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Knowledge Borders: Temporary Labor Mobility and the Canada–US Border Region(New Horizons in Regional Science series)

Knowledge Borders: Temporary Labor Mobility and the Canada–US Border Region(New Horizons in Regional Science series)


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Key elements of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) deal with temporary labor mobility. Ideally, NAFTA status provisions should make the temporary movement of professionals easier across the border of all NAFTA countries. However, in the case of emerging sectors such as high technology and the creative industries, it is arguably not the case. Within the context of recent literature on cross-border trade, city regions, economic clusters, international labor mobility, and post-September 11 security measures, this book probes the dynamics of transitory immigration of 'knowledge-workers' between the North American west coast city regions of Vancouver, Seattle, and the greater San Francisco Bay and Silicon Valley area, namely, Cascadia. With particular attention given to the experiences and strategies of the high tech firms that must move highly skilled workers across the Canada-US border, this book draws from 80 in-depth interviews with Canadian and US immigration officials, immigration attorneys and executives and professional staff of new technology firms and Fortune 500 companies. It develops and presents new models towards the development of an innovation cross border region, and recommends new policy approaches. Ultimately, it explores whether or not the Canada-US border is an impediment to the development of cross-border high-tech clusters. This comprehensive book will serve as a critical resource for academics in geography; political science; international relations; global studies; economics; international business and law. It will also strongly appeal to practitioners such as professional immigration lawyers, corporate firms, and governmental policy makers alike.

Table of Contents:
Contents: PART I GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW 1. Introduction 2. Borders and the Movement of the Highly Skilled 3. The Cascadia region in its Wider Context Part II THE EMPIRICAL WORK 4. The Firms 5. The Immigration Officials 6. The Immigration Attorneys Part III THE CONCLUSION 7. Conclusion Index

About the Author :
Kathrine E. Richardson, Associate Professor, San Jose State University, US

Review :
‘Richardson does particularly well at combining different perspectives and embedding the rich empirical material in an interesting theoretical context that draws on regional studies, spatial theory, and labor studies. Knowledge Borders will be extremely useful for courses on the geography of labor and labor mobility and transnationalism and for scholars of any field who wish to study labor mobility from a spatial point of view. It will be of equal use to practitioners who want to familiarize themselves with the ambiguities of the law when it comes to labor mobility in the Cascadian region.’ 'Knowledge Borders is required reading for anyone engaged in the pervasive and mobile world of highly skilled workers in advanced technologies. Through a perceptive analysis of the intersection of the Canada-US border, with the technology economy in the Seattle-Vancouver corridor and Silicon Valley, this study evaluates the efficacy of the NAFTA in facilitating professional cross-border movement in the North American west coast region. Kathrine Richardson draws from deep understanding of how borders work, informed comparison with other cross-border trade regions, and extensive interviews to assess how firms, immigration officials and immigration attorneys interpret NAFTA provisions and tailor a regional skilled labor mobility regime.'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781785369025
  • Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Sub Title: Temporary Labor Mobility and the Canada–US Border Region
  • ISBN-10: 1785369024
  • Publisher Date: 28 Apr 2017
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: New Horizons in Regional Science series
  • Width: 156 mm


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