International migration in the age of crisis and globalization : historical and recent experiences / Andrés Solimano.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Physical Description: | xv, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: understanding the trends, themes, and strata of international migration; 2. Why people move or stay put: international migration is the result of compelling and conflicting factors; 3. What happens when international migration happens? The dilemmas posed by migration; 4. How empires, policy regimes, and economic imperatives influenced the mobility of capital and people in the 20th century; 5. Latin America: where volatile economic development, political crises, poverty, and remittance income is a laboratory for studying the determinants of international migration; 6. Who migrates and what they offer: a focus on people and elites with talent, knowledge, and entrepreneurial skills; 7. International migration requires that the global community put it effectively on its agenda.