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.