Working Life

Consider this crazy number: 150 million people around the globe are migrants, moving here and there, either looking for work or avoiding political violence or both. With the echoes of the attack on undocumented workers in the U.S. firmly in mind, I explored this astounding fact with an expert in Africa and an advocate in […]

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    I’ve often pointed out that the question of immigration–and the way the debate is often framed–ignores the fact that immigrants are economic refugees, forced to come to the U.S., in large part, as a result of economic policies that our government imposes on the world–for example, so-called "free trade" agreements that end up undoing […]

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    I’ve often pointed out that the question of immigration–and the way the debate is often framed–ignores the fact that immigrants are economic refugees, forced to come to the U.S., in large part, as a result of economic policies that our government imposes on the world–for example, so-called "free trade" agreements that end up undoing […]

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