Hein de Haas

In recent months, a record number of refugees and migrants have drowned in their attempts to cross the Mediterranean Sea. According to rece...

In my previous blogpost, I argued that politicians are often busy with feigning immigration control  while in reality they often can or wan...

The current attempts by UK politicians to outbid each other in being 'tough' on immigration reminds me of the comment by the well-k...

Migration is a hotly debated but poorly understood issue. Much conventional thinking about migration is based on myths rather than facts....

The effectiveness of immigration policies is highly contested. While politicians often claim that visas and border controls are necessary t...

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...