Moving Millions by Jeffrey KayeISBN: 9780470423349
Publication Date: 2010-04-01
Nurses in the Philippines, farmers in Senegal, Dominican factory workers in rural Pennsylvania, even Indian software engineers working in California--all are pieces of a larger system Kaye calls "coyote capitalism." Coyote capitalism is the idea--practiced by many businesses and governments--that people, like other natural resources, are supplies to be shifted around to meet demand. Workers are pushed out, pulled in, and put on the line without consideration of the consequences for economies, communities, or individuals. With a fresh take on a controversial topic, Moving Millions knocks down myth after myth about why immigrants come to America and what role they play in the economy, challenges the view that immigrants themselves motivate immigration, rather than the policies of businesses and governments in both rich and poor nations, and finds surprising connections between globalization, economic growth, and the convoluted immigration debates taking place in America and other industrialized countries.