Trading Barriers (eBook)

Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization

Margaret Peters (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
344 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8537-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Margaret E. Peters is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.5.2017
• Zusatzinfo: 33 line illus. 33 tables.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • americanization • anti-immigrant groups • anti-immigration sentiment • Asylum Seeker • autocracy • balance of trade • Bracero Program • Bureau of Economic Analysis • Capital control • Capital Market • Case study • climate change migration • Competition • Competitive advantage • competitiveness • Currency • deindustrialization • Democratization • Deportation • developed country • Displaced Persons Act • Economic Growth • economic migrant • Economic Policy • economy • Economy of the United States • Employment • European Union • Expense • Export • export markets • Export subsidy • Externality • firm mobility • firms • Foreign Direct Investment • foreign policy • foreign worker • Free Trade • Globalization • Guest worker program • H-1B visa • Ideology • Illegal Immigration • Immigrants • Immigration • Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 • Immigration Law • Immigration Policy • Immigration Reform • immigration restrictions • Immigration to the United States • immigration votes • Import substitution industrialization • Incentive • income • Industry • industry preferences • internal migration • International Competition • International Economy • International Political Economy • International Trade • labour law • Latin America • Legislation • lobbying • low-skill immigration • low-skill labor • Manufacturing • middle class • Migrant worker • Migration • Nationality • national security • nativism • Nativism (politics) • Netherlands • New Trade Theory • Offshoring • Online and offline • Open border • Open Economy • open economy politics • open immigration • Opposition to immigration • Policy • policymakers • political capital • Political Party • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Primary sector of the economy • private sector • Productivity • Profession • Race to the Bottom • Recession • Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA) • Refugee • Senate • Service economy • Singapore • Stanford University • Subsidy • Supply (economics) • tariff • Tax • Tax Incidence • Technology • Tradable sector • Trade • Trade Agreement • Trade association • Trade barrier • Trade Barriers • trade openness • Trade Restriction • Trade Union • undocumented workforce • urbanization • Voting • welfare • Welfare State • Workforce • World Economy • World Trade Organization • World War II • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8537-X / 140088537X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8537-4 / 9781400885374