Immigrants : Your Country Needs Them /
Legrain, Philippe
Immigrants : Your Country Needs Them / Philippe Legrain. - 1 online resource (392 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Migration Isn’t Just for the Birds -- 1. War on Our Borders -- 2. Border Crossing -- 3. Why We Need the Huddled Masses -- 4. The Global Talent Contest -- 5. Cosmopolitan and Rich -- 6. Stealing Our Jobs? -- 7. Snouts in Our Trough? -- 8. ‘Our Heroes’ -- 9. Brain Drain or Brain Gain? -- 10. It Needn’t Be Forever -- 11. Alien Nation? -- 12. Huntington and Hispanics -- 13. Stranger, Can You Spare a Dime? -- 14. Learning to Live Together -- 15. Illiberal Islam? -- 16. Open Borders -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed--or so we are told. At a time when National Guard units are deployed alongside vigilante Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico border, where the death toll in the past decade now exceeds 9/11's, Philippe Legrain has written the first book about immigration that looks beyond the headlines. Why are ever-rising numbers of people from poor countries arriving in the United States, Europe, and Australia? Can we keep them out? Should we even be trying? Combining compelling firsthand reporting from around the world, incisive socioeconomic analysis, and a broad understanding of what's at stake politically and culturally, Immigrants is a passionate but lucid book. In our open world, more people will inevitably move across borders, Legrain says--and we should generally welcome them. They do the jobs we can't or won't do--and their diversity enriches us all. Left and Right, free marketeers and campaigners for global justice, enlightened patriots--all should rally behind the cause of freer migration, because They need Us and We need Them.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691134314 9781400865413
10.1515/9781400865413 doi
Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants--États-Unis.
Immigrants--United States.
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Émigration et immigration--Aspect social.
Émigration et immigration--Aspect économique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions.
Affirmative action. Americans. Asylum seeker. Australia. Australians. Black market. Border control. British people. Bureaucrat. Canada. Canadians. Capitalism. Citizenship. Competition. Consumption (economics). Country of origin. Cultural diversity. Developed country. Economic growth. Economist. Economy. Emigration. Employment. Entrepreneurship. Europe. Filipinos. Foreign worker. Globalization. Harvard University. High tech. Honduras. Household. Human capital flight. Illegal immigration. Immigration policy. Immigration to the United States. Immigration. Incentive. Income. Individualism. Islam. Israelis. Jews. Latin America. Latino (demonym). Member state. Mexican Americans. Mexicans. Migrant worker. Mosque. Multiculturalism. National identity. Newspaper. North America. Opposition to immigration. Peter Brimelow. Poles. Politician. Politics. Prejudice. Productivity. Public finance. Racism. Recession. Refugee. Religion. Remittance. Restaurant. Retirement age. Right of asylum. Saudi Arabia. Saving. Secularism. Shortage. Silicon Valley. Skilled worker. Standard of living. Suburb. Tax. Technology. Temporary work. Terrorism. The Death of the West. Think tank. Third World. Tourism. Travel visa. Underclass. Unemployment benefits. Unemployment. United States Border Patrol. Wage. Welfare state. Welfare. Western world. Work abroad. Workforce. World Trade Organization. World economy. Year.
JV6035 / .L44 2007eb
325.73 / L517i
Immigrants : Your Country Needs Them / Philippe Legrain. - 1 online resource (392 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Migration Isn’t Just for the Birds -- 1. War on Our Borders -- 2. Border Crossing -- 3. Why We Need the Huddled Masses -- 4. The Global Talent Contest -- 5. Cosmopolitan and Rich -- 6. Stealing Our Jobs? -- 7. Snouts in Our Trough? -- 8. ‘Our Heroes’ -- 9. Brain Drain or Brain Gain? -- 10. It Needn’t Be Forever -- 11. Alien Nation? -- 12. Huntington and Hispanics -- 13. Stranger, Can You Spare a Dime? -- 14. Learning to Live Together -- 15. Illiberal Islam? -- 16. Open Borders -- Notes -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by illegal immigrants and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our welfare system abused, our way of life destroyed--or so we are told. At a time when National Guard units are deployed alongside vigilante Minutemen on the U.S.-Mexico border, where the death toll in the past decade now exceeds 9/11's, Philippe Legrain has written the first book about immigration that looks beyond the headlines. Why are ever-rising numbers of people from poor countries arriving in the United States, Europe, and Australia? Can we keep them out? Should we even be trying? Combining compelling firsthand reporting from around the world, incisive socioeconomic analysis, and a broad understanding of what's at stake politically and culturally, Immigrants is a passionate but lucid book. In our open world, more people will inevitably move across borders, Legrain says--and we should generally welcome them. They do the jobs we can't or won't do--and their diversity enriches us all. Left and Right, free marketeers and campaigners for global justice, enlightened patriots--all should rally behind the cause of freer migration, because They need Us and We need Them.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780691134314 9781400865413
10.1515/9781400865413 doi
Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants--États-Unis.
Immigrants--United States.
United States--Emigration and immigration.
Émigration et immigration--Aspect social.
Émigration et immigration--Aspect économique.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic Conditions.
Affirmative action. Americans. Asylum seeker. Australia. Australians. Black market. Border control. British people. Bureaucrat. Canada. Canadians. Capitalism. Citizenship. Competition. Consumption (economics). Country of origin. Cultural diversity. Developed country. Economic growth. Economist. Economy. Emigration. Employment. Entrepreneurship. Europe. Filipinos. Foreign worker. Globalization. Harvard University. High tech. Honduras. Household. Human capital flight. Illegal immigration. Immigration policy. Immigration to the United States. Immigration. Incentive. Income. Individualism. Islam. Israelis. Jews. Latin America. Latino (demonym). Member state. Mexican Americans. Mexicans. Migrant worker. Mosque. Multiculturalism. National identity. Newspaper. North America. Opposition to immigration. Peter Brimelow. Poles. Politician. Politics. Prejudice. Productivity. Public finance. Racism. Recession. Refugee. Religion. Remittance. Restaurant. Retirement age. Right of asylum. Saudi Arabia. Saving. Secularism. Shortage. Silicon Valley. Skilled worker. Standard of living. Suburb. Tax. Technology. Temporary work. Terrorism. The Death of the West. Think tank. Third World. Tourism. Travel visa. Underclass. Unemployment benefits. Unemployment. United States Border Patrol. Wage. Welfare state. Welfare. Western world. Work abroad. Workforce. World Trade Organization. World economy. Year.
JV6035 / .L44 2007eb
325.73 / L517i