Mass Challenge

The Socioeconomic Impact of Migration to a Scandinavian Welfare State
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-46807-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 287 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

This book addresses the socioeconomic effects of immigration to Sweden. Historically, Sweden was a homogeneous country. In recent years, this has changed dramatically as Sweden has received more refugees per capita than any comparable country: this makes Sweden an interesting case study for analyzing the social and economic impact of refugee migration to European welfare states. The book highlights the long-term effects of low-skilled immigration to welfare states, while tying this to the broader European experience. Much of the public discussion of immigration in the West has focused on the American experience, which differs significantly from refugee migration to European welfare states. Research has shown that immigration is not a unitary phenomenon, and that its social and economic effects depend both on the type of migrants and on the receiving country. As demonstrated in the book, European welfare states have fairly similar outcomes with regard to refugee migration, but with differences in degree and the scale of migration. Their experience, however, contrasts with American outcomes as well as with high-skilled migration to Europe.

This book is a translated, updated, and expanded version of the successful Swedish original entitled Massutmaning (2017).

This book is translated by Jonas Vesterberg and edited by Pontus Tholin.

Zielgruppe

Popular/general

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanandaji, Tino

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wohlfahrtsökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaft: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. A Nation of Immigrants?.- 3. The Economics of Migration.- 4. A Moral Superpower.- 5. The Long Run.- 6. Smoldering Concrete.- 7. Inequality.- 8. Parallel Societies.- 9. Social Exclusion.- 10. Immigration and Causality.- 11. Law and Order.- 12. Immigration and Crime.- 13. Gang Crime.- 14. No-Go Zones.- 15. Antisocial Behavior.- 16. The Socioeconomic Cost of Crime.- 17. Failed Integration.- 18. E Pluribus Unum.

Über Autor(innen)

Tino Sanandaji is Researcher at the Institute for Economic and Business History Research (EHFF) at the Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden. He has a Kurdish background and moved from Iran to Sweden in 1989. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2011. Sanandaji has authored numerous articles and books, as well as several state reports.