The claim that workers are simply moving to white-collar sectors obscures structural barriers to labour mobility, including racism and discrimination.
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The populist policies of Maxime Bernier’s People’s Party of Canada show a fundamental misunderstanding of how immigration has helped Canada’s economy.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
The introduction of the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Slavery, Slavery-like Conditions and People Trafficking) Act carries…
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Research Fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Assistant Professor of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Visiting Scholar, Stanford University and Teaching Fellow, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Professor of International Education and Development, Faculty of Social Sciences and Academic Champion, Integrating Global Societies Research Priority Area, University of Nottingham
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Associate Professor and Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in the Practice of Finance, Emory University
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Lecturer in Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Nottingham
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Professor of Economics, University of Calgary
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Researcher, CERC Migration Program, Toronto Metropolitan University
