Possibilities and Limits of an Exchange of Populations within Western Europe

Abstract

Free intra-European migration, also, must be resumed if population ratios in Western Europe, which have become more divergent than ever through the war and its aftermath, are to be improved in economic and social respects, though intra-European migration in itself will no more succeed in removing these divergencies than overseas migration. Here, too, the raising of economic productivity must be the primary factor in solving the population problem, and migration will play a secondary yet important part. The purpose of improving the population ratios is served by all efforts indirectly or directly aimed at increasing the national product or ameliorating general living conditions.