Immigration and the Transformation of Europe

Craig A. Parsons (Curatore)

Timothy M. Smeeding (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2008

A new kind of historic transformation is underway in twenty-first-century Europe. Twentieth-century Europeans were no strangers to social, economic and political change, but their major challenges focused mainly on the intra-European construction of stable, prosperous, capitalist democracies. Today, by contrast, one of the major challenges is flows across borders - and particularly in-flows of non-European people. Immigration and minority integration consistently occupy the headlines. The issues which rival immigration - unemployment, crime, terrorism - are often presented by politicians as its negative secondary effects. Immigration is also intimately connected to the profound challenges of demographic change, economic growth and welfare-state reform. Both academic observers and the European public are increasingly convinced that Europe's future will largely turn on how is admits and integrates non-Europeans. This book is a comprehensive stock-taking of the contemporary situation and its policy implications.

• Curatore: Craig A. Parsons, Timothy M. Smeeding
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2008
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 504 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 730 gr.
• EAN: 9780521088282

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