Book Review: Access to Power: Politics and the Urban Poor in Developing Nations

have so stimulated human migration that McNeill questions whether "intelligent management and deliberate policy will be able to alleviate" the resulting problems. Other essayists write on a less grand scale as they investigate, for example, migration in Chinese history, in Europe following World War II, in the Caribbean, the Soviet Union and Arab world. Political scientist Aristide Zolberg offers an interpretation of international migration policies for three periods from the sixteenth century to the recent past. Other contributions to the volume analyze demographic, economic, legal, moral and cultural implications of population movements. Inevitably the essays are not uniform in quality. A few are models of expository prose, carefully organized and clearly written; others are rambling, if not undisciplined, or hobbled by jargon. In sum, however, the volume is an important contribution to the scholarly literature of human migration.