Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-305) and index.

PART I Introducing the Immigrant-Trade Link; 1 Migration, trade and globalization; 2 The gravity model and the literature on the immigrant-trade link; PART II The Effects of Immigrants on International Trade in Goods and Services; 3 Immigration policy, economic development and the immigrant-trade link: The case of the White Australia Policy; 4 East-West migration and trade: The pro-trade effects of immigrants in Italy; 5 Beyond trade in goods: Immigrants and US exports of tourism services. PART III The Cultural Bridging Effects of Immigrants on Trade6 The trade-inhibiting effects of cultural differences: Evidence from nine OECD countries; 7 Immigrants and the effects of cultural distance: An examination of aggregate US trade data; 8 Heterogeneity across immigrant groups: The effects of refugee and non-refugee immigrants on US trade; PART IV The Operability and Universality of the Immigrant-Trade Link; 9 The effects of immigrants on trade in cultural and non-cultural goods: Evidence from US state-level exports. 10 Asymmetric information and trade facilitating infrastructure: Variation in the immigrant-trade link across migration corridors11 Transaction costs and the immigrant-trade link: Does the volume of bilateral trade matter?; 12 Are the effects of immigrants (emigrants) on trade universal?; PART V Findings, Implications and Questions that Remain; 13 A summary of findings from the application of the gravity model; 14 Lessons learned and suggestions for future research.