num_pages: 258
description: Today managed migration is growing in North America. This mirrors the general growth of migration from poorer to richer countries, with more than 200 million people now living outside their natal countries. Faced with this phenomenon, managed migration enables nation-states to regulate those population movements; direct foreign nationals to specific, identified economic sectors that citizens are less likely to care about; match employers who claim labor shortages with highly motivated workers; and offer people from poorer countries higher earning potential abroad through temporary absence from their families and homelands. Characterized like this, managed migration sounds like the ideal alternative to unregulated, undocumented migration. Unfortunately, as the contributors to this volume describe, managed migration does not always work on the ground as well as it does on paper.  “This is an extremely valuable collection of articles on a theme of great contemporary importance and interest. Whereas single-authored books have appeared on particular groups of recent (post-war) Temporary Foreign Workers Programs, there is nothing with the breadth that we encounter here, nothing that takes on in comparative fashion TFWPs throughout the North American region.”—Leigh Binford, City University of New York  “This is a strong and coherent book, with chapters that collectively present an interesting, important, and insightful account of the past and present of managed migration in the United States and Canada. I learned a considerable amount from (Mis)managing Migration. It should be read by scholars interested in labor and migration in a variety of disciplines, including, but not limited to, anthropology, geography, history, political science, and sociology.”  —Gretchen Purser, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University 
language: English
title: (Mis)managing Migration: Guestworkers' Experiences with North American Labor Markets
publisher: School for Advanced Research Press