How to Understand Immigration Policy

Immigration policy is an increasingly important part of economic growth and development around the world because nearly all industrialized states face a set of common challenges relating to the sustainability of their economic growth and welfare states. These challenges include declining birth rates...

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Published in:The Brown journal of world affairs 2013-10, Vol.20 (1), p.139-152
Main Author: Skrentny, John D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Births
Citizenship
Conflict
Demographics
Economic development
Economic growth
Employers
Food
Foreign labor
Global Migration
Immigration policy
Liberalism
Migrants
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Noncitizens
Old age
Population aging
Reproductive health
Skilled workers
Welfare economics
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Summary:Immigration policy is an increasingly important part of economic growth and development around the world because nearly all industrialized states face a set of common challenges relating to the sustainability of their economic growth and welfare states. These challenges include declining birth rates, aging populations, and workforces that have become more educated even as the low-skilled job sector, especially in services such as care of the elderly, cleaning, and food preparation, has grown. The nature of policy variation and the sources of conflict regarding immigration are less clear than today's demographic challenges. This article will show how people can understand both the variations and the conflicts regarding immigration policy by identifying the ways states mix together three different perspectives: the economic growth perspective, the rights liberalism perspective, and the traditional communities perspective. These perspectives will then be used to help understand policy variations and conflicts over time, between regions of the world, and between different targets of policies, namely the low- and high-skilled migrants.
ISSN:1080-0786
2472-3347