Why Immigration Policy Is Hard

And How to Make It Better
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-5095-6365-4
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 300 Seiten

Immigration policy will never satisfy everyone. It’s a stubborn fact that more people will want to move to high-income countries than residents will want to admit. But, as Alan Manning – former head of Britain’s Migration Advisory Committee – makes clear, that doesn’t mean 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. To set those rules we need reliable evidence to navigate 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 key questions, including the effects of immigration on people’s lives, their jobs and incomes, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manning, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

: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

Über Autor(innen)

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