Description: Globalization has increased international migratory pressures, but in advanced industrialized countries entrenched social interests eager to maintain restrictive policies make it difficult for governments to encourage mass migration. This book explains how countries in Western...
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"Quite informative and educational....Recommended." --Choice Reviews
"Prying Open Fortress Europe is not another lament about immigration restriction. Alexander Caviedes instead explains why extensive labor migration to Europe continues. Rooting his analysis in a critique of the varieties of capitalism, he shows that both skilled and unskilled labor migration originate in employer preferences for flexible labor in specific sectors. The well documented case studies in this book uncover cross-national similarities of policy within sectors in spite of different national models." --Gary Freeman, University of Texas