Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What's unique about immigration in Europe?
- 2 Europe's immigration challenge in demographic perspective
- 3 Migration into OECD countries 1990–2000
- 4 Divergent patterns in immigrant earnings across European destinations
- 5 Economic consequences of immigration in Europe
- 6 Occupational status of immigrants in cross-national perspective: A multilevel analysis of seventeen Western societies
- 7 Immigrants, unemployment, and Europe's varying welfare regimes
- 8 How different are immigrants? A cross-country and cross-survey analysis of educational achievement
- 9 Immigration, education, and the Turkish second generation in five European nations: A comparative study
- 10 Managing transnational Islam: Muslims and the state in Western Europe
- 11 Migration mobility in European diasporic space
- 12 The new migratory Europe: Towards a proactive immigration policy?
- 13 European immigration in the people's court
- 14 The politics of immigration in France, Britain, and the United States: A transatlantic comparison
- 15 “Useful” Gastarbeiter, burdensome asylum seekers, and the second wave of welfare retrenchment: Exploring the nexus between migration and the welfare state
- 16 The European Union dimension: Supranational integration, free movement of persons, and immigration politics
- 17 The effectiveness of governments’ attempts to control unwanted migration
- Index
- References
12 - The new migratory Europe: Towards a proactive immigration policy?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What's unique about immigration in Europe?
- 2 Europe's immigration challenge in demographic perspective
- 3 Migration into OECD countries 1990–2000
- 4 Divergent patterns in immigrant earnings across European destinations
- 5 Economic consequences of immigration in Europe
- 6 Occupational status of immigrants in cross-national perspective: A multilevel analysis of seventeen Western societies
- 7 Immigrants, unemployment, and Europe's varying welfare regimes
- 8 How different are immigrants? A cross-country and cross-survey analysis of educational achievement
- 9 Immigration, education, and the Turkish second generation in five European nations: A comparative study
- 10 Managing transnational Islam: Muslims and the state in Western Europe
- 11 Migration mobility in European diasporic space
- 12 The new migratory Europe: Towards a proactive immigration policy?
- 13 European immigration in the people's court
- 14 The politics of immigration in France, Britain, and the United States: A transatlantic comparison
- 15 “Useful” Gastarbeiter, burdensome asylum seekers, and the second wave of welfare retrenchment: Exploring the nexus between migration and the welfare state
- 16 The European Union dimension: Supranational integration, free movement of persons, and immigration politics
- 17 The effectiveness of governments’ attempts to control unwanted migration
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Since the 1980s, the migration issue has returned to the top of the political agenda in various regions of the world, as we see in the evident return to 1920s nativism now taking place in the United States. This politicization of migration and its consequences has led to an over-dramatization, and sometimes an over-mediatization, of the human migration issue. Both migratory flows and the presence of immigrant populations are largely perceived as a cause of insecurity and even as a real threat (Martiniello 2001).
Two significant features mark public debate concerning international migratory movements. Firstly, the emphasis is on real or potential migratory flow and on political and police measures to be brought into force for supranational regulation, in practice to keep the flow at a minimum level. The refugee issue is also on the way to becoming the major preoccupation of politicians and, to a certain extent, of certain sections of public opinion who are particularly aware of the migratory situation. Secondly, a certain “social alarmism” often predominates in these discussions where an essentially negative view of migration is presented and even seen as legitimate. There are many Europeans who accept the “invasion of Europe” doctrine and are ready to fight it. Immigration is thus presented as a fearful plague that must be swiftly vanquished, before it is too late.
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- Immigration and the Transformation of Europe , pp. 298 - 326Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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