How can we explain that wealth is associated with protectionism and support for populist leaders?
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Immigration – Analyses
The right has succeeded in making this a toxic issue. Perhaps the moral option is to take a large step back.
Access to immigration and asylum tribunals is about to get a lot more costly.
Survey findings are typically considered in isolation in the media, with no understanding of context, of what is within and what is beyond the expected.
In the 1960s, Britain shut the door on Commonwealth migration, before turing to Europe when it needed more workers.
The normal rules of political engagement – coherence, consistency, fact, logic, proportion – do not apply to members of the paranoid right like Pauline Hanson.
Public attitudes toward migration are a key driver of political instability and controversy across Europe and North America.
Should Australia stick with its current model of state-controlled refugee resettlement schemes? Or are there other models we can learn from?
In her maiden speech to the Senate, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson said Australia is in danger of being swamped by Muslims. What does the data say?
The US has met its goal for resettling Syrian refugees in 2016, and will aim to take in 110,000 more in 2017. A migration expert examines whether fears of their arrival are well founded.
But it’s not clear what proof of permanent right to reside will mean after Brexit.
How might work permits or visas for EU migrants work?
Calls to amend the Le Touquet treaty between Britain and France are growing louder.
Donald Trump gave a major speech on immigration this week. This roundup looks at some of his ideas for reform and explains what the experts have to say about this complex issue.
A new program seeks to divert Central Americans who are fleeing violence from crossing the U.S. border. An expert on Costa Rica explains why the tiny country was chosen and the challenges they face.
Satire should be a way of keeping the powerful in check, not sneering at the powerless.
While 60-77% of migrants of African origin and 59% of Indigenous Australians report experience of discrimination in the Scanlon Foundation survey of Australian attitudes, optimism endures.
Research shows how locals thrive from adapting to the heritage cultures of their new neighbours.
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.
Successive Australian governments have dehumanised refugees and kept Australians in the dark about what really goes on in the offshore detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island.
The response of the US Knights of Labor to mass immigration, 100 years ago, can help British Labour to resolve its immigration problem today.
Germany’s problems with integrating immigrants date back to before the refugee crisis.
At what point is the movement of people away from their land of origin called a diaspora? A sociologist explores what the term has meant in the past, and why that might soon change.
The first Renaissance struggled with the same doubts and uncertainties and blinding possibilities that we face today. Any gains we make will have to be achieved amid relentless shocks.
Can you visualize any number greater than 100? Migration experts explain why thinking about migrants en masse makes it difficult to address the nuances of each group’s unique challenges.