Government and Opposition
Volume 51, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 183-208

Making Immigration Work: How Britain and Europe Can Cope with their Immigration Crises (The Government and Opposition/Leonard Schapiro Lecture, 2015) (Article) (Open Access)

Hansen R.*
  • a Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Canada

Abstract

This article provides a review of the economic, demographic and welfare effects of immigration in contemporary Europe. It argues that the economic benefits of migration are small but positive, its welfare effects minimal if not non-existent, and its demographic effects modest but real. It then provides a series of recommendations for governing migration policy in Europe: keeping the borders open but controlled; keeping employment high and income support low, and keeping speech free but fair. The most important policy recommendation centres on work: immigration policy will only work when immigrants work. Copyright © 2014 The Author(s).

Author Keywords

free speech Integration demography Assimilation Islam Immigration

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84960400063&doi=10.1017%2fgov.2015.40&partnerID=40&md5=f1a7ff43606f9a381fbd1158a687eaf1
DOI: 10.1017/gov.2015.40
ISSN: 0017257X
Cited by: 5
Original Language: English