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Past Developments, Current

Status and Future Potentials

Edited by Michael Bommes, Heinz Fassmann & Wiebke Sievers

IMISCOE RESEARCH IMISCOE RESEARCH

Migration from the Middle East

and North Africa to Europe

This volume offers a wide and scientific overview of the potential for

migration from the Middle East and North Africa to the European Union.

The migration potential is calculated for three countries – Morocco, Egypt

and Turkey – that will not be able to offer adequate employment to their

young, growing and increasingly well-educated populations. The EU will

have to adopt a positive and proactive stance to attract these potential

migrants, who may otherwise decide to move to other world regions.

Michael Bommes passed away in 2010 while this volume was under

develop ment. He was a professor of sociology at the University of

Osnabrück. Heinz Fassmann is a professor at the Institute of Geography

and Regional Research of the University of Vienna and Director of the

Austrian Academy of Science’s Institute for Urban and Regional Research.

Wiebke Sievers is a researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional

Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

“Fast-growing nations of the Middle East and North Africa have a surplus of

young workers, while shrinking European countries have ever-fewer youth

entering the labor force. These fundamental push and pull factors combine

with policies, politics, and climate change and other factors to shape one of

the world’s most complex migration corridors.”

— Philip Martin, University of California, Davis

“[A] very well edited publication which addresses an extremely topical subject

from an important perspective. Many of the chapters are by internationally

recognised experts in the field, presenting new analysis.”

— Michael Collyer, University of Sussex

“This is a very timely and at the same time prospective book. Renowned

scholars analyse social change and migration in and with the region that

will be the most important for EU-immigration during the decades to come.”

— Ludger Pries, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

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