Cross-Border Labor Mobility Historical and Contemporary Perspective
This book presents a comprehensive review of cross-border labor mobility from the ancient forms of slavery to the present day. The book covers African and Amerindian slaveries, indentured servitude of the Indians and the Chinese, guestworker programs, and
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Cross-Border Labor Mobility Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Cross-Border Labor Mobility
Caf Dowlah
Cross-Border Labor Mobility Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Caf Dowlah New York City, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-36505-9 ISBN 978-3-030-36506-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36506-6 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
The pages that follow provide the fascinating story of global human mobility from the onset of the earliest civilizations. It has been a daunting task—mountainous volumes of material had to be scrutinized to glean lessons from the past, and great efforts were made to present those in a single volume. The objective was to cover the third leg of the contemporary phase of economic globalization, that is, the mobility of labor across national borders. I have written about the other two legs of economic globalization before: international trade was covered in Backwaters of Global Prosperity (Praeger, 2004) and International Trade, Competitive Advantage and Developing Countries (Routledge, 2016); and global flows of capital were considered in Transformations of Global Prosperity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018). With this, I finally complete my inquiry into the subject of economic globalization. I am grateful to numerous authors and scholars from around the world whose analytical as well as descriptive works left indelible marks in my mind and helped shape my own ideas and lines of inquiry. While every effort has been made to acknowledge such contributions it is inevitable that many will not be nam
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