"German and European immigration policies have only recently begun to cope with the inevitable: growing labor demand in …'s first immigration act and several European initiatives towards legal harmonization at the EU level, an actively controlling … immigration policy which would be needed to master the challenges ahead, is not yet in sight. Against this background, the book …

In the popular immigration narrative, migrants leave one country and establish themselves permanently in another …, creating a "brain drain" in the sending country. In reality, migration is typically temporary: Workers migrate, find employment …