Exodus
Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century
$27.62
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
2 January 2015
Summary
An insightful, expert foray into one of the most explosive issues of our time from a world-renowned economist. Mass international migration is a response to extreme global inequality, and immigration has a profound impact on the way we live. Here, world-renowned economist Paul Collier seeks to defuse this explosive subject. Exodus looks at how people from the world’s poorest societies struggle to migrate to the rich West: the effects on those left behind and on the host societies, and explores the impulses and thinking that inform Western immigration policy. Migration, he concludes, is a fact, and we urgently need to think clearly about its possibilities and challenges: it is not a question of whether migration is good or bad, but how much is best?
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141042169 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141042168 |
| Author: | Paul Collier |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 2 January 2015 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 130mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
A path-breaking book
Exodus is an important book and one I have been waiting to read for many years … [it is] a work that is humane and hard-headed about one of the greatest issues of our times – David Goodhart * Sunday Times *
Paul Collier is one of the world’s most thoughtful economists. His books consistently illuminate and provoke. Exodus is no exception * The Economist *
Tinged with poignancy … a humane and sensible voice in a highly toxic debate – Colin Kidd * Guardian *
Paul Collier’s new book on international migration is magisterial. It offers a sophisticated, comprehensive, incisive, multidisciplinary, well-written balance sheet of the pros and cons of immigration for receiving societies, sending societies, and migrants themselves. For everyone on all sides of this contentious issue, Exodus is a “must-read” – Robert D. Putnam, Professor of Public Policy, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
[Praise for Paul Collier’s The Plundered Planet]: A must-read * Sunday Times *
A path-breaking book – George Soros
Paul Collier
Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University and a former director of Development Research at the World Bank. He is the author of, among others, the award-winning The Bottom Billion and The Plundered Planet.
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