TY - BOOK AU - Sievers,Wiebke AU - Fassmann,Heinz AU - Bommes,Michael ED - Project Muse ED - Project Muse. TI - Migration from the Middle East and North Africa to Europe : : Past Developments, Current Status and Future Potentials / T2 - IMISCOE research : International migration, integration and social cohesion in Europe SN - 9789048523177 AV - JV7590 .M52434 2014 U1 - 325.4 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Project Muse KW - Immigrants KW - Europe KW - Middle East KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Africa, North KW - Social aspects KW - Economic aspects KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE; Includes bibliographical references; Part I. Country profiles. Euro-Mediterranean migration futures: the cases of Morocco, Egypt and Turkey ; Migration and development in Egypt ; Turkish emigration and its implications for the sending and receiving countries -- Part II. Arena of political regulation and conflicts ; The European Union's international-migration relations towards Middle Eastern and North African countries ; Political conflicts and migration in the MENA states ; The uncertainties involved in calculating migratino -- Part III. Prognosis, scenarios and forecasts ; Demographic developments in the MENA region ; Estimating migration potential: Egypt, Morocco and Turkey; Open Access N2 - One of the most important challenges concerning the future of the European Union is the demographic reproduction of the European population. Decreasing birth-rates and the retirement of the baby boomers will dramatically reduce the labour force in the EU, which will entail not only a lack of manpower but also lower contributions to European social systems. It seems clear that the EU will have to counterbalance this population decrease by immigration in the coming years. Migration Between the Middle East, North Africa and Europe takes this challenge as a point of departure for analysing the MENA region, in particular Morocco, Egypt and Turkey, as a possible source of future migration to the European Union. At the same time, it illustrates the uncertainties implied in such calculations, especially at a time of radical political changes, such as those brought about by the Arab Uprising UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/66409/ ER -