDERED
Back to the Future: Immigration Research, Immigration Policy, and Globalization in the Twenty-first Century	373	(16)
Douglas S. Massey
J. Edward Taylor
Index	389