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Europe’s Migrants: ’The World Is a Smaller Place’

Oct 13, 201016 min
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France expels Roma Gypsies; a prominent German economist says migrants are destroying the country; a far-right party with an anti-immigration platform wins its first parliamentary seats in Sweden. Few countries in Europe have escaped the recent heated debates about immigration within their borders. Against this backdrop a growing body of research is helping Europeans understand whether and under what conditions immigration is economically and socially beneficial. As one Wharton expert notes ”It’s not a zero-sum game.”

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