Postwar Migration in Southern Europe, 1950–2000
An Economic Analysis

This book analyses the case of southern European migration using an economic approach.

Alessandra Venturini (Author)

9780521037709, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 June 2007

304 pages, 25 b/w illus. 38 tables
22.8 x 15.1 x 1.7 cm, 0.46 kg

"...the complete treatment of the existing body of work on issues such as emigrants' remittances, competition and complementarity in labor markets, or the difficult reproduction of the labor population in Western Europe makes it a very up-to-date reference book on the economic aspects of actual migration waves in general." - Leen Beyers, Catholic University of Leuven

Managing migration promises to be one of the most difficult challenges of the twenty-first century. It will be even more difficult for south European countries, from which emigration has levelled off and to which immigration has become a significant economic issue. Southern Europe is close to other regions where the pressure to emigrate is intense: these regions have a high level of unemployment, above the European Union average, and a large informal sector, often 15-25 per cent of their economies as a whole. This book analyses the southern European migration case using an economic approach. It combines a theoretical and an empirical approach on the fundamental migration issues - the decision to migrate, effects on the country of departure and country of destination, and the effectiveness of policies in managing migration. It also explores the transformation due to migration of southern European countries in the 1980s and 1990s.

List of figures and tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. The Evolution of Migration in Southern European Countries: 1. The evolution of migration
2. Approaches to the analysis of migratory phenomena
Part II. The Choice to Migrate: 3. An overview of the economic models
4. Comments on an empirical version of the economic model
5. The gravitational approach to migration
6. The sociological approach to the migratory chain
7. The evolution of migratory flows
8. Empirical tests
9. Final conclusions and implications for the flows of immigrants today
Part III. The Effects of Immigration on the Receiving Country: 10. An overview of models by main themes
11. Complementarity and substitution: empirical evidence
12. Conclusions
Part IV. The Effects of Emigration on the Country of Origin: 13. Emigration and growth
14. Population and the labour market
15. Emigrants' remittances
Part V. The Effectiveness of Migration Policies: 16. Immigration policy in its strictest sense
17. Citizenship and naturalization
18. Integration policies: linguistic proficiency: 19. Conclusions
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Economic history [KCZ], Economics [KC], Political science & theory [JPA], Population & demography [JHBD], Sociology & anthropology [JH], Migration, immigration & emigration [JFFN], Regional studies [GTB]