Immigration and the Transformation of Europe

by Edited by Craig A. Parsons , Timothy M. Smeeding

• ISBN13: 9780521861939
• ISBN10: 0521861934
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

1. What's unique about immigration in Europe? Craig A. Parsons and Timothy M. Smeeding

2. Europe's immigration challenge in demographic perspective Paul Demeny

3. Migration into OECD countries 1990-2000 Peder J. Pedersen, Mariola Pytlikova and Nina Smith

4. Divergent patterns in immigrant earnings across European destinations Alicia Adsera and Barry R. Chiswick

5. Economic consequences of immigration in Europe Herbert Bruecker, Joachim R. Frick and Gert G. Wagner

6. Occupational status of immigrants in cross-national perspective: a multilevel analysis of 17 Western societies Frank van Tubergen

7. Immigrants, unemployment and Europe's varying welfare regimes Ann Morissens

8. How different are immigrants? A cross-country and cross-survey analysis of educational achievement Sylke Viola Schnepf

9. Immigration, education: the Turkish second generation in five European nations: a comparative study Maurice Crul

10. Managing transnational Islam in Western Europe Jonathan Laurence

11. Migration mobility in European diasporic space Jacqueline Andall

12. The new migratory Europe: towards a proactive immigration policy? Marco Martiniello

13. European immigration in the people's court Jack Citrin and John Sides

14. The politics of immigration in France, Britain, and the United States: a transatlantic comparison Martin A. Schain

15. 'Useful' Gastarbeiter, burdensome asylum seekers, and the second wave of welfare retrenchment: exploring the nexus between migration and the welfare state Georg Menz

16. The European Union dimension: supranational integration, free movement of persons, and immigration politics Adam Luedtke

17. The effectiveness of governments' attempts to control unwanted migration Eiko R. Thielemann

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