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Newcastle Upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2021

1 online resource (258 pages)

ISBN 9781788210560 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781788210546

Comparative Political Economy

Print version: Hansen, Peo A Modern Migration Theory Newcastle Upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing,c2021 ISBN 9781788210546

Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1 Migration: the "mother of all problems" -- "Do not come to Europe" -- Polish surprise -- Europe’s emigration crisis -- Three migration crises … and no babies -- What the book is about -- The structure of the study -- 2 The fiscal impact of migration -- The general fiscal impact of migration -- Spending like a household -- Begging the question -- The realism concerning "fiscal burdens" -- The fiscal impact as trade-offs between migration and the welfare state -- A trade-off between research and realism? -- The ethno-racial trade-off or the trade-off between recognition and redistribution -- Conclusion -- 3 A modern migration theory -- Real versus financial resources -- Why solvency requirements and budget constraints are mistaken -- Issuing, taxing and borrowing -- Deficits and surpluses explained -- The hard yet unnecessary constraints of the eurozone -- Conclusion -- 4 Demography, security and the shifting conjunctures of the European Union’s external labour migration policy -- What is labour migration? -- Migration policy, demographics and the welfare state -- A historical snapshot -- The contemporary development -- Brussels’ rationale and objectives for increasing external labour migration -- Security first -- Conclusion -- 5 Labour migration in a sound finance policy logic -- The Long-Term Residence Directive -- The Researchers Directive -- The Blue Card Directive -- The Seasonal Workers Directive -- The Intra-Corporate Transferees Directive -- Conclusion -- 6 Why EU asylum policy cannot afford to pay demographic dividends -- EU asylum policy: built to prevent -- The historical logic of EU asylum policy -- Then as now: borders, burdens and external solutions -- "DROP OF 98%".

Less migration, more migration -- Demographic deficit, demographic dividend -- From demographic assets to fiscal burdens -- Conclusion -- 7 "We need these people": refugee spending, fiscal impact and refugees’ real bearing on Sweden’s society and economy -- Refugee crisis, fiscal crisis? -- The fiscal impact of Sweden’s refugee reception: the view from the government and the economic expertise -- Refugee spending and economic growth -- "We have not borrowed a single krona to finance the refugee crisis" -- Financial and real resources, once more -- Refugees’ impact on municipalities -- The fiscal boon of refugee reception -- Small municipalities, huge examples -- Conclusion -- 8 Conclusion -- Now we see it, now we don’t -- The consequences of sound finance -- The fiscal impact of refugee migration -- Refugee migration and municipal income -- The real impact of refugee migration -- Functional finance in practice -- Understanding the quest for both less and more migration -- Implications for EU free movement and EU citizenship -- More than a problem of neoliberalism -- How to proceed from here? -- Bibliography -- Index.

Howdoes the EU square the seemingly contradictory objectives of bringing about less migration - its current approach to the refugee crisis - and more migration, which is its current response to the Union’s demographic deficit? Peo Hansen explores how this might be resolved..

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