Immigration and the Transformation of Europe

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.