Immigration and the Transformation of Europe - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521088283 ISBN 13: 9780521088282

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

A new kind of historic transformation is underway in twenty-first-century Europe. Twentieth-century Europeans were no strangers to social, economic and political change, but their major challenges focused mainly on the intra-European construction of stable, prosperous, capitalist democracies. Today, by contrast, one of the major challenges is flows across borders - and particularly in-flows of non-European people. Immigration and minority integration consistently occupy the headlines. The issues which rival immigration - unemployment, crime, terrorism - are often presented by politicians as its negative secondary effects. Immigration is also intimately connected to the profound challenges of demographic change, economic growth and welfare-state reform. Both academic observers and the European public are increasingly convinced that Europe's future will largely turn on how is admits and integrates non-Europeans. This book is a comprehensive stock-taking of the contemporary situation and its policy implications.

About this title

Book Description:

A uniquely comprehensive analysis of the nature of immigration and migration within and between European and non-European countries. It explains how Europeans are beginning to grapple with immigration as it relates to demographic, institutional, economic, social, political and policy issues.

About the Author:

Craig Parsons is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521088283
• ISBN 13: 9780521088282
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 504
• Editor: Parsons Craig A., Smeeding Timothy M.