Hein de Haas

Thursday, 22 May 2025

New Substack blog: How Migration Really Works

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Are you as fed up as I am with the polarization about migration, in which almost all evidence and nuance gets lost?  Then my new Substack bl...
Wednesday, 20 November 2024

The immigration conundrum (in a nutshell)

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Immigration to OECD countries has shown a structurally increasing trend over the past two decades. Apart from occasional refugee influxes, t...
Thursday, 14 March 2024

Politicians need to come clean about immigration

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We seem to be living in times of unprecedented mass migration. Images of people from Africa crammed into unseaworthy boats desperately tryin...
Friday, 7 February 2020

Why development will not stop migration

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Among the many myths perpetuated about migration, one of the most common is that ‘South–North’ migration is essentially driven by poverty ...
Friday, 31 January 2020

Climate refugees: The fabrication of a migration threat

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In recent years, it has become popular to argue that climate change will lead to massive North-South movements of ‘climate refugees’. Conce...
Wednesday, 29 March 2017

Myths of migration: Much of what we think we know is wrong

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The debate over migration is plagued by a variety of inaccuracies and misunderstandings - on both the right and the left. Here is what the ...
Friday, 16 December 2016

There is no 'silver bullet' migration policy

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By Katharina Natter   Intensified border controls and development cooperation have become the pillars of European immigration policy ov...
Friday, 28 October 2016

Migration Matters

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While migration has become a political 'hot topic', public debates about migration have often remained remarkably fact-less. T...
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Hein de Haas
Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Author of HOW MIGRATION REALLY WORKS. Founding member and director of the International Migration Institute (IMI). For more information see heindehaas.org and migrationinstitute.org
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