
(Mis)managing Migration
Guestworkers' Experiences with North American Labor Markets
David Griffith(Editor)
SAR Press
Will be published approx. on 28. February 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
284 pages
978-1-938645-03-7 (ISBN)
Description
There is nothing so permanent as a temporary worker, observers of guestworker programmes quip. Historically, however, guestworker programmes and the numbers of guestworkers entering North American labour markets have fluctuated significantly as changing federal positions, shifting labour markets, economics, and politics have impacted access and participation. Today managed migration is growing in North America. This mirrors the general growth of migration from poorer to richer countries, with more than 200 million people now living outside their natal countries. Faced with this phenomenon, managed migration enables nation-states to regulate those population movements; direct foreign nationals to specific, identified economic sectors that citizens are less likely to care about; match employers who claim labour shortages with highly motivated workers; and offer people from poorer countries higher earning potential abroad through temporary absence from their families and homelands. Characterised like this, managed migration sounds like the ideal alternative to unregulated, undocumented migration, which too often results in family separation, wage theft and other abuses, interior bordering and anti-immigrant sentiment, increased state expenditures for border patrol and immigration enforcement, and orphaned children when parents are deported. Unfortunately, as the contributors to this volume describe, managed migration does not always work on the ground as well as it does on paper.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Santa Fe
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Figures, tables, maps
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-938645-03-7 (9781938645037)
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Persons
David Griffith is Senior Scientist and Professor at the Department of Anthropology and Institute for Coastal Science and Policy, East Carolina University.