Immigrants, Markets, and States

Immigrants, Markets, and States
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 332
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ISBN-10 : 067444423X
ISBN-13 : 9780674444232
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Synopsis Immigrants, Markets, and States by : James Frank Hollifield

A study of migration tides which explores political and economic factors that have influenced immigration in post-war Europe and the USA. It seeks to explain immigration in terms of the globalization of labour markets and the expansion of civil rights for marginal groups in liberal democracies.

Immigration and the Political Economy of Home

Immigration and the Political Economy of Home
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9780520221215
ISBN-13 : 0520221214
Rating : 4/5 (15 Downloads)

Synopsis Immigration and the Political Economy of Home by : Rachel Buff

"In this unusual juxtaposition of Indians in Minneapolis and Caribbean immigrants in Brooklyn, Buff has given us a unique and powerful lens on the nation-form and its discontents. This is a highly inventive, insightful study--as keen in its analysis of U.S. politics and policy as it is alive to the political force of various ‘minority’ cultural forms."—Matthew Frye Jacobson, Yale University, author of Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876–1917

Re-thinking the Political Economy of Immigration Control

Re-thinking the Political Economy of Immigration Control
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 253
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ISBN-10 : 9781317308348
ISBN-13 : 1317308344
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Re-thinking the Political Economy of Immigration Control by : Lea Sitkin

This book offers a systematic exploration of the changing politics around immigration and the impact of resultant policy regimes on immigrant communities. It does so across a uniquely wide range of policy areas: immigration admissions, citizenship, internal immigration controls, labour market regulation, the welfare state and the criminal justice system. Challenging the current state of theoretical literature on the ‘criminalisation’ or ‘marginalisation’ of immigrants, this book examines the ways in which immigrants are treated differently in different national contexts, as well as the institutional factors driving this variation. To this end, it offers data on overall trends across 20 high-income countries, as well as more detailed case studies on the UK, Australia, the USA, Germany, Italy and Sweden. At the same time, it charts an emerging common regime of exploitation, which threatens the depiction of some countries as more inclusionary than others. The politicisation of immigration has intensified the challenge for policy-makers, who today must respond to populist calls for restrictive immigration policy whilst simultaneously heeding business groups’ calls for cheap labour and respecting legal obligations that require more liberal and welcoming policy regimes. The resultant policy regimes often have counterproductive effects, in many cases marginalising immigrant communities and contributing to the growth of underground and criminal economies. Finally, developments on the horizon, driven by technological progress, threaten to intensify distributional challenges. While these will make the politics around immigration even more fraught in coming decades, the real issue is not immigration but the loss of good jobs, which will have serious implications across all Western countries. This book will appeal to scholars and students of criminology, social policy, political economy, political sociology, the sociology of immigration and race, and migration studies.

The American Political Economy

The American Political Economy
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 487
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ISBN-10 : 9781316516362
ISBN-13 : 1316516369
Rating : 4/5 (62 Downloads)

Synopsis The American Political Economy by : Jacob S. Hacker

Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.

Trading Barriers

Trading Barriers
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 343
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ISBN-10 : 9781400885374
ISBN-13 : 140088537X
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Trading Barriers by : Margaret E. Peters

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.

The Regulated Economy

The Regulated Economy
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 9780226301341
ISBN-13 : 0226301346
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis The Regulated Economy by : Claudia Goldin

How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the political influence of special interest groups in the development of economic regulation. The Regulated Economy examines how constituent groups emerged and demanded government action to solve perceived economic problems, such as exorbitant railroad and utility rates, bank failure, falling agricultural prices, the immigration of low-skilled workers, workplace injury, and the financing of government. The contributors look at how preexisting policies, institutions, and market structures shaped regulatory activity; the origins of regulatory movements at the state and local levels; the effects of consensus-building on the timing and content of legislation; and how well government policies reflect constituency interests. A wide-ranging historical view of the way interest group demands and political bargaining have influenced the growth of economic regulation in the United States, this book is important reading for economists, political scientists, and public policy experts.

Wretched Refuse?

Wretched Refuse?
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 349
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ISBN-10 : 9781108477635
ISBN-13 : 1108477631
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Wretched Refuse? by : Alex Nowrasteh

An empirical investigation into the impact of immigration on institutions and prosperity.

Migration and the Welfare State

Migration and the Welfare State
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 181
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ISBN-10 : 9780262298377
ISBN-13 : 0262298376
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Migration and the Welfare State by : Assaf Razin

Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman once noted that free immigration cannot coexist with a welfare state. A welfare state with open borders might turn into a haven for poor immigrants, which would place such a fiscal burden on the state that native-born voters would support less-generous benefits or restricted immigration, or both. And yet a welfare state with an aging population might welcome young skilled immigrants. The preferences of the native-born population toward migration depend on the skill and age composition of the immigrants, and migration policies in a political-economy framework may be tailored accordingly. This book examines how social benefits-immigrations political economy conflicts are resolved, with an empirical application to data from Europe and the developed countries, integrating elements from population, international, public, and political economics into a unified static and dynamic framework. Using a static analytical framework to examine intra-generational distribution, the authors first focus on the skill composition of migrants in both free and restricted immigration policy regimes, drawing on empirical research from EU-15 and non-EU-15 states. The authors then offer theoretical analyses of similar issues in dynamic overlapping generations settings, studying not only intragenerational but also intergenerational aspects, including old-young dependency ratios and skilled-unskilled conflicts. Finally, they examine overall gains from or costs of migration in both host and source countries and the race to the bottom argument of tax competition between states in the presence of free migration.

Immigration and Conflict in Europe

Immigration and Conflict in Europe
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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ISBN-10 : 9781139490498
ISBN-13 : 1139490494
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Immigration and Conflict in Europe by : Rafaela M. Dancygier

Contemporary debates give the impression that the presence of immigrants necessarily spells strife. Yet as Immigration and Conflict in Europe shows, the incidence of conflict involving immigrants and their descendants has varied widely across groups, cities, and countries. The book presents a theory to account for this uneven pattern, explaining why we observe clashes between immigrants and natives in some locations but not in others and why some cities experience confrontations between immigrants and state actors while others are spared from such conflicts. The book addresses how economic conditions interact with electoral incentives to account for immigrant-native and immigrant-state conflict across groups and cities within Great Britain as well as across Germany and France. It highlights the importance of national immigration regimes and local political economies in shaping immigrants' economic position and political behavior, demonstrating how economic and electoral forces, rather than cultural differences, determine patterns of conflict and calm.

The International Political Economy of Migration in the Globalization Era

The International Political Economy of Migration in the Globalization Era
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : 9783030793210
ISBN-13 : 3030793214
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis The International Political Economy of Migration in the Globalization Era by : Leila Simona Talani

This book concerns with the analysis of the impact of globalization on international migration from a distinct international political economy perspective. It confronts theoretical debates from the different international political economy (IPE) approaches and elaborates on the implications of different theories in policymaking and political realms. Here, migration is examined as an integral part of the global political economy that is structurally connected to the process of globalization, although the definition of globalization itself is a subject of enquiry.