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Neoliberalism and the Regulation of Global Labor Mobility

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  • Henk Overbeek

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Globalization involves the international expansion of market relations and the global pursuit of economic liberalism. The essential factor in this process is commodification, including the commodification of human labor. Globalization integrates an increasing proportion of the world population directly into capitalist labor markets and locks national and regional labor markets into an integrated global labor market. We are on the threshold of global initiatives to shift the balance even further, especially regarding the management of global migration flows. The answer cannot be a return to strictly national forms of migration control and should not be a complete capitulation to market-driven regulation of migration. One possible answer is a new, multilateral, democratically screened, global migration regime to set forth and guarantee the general principles governing the regulation of transnational migrations, ensure proper coordination between regional and national migration regimes, and call into existence new institutional forms of transnational democratic governance.

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  • Henk Overbeek, 2002. "Neoliberalism and the Regulation of Global Labor Mobility," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 581(1), pages 74-90, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:581:y:2002:i:1:p:74-90
    DOI: 10.1177/000271620258100108
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