We’ve got lots of links this week to get you through the weekend! (See here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.
- FWD.us Gives First Clues To Its Impact On Immigration So Far by Josh Constine, TechCrunch, September 18, 2013.
- Illegal Immigrants Chain Themselves to White House Fence by Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times, September 18, 2013.
- What Do We Know About Skilled Migration and Development? by Michael Clemens, Migration Policy Institute policy brief, September 2013.
- Mass immigration is testing our tolerance by Allison Pearson, September 4, 2013.
- Anti-Immigrant Politics and Lessons for the GOP from California by Matt A. Barreto & Ricardo Ramirez, September 20, 2013.
- ‘Scuse Me While I Solve This Immigration Problem by Jon Evans, TechCrunch, September 21, 2013.
- UK.gov’s e-Borders zombie still lurks under the English Channel by SA Mathieson, The Register, September 24, 2013.
- Three Funerals and a Wedding: Resetting the way we work on migration, by Manjula Luthria, Voices and Views: Middle East and North Africa (World Bank blog), September 12, 2013.
- The US promised a visa to my Afghan interpreter. Now it’s been revoked by Matt Zeller, The Guardian, September 26, 2013. The story was also covered by George Packer in his online blog for The New Yorker with the title Has America Abandoned an Afghan Interpreter? on September 26, 2013.
- Book review of “Year Zero: A History of 1945” (author: Ian Buruma) by Brooke Allen, Barnes and Noble Reviews, September 25, 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.
- In Defence of Open Borders by Neil Lock, Libertarian Alliance, August 1, 2013.
- Galton’s Demented Idea by Bryan Caplan, EconLog, September 16, 2013.
- Criticism is long overdue for immigration policies by Ruben Navarette, Jr., Houston Chronicle, September 13, 2013.
- Book review of The Immigrant War by Alex Nowrasteh for Cato Journal, Fall 2013.
- Migration and Constitutional Change by David Bell, Allan Findlay and David McCollum, The Economics of Constitutional Change, September 12, 2013.
- Broken Borders by Benjamin Powell and Zachary Gochenour, a policy report for the Independent Institute, September 16, 2013.
- Sorry, President Putin, But Data Shows America Actually Is Exceptional by Adam Ozimek, Modeled Behavior, Forbes, September 12, 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.
- Open Borders is a Moderate Position by Bryan Caplan, EconLog, September 3, 2013.
- The Changing Mood on Migration by Peter Sutherland, Project Syndicate, September 3, 2013.
- Bargaining Power and Immigration: The He-Man Conjecture by Sam Wilson, Euvoluntary Exchange, September 2, 2013.
- Sweden offers residency to all Syrian refugees in The Local, September 3, 2013.
- Coase and Immigration by Alex Nowrasteh, Forbes, September 4, 2013.
- The Syria Policy We Can And Should All Get Behind by Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, Forbes Magazine, September 5, 2013.
- What You Don’t Know About Immigration Can Hurt You by Art Carden, Forbes Magazine, September 6, 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.
- Immigrant Children Are A Positive Influence In The Classroom, Study Finds by Tom Moseley, Huffington Post, August 27, 2013.
- Unskilled Immigration To Denmark Increased Wages For Low-Skilled Danish People by Matthew Yglesias, Slate Magazine, August 29, 2013.
- The High Price of Immigration by Paul Collier, Bloomberg, August 28, 2013. Related: Collier has a book on migration due out on October 1, 2013.
- Canada’s Immigrant Selection Policies: Recent Record, Marginal Changes, and Needed Reforms, a report by Herbert Grubel, August 2013, for the Fraser Institute.
- What Denmark doesn’t tell us about low-skill immigration by John Carney, August 30, 2013, for CNBC.
- YouTube video of Henryk Kowalczyk’s presentation related to immigration on August 24, 2013. Related text was published on the Yahoo! website.
- International migration policies and data, a detailed report prepared by the OECD on migration and its impact, including the fiscal impact on receiving countries.
- Do Immigrants Fill Public Coffers, or Drain Them? We Finally Have an Authoritative Estimate by Michael Clemens on the Center for Global Development blog, August 26, 2013. The blog post links to and discusses some aspects of the OECD study linked above.
- Israel’s Uganda Plan by Yael Even Or at Africa Is A Country, September 1, 2013.
- Why the Conventional View of Immigration Is Wrong by Daniel Kuehn, EconLib featured article, September 2, 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.
- I Demand to be Executed. An Open Letter to the DHS. by Mike Burrows, Posterboy for Immigration Persecution, January 4, 2011.
- Migration: a personal problem or a universal good? by Tom Donaldson, Prospect Magazine, August 23, 2013.
- Immigration, diversity, and economic prosperity by Alberto Alesina, Johann Harnoss, Hillel Rapoport, August 22, 2013. This is a summary of a NBER working paper by the same authors.
- Diversifying Growth by Jonathan M.F. Catalán, Economic Thought, August 23, 2013, discussing the paper above.
- The Smuggler’s Prey by Eric Ellis and Paula Bronstein, The Global Mail.
- From Unassimilable to Exceptional by Jennifer Lee, The Society Pages, August 27, 2013.
- Stop this traffic in immigrant bashing: An assault on immigrants is being dressed up in the language of anti-trafficking. by Luke Gittos, Spiked Online, August 28, 2013.
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