Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: understanding the trends, themes, and strata of international migration; 2. Why people mo ve or stay put: international migration is the result of compelling and conflicting factors; 3. What happens when international migration happ ens? The dilemmas posed by migration; 4. How empires, policy regimes, a nd economic imperatives influenced the mobility of capital and people i n the 20th century; 5. Latin America: where volatile economic developme nt, political crises, poverty, and remittance income is a laboratory fo r studying the determinants of international migration; 6. Who migrates and what they offer: a focus on people and elites with talent, knowled ge, and entrepreneurial skills; 7. International migration requires tha t the global community put it effectively on its agenda.

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"The international mobility of people is a main feature of the globa l economy of today and yesterday although external openness is oft en m ore favorable to goods and money than people across diff erent periods of the world economy including crisis, globalization, nationalism and a utarkic trends. Immigration augments the labor force in receiving count ries and provides many of the bodies and minds that are essential to an y vibrant economy. Talented people are critical to the transfer of know ledge, ideas, fresh capital, contacts, and entrepreneurial capacities. Th is book that promotes a freer and more humane regime for the mobilit y of people is based on a blend of theory and empirical evidence compri sing varied country examples, and rich historical material ranging from the mid-19th century to the early 21st century. It discusses the conce ptual underpinnings of the push-and-pull factors of current migration w aves and their impacts for development on the source and receiving coun tries. Th e analysis reviews the historical context under which various migration experiences have taken place - both in periods of internatio nalism and in periods of nationalism - in order to contribute to debate s on the desirability of and the tensions and costs involved in the cur rent process of international migration and globalization. Th ese issue s are relevant during times of both economic slumps and times of econom ic growth"--Provided by publisher.