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While migration has become a political 'hot topic', public debates about migration have often remained remarkably fact-less. T...

Sovereign states have good reasons for controlling their borders. States are political communities with a need to define who is member, an...

The recent news coverage about migration, and particularly the 'refugee crisis', often gives the impression that border crossings b...

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...