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Migration has proven to be a difficult issue for successive administrations (Streeck 2016; IMF 2016), at least partly because of the centrality of the EU’s four fundamental freedoms, which includes the freedom of movement of people.
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Whyman, P.B., Petrescu, A.I. (2017). Migration. In: The Economics of Brexit. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58283-2_6
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