In case anyone is interested, I shall be appearing on Breakfast on BBC1 tomorrow, 31 December, at 710am talking about immigration. I will be also be appearing on the Simon Mayo show on BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday 4 January at 2pm.
One of the best things the new Democratic Congress could do is pass an immigration bill that tries to address the real issues head-on.
Posted 27 Dec 2006 in Blog, Immigration, United States
When eight ex-communist countries joined the EU in 2004, only Britain, Ireland and Sweden allowed their citizens to come work freely. On 1 January two more are joining: Bulgaria and Romania. But this time, Britain and Ireland have decided to impose restrictions on the new EU citizens’ right to work. Among rich EU countries, only [...]
Posted 27 Dec 2006 in Blog, Britain, Europe, Immigration
Martin Wolf has written a thoughtful column on immigration in today’s FT. He very kindly describes my new book, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them, as "thought-provoking", adding that: Mr Legrain performs an invaluable service: he makes a good case for the unpopular cause of free flows of people. The book is a superb combination of [...]
Posted 22 Dec 2006 in Blog, Immigration
I read so many books last year as part of my research for Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them that I have taken it easy this year, and taken more time to enjoy novels such as Salman Rushdie’s Shalimar The Clown and Haruki Murakami’s The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. Among the non-fiction books I read, five of [...]
I debated the charge that such "sweatshops" are harming
Bangladeshi workers in a debate with John Hilary of War on Want on BBC
Radio 2′s Jeremy Vine show: Listen here
Posted 10 Dec 2006 in Blog, Britain, Globalisation, Media, Trade
