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Managing labor migration in the twenty-first century
- Title
- Managing labor migration in the twenty-first century / Philip Martin, Manolo Abella, and Christiane Kuptsch.
- Author
- Martin, Philip L., 1949-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2006], ©2006.
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- Description
- xiv, 226 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Why have ninety million workers around the globe left their home for employment in other countries? What can be done to ensure that international labor migration is a force for global betterment? This groundbreaking book presents the most comprehensive analysis of the causes and effects of labor migration available, and it recommends sensible, sustainable migration policies that are fair to migrants and to the countries that open their doors to them."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Why international migration? -- 2. Global migration patterns and issues -- 3. Highly skilled guest workers -- 4. Guest worker programs -- 5. Managing guest workers -- 6. Thailand : migration in a tiger economy -- 7. Managing migration in the twenty-first century -- App. ILO conventions on migrants.
- ISBN
- 0300109040 (cloth (10-digit) : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005010347
- 9780300109047
- OCLC
- OCM59098726
- SCSB-5925104
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries