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Immigration and trade law do not bar any of the developments I analyze here. The question is whether they should. This article—the first step in a larger project—launches that inquiry.
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In The Zone: Work At The Intersection Of Trade And Migration, Jennifer Gordon
In The Zone: Work At The Intersection Of Trade And Migration, Jennifer Gordon
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Trade and immigration are generally described as separate dimensions of globalization. This Article challenges that story by focusing on settings where states and private actors are bringing the two together to achieve disparate economic and policy goals. In one set of cases analyzed here, governments in the Global South are seeking to increase trade through the use of migrant labor, attracting transnational firms to export manufacturing zones by importing lower-cost workers from other countries. In the other, policymakers in the Global North are seeking to decrease immigration through the use of trade by investing in export processing zones in migrant …