The No-Nonsense guide to International Migration [antikvár]

Foreword I AM DELIGHTED to write this Foreword to what I regard as a very enlightened publication that is attempdng to put more sense than heat into the debate about internadonal migration. It is so important that this book is being published as part of the No-Nonsense Guides series. In recent years, internadonal migration has ignited a large debate in the so-called receiving countries where it is assumed migrants benefit materially at the expense of receiver communities. Because this debate is largely taking place in the more affluent industrialized Western democracies, it has focused on the economic problems that migrants from the economically-depressed parts of the world are said to cause. In the circumstances, little attention is paid to the more traditional benefits that cross-cultural migration brings to the receiving communities. Without glossing over the problems that immigration poses, Peter Stalker presents a balanced view of the difficulties as well as showing the benefits both to receiving countries and to migrant communities. That is as it should be. As a short book on a highly contentious subject, International Migration will prove useful to those who care about the topic because it clarifies the issues involved so thoroughly and presents lucid arguments in a very readable manner. Contemporary problems seem sometimes to overshadow the immense advantages that migration can provide, and to put things in context this No-Nonsense Guide includes a historical perspective, citing the benefits to countries and cultures. Peter Stalker has authoritatively removed the issue of international migration away from the hysteria of the Western |r media. He offers sound arguments about the enrich- | ing qualities of migration, economically as well as cul- ^^ turally, for both the sending and receiving countries.