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Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right
PublicAffairs
May 2007
On Sale: May 8, 2007
285 pages
ISBN: 1586483560
EAN: 9781586483562
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
As globalization and terrorism intensify the pressure to
close America's doors, this provocative book argues that to
do so would be catastrophic We are essentially a nation of people who once belonged
elsewhere, yet have long been deeply ambivalent about this
part of our history. After World War I, the fear of the
stranger overwhelmed America's confidence in our ability to
create one nation out of many peoples. We slammed the door
shut, only to realize our error and re-open it four decades
later. Today, a record-high foreign-born population, global
instability, and economic uncertainty have once again pushed
America to a tipping point in our attitudes not only toward
immigration but toward our role in the world--and the stakes
have risen dramatically. Our economy depends more than ever
on immigrants, not only for stereotypical low-skilled jobs,
but much more so for maintaining our technological edge and
promoting American products and services abroad. So far,
America has reaped the lion's share of the gains of
globalization. Yet for the first time ever, the world's best
and brightest no longer see this country as the only
destination of choice. In Lock Out, Michele Wucker documents the mistakes that led
to our predicament today, and clarifies why it would be a
catastrophic error of judgment, as well as a demonstration
of a colossal lack of self-knowledge, if America attempted
to turn its back on rest of the world and in so doing on the
best of itself.
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