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WHAT'S NEW Jan 31, 2008 : Womenomics I --World Policy Institute and Demos event Jan 5, 2008 : Reverse Brain Drain for the Middle East --Global Policy Innovations and World Policy Institute event Jan 5, 2008 : Updates to Michele's Bookshelf Nov 2 : "A Mexican Steinbeck's Work Resurfaces" Book Review in the Texas Observer
October:
2007 Seville Atlantic
Conference Report "Migration
and Migrant Integration in the Atlantic Region" Chicago Council on
Global Affairs Sep 27 : New Rochelle Library appearance Sep 23 : MSNBC re Mexican curriculum in Oregon Schools Sep 14 : Video webcast of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee keynote address posted Sep 5 : Breakfast talk at Chicago Council on Global Affairs Michele is a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow
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LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends On Getting It Right "A welcome contribution at a critical time." --NY Post "Forcefully argued and informative... both correct and important" --Washington Post Bookworld (A "Best Nonfiction of 2006" Selection) "Impressive.... never falls victim to the anvil-like lack of subtlety that characterizes much of the public discourse on the subject" --Miami Herald
As globalization and
terrorism intensify the pressure to close America's doors, this
provocative book argues that to do so would be catastrophic. 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. But
for the first time ever, the world's best and brightest no longer see
this country as the only destination of choice.
LOCKOUT
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. PublicAffairs Press 2006/2007. |
