The claim that workers are simply moving to white-collar sectors obscures structural barriers to labour mobility, including racism and discrimination.
The platform of the People’s Party of Canada gets a lot of things factually wrong about the economic impact of immigration.
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Many politicians in the West – from backers of Brexit to Donald Trump – have convinced voters that immigrants are hurting their economies. The evidence suggests otherwise.
Will adding a few feet help deter someone seeking a better life?
Reuters
Donald Trump and Carly Fiorina boast that their business experience would make them excellent presidents, yet their immigration policies fall short of the lessons from Business 101.
Katy Long, School of Advanced Study, University of London
We know they are there, beyond our borders. The huddled masses; the wretched of the earth; the refugees. We would just prefer not to see them. And when events force us to look – when ghost ships float…
Data, like fruit, can be selectively picked.
Joe Giddens/PA Wire
Two studies about the impact of migration on the UK economy have been published which – if media reports are to believed – appear to contradict one another. A closer reading of these reports, however…
I don’t want to be a care worker when I grow up.
DFID - UK Department for International Development
Zimbabwean migrants to Britain are often referred to by those at home as being the BBC – British bottom cleaners – fit only for the most menial roles in the former colonial “mother country”. But our research…
Professor of International Education and Development, Faculty of Social Sciences and Academic Champion, Integrating Global Societies Research Priority Area, University of Nottingham