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Moving People to Deliver Services (Trade and Development)

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We have all heard about free trade, for the movement of goods and more recently services across national borders. This has generated controvery in many places, but largely it has been accepted. In contrast, this book looks at something far more contentious. The movement of people across borders, in order to perform services. These can be basic manual labour, like migrant workers that pick fruit during a harvest season in the United States. Or it can be white collar professionals. For this, think of finance types moving to London or New York.

The book describes efforts to maximise both types of labour mobility. Migration policies of several key developed countries are explained, including US, New Zealand and Australia. The migrations described here are meant to be temporary, at least in principle.

What is generally true is that for those people with high levels of education, and looking for jobs that use this education, migration is far easier than for unskilled labourers. And broadly, there are fewer problems in the accepting countries about skilled intakes.