Mass Challenge: The Socioeconomic Impact of Migration to a Scandinavian Welfare State

ISBN-13: 9783030468071 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 287 str.

Tino Sanandaji

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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. 

Blurb

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).