Trading Barriers
Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization
1st Edition
Published on 10. April 2017
344 pages
978-1-4008-8537-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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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Margaret E. Peters is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Content
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
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
