A Modern Migration Theory: An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy

Peo Hansen

doi:10.1017/9781788210560

Current migration policy is based on a seemingly neutral accounting exercise, in which migrants contribute less in tax than they receive in welfare assistance. A 'fact' that justifies increasingly restrictive asylum policies. Peo Hansen shows that this consensual cost-perspective on migration is built on a flawed economic conception of the orthodox 'sound finance' doctrine prevalent in migration research and policy. By examining migration through the macroeconomic lens offered by modern monetary theory, Hansen is able to demonstrate sound finance's detrimental impact on migration policy and research, including its role in stoking the toxic debate on migration in the European Union. More importantly, Hansen's undertaking offers the tools with which both migration research and migration policy could be modernized and put on a realistic footing.

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An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Preface and acknowledgements
pp ix-xiv

Foreword
pp xv-xviii

1 - Migration: the “mother of all problems”
pp 1-22

2 - The fiscal impact of migration
pp 23-48

3 - A modern migration theory
pp 49-72

4 - Demography, security and the shifting conjunctures of the European Union’s external labour migration policy
pp 73-94

5 - Labour migration in a sound finance policy logic
pp 95-114

6 - Why EU asylum policy cannot afford to pay demographic dividends
pp 115-138

7 - “We need these people”: refugee spending, fiscal impact and refugees’ real bearing on Sweden’s society and economy
pp 139-170

8 - Conclusion
pp 171-200

Bibliography
pp 201-232

Index
pp 233-238

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