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Migration without borders: essays on the free movement of people edited by A. Pécoud and P. de Guchteneire. Berghahn Books, New York, 2007. No. of pages: x + 294. ISBN 978 1 84545 346 6

Migration without borders: essays on the free movement of people edited by A. Pécoud and P. de... Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Consistent among the chapters is recognition of the ineffectiveness of current policies, but the authors often diverge when suggesting practical approaches to reform. For example, Nigel Harris concludes that the current system of ‘. . . fortified borders represent a permanent war against the compensatory imperatives of the labour market and its attempt to meet the demand for low-skilled workers . . .’ (p. 37) before offering several steps to facilitate ‘the inevitable integration of the developed countries in a world labour market’ (p. 45). Catherine Wihtol de Wenden lists several ‘new factors of mobility’ that are ‘symptomatic of a new world order’ and are ‘. . . marked by widening social, political, and cultural rifts . . .’ (p. 53) that can only be reconciled through recognition of the ‘right to mobility’ as a key human right. Mehmet Ugur, on the other hand, does not see free movement as a human right. Instead, he takes a communitarian approach to argue that a MWB scenario is both ethically correct and economically beneficial to the overall social welfare of the receiving country. Bimal Ghosh is much less sanguine about such a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Population, Space and Place Wiley

Migration without borders: essays on the free movement of people edited by A. Pécoud and P. de Guchteneire. Berghahn Books, New York, 2007. No. of pages: x + 294. ISBN 978 1 84545 346 6

Population, Space and Place , Volume 15 (1) – Jan 1, 2009

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2009 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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1544-8444
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1544-8452
DOI
10.1002/psp.499
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Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Consistent among the chapters is recognition of the ineffectiveness of current policies, but the authors often diverge when suggesting practical approaches to reform. For example, Nigel Harris concludes that the current system of ‘. . . fortified borders represent a permanent war against the compensatory imperatives of the labour market and its attempt to meet the demand for low-skilled workers . . .’ (p. 37) before offering several steps to facilitate ‘the inevitable integration of the developed countries in a world labour market’ (p. 45). Catherine Wihtol de Wenden lists several ‘new factors of mobility’ that are ‘symptomatic of a new world order’ and are ‘. . . marked by widening social, political, and cultural rifts . . .’ (p. 53) that can only be reconciled through recognition of the ‘right to mobility’ as a key human right. Mehmet Ugur, on the other hand, does not see free movement as a human right. Instead, he takes a communitarian approach to argue that a MWB scenario is both ethically correct and economically beneficial to the overall social welfare of the receiving country. Bimal Ghosh is much less sanguine about such a

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