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...