Hein de Haas

The billions spent on the militarisation of border controls over the past years have been a waste of taxpayers' money. As we are able t...

A general sense of panic is dominating media coverage of what has come to know as Europe's 'refugee crisis'. It conveys the ima...

"German Jews Pouring into This Country". This is what the The Daily Mail, a British tabloid newspaper, had to say about German Je...

Of course 'expats' are just emigrants. They only don't like to be called that way. These days, in Western Europe, the term ...

Leaders of anti-immigration parties such as Nigel Farage of the UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) and Geert Wilders' of the Dutc...

Many people believe that migration is at an all-time high and accelerating fast. Images of people crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle ...

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....