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Cultural Communities In A Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions As Residential Segregation, Howard F. Chang
Cultural Communities In A Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions As Residential Segregation, Howard F. Chang
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Economists recognize that nations can gain from trade through not only the free movement of goods across national boundaries but also the free movement of services, capital, and labor across national boundaries. Despite the presumption that economic theory raises in favor of international labor mobility, the nations of the world maintain restrictions on immigration and show little inclination to liberalize these barriers significantly. Michael Walzer defends immigration restrictions as policies necessary to maintain distinct cultural communities and rejects the alternative of voluntary residential segregation at the local level. I argue that we should instead prefer voluntary segregation at the local …