This chapter asks how ageing populations in EU Member States will affect the making of migration and asylum law. It tests the hypothesis that asylum and immigration law and policy in European states may become increasingly exclusionary towards large groups of immigrants due to its being interlocked in a vicious circle of economic and political consequences of population ageing. The interposition of law with democracy, demography and economic growth, is at the core of the argument that the restriction of migrants’ rights is but a symptom of this vicious circle, as ageing European societies undermine their own resource base for achieving economically tenable, politically stable and sufficiently egalitarian communities. By itself, the chapter posits, the law cannot provide for resilience against restrictive migration policies, given this context. While the law is a useful tool in single cases and the short term, it emerges from the same foundational assumptions that lie behind a long-term and amplifying trend of restrictionist politics.