@article{351824,
      recid = {351824},
      author = {Hing, Bill Ong.},
      title = {Ethical borders NAFTA, globalization, and Mexican  migration / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Temple University Press,},
      address = {Philadelphia :},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 237 p.)},
      year = {2010},
      note = {Description based on print version record.},
      abstract = {This work is a new approach to addressing undocumented  Mexican migration through substantial investment in  Mexico's infrastructure and economy.  In his topical new  book, the author asks, why do undocumented immigrants from  Mexico continue to enter the United States and what would  discourage this surreptitious traffic? An expert on  immigration law and policy, he examines the relationship  between NAFTA, globalization, and undocumented migration,  and he considers the policy options for controlling  immigration. He develops an ethical rationale for opening  up the U.S./Mexican border, as well as improving conditions  in Mexico so that its citizens would have little incentive  to migrate.  He insists that reforming NAFTA is vital to  ameliorating much of the poverty that drives undocumented  immigration and he points to the European Union's  immigration and economic development policies as a model  for North America. He considers the worldwide economic  crisis and the social problems that attend labor migration.  He argues for a spectrum of changes, including: a new  vision of border enforcement; a broader view of the visa  system; a path to citizenship for undocumented migrants;  and consideration of a guest worker program.  He also  situates NAFTA and its effects in the larger, and rapidly  shifting, context of globalization, particularly the recent  rise of China as the world's economic giant. Showing how  NAFTA's unintended consequences have been detrimental to  Mexico, he argues that the United States is ethically bound  to address the problems in a way that puts prosperity  within the grasp of all North Americans.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/351824},
}