Immigrant Nations

• The book draws on the very important experience of The Netherlands, which (along with Britain) was a pioneer of multiculturalism and has recently experienced a backlash to it, but the book is genuinely comparative and it situates the Dutch experience in relation to immigration in Britain, the US and other countries.

• Scheffer argues that we now need a new approach to immigration that is based on the ‘principle of reciprocity': native populations cannot ask of newcomers any more than they are prepared to ask of themselves.

• This book has been hugely successful in The Netherlands, Germany and elsewhere and there is every reason to believe that it will become one of the classic books on immigration and the social and political responses to it.