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Lewis turned Boeke’s idea on its head, arguing that labor migration from traditional agriculture to modern industrial activities is the engine of economic development.
The JAEA has initiated a project to model the future distribution of radioactivity on a regional scale, beginning with field investigations to acquire the data that are needed to develop conceptual and mathematical migration models of radiocesium’s environmental behavior.
But none has raised such fundamental questions about the meaning of the EU as the current debate about migration.
EU leaders must make a clear commitment to do what it takes to address the refugee crisis – even if that means pushing through measures, such as expanded options for legal migration, that are neither expedient nor popular.
If Europeans do not stand together in addressing migration, countless more people will drown in the Mediterranean and the EU will continue to unravel.
Addressing the migration crisis thus requires efforts not only to address instability in source regions, but also to alleviate poverty and create employment.
The continent will be disproportionally affected by climate change and transnational migration.
Austria and Germany - so far the two largest recipients of migrants from Eastern Europe, receiving four out of every five - announced last year that they will restrict migration from the new member states for the full transition period of seven years.
Moreover, shutting the door will not solve the problem of welfare access, because illegal migration is worse than legal migration: it draws resources without contributing anything to finance the welfare state even though most migrants are young and do work.
Migration quotas should be preferred to other types of restrictions on the ground that they allow at least a part of the potential welfare gains from migration to be realized.
Quotas could be established at levels set on the basis of past periods of high migration - say, an annual flow of 400,000 people to the EU.
While these transitional restrictions are put in place, reforms should be undertaken that address the underlying basis for the public's fear of migration.
At the same time, jobs mobility should replace unwanted migration.
As interior minister, Salvini has taken a hard line on migration, not least by turning away vessels carrying asylum seekers rescued from the Mediterranean.
Earlier this month, just as Merkel and Seehofer’s dispute was heating up, Kurz made an appearance in Berlin, where he called for Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Germany – or, at least, Germany’s interior ministry – to form an “axis of the willing” on migration.
That will mean improving protection of the EU’s external borders, compensating domestic losers from migration and free trade, and soothing public fears about terrorism.
All across the continent, right-wing populist parties are gaining ground by exploiting voters’ concerns about migration and access to the welfare state.
Such a measure would not only help reaffirm a European identity regarding work and the welfare state; it would also facilitate a more informed debate on migration and the ongoing refugee crisis, by making it possible to assess the net fiscal contribution newcomers make to social-security programs.
Refugee migration also comes in larger waves than economic migration.
As a result, center-left parties across Europe have begun to change course, with social democrats in several key countries changing long-held positions on migration.
That report identified “the lack of a consistent social-democratic position” on migration issues as one of the party’s structural weaknesses.
Efforts to limit or manage migration are not necessarily based on racism or xenophobia.
More than a decade of recession has made the public debt unsustainable and is fueling migration outflows to the United States mainland, affecting the lives of thousands of families and imposing a higher burden on those who stay.
Fourth, the plan’s assumption about outward migration is controversial at best.
And yet the plan assumes that the migration flows will taper off, with the population declining by only 0.2% per year over the 2017-2026 period.
Sweden has made migration and asylum policy a high priority, while Norway is concerned about the fate of migrants in Greece.
Rather than promoting safe and orderly migration, many countries are proposing policies to reduce or stop migration altogether.
Specifically, they pledged to cooperate in order “to ensure safe, orderly, and regular migration involving full respect for human rights and the humane treatment of migrants regardless of migration status, of refugees, and of displaced persons.”
And yet no one can deny the challenge posed by irregular flows of migrants and refugees – who often travel together in a form of “mixed migration.”
At the end of the summit, delegates adopted the New York Declaration, which includes commitments to address migrants and refugees’ common needs and challenges, and outlines processes for developing global compacts to share responsibility for helping refugees, and to ensure safe, orderly, and regular migration.
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