This is part of a series of weekly posts with the most interesting content from the Open Borders Action Group on Facebook. Do join the group to weigh in on existing discussions or start your own (you might want to read this post before joining).
General points related to migration and people’s opinion about migration
- Post by Vipul Naik, September 15, 2014, linking to a video on Facebook by Mike Stroud advocating open borders. 1 like, 2 comments.
- Post by Carl Shulman, September 15, 2014, linking to Barro et al.’s new dataset of educational attainment around the world, and discussing the implications for how migration might affect worldwide educational attainment. 4 likes, 3 comments.
- Post by Carl Shulman, September 15, 2014, linking to and discussing Does Selective Migration Matter? Explaining Ethnic Disparities in Educational Attainment among Immigrants’ Children by Cynthia Feliciano. 2 likes, 11 comments.
- Post by Nathan Smith, September 15, 2014, linking to his Open Borders blog post, Equality of Opportunity, September 15, 2014. 2 likes, 17 comments.
- Post by Grieve Chelwa, September 16, 2014, linking to Open borders for land too? by Nick Rowe, Worthwhile Canadian Initiative, September 16, 2014. 1 like, 2 comments.
- Post by Grieve Chelwa, September 17, 2014, linking to Eradicating statelessness? The United Nations says the plight of millions of stateless people around the world should be addressed, Al Jazeera, September 16, 2014. 3 likes, 1 comment.
- Post by Vipul Naik, Septembe 18, 2014, linking to How to Make the World’s Poor $500 Billion Richer by Bjorn Lomborg, Time Magazine, September 17, 2014. 7 likes, 10 comments.
- Post by Tiago Santos, September 19, 2014, linking to The case for open borders by John Cochrane, September 19, 2014, on his own blog. 7 likes, 1 comment.
- Post by Fabio Rojas, September 18, 2014, linking to A Universally Derided Idea Whose Time Has Come by Andrew Sullivan, September 18, 2014. 9 likes, 1 comment.
- Post by Vipul Naik, September 19, 2014, linking to Ingraham to Zuckerberg: Time for Open Borders at Your Mansion, Breitbart.com, September 15, 2014. 1 like, 10 comments.
Specific current and historical situations
- Post by Vipul Naik, September 16, 2014, linking to Illegal Immigration Reform, Internet Scam Busters, September 12, 2014. 1 comment.
- Post by Ryan P. Long, September 16, 2014, linking to How the United States H4 Visa Traps Foreign Workers’ Family Members in a ‘Golden Cage’ by Tejasvini Prasad, Global Voices Online, September 12, 2014. 4 likes.
- Post by Carl Shulman, September 19, 2014, linking to Housing, Productivity, and Nerds, the Growth Economics Blog, August 26, 2014. 1 like, 5 comments.
Meta
- Post by Fabio Rojas with a draft op-ed he wrote to promote open borders. 7 likes, 9 comments.
- Post by Nathan Smith, September 19, 2014, linking to an Economics Detective Radio podcast with Garret Peterson on open borders. 3 likes.
- Post by Oliver Beatson, September 19, 2014, of a song he remembered that reminded him of open borders. 1 comment.