Cross-border travel in North America: the challenge of US Section 110 legislation

ID:	HARP-415
Title:	Cross-border travel in North America: the challenge of US Section 110 legislation
Source:	Canadian-American Public Policy , (40) O’99 pg 1-70
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Year:	1999
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Keywords:	Canada, economic, social, and cultural rights, employment, Foreign Direct Investment, foreign investment, free trade, globalization, human rights, labor management, movement and residency, NAFTA, trade, World Trade Organization (WTO), civil and political rights, security, labor market, liberty
Abstract:	Globalization is contributing to the broadening and deepening of interdependence among societies and states, and events in one part of the world are having a greater impact on peoples and societies in distant locations. Many states and societal groups have responded to globalization pressures by supporting freer trade, foreign investment and capital flows, but they have generally been far more reluctant to support the freer movement of people. Thus “among factor exchange systems financial markets are the most globalized, [while] labour markets are the least so. No other area of economic life remains so much under the thrall of states and so resistant to globalizing effects.” As national regulations on trade, foreign investment, and capital flows are liberalized, there are growing pressures to facilitate international travel by business persons, professionals, and some labor groups such as “guest workers” in Western Europe and farm workers in North America. For example, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) have provisions to promote freer trade in services, and this often requires physical proximity between the service providers and service users. Pressures therefore increase to permit service providers in one member country to travel more easily to other member countries.
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