Date: 2024
Type: Contribution to book
The 'demographic benefit of international migration' hypothesis revisited
Nasra M. SHAH (ed.), Social remittances and social change : focus on Asia and Middle East, Lahore : Lahore School of Economics, 2024, pp. 41-60
FARGUES, Philippe, The 'demographic benefit of international migration' hypothesis revisited, in Nasra M. SHAH (ed.), Social remittances and social change : focus on Asia and Middle East, Lahore : Lahore School of Economics, 2024, pp. 41-60
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This chapter starts from a double premise, which we will neither develop nor discuss here. First, it posits that the world’s population is too large and poses the most serious threat to the preservation of the planet. With the current state of technology, addressing the highly desirable objective of improving humanity’s wellbeing generates adverse side-effects—from diminishing stocks of nonrenewable resources to climate change, including greenhouse gas emissions and sea-level elevation, etc.—that will sooner or later make our mere existence on Earth impossible. Reducing the number of people is part of the way out of the spiral and, therefore, demographic degrowth is a suitable goal. Second, we postulate that the benefits of international migration outweigh its costs. The economic, cultural and social advantages it brings to individuals and societies—and, as importantly, to the whole world—largely exceed the price of adjustments it requires.
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Published: April 2024
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77724
ISBN: 9789697502165
Publisher: Lahore School of Economics
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