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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Immigrants
• Author: Philippe Legrain
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780349119748
• ISBN: 0349119740
• ID: 04065655
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Weight: 268 g
• Dimensions: 197 × 127 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 05. February 2009

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