A Modern Migration Theory: An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy (Comparative Political Economy)

Hansen,Peo

ISBN 10: 1788210557 / ISBN 13: 9781788210553

Published by Agenda Publishing 2021-03-25, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Modern Migration Theory: An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy (Comparative Political Economy)
• Publisher: Agenda Publishing 2021-03-25
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788210557
• ISBN 13: 9781788210553
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

2023 EUSA Book Award - Honorable Mention


Current migration policy is based on a seemingly neutral accounting exercise, in which migrants contribute less in tax than they receive in welfare assistance. A “fact” that justifies increasingly restrictive asylum policies. Peo Hansen shows that this consensual cost-perspective on migration is built on a flawed economic conception of the orthodox “sound finance” doctrine prevalent in migration research and policy. By examining migration through the macroeconomic lens offered by modern monetary theory, Hansen is able to demonstrate sound finance’s detrimental impact on migration policy and research, including its role in stoking the toxic debate on migration in the European Union. More importantly, Hansen’s undertaking offers the tools with which both migration research and migration policy could be modernized and put on a realistic footing.

About the Author

Peo Hansen is Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linkoping University, Sweden. He has written extensively on questions of migration, citizenship and identity and how they relate to the political economy of European integration. His books include The Politics of European Citzenship (with Sandy Brian Hager) and Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism (with Stefan Jonsson).