Philippe Legrain

I’m delighted to say that I’ve signed a US book deal with Princeton University Press. I’ve been busy writing a special preface for the US edition of Immigrants, which will be out later this year. I can’t wait.

Roy Williams, a Sydney-based lawyer and writer, has reviewed Immigrants in today’s edition of The Australian.

I am delighted to be off on a book tour of Australia for the next two weeks. As well as doing a large number of press and radio interviews, I shall be speaking at the following events:

Europeans are growing accustomed to TV footage of Africans piled on to rickety boats arriving in the Canary Islands. They may be less aware of the thousands of people who are trying to enter Europe from the east.

Management Today, February 2007. Foreign workers make a huge contribution to the UK economy, bringing skills, creativity, experience and willing hands. We should welcome them

I have received quite a few queries about when my new book will be published in the US. I’m delighted to say that I have just accepted an offer from a US publisher, and provided we can finalise a deal soon, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them should be available for sale in the US this [...]

Tyler Cowen, who writes one of my favourite blogs, Marginal Revolution, has this to say about Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them:  This work is the single best non-technical defense of a liberal immigration policy. What I liked most was how it put U.S. debates in a broader context; most American sources don’t do this. For [...]

I debated whether Europe should open its borders on Radio Netherlands with Manuel Medina Ortega, a Euro-MP for Spain’s Socialist Party, Johannes van der Klaauw, the head of mission for UNHCR in Rabat, Morocco, and Vanessa Mock, RN’s Brussels correspondent. You can listen to it here.