Here’s our weekly installment of links from around the web (see here for all link roundups). As usual, linking does not imply endorsement.

• Conversation with Howard Adelman, academic and activist on issues related to refugees in Canada. Other participants in the conversation were Carl Shulman and Nick Beckstead. The conversation is listed on Nick Beckstead’s conversations page.
• No, Immigrants Won’t Make Welfare State Bigger by Alex Nowrasteh and Zachary Gochenour, Investors Business Daily, February 14, 2014. It is based on their Cato Working Paper The Political Externalities of Immigration: Evidence from the United States (released January 15, 2014). See also Ilya Somin‘s post Increased immigration is unlikely to increase the size of the welfare state, February 18, 2014, Volokh Conspiracy, The Washington Post.
• Leviathan on the Border by Shikha Dalmia, Reason, February 11. 2014.
• ‘Pro-Freedom’ Parties That Aren’t on Immigration by Matthew Feeney, Reason, February 13, 2014.
• A Bad Argument Against Immigration by Fernando Teson, Bleeding Heart Libertarians, February 15, 2014.
• Remittances and vulnerability in developing countries: Results from a new dataset on remittances from Italy by Giulia Bettin, Andrea F Presbitero, and Nikola Spatafora, VoxEU, February 10, 2014.
• Votum „Gegen Masseneinwanderung“: Eine ungute Gemengelage [The Vote “Against Mass Immigration”: An uneasy hodgepodge – in German] by Sabine Beppler-Spahl, Novo Argumente, February 2014.
• Ausländer in der Schweiz sind wütend und verunsichert [Foreigners in Switzerland are angry and alienated – in German] by Simone Schmid, Tagesanzeiger, February 12, 2014.
• Einwanderung: Grenzenloser Lebensstandard [Immigration: Living Standards Without Borders/Limits – in German] by Alexander Fink, Novo Argumente, February 2014.
• The whole point of detention for asylum seekers is horror, whether it is acknowledged or not by Waleed Aly, The Age (Australia), February 21, 2014.