3 myths about immigration in America
Jul 03, 2023 02:47 am UTC| Insights & Views
The U.S. is and long has been a pluralistic society that contains large immigrant communities. Yet migration is an actively debated but poorly understood topic, and much of the conventional thinking and political...
Net migration: how an unreachable target came to shape Britain
May 29, 2023 05:31 am UTC| Insights & Views Life Politics
New data shows that the UK has hit a record high net migration number of 606,000. Through it has been central to 13 years of policy and rhetoric, net migration is, in fact, a pretty odd metric that tells us very little...
May 05, 2023 12:31 pm UTC| Life
Luca* had not been working long as an online food courier when we met him on a cold winters day in a square in the city centre. This was where many food couriers waited for orders to drop into their mobile phones. The...
COVID-19 has hardened Canadian views on immigration
Oct 05, 2020 13:29 pm UTC| Health
With an aging and slow-growing population, Canada depends on immigration for economic and demographic growth. But the COVID-19 pandemic has effectively closed our borders and virtually halted the entry of...
When politicians turn immigration into a 'crisis,' they hurt their own people
Jan 23, 2020 11:00 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
A massive influx of immigrants on the southern border led to record numbers of people entering the country without legal permission, record numbers of migrant deaths and the criminalization of humanitarian workers and...
How migrants and their supporters are reviving the ethos of the 19th-century underground railroad
Dec 22, 2019 14:26 pm UTC| Insights & Views
The story of the 19th-century underground railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses helping enslaved African-Americans to escape, has received renewed interest over recent months. The railroad was run by...
How South Africa has squeezed options for migrants over 25 years
Dec 16, 2019 04:00 am UTC| Insights & Views
There is a widely recognised dissonance between the progressive, inclusive vision of South Africas constitution and xenophobia experienced by foreign nationals across South Africa. It can be tempting to describe this...
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