Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.
- Ailing Midwestern Cities Extend a Welcoming Hand to Immigrants, by Julia Preston, The New York Times, October 6, 2013.
- Migration and Morality (a review of Exodus, by Paul Collier), by Kenan Malik, Pandaemonium, October 5, 2013.
- The labor market effects of immigration and emigration from OECD countries, by Tyler Cowen, Marginal Revolution, October 7, 2013. See responses from the Open Borders blog:
- In response to Tyler Cowen, by Nathan Smith, Open Borders, October 7, 2013.
- Contra Tyler Cowen, closed borders should scare people, by John Lee, Open Borders, October 10, 2013.
- Pinay traumatized by horror trip to the US, ABS-CBNnews.com, October 7, 2013.
- When Is Abolitionism Justified? by Bryan Caplan, EconLog, October 8, 2013.
- Italian Shipwreck Survivors to be Prosecuted and Fined, by Barbie Latza Nadeau, The Daily Beast, October 7, 2013.
- Are Open Borders Advocates Doing the World a Disservice?, by Matthew Yglesias, Moneybox, October 8, 2013.
- Migrant boat capsizes off Lampedusa, rescue underway, BBC News, October 11, 2013. (This is a separate event from the shipwreck reported earlier this week)