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Standard economic theory tells us that net inward migration, like free trade, benefits the native population only after a lag.
As a result, migration, more than any of the other myriad challenges the EU confronts today, has the potential to destroy the European project.
But, given the urgency of today’s migration crisis, not even the EU will be able to muddle through.
On the contrary, while the migration challenge became apparent to many Europeans only in 2015, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the door to a million desperate asylum seekers, the issue has long plagued southern Europe and is now mutating in dangerous ways.
In Germany, the survival of Merkel’s governing coalition is now in jeopardy, owing to a standoff over migration between her Christian Democratic Union and the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, led by Horst Seehofer, the interior minister.
So far, the EU’s response to migration has depended on top-down measures and mandates.
But excessive foot-dragging and uncertainty – owing not least to German unilateralism – impeded EU-level action, as it enabled migration to become a hot-button issue in domestic politics.
The European Council’s June meeting will focus on migration, but there has been little reason to hope that it will bring meaningful progress.
Progress has been made on many fronts, including burden-sharing in settling refugees, reforming and strengthening Europe’s border protections and coast guard, concluding agreements with other countries to return migrants, and providing development and governance assistance to address the push factors driving migration.
If the EU is to survive the migration crisis, it must work together.
Among the many horrific consequences of such an outcome would be mass migration toward Europe and other Western countries and the creation of fertile recruiting grounds for new generations of jihadists.
In recent years, net migration has reversed, with hundreds of thousands of workers and their families leaving the state in search of better job opportunities elsewhere.
Europe’s attention has been trained on three issues that pose a clear and imminent threat: Brexit, migration, and rising nationalism, which in countries like Poland is fueling growing resistance to the EU and the rule of law.
A key challenge here lies in stemming the migration of China’s top talent to the private sector.
Managing the Global Migration CrisisDebates about immigration nowadays tend to concentrate on the impact newcomers have on social cohesion.
Making Migration WorkMILAN – There are four pillars of globalization and economic interdependence: trade, investment, migration, and the flow of information, whether data or knowledge.
The other two – migration and information – are badly in need of similar frameworks.
Both amount to pressing challenges, though migration may be the most urgent issue, given the surge in recent years that has overwhelmed existing frameworks.
The EU’s labor-mobility provisions were not put in place to facilitate migration per se; rather, they were aimed at bolstering the EU economy by supporting integration, expanding the labor market, and strengthening economic adjustment mechanisms.
Consider migration from an economic perspective.
In particular, if the increase in demand is not accommodated by a supply-side response, illegal and often risky migration will tend to grow.
For this and other reasons, the UN is right to underscore the benefits of broad-based international cooperation on migration.
Whatever the merits of the US position on the Global Compact process, the principle of national sovereignty remains critical to any politically feasible migration policy.
The best way to build a solid foundation for international cooperation is to urge countries to develop coherent and adaptive policies for migration that ensure the admission of a balanced portfolio of migrants each year.
To that end, countries would have to pursue multidimensional assessments of the economic (including fiscal) and social costs and benefits, as well as the domestic distributional impacts, of migration.
The result would be a more solid basis for international cooperation aimed at reducing abuses and suffering, managing economic migration, protecting refugees, and, eventually, reducing excess demand by fostering development and growth in source countries.
For three decades, China underwent massive internal migration to the coastal areas of Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shanghai, where export-oriented factories awaited the low-cost labor that enabled them to fuel China’s GDP growth – and a much-touted reduction in global poverty.
The key role of migration in China’s economic development is reflected in the Third Plenum’s road map, which is most explicit in addressing hukou – the household registration system that restricts access to social services to one’s place of origin.
How leaders address infrastructure investment, land rights, migration, and financing will help to determine the sustainability of the fundamental transformation that lies ahead.
Most recently, Turkey has provided vital support in the European Union’s effort to curb migration.
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