This book examines the economics of immigration and asylum migration, focusing on the economic consequences of legal and illegal immigration as well as placing the study of immigration in a global context.
George J. Borjas is the Robert W. Scrivner Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.Jeff Crisp is Head of the Evaluation and Policy Analysis Unit, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
KRÆN BLUME Researcher, Institute for Local Government Studies, AKF, Copenhagen, DenmarkSTEPHEN CASTLES Professor of Migration and Refugee Studies and Director of the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford, UKGÉRALDINE CHATELARD Marie Curie Fellow, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute in Florence, ItalyRICCARDO FAINI Professor of Economics, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy and Co-Director of the International Trade Programme at CEPR, UKDAVID FISHER International LawyerMATTHEW J. GIBNEY University Lecturer in Forced Migration and Official Fellow, University of Oxford, UKBJÖRN GUSTAFSSON Professor in the Department of Social Work, Göteborg University, SwedenRANDALL HANSEN Professorial Chair in Politics, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UKTIMOTHY J. HATTON Professor and Head of Economics, Australian National University, Australia, Professor of Economics at the University of Essex, UK and Research Fellow at the CEPR, UK and IZA, GermanyANA MARÍA IREGUI Research Economist, Banco de la Republica, ColombiaKHALID KOSER Lecturer in Human Geography and Member of the Migration Research Unit, University College London, UKBJØRN LETNES PhD Student of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwaySEAN LOUGHNA Research Officer, Refugee Studies Centre and is Co-Director of Forced Migration Online, UKPHILIP MARTIN Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Chairof the Comparative Immigration and Integration Program, University of California-Davis, USASUSAN MARTIN Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, USAJOHNATHON W. MOSES Professor of Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NorwayPEDER J. PEDERSEN Professor of Economics, University of Aarhus and Danish National Institute of Social Research, DenmarkCATHERINE PHUONG Lecturer in Law, Newcastle Law School, University of Newcastle, UKANDREW I. SCHOENHOLTZ Deputy Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, USAANDRÉS SOLIMANO Regional Advisor, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Santiago, ChileCLAUDIA TAZREITER Lecturer, School of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, AustraliaELIZABETH THOMAS-HOPE James Seivright Moss-Solomon (Snr.) Chair of Environmental Management, and is Head of the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of the West Indies, JamaicaNICHOLAS VAN HEAR Senior Researcher, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UKRAIMO VÄYRYNEN President of the Academy of Finland, FinlandMETTE VERNER Associate Professor of Economics, Aarhus School of Business, DenmarkJEFFREY G. WILLIAMSON Laird Bell Professor of Economics and Faculty Fellow, Harvard University, USA and Research Associate, NBER, USA