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Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Dedication -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1 Migration: the "mother of all problems" -- "Do not come to Europe" -- Polish surprise -- Europe's emigration crisis -- Three migration crises … and no babies -- What the book is about -- The structure of the study -- 2 The fiscal impact of migration -- The general fiscal impact of migration -- Spending like a household -- Begging the question -- The realism concerning "fiscal burdens" -- The fiscal impact as trade-offs between migration and the welfare state -- A trade-off between research and realism? -- The ethno-racial trade-off or the trade-off between recognition and redistribution -- Conclusion -- 3 A modern migration theory -- Real versus financial resources -- Why solvency requirements and budget constraints are mistaken -- Issuing, taxing and borrowing -- Deficits and surpluses explained -- The hard yet unnecessary constraints of the eurozone -- Conclusion -- 4 Demography, security and the shifting conjunctures of the European Union's external labour migration policy -- What is labour migration? -- Migration policy, demographics and the welfare state -- A historical snapshot -- The contemporary development -- Brussels' rationale and objectives for increasing external labour migration -- Security first -- Conclusion -- 5 Labour migration in a sound finance policy logic -- The Long-Term Residence Directive -- The Researchers Directive -- The Blue Card Directive -- The Seasonal Workers Directive -- The Intra-Corporate Transferees Directive -- Conclusion -- 6 Why EU asylum policy cannot afford to pay demographic dividends -- EU asylum policy: built to prevent -- The historical logic of EU asylum policy -- Then as now: borders, burdens and external solutions -- "DROP OF 98%".

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