Offering a fresh understanding of the processes of international migration and specifically the US from 1960 to 1985.

List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Foreign investment: a neglected variable; 2. The use of foreign workers; 3. The new immigration; 4. The globalization of production: implications for labor migration; 5. The rise of global cities and the new labor demand; 6. The reconcentration of capital in the United States: a new investment zone?; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index.