Postwar Migration in Southern Europe, 1950-2000

This book analyses the case of southern European migration using an economic approach.

List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. The Evolution of Migration in Southern European Countries: 1. The evolution of migration; 2. Approaches to the analysis of migratory phenomena; Part II. The Choice to Migrate: 3. An overview of the economic models; 4. Comments on an empirical version of the economic model; 5. The gravitational approach to migration; 6. The sociological approach to the migratory chain; 7. The evolution of migratory flows; 8. Empirical tests; 9. Final conclusions and implications for the flows of immigrants today; Part III. The Effects of Immigration on the Receiving Country: 10. An overview of models by main themes; 11. Complementarity and substitution: empirical evidence; 12. Conclusions; Part IV. The Effects of Emigration on the Country of Origin: 13. Emigration and growth; 14. Population and the labour market; 15. Emigrants' remittances; Part V. The Effectiveness of Migration Policies: 16. Immigration policy in its strictest sense; 17. Citizenship and naturalization; 18. Integration policies: linguistic proficiency: 19. Conclusions; References; Index.