Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization

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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 low

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"Winner of the 2018 IPE Best Book Award, International Political Economy Section of the International Studies Association"
"Winner of the 2018 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Section of the International Studies Association"
"Selected for the Washington Posts Albies for the best work on the political economy in 2017 (chosen by Daniel W. Drezner)"
"Winner of the 2018 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship Section of the American Political Science Association"
"Winner of the 2018 Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award, American Political Science Association"
"The consistency of the findings across different contexts should be deeply informative for those who negotiate trade and immigration policy. If we cannot have both freer trade and freer immigration, we should choose carefully between the two. . . . All in all, the book is well worth reading and should bring a new and influential perspective to the ongoing debate over trade and immigration policy."---Greg C. Wright, Finance & Development
"A timely and well-researched study that offers valuable insight into the trade-offs between free trade and immigration."---Paul Caruana-Galizia, London School of Economics Review of Books blog
"Trading Barriers is an ambitious book that challenges the political economy of migration. In contrast to the common explanations that need for workers drives immigration and competition over limited jobs gives rise to anti-immigrant sentiment, Peters posits that people have overlooked the role of the firm in shaping immigration debates and outcomes." * Choice *
"Particularly masterful is Peters innovative methodological use of data and analysis; she utilizes a number of datasets to prove her argument, many of which are original and innovative."---Erica Consterdine, International Migration Review

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Margaret E. Peters is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles.