Abstract The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to …

To say international migration is to say cross-border connections: the ties linking sending
and receiving countries are a salient aspect of the migration experience, appearing during …

This article aims to examine some of the difficulties of theory formation in international
migration studies, and to suggest a response. The starting point is an examination of the …

The attentive observer of globalization is at least intuitively aware of the centrality of the
issue of migration. Migration plays a major role in the complex (and unclear) process of …

'The world economy is subject to a rapidly increasing globalization, and multinational
enterprises are their major driving force. This brand new book on multinationals and …

This chapter supplements the previous chapter by examining the available evidence on how
immigration impacts the destination country's labor markets. In this chapter, we discuss …

This paper analyses the argument put that the world is becoming flatter from the perspective
of economic geography and spatial economics. In order to do this, we consider the variety of …

Environmental change poses risks to societies, including disrupting social and economic
systems such as migration. At the same time, migration is an effective adaptation to …

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 …

What explains variation in immigration policy, especially policy regulating low-skill workers?
A common argument invokes prejudice against foreigners as an explanation for why nations …