The problem with auctioning immigration places is that it puts the focus on short-term revenue-raising, rather than immigration’s more important medium- to long-term nation-building role.
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The migration of early Africans into the Middle East, then across the Mediterranean into Europe and Asia – and eventually into the Americas and Australia and the Pacific Islands – is the origin of today’s humanity.
Ipsos Mori are asking thousands about their views on this polarising topic.
German philosopher Jurgen Habermas once famously pronounced the European Union a force for good: A model for what he described as a “cosmopolitan world order.” The Nobel committee agreed and in 2012 awarded…
The death of a New Zealand citizen who returned to Iraq has led some to query his status as a refugee. We need to be clear about what it means to be granted asylum and the rights of citizenship.
It’s absurd that Europe continues to blame migrants seeking a better life for their own fate.
The proposed response to the Mediterranean migrant crisis could well do more harm than good.
Our immigration expert evaluates the manifestos of 16 political parties, to see how their policies on immigration stack up.
While the SNP’s manifesto is rather thin on immigration pledges, it does make a proposal to attract more international students – a group Scotland needs badly.
Smaller party leaders could push for a more generous approach if called upon to support a Labour government.
Our experts review the evidence behind the Green Party’s big ticket policies.
The Greens offer a fresh outlook on immigration in the UK, but their manifesto contains shades of uncertainty.
UKIP’s immigration policies should have cleared away any ambiguity about what the party wants. Instead, they’ve added to it.
Our expert shows that public opinion may not be the best guide for effective policy.
As part of an anti-extremism strategy, the home secretary says funds for translation services will be cut, but more put into English lessons.
Hard hitting questions were promised but Channel 4 show ended up missing the mark.
Linking population growth with productivity and labour participation is problematic, just one of many questionable assumptions made in the Intergenerational Report.
A points-based system won’t drive wages up, as Nigel Farage claims.
It’s all too easy to take Britain’s immigration stats out of context. They reflect the fact that the economy’s doing well.
Farage’s policy launch was suspiciously light on actual immigration policy – and that’ll suit UKIP voters just fine.
Top contributors
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Lancaster University
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Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Social Economics, UTS Business School, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Law and Government, Durham University, Durham University
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Emeritus professor, Monash University
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Professor, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Equity Studies, York University, Canada
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Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, University of California, Davis
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Professor in the Department of Economics, UCL
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Adjunct professor, University of Adelaide
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Research associate, Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor, School of Law, Murdoch University
