Preface -- Introduction -- The demand for skilled migrants: domestic and international factors -- Immigration policy alternatives -- Immigration policymaking in the global era: three theories -- Britain: from zero-immigration to economic migration -- Germany: moving toward "modern" immigration policy -- Conclusion: balancing political needs and economic realities
Summary
Through a comparative case study analysis of the United Kingdom and Germany, with references to the United States, this study examines the impetuses for and processes by which governments came to choose the points system for immigration control
