1. Migration: "mother of all problems"

2. The fiscal impact of migration

3. A modern migration theory

4. Demography, security and the shifting conjunctures of the EU's external labour migration policy

5. Labour migration in a sound finance policy logic

6. Why EU asylum policy cannot afford to pay demographic dividends

7. "We need these people": refugee spending, fiscal impact and refugees' real bearing on Sweden's society and economy

8. Conclusion

Peo Hansen is Professor of Political Science at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO), Linkoping University, Sweden. He has written extensively on questions of migration, citizenship and identity and how they relate to the political economy of European integration. His books include The Politics of European Citzenship (with Sandy Brian Hager) and Eurafrica: The Untold History of European Integration and Colonialism (with Stefan Jonsson).