TY - BOOK AU - Goldin,Ian AU - Balarajan,Meera AU - Cameron,Geoffrey TI - Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define Our Future SN - 9780691156316 AV - JV6035.G619.E934 PY - 2011/// CY - Princeton, New Jersey PB - Princeton University Press KW - Emigration & Immigration Studies KW - Public Affairs & Policy Politics Books KW - Economics KW - Introduction to Mission and Migration KW - ICS5100-V N1 - PART I: PAST --; 1. Migration from prehistory to Columbus --; -- Early migration --; -- Connecting humanity --; -- Migration and humanity --; 2. Global migrations: toward a world economy --; -- The age of exploration --; -- Imperialism and coercion --; -- Unfree migrations: slavery and indentured labor --; -- Global "free" migrations (ca. 184-1914) --; -- Builders of the modern world --; 3. "Managed" migration in the twentieth century (1914-1973) --; -- The end of the liberal period --; -- The interwar period: economic decline and regulated migration --; -- Post-WWII migrations --; -- Finding reasons to regulate; PART II: PRESENT --; 4. Leaving home: migration decisions and processes --; -- Micro-level: individuals and families --; -- Meso-level: networks and systems --; -- Macro-level: demographic, political. and economic conditions --; -- Individual, society, and national influences --; 5. Immigration and border control --; -- Channels and flows of migration --; -- Economic migration --; -- Social migration --; -- Refugee migration --; -- Border control --; -- Beyond border controls --; 6. The impacts of migration --; -- Impacts on receiving countries --; -- Impacts on sending countries --; -- Impacts on migrants --; -- Impacts on societies and migrants; PART III: FUTURE --; 7. The future of migration --; -- The backdrop of globalization --; -- Supply of migrants --; -- Demand for migrants --; 8. A global migration agenda --; -- Thought experiments --; -- A long-term vision of freer movement --; -- Principles for global migration --; -- The need for global leadership; 2; 2; https://ciu.libwizard.com/f/copyright-requests N2 - 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 will only increase. Exceptional People provides a long-term and global perspective on the implications and policy options for societies the world over. Challenging the received wisdom that a dramatic growth in migration is undesirable, the book proposes new approaches for governance that will embrace this international mobility UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ciu/detail.action?docID=5542026 ER -