I highly recommend Jeffrey Kaye's book, _Moving Millions: How Coyote
Capitalism Fuels Global Immigration_. It's an excellent journalistic
account of the issues of global migration.
>From Publishers Weekly
> Kaye, a special correspondent for PBS, writes that the American approach to
> immigration isn't working and suggests ways to change course. He uses the
> term coyote capitalism, a system of interlocking, dependent relationships, to
> describe how unauthorized Mexican labor recruiters trade in human cargo and
> influence migration. He examines how coyotes and various other businesses
> encourage, support, and benefit from both legal and illegal migration—and how
> globalization has made it increasingly profitable to do so. He also looks at
> American economic and trade policies that encourage rather than hinder
> migration. Kaye provides an insightful glimpse into recruitment agencies and
> their impact, and offers an astute study of the effects of politics,
> influence, and alliances on immigration. While a dense read, the book is well
> worth the effort. Kaye makes a convincing argument and offers, for many
> readers, a completely new perspective. (Apr.) <
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Amazon, where I got this review from, encourages you to buy the Kindle
electronic edition. But Beware!
I bought this book partly because Jeff is a friend of mine. He
autographed it. But he couldn't do that with the Kindle edition (like
my copy of TechTransfer, a funny novel). More importantly, with the
Kindle edition, the reader's property rights in the book are severely
constrained: you can't give it away or sell it. It's nice that I can
read a Kindle book on my Blackberry phone. But even though I can copy
it to my PC, I can't figure out how to truly read it there. (Notepad
will open it, but it's quite hard to read. Is there a hacker in the
house?)
It's getting to the point where all "intellectual property" is rented
rather than owned (as humorist Harry Shearer had predicted).
--
Jim Devine
"Those who take the most from the table
Teach contentment.
Those for whom the taxes are destined
Demand sacrifice.
Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry
of wonderful times to come.
Those who lead the country into the abyss
Call ruling too difficult
For ordinary folk." – Bertolt Brecht.
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