{"product_id":"why-immigration-policy-is-hard-and-how-to-make-it-better-hardback-9781509563654","title":"Why Immigration Policy Is Hard; And How to Make It Better (Hardback) 9781509563654","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhy Immigration Policy Is Hard\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAnd How to Make It Better\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlan Manning (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509563654, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 28 November 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e416 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 4.3 cm, 0.748 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"No issue is more important or more politically dangerous than immigration. Manning is one of the few writers to take it seriously, to cut through the prejudice and to deliver a balanced and deeply knowledgeable understanding. People need to read his work before immigration tears us apart.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngus Deaton, Nobel laureate, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus, at Princeton University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An eminently sensible and genuinely entertaining book that shows why immigration policy is much more complicated than you might expect. Manning is a rare honest broker concerning the evidence on migration.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMadeleine Sumption, Director, Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Alan Manning's tour of the 'infernal circle' of migration policy is both accessible and instructive. He provides a lucid guide to the economic impacts of immigration as well as a refreshingly clear-eyed perspective on the difficult trade-offs inherent in the policy and politics of immigration.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJonathan Portes, King's College London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a must-read for anyone interested in immigration policy. Written by a top-notch economist with hands-on policy experience, it brings a wealth of evidence to a controversial topic and highlights how campaigners on both sides of the debate tend to pick and choose from that evidence to justify their own position. Manning provides a more dispassionate analysis, arguing that the impacts of migration are generally neither as dire nor as positive as people claim.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrian Bell, King's College London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is the book that every hard-headed progressive needs in order to understand the intractable problem of immigration and its endless trade-offs. Examining the issue from every possible angle, Alan Manning is meticulously fair to all sides of the debate and fully aware of his own biases. He brings deep knowledge of the global story both through the academic literature and from his own front-line experience of policy clashes and interest-group lobbying during his time as chair of the Migration Advisory Committee.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Goodhart, author of \u003ci\u003eThe British Dream: Successes and Failures of Post-War\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eImmigration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"A fantastic, accessible and wittily written book regardless of where you sit on the issue – if you have an interest in immigration policy you should read it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Bush, \u003ci\u003eFinancial\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Anyone who thinks they know how rich countries should frame their rules on immigration should read economist Alan Manning's carefully balanced guide to the complexities of the subject.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDelphine Strauss\u003ci\u003e, Financial\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"The most important political book of the year\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinancial\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"excellent\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Spectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The politics of immigration is never easy, and Manning's book helps to explain why crafting coherent policy is so hard.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside Story\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eImmigration policy is hard, involving difficult decisions and trade-offs. But, as Alan Manning – former chair of the UK's Migration Advisory Committee – makes clear, this doesn't mean that we can't do much better. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe should start, Manning says, by ditching simplistic views that frame immigration as either wholly good or wholly bad. We will always have, and need, some level of immigration. But, just as inevitably, we will have rules on who can and cannot immigrate as more people are likely to want to move to high-income countries than residents will want to admit. To set those rules, we need reliable evidence to adjudicate among the often-competing claims of the economy, culture, justice and democracy. Manning supplies such evidence in abundance, guiding us through cutting-edge international research on the many ways immigration affects people's lives, including effects on their jobs and incomes, their taxes and public services, and their communities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy Immigration Policy Is Hard\u003c\/i\u003e is an indispensable resource for informed debate on one of the most charged subjects in public life today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1 Introduction\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part 1: A Picture of Migration\u003cbr\u003e 2 How Many Migrants: Where Do They Come From and Where Do They Go?\u003cbr\u003e 3 Why People Migrate\u003cbr\u003e 4 How Many Would Like to Migrate?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part 2: Migration from the Migrants’ Perspective\u003cbr\u003e 5 The Impact of Immigration on the Immigrants\u003cbr\u003e 6 And What About the Children of Migrants?\u003cbr\u003e 7 And What About the Countries Migrants Leave?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part 3: The Receiving Country’s Perspective\u003cbr\u003e 8 Demography: Population and Ageing \u003cbr\u003e 9 The Economy: GDP, Productivity and Innovation\u003cbr\u003e 10 The Labour Market: Wages and Unemployment\u003cbr\u003e 11 Prices and Profits\u003cbr\u003e 12 The Public Finances and Public Services\u003cbr\u003e 13 Community\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Part 4: Policy Options\u003cbr\u003e 14 Open Borders\u003cbr\u003e 15 Work Migration\u003cbr\u003e 16 Student Migration\u003cbr\u003e 17 Family Migration\u003cbr\u003e 18 Asylum and Refugees: The Journey\u003cbr\u003e 19 Asylum-Seekers and Refguees: After Arrival\u003cbr\u003e 20 Unauthorized Migrants\u003cbr\u003e 21 What I Would Do\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Economics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Economics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Economics%20%5BKC%5D%22\"\u003eKC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453504975128,"sku":"9781509563654","price":22.26,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509563654.jpg?v=1785285352","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/why-immigration-policy-is-hard-and-how-to-make-it-better-hardback-9781509563654","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}