People Power: Why We Need More Migrants

by Merritt, Giles

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Full title :People Power : Why We Need More Migrants.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2021.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021.

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Description based upon print version of record.

Making sense of the 'gig economy'

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (249 p.)

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ISBN:9780755606559, 0755606558, 0755606566, 9780755606566
oclc:on1243553521
LC Classification:HV640
Dewey Decimal:325.4

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Exploding Migration's Ten Most Misleading Myths -- Myth 1: Europe has no need of migrants -- Myth 2: Migrants 'take jobs' from native Europeans -- Myth 3: Migrants raise the risk of jihadist terrorism -- Myth 4: Migrants come to 'sponge' off Europeans' social welfare -- Myth 5: Migrants are a huge burden on Europe's taxpayers -- Myth 6: Europe is so overcrowded there's no room for migrants -- Myth 7: Migrants are 'overwhelming whole cities'

Myth 8: Cheaper migrant labour depresses wage levels -- Myth 9: Europe can't afford the cost of more migrants -- Myth 10: Robots will make migrant labour unnecessary -- Misunderstandings and muddled official thinking -- 2 Like Covid-19, Migration is a Global Earthquake -- Migration's longer-term challenges -- The full impact of Europe's demographic deficit is yet to come -- The elusive goal of 'managing' migration -- Sorting refugees from economic migrants -- The ebb and flow of a world in flux -- Making sense of youth unemployment -- On the threshold of radical change

3 More Migrants, Please! The Economic Case -- The economic evidence is un…

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