(Mis)managing Migration: Guestworkers' Experiences with North American Labor Markets

Theoretically, managed migration allows nation-states to regulate population movements, direct foreign nationals to specific, identified economic sectors that citizens are less likely to care about, match employers who claim labor shortages with workers who are highly motivated to work, and offer people from poorer countries the opportunities of higher earnings abroad through temporary absence from their families and homelands. Unfortunately, managed migration does not usually work on the ground as well as it does on paper.