Why have countries increasingly restricted immigration even when they have opened their markets to foreign competition through trade or allowed their firms to move jobs overseas? In Trading Barriers, Margaret Peters argues that the increased ability of firms to produce anywhere in the world combined with growing international competition due to lowered trade barriers has led to greater limits on immigration. Peters explains that businesses relying on low-skill labor have been the major proponents of greater openness to immigrants. Immigration helps lower costs, making these businesses more competitive at home and abroad. However, increased international competition, due to lower trade barriers and greater economic development in the developing world, has led many businesses in wealthy countries to close or move overseas. Productivity increases have allowed those firms that have chosen to remain behind to do more with fewer workers. Together, these changes in the international economy have sapped the crucial business support necessary for more open immigration policies at home, empowered anti-immigrant groups, and spurred greater controls on migration.
Debunking the commonly held belief that domestic social concerns are the deciding factor in determining immigration policy, Trading Barriers demonstrates the important and influential role played by international trade and capital movements.
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"Winner of the 2018 IPE Best Book Award, International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association" "Winner of the 2018 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association" "Selected for the Washington Post's Albies "for the best work on the political economy in 2017" (chosen by Daniel W. Drezner)" "Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association" "Winner of the 2018 Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award, American Political Science Association" "The consistency of the findings across different contexts should be deeply informative for those who negotiate trade and immigration policy. If we cannot have both freer trade and freer immigration, we should choose carefully between the two. . . . All in all, the book is well worth reading and should bring a new and influential perspective to the ongoing debate over trade and immigration policy."---Greg C. Wright, Finance & Development "A timely and well-researched study that offers valuable insight into the trade-offs between free trade and immigration."---Paul Caruana-Galizia, London School of Economics Review of Books blog "Trading Barriers is an ambitious book that challenges the political economy of migration. In contrast to the common explanations that need for workers drives immigration and competition over limited jobs gives rise to anti-immigrant sentiment, Peters posits that people have overlooked the role of the firm in shaping immigration debates and outcomes." * Choice * "Particularly masterful is Peters' innovative methodological use of data and analysis; she utilizes a number of datasets to prove her argument, many of which are original and innovative."---Erica Consterdine, International Migration Review
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33 line illus. 33 tables.
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Höhe: 235 mm
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978-0-691-17447-1 (9780691174471)
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Margaret E. Peters is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
List of Figures ix List of Tables xi Acknowledgments xiii A Note to the Reader on the Online Appendixes xvii 1 Immigration and the Shape of Globalization 1 2 Immigration, Trade, and Firm Mobility: A Political Dilemma 15 3 Immigration Policy and Two Eras of Globalization 41 4 Changing Industry Preferences in the United States 69 5 Policymakers' Responses to Firms in the United States 116 6 Immigration Policy in Small Countries: The Cases of Singapore and the Netherlands 162 7 The Rise of Anti-Immigration Sentiment and Undocumented Immigration as Explanations for Immigration Policy 206 8 Immigration in an Increasingly Globalized World 222 Appendix A: Collection and Coding of the Immigration Policy Variable 243 Bibliography 295 Index 313
