Challenges of Globalization: Immigration, Social Welfare, Global Governance / Edition 1

by Andrew Sobel

Overview

This book offers a significant contribution to the globalization debate, and examines the complexities surrounding modern globalization. It will be of great interest to scholars of international political economy, international relations and globalization studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415778077
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/20/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	222
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Andrew C. Sobel is a member of the Department of Political Science, a Resident Fellow in the Center in Political Economy, and on the Board of Directors of the Center for the New Institutional Social Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of three books and specializes in the politics of international finance with a focus upon domestic explanations of international behaviour.

Table of Contents

1. Opportunities and challenges 2. Sustainable labor migration policies in a globalizing world 3. The last bastions of state sovereignty: Immigration and nationality go global 4. The era of free migration: Lessons for today 5. Cultural communities in a global labor market: Immigration restrictions as residential segregation 6. Economics versus identity: Mass and elite attitudes toward trade, migration, and outsourcing 7. Globalization and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean 8. Capital mobility and state social welfare provisions in the late 1800s 9. Global governance redefined