The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism - Dominican Migration to the United States

Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-231-11622-0
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 500 g

What explains the international mobility of workers from developing to advanced societies? Why do workers move from one region to another? Theoretically, the supply of workers in a given region and the demand for them in another account for the international mobility of laborers. Job seekers from less developed regions migrate to more advanced countries where technological and productive transformations have produced a shortage of laborers. Using the Dominican labor force in New York as a case study, Ramona Hernández challenges this presumption of a straightforward relationship between supply and demand in the job markets of the receiving society. She contends that the traditional correlation between migration and economic progress does not always hold true. Once transplanted in New York City, Hernández shows, Dominicans have faced economic hardship as the result of high levels of unemployment and underemployment and the reality of a changing labor market that increasingly requires workers with skills and training they do not have. Rather than responding to a demand in the labor market, emigration from the Dominican Republic was the result of a de facto government policy encouraging poor and jobless people to leave a policy in which the United States was an accomplice because the policy suited its economic and political interests in the region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hernández, Ramona

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Makroökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. Leaving the Land of the Few 1. The Great Exodus: Its Roots2. Economic Growth and Surplus PopulationPart 2. Settling in the Land of Dreams 3. The Perception of a Migratory Movement4. Dominicans in the Labor Market5. On the International Mobility of Labor6. Conclusion: Assessing the Present and Auguring the FutureAppendix: FiguresNotesWorks CitedIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Ramona Hernández is the director of the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute. She is the author of The Dominican Americans.