Hein de Haas

Geert Wilders, the popular leader of the Dutch PVV (Freedom) Party, is well known for his anti-Islam and anti-immigrant viewpoints. Dutch ...

Tomorrow, the Dutch will vote in municipal elections. In Rotterdam, the VVD (People's Party for Freedom and Democracy), the right-wi...

Why do people migrate? This question is both simple and difficult. On the one hand, it seems reasonable to assume that most people migrate ...

While the hundreds of people who died off the coast of Lampedusa are granted post mortem Italian citizenship, public prosecutors are planni...

The disaster of the sinking of a boat on 3 October 2013 off the coast of Lampedusa, which cost the life to hundreds of refugees and migrant...

In my previous  blogpost , I expressed skepticism on the question whether the upcoming High Level Dialogue (HLD) on Migration and Developme...

On 3 and 4 October, the General Assembly of the United Nations will hold the High-Level Dialogue (HLD) on Migration and Development . This ...

Last month, the British government celebrated the news that net migration to the UK has fallen by a third , according to data  released by...

Governments and international organizations often stress how voluntary the return of involuntary migrants is. This begs an important questi...

This week, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) launched an appeal to raise 620,000 euros to " help desperate African mi...