Lures and blinders -- Growing people for export -- Migrants in the global marketplace -- Switching course: renewals of fortune -- Recruitment agencies and body shops -- Smugglers as migration service providers -- "We rely heavily on immigrant labor" -- Servitude and cash flows -- "Help wanted"...

Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publiclysubsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...