Americas Quarterly

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The Summer issue on immigration will be launched at the Bolsa de Comercio in Buenos Aires on August 26, 2008. Speakers at the event will discuss the new journal and its mission with a special focus on the most recent issue:

Immigration in Our Hemisphere: Political and Economic Effects

Click here for more information on speakers and time.

Our Immigrant Hemisphere

Featuring:
Not Another Generation
by Tamar Jacoby

How to fix the U.S. immigration system, and ensure it stays fixed.

We Are All Immigrants Now
—By Sergio Muñoz Bata
Immigration defined this hemisphere. It is still shaping our history.

Toward a Freer Flow of Labor (with Rights)
—By Jennifer Gordon

Labor rights have failed to keep up with the free flow of goods and capital. Here's a proposal to protect workers' rights and meet the demands of the U.S. labor market and the global economy.

NAFTA's Exaggerated Promise for Immigration
—By Demetrios G. Papademetriou

NAFTA was never intended to serve as a mechanism to regulate the flow of labor. And it failed to meet policymakers' promises of creating sufficient jobs in Mexico. Nevertheless, it has established a framework for trilateral discussions on migration.

The War on Immigrants: Stories from the Front Lines
—By Cheryl Little

Anti-immigration policies are hurting real people and families and undermining U.S. ideals of justice. They may also be making us less safe from terrorism.

Moving the Debate Forward: What California Can Teach Us
—By Abraham F. Lowenthal

From California's convoluted history of immigration, a latent consensus may be developing about the importance of immigrants for the economy and strength in diversity. Such a consensus could point the way forward for an improved national policy on immigration.

Summer 2008 Table of Contents

The Politics and Business of Immigrant Integration
—By Alexandra Deláno
New patterns of Hispanic immigration are changing the U.S. political landscape. Addressing the local backlash will require a more active and progressive private sector.

Don't Trash NAFTA

—By Ira Shapiro

Blaming NAFTA—and free trade in general—for job losses is misplaced. As the U.S. continues to debate a 15-year-olf trade agreement, other countries are negotiating their own pacts—a fact that should prod the U.S. to not only strengthen NAFTA but also reinforce its commitment to trade expansion.

Hard Talk Forum

Does patent protection prevent access to medicines in developing countries?

Yes: Patents Price Medicines Out of Reach of the Poor

—By André de Mello e Souza

NO: Patents Protect Research Needed to Treat Diseases

—By Harvey E. Bale

Fresh Look Reviews

Reviews of some of the hemisphere's best new and recent books.

Forgotten Continent: The Battle for Latin America's Soul
[By Michael Reid]

—Reviewed by Eliana Cardoso

Why Mexicans Don't Drink Molson [By Andrea Mandel-Campbell]

—Reviewed by Robert A. Pastor

Policy Update

The status of policy developments in the Americas.

EPZs: New Export Promotion Strategies

—By Jaime Granados and Jeremy Harris

Innovation: Brazil's Two-Faced Position

—By Ricardo Sennes and Ricardo Camargo Mendes

Diplomacy: A Hemispheric Resolution in the Andes and Beyond

—By Gordon Mace

Golden Boys: Vivir en los Mercados [By Hernán Iglesias Illa]

—Reviewed by Peter Kingstone

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Homicídios no Brasil
[Edited by Marcus Vinicius Gonçalves da Cruz and Eduardo Cerqueira Batitucci]
—Reviewed by Enrique Desmond Arias

Summer 2008 Table of Contents

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Back to Basics by José Antonio Ocampo

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We're All in This Together by Admiral Jim Stavridis

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Democracy's Growing Pains by former Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Ricardo Lagos

Spring 2007 Table of Contents

What Leaders Are Saying

Featured Article:

Back to Basics by José Antonio Ocampo

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We're All in This Together by Admiral Jim Stavridis

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Democracy's Growing Pains by former Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Ricardo Lagos Spring 2007 Table of Contents

What Leaders Are Saying

Democracy's Growing Pains by former Presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Ricardo Lagos

Spring 2007 Table of Contents