Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.
- A Kinder, Gentler Immigration Policy, by Jagdish Bhagwati and Francisco Rivera-Batiz, Foreign Affairs, November 2013.
- What gives us a right to deport people?, Interview of Joseph Carens by Dylan Matthews, Washington Post Wonkblog, November 29, 2013.
- More on Joseph Carens on this site here.
- Migration Hurts the Homeland, by Paul Collier, New York Times, November 29, 2013.
- OpenBorders.info has covered Paul Collier recently and continues to cover his virtual book tour in our link roundups.
- Climate Change Will Force Pacific Islanders to Flee. Should the US Be Forced to Take Them In?, by Nora Caplan-Bricker, The New Republic, December 2, 2013.
- Tangentially related to this post by Paul Crider on disappearing nations.
- Immigration Detention in America: Civil Offense, Criminal Detention, by Luz C. González Fernández, Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy, December 3, 2013.
- Migration as Structural Transformation, by Shanta Devarajan, Future Development (World Bank blogs), December 3, 2013.
- The comments on this post also warrant reading.
- Collier, Refugees, and the Point of No Return, by Katy Long, Footsteps to Freedom, December 4, 2013.
- Migration and Human Rights: Arguments Against Immigration, and How They Are Mistaken, by Filip Spagnoli, P.a.p. Blog//Human Rights Etc., December 6,2013.
- Britain urges EU to change free migration rules, BBC News, December 5, 2013
Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.
- What Happened to Immigration Reform? A powerful, well-organized coalition did everything it could, with no results. Now advocates are preparing to shift from lobbying to revenge by Molly Ball in The Atlantic, November 22, 2013.
- EvulCapitalist: The 24 Types of Open Borders Enthusiasts on the Paleo Paleo blog (an attempt by a restrictionist to identify the possible motives people might have for supporting open borders).
- Botswana kicks out more illegal Zimbabwe immigrants, by Kitsepile Nyathi, Africa Review, November 25, 2013.
- My experience as a nurse on Christmas Island changed the core of my being, by Emma Hunter (pseudonym), The Guardian: Comment is Free, November 20, 2013.
- Israel adopts new measures against African migrants, HTC News, November 24, 2013.
Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.
- Little-Known Immigration Mandate Keeps Detention Beds Full, by Ted Robbins, NPR Morning Edition, November 19, 2013.
- Illegal Immigrants Divided Over the Importance of Citizenship, by Julia Preston, The New York Times, November 20, 2013.
- Go home, but who will replace you?, The Economist, November 16, 2013.
- The Impossible Refugee Boat Lift to Christmas Island, by Luke Mogelson, The New York Times, November 15, 2013.
- Why are we building new walls to divide us?, by Mark Rice-Oxley and others, The Guardian, November 19, 2013.
- Latin Migrants Shift Sights from U.S. to Neighbors, by Miriam Jordan, The Wall Street Journal, November 18, 2013.
- Will the 2 Millionth Immigrant Deported by Obama Please Kick Him in the Ass?, by Nick Gillespie, Reason, November 19, 2013.
- The Curious Tale of Victor Vinnetou, by Melissa Levin and Andrea Meeson, Africa is a Country, November 15, 2013.
- Immigration Policy and Economic Performances in France, by Hippolyte d’Albis, Munich Personal RePEc Archive, October 18, 2013.
- Migration myths debunked, IRIN, November 21, 2013.
- E-Verify Turns Work Into a Privilege, and Empowers the Surveillance State, by Cathy Reisenwitz, Reason.com, November 17, 2013.
- How to have a sensible conversation about immigration, by Paul Collier, The New Statesman, November 21, 2013.
- See also the Open Borders coverage of Paul Collier’s book Exodus here, here, and here.
Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.
- Thoughts on Immigration by Shanu Athiparambath, November 9, 2013, on his own blog.
- Open Borders, American Elites, and the Minimum Wage by Ron Unz, November 11, 2013, on his own blog.
- The Problem With Libertarians on Le Cygne Gris, November 9, 2013.
- Why The Open Borders Movement Is Illogical on Le Cygne Gris, September 2, 2013.
- Twelve ‘Syrian’ migrants die off Greek coast, BBC News, November 15, 2013.
- What price justice with the immigration laws?, by Kevin McKenna, The Guardian, November 2, 2013.
- A measure of ‘loyalty’, by Rafia Zakaria, Dawn.com, November 13, 2013.
- Migration policy must be based on more than just numbers, by Alex Glennie, British Influence, November 8, 2013.
- Saudis round up 28,000 migrants in three days: Ethiopian man killed ‘resisting arrest’, by Brian Whitaker, al-bab.com, November 7, 2013.
- Lampedusa boat tragedy: Migrants ‘raped and tortured’, BBC News, November 8, 2013.
- Recent Immigration to the UK: New Evidence of the Fiscal Costs and Benefits, Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration at University College London, November 5, 2013.
- Post-mortem on migration debate, by Ben Southwood, The Adam Smith Institute, November 13, 2013.
- Horn migrants risk new routes to reach Europe, by Kristy Siegfried, IRIN Global, November 11, 2013.
- Saudi police in Riyadh clash with migrant workers, BBC News, November 10, 2013.
- Singapore’s Exploited Migrant Workers, by Kirsten Han, The Daily Beast, November 8, 2013.
- The Premier Research Conference on the Economics of Migration and Development: A Call for Papers, by Michael Clemens, Center for Global Development, November 14, 2013.
Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.
- A Long-run Perspective on Strategic Cause Selection and Philanthropy, by Nick Beckstead and Carl Shulman, Effective-Altruism.com, November 5, 2013.
- Debate Analysis: Unz, Wadhwa, and Me, by Bryan Caplan, Econlog, November 1, 2013.
- Vivek Wadhwa Responds, by Bryan Caplan/Vivek Wadhwa, Econlog, November 4, 2013.
- How Many More Deaths? The Moral Case for a Temporary Workers Program (pdf), by Stuart Anderson, National Foundation for American Policy, March 2013.
- Is immigration really a blessing or a curse?, by James Kirkup, The Telegraph, November 5, 2013.
- The Life of an Undocumented South Asian Immigrant by Piyali Bhattacharya, The New York Times, November 1, 2013.
- Global Income Inequality by the Numbers: in History and Now, by Branko Milanovic, The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University, February 22, 2013. See also:
- Farm Confessional: I’m an Undocumented Farm Worker, by Lauren Smiley, Modern Farmer, November 6, 2013.
- 75 Years Later: How the World Shrugged Off Kristallnacht, by Klaus Wiegrefe, Der Spiegel, November 5, 2013.
- The labour market integration of resettled refugees (pdf), by Eleonor Ott, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, November 2013.
- An iPhone Tester Caught in Apple’s Supply Chain, by Cam Simpson, Businessweek, November 7, 2013.
- ‘Turkified’: Why I Can Never Be a Proper German, by Özlem Gezer, Der Spiegel, November 7, 2013.
- How Government Intervention Stifles Immigrants in Europe, by Matthew Feeney, Reason, November 6, 2013.
- Multicultural Germany: How We Experience Racism, Der Spiegel, September 19, 2013.
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