2015-09-17nytimes.com

Fortified borders may slow it, somewhat. But the sooner Europe acknowledges it faces several decades of heavy immigration from its neighboring regions, the sooner it will develop the needed policies to help integrate large migrant populations into its economies and societies.

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Over the next several decades, millions of people are likely to leave these regions [including Africa, South Asia and Palestine], forced out by war, lack of opportunity and conflicts over resources set in motion by climate change. Rich Europe is inevitably going to be a prime destination of choice.

"With Africa's population likely to increase by more than three billion over the next 85 years, the European Union could be facing a wave of migration that makes current debates about accepting hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers seem irrelevant," wrote Adair Turner, the former chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority and now chairman of the Institute for New Economic Thinking.''

See also Germany puts migrants to work at 1 EUR/hr.



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