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Why immigration policy is hard : and how to make it better / Alan Manning.
Van Pelt - New Book Display JV6271 .M36 2026
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- Author/Creator:
- Manning, Alan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration--Political aspects.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Emigration and immigration--Economic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 408 pages : charts ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Immigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning - former chair of the UK's Migration Advisory Committee - makes clear, this doesn't mean that we can't do much better.We should start, Manning says, by ditching simplistic views that frame immigration as either wholly good or wholly bad. We will always have, and need, some level of immigration. But, just as inevitably, we will have rules on who can and cannot immigrate as more people are likely to want to move to high-income countries than residents will want to admit. To set those rules, we need reliable evidence to adjudicate among the often-competing claims of the economy, culture, justice and democracy. Manning supplies such evidence in abundance, guiding us through cutting-edge international research on the many ways immigration affects people's lives, including effects on their jobs and incomes, their taxes and public services, and their communities.Why Immigration Policy Is Hard is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life today.
- Contents:
- Part I. A picture of migration
- How many migrants? Where do they come from and where do they go?
- Why people migrate
- How many would like to migrate?
- Part II. Migration from the migrants' perspective
- The impact of immigration on immigrants
- What about the children of migrants?
- What about the countries that migrants leave?
- Part III. The receiving country's perspective
- Demography : population and ageing
- The economy : GDP, productivity and innovation
- The labour market : wages and unemployment
- Prices and profits
- The public finances and public services
- Community
- Part IV. Policy options
- Open borders
- Work migration
- Student migration
- Family migration
- Asylum-seekers and refugees : the journey
- Asylum-seekers and refugees : after arrival
- Unauthorized migrants
- What I would do.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781509563654
- 1509563652
- OCLC:
- 1524399351
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