Why Immigration Policy Is Hard

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And How to Make It Better

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-28
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor416
FörlagJohn Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN9781509563654

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Preface and Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Part 1: A Picture of Migration2 How Many Migrants: Where Do They Come From and Where Do They Go?3 Why People Migrate4 How Many Would Like to Migrate? Part 2: Migration from the Migrants’ Perspective5 The Impact of Immigration on the Immigrants6 And What About the Children of Migrants?7 And What About the Countries Migrants Leave? Part 3: The Receiving Country’s Perspective8 Demography: Population and Ageing 9 The Economy: GDP, Productivity and Innovation10 The Labour Market: Wages and Unemployment11 Prices and Profits12 The Public Finances and Public Services13 Community Part 4: Policy Options14 Open Borders15 Work Migration16 Student Migration17 Family Migration18 Asylum and Refugees: The Journey19 Asylum-Seekers and Refguees: After Arrival20 Unauthorized Migrants21 What I Would Do NotesIndex

"No issue is more important or more politically dangerous than immigration. Manning is one of the few writers to take it seriously, to cut through the prejudice and to deliver a balanced and deeply knowledgeable understanding. People need to read his work before immigration tears us apart."Angus Deaton, Nobel laureate, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, at Princeton University"An eminently sensible and genuinely entertaining book that shows why immigration policy is much more complicated than you might expect. Manning is a rare honest broker concerning the evidence on migration."Madeleine Sumption, Director, Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford"Alan Manning's tour of the 'infernal circle' of migration policy is both accessible and instructive. He provides a lucid guide to the economic impacts of immigration as well as a refreshingly clear-eyed perspective on the difficult trade-offs inherent in the policy and politics of immigration."Jonathan Portes, King's College London"This book is a must-read for anyone interested in immigration policy. Written by a top-notch economist with hands-on policy experience, it brings a wealth of evidence to a controversial topic and highlights how campaigners on both sides of the debate tend to pick and choose from that evidence to justify their own position. Manning provides a more dispassionate analysis, arguing that the impacts of migration are generally neither as dire nor as positive as people claim."Brian Bell, King's College London"This is the book that every hard-headed progressive needs in order to understand the intractable problem of immigration and its endless trade-offs. Examining the issue from every possible angle, Alan Manning is meticulously fair to all sides of the debate and fully aware of his own biases. He brings deep knowledge of the global story both through the academic literature and from his own front-line experience of policy clashes and interest-group lobbying during his time as chair of the Migration Advisory Committee."David Goodhart, author of The British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-War Immigration"a fantastic, accessible and wittily written book regardless of where you sit on the issue – if you have an interest in immigration policy you should read it."Stephen Bush, The Financial Times