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The Geopolitics of Immigrant Labour: A Climate of Fear

The Geopolitics of Immigrant Labour: A Climate of Fear

Elizabeth Mary Christopher
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 22
ISBN13: 9781522569183|ISBN10: 1522569189|EISBN13: 9781522569190
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6918-3.ch023
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Christopher, Elizabeth Mary. "The Geopolitics of Immigrant Labour: A Climate of Fear." Immigration and the Current Social, Political, and Economic Climate: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 417-438. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6918-3.ch023

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Christopher, E. M. (2019). The Geopolitics of Immigrant Labour: A Climate of Fear. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Immigration and the Current Social, Political, and Economic Climate: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 417-438). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6918-3.ch023

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Christopher, Elizabeth Mary. "The Geopolitics of Immigrant Labour: A Climate of Fear." In Immigration and the Current Social, Political, and Economic Climate: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 417-438. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6918-3.ch023

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Abstract

In general, the concept of workforce diversity has gained enormous support over the past decade, due to international politics of economic competition, technological progress, increasing emphasis on the importance of human rights, and immigration. The chapter discusses answers to the question: in the face of this consensus, why are xenophobic arguments (communicated worldwide through mass media) increasingly allowed to foster global climates of fear of, and resistance to, immigrant labour? Answers seem to lie in geopolitics and social pressures on governments that constrain them to discriminate against migrants and refugees seeking immigration. Reasons for this are discussed and possible remedies suggested.

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