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Hein de Haas: How much do we really learn from history?
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Saturday, 16 May 2015. How much do we really learn from history? German Jews Pouring into This Country". This is what the The Daily Mail, a British tabloid newspaper, had to say about German Jews seeking refuge from Nazi brutality in 1938. The article quotes a magistrate stating that "The way stateless Jews from Germany are pouring in from every port of the country is becoming an outrage. I intend to enforce the law to the fullest",. 1938 Daily Mail article. The Nazis initially saw emigration as an impor...
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Hein de Haas: What drives human migration?
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Wednesday, 11 December 2013. What drives human migration? Why do people migrate? This question is both simple and difficult. On the one hand, it seems reasonable to assume that most people migrate hoping to find better conditions or opportunities elsewhere, such as jobs, higher wages, safety or freedom of expression. This is the implicit assumption underlying ‘push-pull’ models taught at secondary school as well as neo-classical. Advert for bus company, Tineghir, southern Morocco - (c) Hein de Haas.
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Hein de Haas: Human Migration: Myths, Hysteria and Facts
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Thursday, 24 July 2014. Human Migration: Myths, Hysteria and Facts. Migration is a hotly debated but poorly understood issue. Much conventional thinking about migration is based on myths rather than facts. Migration policies often fail because they are based on those same myths. It is therefore time that we learn to see migration as an intrinsic and therefore inevitable part of the broader processes of societal change and globalisation instead of a 'problem to be solved'. Project) to prove them wrong.
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Hein de Haas: Development leads to more migration
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Saturday, 28 May 2011. Development leads to more migration. It is often said that the only way to reduce migration to Europe, North America and other wealthy countries is to stimulate development in poor countries. This sounds very logical. But it is a myth. In reality, social and economic development in poor countries leads to more migration. If you don't believe it, please look at this graph:. C) Hein de Haas. This graph (from this recent study. Immigration goes steadily up with the levels of developme...
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Hein de Haas: November 2014
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Wednesday, 5 November 2014. The current attempts by UK politicians to outbid each other in being 'tough' on immigration reminds me of the comment by the well-known migration researcher Douglas Massey and his co-authors that politicians increasingly have turned to symbolic measures to create "an appearance. Besides potentially damaging for social cohesion, there is also evidence that all the muscle flexing on immigration is rather ineffective. A study. By Amber Jane Davis showed that such strategies are l...
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Hein de Haas: Will a 'Brexit' curb immigration?
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Tuesday, 5 May 2015. Will a 'Brexit' curb immigration? Leaders of anti-immigration parties such as Nigel Farage of the UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) and Geert Wilders' of the Dutch Freedom Party have often stated that getting out of the EU is the only way to curb immigration. At first sight, this seems logical. After all, as long as countries stay in the EU, they have to respect the free mobility rights of half a billion EU citizens. The recent increase in immigration to the UK is largely the ...
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Hein de Haas: Visas reduce immigration ... and return!
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Tuesday, 8 April 2014. Visas reduce immigration . and return! The effectiveness of immigration policies is highly contested. While politicians often claim that visas and border controls are necessary to prevent uncontrolled immigration, many researchers argue that immigration restrictions fail to stop migration as they do not affect the fundamental causes of migration, such as income gaps, labour demand in destination countries, conflict, and paradoxically, development. The pertinent question is therefor...
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Hein de Haas: The myth of invasion
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Friday, 1 May 2015. The myth of invasion. Many people believe that migration is at an all-time high and accelerating fast. Images of people crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats and rising political panic about immigration all contribute to the image that migration is rising rapidly and that drastic measures are needed to stem the tide. Some academics sing from the same hymn sheet. For instance, Oxford-based economist Paul Collier. Has recently published a book under the title Exodus. The freque...
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