| Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization Subjects: Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects; Emigration and immigration -- Government policy; Emigration and immigration -- Public opinion; International trade -- Social aspects; Labor and globalization; Why have countries increasingly restricted immigration even when they have opened their markets to foreign competition through trade or allowed their firms to move jobs overseas? In Trading Barriers , Margaret Peters argues that the increased ability of firms to produce anywhere in the world combined with growing international competition due to lowered trade barriers has led to greater limits on immigration. Margaret E. Peters is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. |