Ethical borders : NAFTA, globalization, and Mexican migration /

Ethical borders : NAFTA, globalization, and Mexican migration /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hing, Bill Ong.
Imprint:	Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 237 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Subject:	Foreign workers, Mexican -- United States. Mexicans -- Employment -- United States. Employment (Economic theory) Emigration and Immigration Employment Emigration and immigration. Foreign workers, Mexican. Mexicans -- Employment. Mexico -- Emigration and immigration. United States -- Emigration and immigration. Mexico. United States.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13452099

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ISBN:	9781592139262 1592139264 9781592139248 1592139248 9781592139255 1592139256
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This work is a new approach to addressing undocumented Mexican migration through substantial investment in Mexico's infrastructure and economy. In his topical new book, the author asks, why do undocumented immigrants from Mexico continue to enter the United States and what would discourage this surreptitious traffic? An expert on immigration law and policy, he examines the relationship between NAFTA, globalization, and undocumented migration, and he considers the policy options for controlling immigration. He develops an ethical rationale for opening up the U.S./Mexican border, as well as improving conditions in Mexico so that its citizens would have little incentive to migrate. He insists that reforming NAFTA is vital to ameliorating much of the poverty that drives undocumented immigration and he points to the European Union's immigration and economic development policies as a model for North America. He considers the worldwide economic crisis and the social problems that attend labor migration. He argues for a spectrum of changes, including: a new vision of border enforcement; a broader view of the visa system; a path to citizenship for undocumented migrants; and consideration of a guest worker program. He also situates NAFTA and its effects in the larger, and rapidly shifting, context of globalization, particularly the recent rise of China as the world's economic giant. Showing how NAFTA's unintended consequences have been detrimental to Mexico, he argues that the United States is ethically bound to address the problems in a way that puts prosperity within the grasp of all North Americans.
Other form:	Print version: Hing, Bill Ong. Ethical borders. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010 9781592139248

Table of Contents:

The NAFTA effect
Revolutionary Mexico : a brief economic and political history
Canadian stability and responsibility
The European Union strategy
Celtic tiger : the Irish example
The failed enforcement approach : "there ain't no reason to treat them like animals"
Contemplating North American integration and other alternatives
Epilogue: the ethical border : thinking outside the (big) box.