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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hansen, Randall (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects. Western countries > Emigration and immigration. Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects. Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects. Middle East > History > 1979- Occident > Émigration et immigration. Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Aspect social. Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Aspect politique. Moyen-Orient > Histoire > 1979- Émigration et immigration > Aspect économique. 20th Century. Modern. HISTORY. International Relations. POLITICAL SCIENCE. Globalization. Geopolitics. Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects Petroleum industry and trade > Political aspects Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects Middle East Sociology & anthropology. Society. Since 1979 Electronic books. History
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Table of Contents:

Prussians and Jews : the Six-Day War and its aftermath
The great revaluation : OPEC
Black gold : wealth and immigration in the Middle East
Oil in oil-poor states : Egypt
Oil's curses : Iran and Iraq
Drunk on oil and gas : the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
No blood for oil : Iraq, 1990
The Taliban, 9/11, and the Second Iraq War
The Arab nightmare : Lebanon, Libya, Syria, and global displacement in the 2010s
ISIL and the European refugee crisis
Expensive oil, cheap goods
The assault on working-class wages
Where we shop
What we eat I : the rise and fall of meatpacking unions
What we eat II : immigration and the meatpacking industry
What we eat III : fish, fruit, and vegetables
Where we live I : migrants in the US construction business
Where we live II : building Europe
Where we live III : Asia
How we live : keeping our houses, raising our children
What we wear
Back to the future : inflation, the global economy, and migration in the 2020s.