A powerful debunking of myths about global migration, and an indictment of the political dishonesty that generates them.
(…) While migration was once largely a case of Europeans making their way to the New World – and of the old European empires moving indentured workers from one colony to another – today the direction of travel has changed. (…) It’s a shift, De Haas acknowledges, but neither unprecedented nor out of control. (…)
Another, equally important part of De Haas’s argument is that we should stop thinking of migration in terms of costs and benefits. (…) Instead, De Haas suggests, it’s more useful to think of migration as a fact of life.
Quelle: How Migration Really Works by Hein de Haas review – home truths | The Guardian