Friends Or Strangers: The Impact Of Immigrants On The Us EconomyBorjas (economics, U. of California, Santa Barbara) provides a pinched, crabby, misanthropic and xenophobic account of immigration that will likely please political conservatives, social troglodytes, and greedy entrepreneurs. Basically, he bemoans the low quality of recent immigrant labor, and, implicitly at least, the low quality of the immigrants themselves. Where did his family come from? Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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PART I | 7 |
American Immigration Policy | 26 |
A Statistical Portrait of Immigrants | 49 |
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