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War, work, and want : how the OPEC oil crisis caused mass migration and revolution / Randall Hansen.
By: Hansen, Randall [author.]
.Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: x, 416 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780197657690.Subject(s): Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects | Western countries -- Emigration and immigration | Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects | Petroleum industry and trade -- Political aspects | Middle East -- History -- 1979-DDC classification: 304.856 Summary: Randall Hansen focuses on how the oil shock transformed not just the economy proper and the geopolitics of the Middle East region, but also the global circulation of people and capital for decades afterward. Hansen asks why, against all expectations, global migration tripled after 1970. Arguing that the OPEC oil crisis explains everything, he shows how war, migration, and the desire for ever cheaper products made by migrants led to a massive upsurge in global migration after 1973.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Randall Hansen focuses on how the oil shock transformed not just the economy proper and the geopolitics of the Middle East region, but also the global circulation of people and capital for decades afterward. Hansen asks why, against all expectations, global migration tripled after 1970. Arguing that the OPEC oil crisis explains everything, he shows how war, migration, and the desire for ever cheaper products made by migrants led to a massive upsurge in global migration after 1973.
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