Hein de Haas
Thursday 14 March 2024
Politicians need to come clean about immigration
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We seem to be living in times of unprecedented mass migration. Images of people from Africa crammed into unseaworthy boats desperately tryin...
Friday 7 February 2020
Why development will not stop migration
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Among the many myths perpetuated about migration, one of the most common is that ‘South–North’ migration is essentially driven by poverty ...
Friday 31 January 2020
Climate refugees: The fabrication of a migration threat
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In recent years, it has become popular to argue that climate change will lead to massive North-South movements of ‘climate refugees’. Conce...
Wednesday 29 March 2017
Myths of migration: Much of what we think we know is wrong
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The debate over migration is plagued by a variety of inaccuracies and misunderstandings - on both the right and the left. Here is what the ...
Friday 16 December 2016
There is no 'silver bullet' migration policy
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By Katharina Natter Intensified border controls and development cooperation have become the pillars of European immigration policy ov...
Friday 28 October 2016
Migration Matters
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While migration has become a political 'hot topic', public debates about migration have often remained remarkably fact-less. T...
Monday 29 August 2016
The case for border controls
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Sovereign states have good reasons for controlling their borders. States are political communities with a need to define who is member, an...
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