Immigration and the Transformation of Europe (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521088282)

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.

Author: Craig A. Parsons
ISBN-10: 0521088283
ISBN-13: 9780521088282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/30/2008
Pages: 504
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.12d