Europe's Army of Immigrants
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4915052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Power (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 372-386 |
| Publication date | 1975-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2616621 |
| OpenAlex | W1998251755 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
F OR too long in Britain immigrants have been regarded as a domestic problem, a legacy of Empire, a home-grown plant that had to be nurtured, pruned or uprooted according to one's racial beliefs. That immigration was part of a European-wide phenomenon which depended more on economics than on culture, philosophy or political systems has been ignored; and the fact that there are, in the Common Market alone, more than 10 million of these new proletarians, comes to most British as an astonishing surprise. In Switzerland they comprise 30 per cent of the labour force, one million in a population of only six million. In Stuttgart, Germany, one worker in four is foreign and in Munich 50 per cent of the dustmen and 70 per cent of the street cleaners come from overseas. Even Norway has its Pakistanis. The distinguished American economist, C. P. Kindleberger, has. argued persuasively that this elastic supply of immigrant labour has, been one of the major contributions to Europe's economic growth.' Yet, vital as these immigrants are to servicing the unpleasant underneath of the European economy, public opinion is fast moving against them. In that Britain is not alone. The Swiss talk of Uberfremdung (foreign domination). In Germany and France the oil crisis is used as an excuse to announce an end to all immigration. But why this fear? Emigration and immigration, the movement of men from one opportunity to another, are almost as old as the hills. And throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries the industrialised countries of Western Europe relied heavily on immigrant labour. After
Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Immigration · Political science · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,06 |
| Citation span | 1977 - 1980 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |