TY - BOOK AU - Acharya L.M TI - Economic Geography, Migration and Global politics SN - 978-93-80752-78-5 U1 - 930.9 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New Delhi. PB - Kunal Books. N1 - 1.The Economy in Transition 2.The rise of new capitalism 3.Regulating the new capitalism 4.Spaces of production 5.The new International Division of Labour 6.Spaces of consumption 7.Capitalizing on consumption and geography 8.Work,Employment and society 9.Greening of women's Labour 10.The new Gender Order N2 - Economic geography is the study of the location,distribution and spatial organization of economic activities across the world.Economic geography is usually regarded as a subfield of the discipline of geography,although recently economists such as Paul Krugman and Jeffrey Sachs have pursued interests that can be considered part of economic geography.Migration is not a new thing.People have always left their homes in search of better economic opportunities, both within and outside of their own homeland.But Economic globalization has put a new spin on global migration,causing global uprootedness and human displacement on an unprecendented scale.Because economic globalization exacerbates the inequalities between nations,migration for many becomes not a choice but an economic necessity.Migrants are looking for basic human rights: safety, a home and the ability to provide for themselves and their families- all rights guaranteed to them international human rights laws. There are ethical and moral reasons for countries to open their borders ER -