The Geopolitics of Immigrant Labour: A Climate of Fear

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Author(s): Elizabeth Mary Christopher (Macquarie University, Australia)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 22
Source title: Immigration and the Current Social, Political, and Economic Climate: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-6918-3.ch023

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Government and Law / Political Science / Social Sciences & Humanities

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In general, the concept of workforce diversity has gained enormous support over the past decade, due to international politics of economic competition, technological progress, increasing emphasis on the importance of human rights, and immigration. The chapter discusses answers to the question: in the face of this consensus, why are xenophobic arguments (communicated worldwide through mass media) increasingly allowed to foster global climates of fear of, and resistance to, immigrant labour? Answers seem to lie in geopolitics and social pressures on governments that constrain them to discriminate against migrants and refugees seeking immigration. Reasons for this are discussed and possible remedies suggested.

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