Exceptional People : : How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future /

Exceptional People : : How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future / / Geoffrey Cameron, Meera Balarajan, Ian Goldin.

Throughout history, migrants have fueled the engine of human progress. Their movement has sparked innovation, spread ideas, relieved poverty, and laid the foundations for a global economy. In a world more interconnected than ever before, the number of people with the means and motivation to migrate...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Goldin, Ian,
Balarajan, Meera,
Cameron, Geoffrey,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 37 line illus. 14 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Past
  • 1. Migration from Prehistory to Columbus
  • 2. Global Migrations: Toward a World Economy
  • 3. "Managed" Migration in the Twentieth Century (1914-1973)
  • Part II: Present
  • 4. Leaving Home: Migration Decisions and Processes
  • 5. Immigration and Border Control
  • 6. The Impacts of Migration
  • Part III: Future
  • 7. The Future of Migration
  • 8. A Global Migration Agenda
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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