This article is addressed to the theory of the international migration of workers to low-wage sectors of developed industrial economies from underdeveloped regions. Its starting point is the framework of analysis originally put forward in Birds of Passage, a framework built around the notion of circular migration through the secondary sector of a dual labor market. It then discusses how that theory might be amended in light of recent developments in migration patterns to encompass enclave economies, immigrant entrepreneurship, and the settlement process.
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References
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1. Michael J. Piore, Birds of Passage: Migrant Labor and Industrial Societies (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979).
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2. For an example of this approach, see Michael J. Greenwood, “Research on Internal Migration in the United States: A Survey,”Journal of Economic Literature, 13(2):397-433 (1975).
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see also Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan, Beyond the Melting Pot (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1963).
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See also Ivan Light, “Immigrant and Ethnic Enterprise in North America,”Ethnic and Racial Studies, 7(2):195-216 (Apr. 1984).
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5. Light, “Immigrant and Ethnic Enterprise in North America.”
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6. Roger Waldinger, “Ethnic Enterprise and Industrial Change: A Case Study of the New York City Garment Industry” (Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1983); idem, “Immigrant Enterprise in the New York Garment Industry,”Social Problems, 32(1):60-71 (Oct. 1984).
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7. Thomas Bailey, “Labor Market Competition and Economic Mobility in Low-Wage Employment: A Case Study of Immigrants in the Restaurant Industry” (Ph.D. diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983).
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8. Michael J. Piore and Charles F. Sabel, The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities for Prosperity (New York: Basic Books, 1984).
