Description
| Product ID: | 9780349119748 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Immigrants |
| Subtitle: | Your Country Needs Them |
| Authors: | Author: Philippe Legrain |
| Page Count: | 384 |
| Subjects: | Migration, immigration and emigration, Migration, immigration & emigration |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Philippe Legrain makes a compelling case for global immigration with a book that is guaranteed to spark debate Immigration divides our globalising world like no other issue. We are swamped by bogus asylum-seekers and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our benefit system abused, our way of life destroyed - or so we are told. Philippe Legrain, author of the critically acclaimed OPEN WORLD, has written the first book that looks beyond the headlines. Why are ever-rising numbers of people from poor countries arriving in Europe, North America and Australasia? Can we keep them out? Should we even be trying? Combining compelling first-hand reporting from around the world, incisive socio-economic analysis and a broad understanding of what is at stake politically and culturally, IMMIGRANTS is a passionate, but lucid book. In our open world, more people will inevitably move across borders, Legrain says - and we should generally welcome them. They do the jobs we can''t or won''t do - and their diversity enriches us all. Left and right; free-marketeers and campaigners for global justice; enlightened patriots - all should rally behind the cause of freer migration, because They need Us and We need Them. |
| Imprint Name: | Abacus |
| Publisher Name: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-02-05 |
