Items related to What Is Immigration Policy For? (What Is It For?)

What Is Immigration Policy For? (What Is It For?) - Softcover

Book 20 of 22: What Is It For?

Sumption, Madeleine

 
9781529238587: What Is Immigration Policy For? (What Is It For?)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1529238587 ISBN 13: 9781529238587
Publisher: Bristol University Press, 2026

Synopsis

This book explores what immigration policy seeks to achieve and why so many people end up unhappy with the outcome. Drawing on decades of research and examples from high-income countries around the world, it exposes the unavoidable trade-offs governments face, and the impacts of their choices on people and communities.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

Madeleine Sumption is the Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford, which provides impartial analysis of migration in the UK. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Migration Advisory Committee, an independent panel that advises the UK Government on migration. She also chairs the National Statistician’s advisory panel on migration statistics. Madeleine has a PhD in Public Policy from the University of Maastricht and a master’s degree with honours from the University of Chicago’s school of public policy. In 2017, she received an MBE for services to social science.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
Bristol University Press
Publication date
2026
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1529238587
ISBN 13 
9781529238587
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
220