Why Immigration Policy Is Hard

And How to Make It Better

Alan Manning (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

416 Seiten

2025
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-6365-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Alan Manning is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Preface and Acknowledgements

1 Introduction

Part 1: A Picture of Migration
2 How Many Migrants: Where Do They Come From and Where Do They Go?
3 Why People Migrate
4 How Many Would Like to Migrate?

Part 2: Migration from the Migrants’ Perspective
5 The Impact of Immigration on the Immigrants
6 And What About the Children of Migrants?
7 And What About the Countries Migrants Leave?

Part 3: The Receiving Country’s Perspective
8 Demography: Population and Ageing
9 The Economy: GDP, Productivity and Innovation
10 The Labour Market: Wages and Unemployment
11 Prices and Profits
12 The Public Finances and Public Services
13 Community

Part 4: Policy Options
14 Open Borders
15 Work Migration
16 Student Migration
17 Family Migration
18 Asylum and Refugees: The Journey
19 Asylum-Seekers and Refguees: After Arrival
20 Unauthorized Migrants
21 What I Would Do

Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.12.2025
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 240 mm
Gewicht	737 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-5095-6365-2 / 1509563652
ISBN-13	978-1-5095-6365-4 / 9781509563654
Zustand	Neuware