War, work, and want [electronic resource] : how the OPEC oil crisis caused mass migration and revolution / Randall Hansen.
"This book asks why, against all expectations, global migration tripled in the five decades after 1973. The book argues that economic and geopolitical changes unleashed by the OPEC oil crisis led to well over one hundred million migrants that few people expected or wanted. More people are on the mov...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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War, Work, and Want: How the OPEC Oil Crisis Caused Mass Migration and Revolution |
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Contents:
- Prussians and Jews : the Six-Day War and its aftermath
- The great revaluation : OPEC
- Black gold : wealth and immigration in the Middle East
- Oil in oil-poor states : Egypt
- Oil's curses : Iran and Iraq
- Drunk on oil and gas : the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
- No blood for oil : Iraq, 1990
- The Taliban, 9/11, and the Second Iraq War
- The Arab nightmare : Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and global displacement in the 2010s
- ISIL and the European refugee crisis
- Expensive oil, cheap goods
- The assault on working-class wages
- Where we shop
- What we eat I : the rise and fall of meatpacking unions
- What we eat II : immigration and the meatpacking industry
- What we eat III : fish, fruit, and vegetables
- Where we live I : migrants in the US construction business
- Where we live II : building Europe
- Where we live III : Asia
- How we live : keeping our houses, raising our children
- What we wear
- Back to the future : inflation, the global economy, and migration in the 2020s.