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Trade, Migration and the Crisis of Globalization

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The economic crisis, which began in 2008, caused a global shock, the reverberations of which are still felt today.1 Unemployment has increased, growth remains anaemic and deficits continue to deepen (ILO, 2009a). Governments continue to face pressure to protect jobs and create new opportunities. A crisis of globalization has been building for years and the great recession has further undermined confidence in the benefits of maintaining an open economy. This can be seen not only in the stalled Doha Round of global trade talks but also in the lack of support for much-needed immigration reform across the OECD world. If political support for trade is weak in most advanced industrial democracies, support for more open immigration policies has all but collapsed (Hollifield and Martin, 2013).

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  1. World Trade Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland

    Marion Panizzon (Assistant Professor of International Law) & Elisa Fornalé (Postdoctoral Researcher) (Assistant Professor of International Law) &  (Postdoctoral Researcher)

  2. Federal Office for Migration, Switzerland

    Gottfried Zürcher (Former Vice Director and Director) (Former Vice Director and Director)

  3. Directorate for Migration Policy, Switzerland

    Gottfried Zürcher (Former Vice Director and Director) (Former Vice Director and Director)

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Cerna, L., Hollifield, J., Hynes, W. (2015). Trade, Migration and the Crisis of Globalization. In: Panizzon, M., Zürcher, G., Fornalé, E. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of International Labour Migration. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137352217_2

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