Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics. answers the question: What are the effects of disseminating the patterns of the particular set of skills, attitudes, and lifestyles each ethnic group has carried forth--both for the immigrants and for the host countries, in social as well as economic terms?.
Migrations and Cultures: shows the persistence of cultural traits, in particular racial and ethnic groups, and the role these groups\' relocations play in redistributing skills, knowledge, and other forms of human capital.
Now Thomas Sowell offers a sweeping historical and global look at a large number of Migrations over a long period of time.
In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture.
Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics.
In Migrations and Cultures, Thomas Sowell shows the persistence of cultural traits in particular racial and ethnic groups and the role these groups\' relocations play in redistributing skills, knowledge, and other forms of human capital.
In doing so, they focus on only a piece of the issue and lose touch with the larger picture.
Most commentators look at the issue of immigration from the viewpoint of immediate politics
