'The Ties that Bind'

'The Ties that Bind'

Miller Center Randolph P. Compton Professor David Leblang coauthored a new book about immigration and the global political economy

Excerpts

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Immigration and globalization

Migration is an age-old phenomenon. Today's anti-immigrant policies have grave implications for global economic exchange, write the authors
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Why do people migrate?

International migration is one of the riskiest—and potentially costliest—individual behaviors examined by scholars of political economy
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Global migration and international investment

As investment opportunities become more complex—from portfolio equities, to venture capital, to mergers and acquisitions, to Greenfield investment—the information required to ensure an adequate return and acceptable level of risk increases
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About the book

This new book argues that for migrants, the ability to participate in the political life of a destination is as important as economic and social factors. Most people arriving in a new country don't cut ties with their homeland. They continue to serve as a conduit for information, helping drive investment

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Global migration: Causes and consequences

The steady growth of international labor migration is an important, yet underappreciated, aspect of globalization, Leblang and Helms write in Oxford Research Encyclopedias
How regulations affect migration flows

For the first time, two new datasets are combined to systematically measure immigration policies and bilateral migration flows for 33 destination countries from over 170 countries of origin from 1982–2010
The many benefits to resettling Afghan refugees

"In the long run, resettling Afghan refugees could help not only their new host countries but also the people who remain in Afghanistan," Leblang wrote in the Washington Post
The effects of Trump ending ‘temporary protected status’

"The Trump administration argues that ending TPS designations will decrease the flow of undocumented migrants across the border. Our research suggests precisely the opposite," Leblang and several co-authors wrote in the Washington Post
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About the authors

A scholar in the area of international political economy, DAVID LEBLANG is the Randolph P. Compton Professor at the University of Virginia's Miller Center and the Ambassador Henry J. Taylor and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Endowed Professor of Politics at UVA. He is also professor of public policy at UVA's Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy, where he is director of the Global Policy Center. 

BENJAMIN HELMS is a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Politics and Strategy at Carnegie Mellon University. He completed his PhD in the department of politics at the University of Virginia in May 2022. His research interests are in international and comparative political economy, with a focus on the political economy of globalization and international migration.