War, work, and want : how the OPEC oil crisis caused mass migration and revolution /
"The book explains why migration to the United States, Europe, and Asia tripled after 1973. Today, global migration is at a historic high of over 280 million people. Mass migration has transformed international and domestic politics. Such migration is not only unprecedented; it was—at least in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "The book explains why migration to the United States, Europe, and Asia tripled after 1973. Today, global migration is at a historic high of over 280 million people. Mass migration has transformed international and domestic politics. Such migration is not only unprecedented; it was—at least in the global north—unexpected and unwanted. Publics across Europe, North America, and Asia oppose immigration, and events in the early 1970s should have led to a decline in migration. Instead, global migration tripled. The book asks why. It argues that economic and geopolitical changes unleashed by the OPEC oil crisis led to an unanticipated surge in global migration. Economically, the quadrupling of oil prices halved growth rates in the West, they never recovered, and wages have stagnated for five decades. In response, consumers rebuilt their standard of living on the back of cheap migrant labor. At the same time, OPEC flooded the Middle East and Russia with oil money, destabilizing Iran, ushering in the Iranian Revolution, contributing to Moscow's 1979 decision to invade Afghanistan, and leading to the two Gulf Wars. In the non-oil-producing states, Egypt and Syria, OPEC-induced inflation put the last nail in the coffin of import substitution industrialization (using tariffs to industrialize), forced a turn to neoliberalism, and led to inequality, mass protests, terrorism (Egypt), and civil war (Syria). These simultaneous economic and geopolitical developments, all set in motion by the OPEC oil crisis, resulted in 115 million migrants that few in the global north expected or wanted"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 416 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197657713 0197657710 0197657702 9780197657720 0197657729 9780197657706 |