Governing International Labour Migration - Current Issues, Challenges and Dilemmas

Offers a critical examination of the way in which the nature and governance of international labour migration is changing within a globalizing environment.

List of contents

Introduction Part 1: Regulating Labour Migration 1. Managing Migration and Citizenship in Europe: Towards an Overarching Framework 2. Governing Labour Migration in the Era of Gats 3. Anti-Illegal Immigration Policy 4. Why International Banks Became Interested in Migrant Remittances Part 2: Constructing Categories of Migrant Labour 5. Governing the Mobility of Skills 6. Revisiting the Permanent-Temporary Labour Migration Dichotomy 7. A 'Healthy' Trade? Nafta, Labour Mobility and Canadian Nurses 8. At the Heart of 'Migration Management' Part 3: Regional Dynamics 9. The US-Mexico Migration Honeymoon of 2001 10. Migration by the Poor and Economic Globalization 11. Governance of Economic Migration and Transnationalization of Rights. Conclusion

About the author

Christina Gabriel is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Hélène Pellerin is Associate Professor at the School of Political Studies, University of Ottawa, Canada.

Summary

Offers a critical examination of the way in which the nature and governance of international labour migration is changing within a globalizing environment.

Product details

• Authors: Christina Pellerin Gabriel
• Assisted by: Christina Gabriel (Editor), Gabriel Christina (Editor), Hélène Pellerin (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.06.2008
• EAN: 9780415433686
• ISBN: 978-0-415-43368-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 19 mm
• Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations, Politics & government, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Political Economy, Politics and government, Gender studies, gender groups, Human Geography