Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them, Paperback Book, By: Philippe Legrain

Immigration divides our globalizing world like no other issue. We are swamped by bogus asylum-seekers and infiltrated by terrorists, our jobs stolen, our benefits system abused, our way of life destroyed - or so we are told. Philippe Legrain, author of the critically acclaimed OPEN WORLD, has written the first book that looks beyond the headlines. Why are ever-rising numbers of people from poor countries arriving in Europe, North America and Australasia? Can we keep them out? Should we even be trying?

Combining compelling first-hand reporting from around the world, incisive socio-economic analysis and a broad understanding of what is at stake politically and culturally, IMMIGRANTS is a passionate, but lucid book. In our open world, more people will inevitably move across borders, Legrain says - and we should generally welcome them. They do the jobs we can't or won't do - and their diversity enriches us all. Left and right; free-marketeers and campaigners for global justice; enlightened patriots - all should rally behind the cause of freer migration, because They need Us and We need Them.

• Books Author: Philippe Legrain
• Number Of Pages: 384
• Language: English
• Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
• Books Category: Miscellaneous
• Book Format: Paperback
• Books_ISBN: 0349119740
• Other Feature 2: Weight: 260 grams
• Other Feature 3: Size: 200 x 130 x 26 mm
• Publication Date: March 23, 2009