Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 12:03:53 +1100
Subject: Re: AUT: Putting Negri to the Test (My Response)


The figure I have seen is that Mexican migration in the US has chopped 5%
off unskilled wages in the US, with skilled workers not loosing out.

I would like to know how people arrive at these figures. Can anyone
recommend some reading?

Mexican migration into the US, by the way, is orders of magnitude larger
than the flow of refugees in to Australia.

Thiago.


On 2/7/02 2:44 AM, "Harald Beyer-Arnesen" <haraldba-AT-online.no> wrote:

> 
> Angela wrote, arguing against Scott: "... but you still have to
> persuade me that immigration causes a decline in wages/
> conditions."
> 
> Me too. What however could be said, is that *illegal* immigration
> tends to some extent to create such a situation within some
> industries. But this is an argument for, not against, open borders,
> at least from a working class perspective. It is also a question of
> organised solidarity.
> 
> Harald
> 
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