At the dawn of the 21st century, the United States offers a contradictory model of global economic openness. American policy has relentlessly promoted open commerce, leading the way by freeing its own markets to foreign investment, trade and travel. America’s own borders have become increasingly open for flows of capital, goods, commodities, information and certain […]
Douglas Massey
Douglas S. Massey is the Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology and chair of the sociology department at the University of Pennsylvania.
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The Race Case
One of the pleasant fictions that helps justify the Bush administration’s opposition to affirmative action is the pretense that America has left behind the evils of segregation and achieved something approaching a race-blind society. “Every day that our nation was segregated was a day our nation was unfaithful to our founding ideals,” the president said […]
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March of Folly:
Supposedly, NAFTA will lead to increased movement of goods and services between Mexico and the United States — but not to more movement of people. That, however, reflects a fundamentally mistaken view of migration. A better understanding should reframe our entire immigration policy.