Philippe Legrain

Thanks to Project Syndicate, my article on why Europe should open its borders to foreign workers has been reprinted in Turkish Weekly, the Japan Times, and the Times of Malta. Please let me know if you see it published anywhere else. Thanks

I’m delighted to be speaking at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas next week. I’m talking at three events on Thursday 5 July and Friday 6 July. For more details, see the schedule. I’m also due to be interviewed on ABC Radio National’s Life Matters show on Thursday 5 at 8:45am Adelaide time, or 9:15am Sydney [...]

This morning I spoke at a conference for economics teachers organised by tutor2u, which provides a very useful online resource for economics teachers and students. They have also published an article by me in the latest issue of their magazine, Latte. It was a great conference, with Stephen King of HSBC providing a really enlightening [...]

On Saturday I gave the keynote address at ICORN‘s general assembly in Norwich. The International Cities of Refuge Network is an association of cities and regions around the world dedicated to protecting freedom of speech. ICORN cities provide persecuted writers with a temporary home, a safe place to live and work, a refuge for creativity. [...]

Reliable statistics about migration are hard to come by; internationally comparable ones even more so. By far the best source of comparative statistics on the subject is the OECD’s International Migration Outlook, which was a vital research tool for my book. The new edition is published today and is an invaluable reference book.

Spain is leading the way for a humane and common-sense approach to immigration. In 2005, the government allowed illegal immigrants to regularise their status, giving them the right to work legally.

World trade talks collapse in acrimony, says the FT. Global trade talks founder, says the WSJ. Latest world trade talks collapse, says the BBC.

For those of you who can read Magyar, Hungarian business daily Vilaggzdasag have published an article of mine through Project Syndicate on why Europe should open its borders. The PDF is here

It is a measure of how low expectations have sunk that France’s Socialist Party (PS) is celebrating after winning scarcely more than a third of the seats in the country’s newly elected National Assembly. Pollsters had been forecasting electoral oblivion; instead, the PS merely received a drubbing at the hands of President Sarkozy’s victorious UMP.

When he is not laying claim to the mantle of Blair’s heir, David Cameron likes to claim he is a "liberal conservative". Unfortunately, most Conservative MPs are far from liberal, according to a Populus poll in today’s Times.

Immigrants from Mali with fake residence permits have been discovered working at one of President Sarkozy’s official residences.

has positively reviewed Immigrants. Thanks

Europe’s World, June 2007. Efforts to tighten immigration controls and even bring
them into line across Europe are short-sighted and
unworkable. The EU’s growing hunger for even unskilled labour means they are also economically flawed

It is common knowledge that Google was co-founded by Sergey Brin, who arrived in the US as a refugee from the Soviet Union aged six. Perhaps less well-known is how important a contribution other immigrants have made to the iconic company of the internet age.

As a French frigate returned the bodies of 18 drowned African migrants it had fished out of the sea near Malta, France’s new immigration minister, Brice Hortefeux, was full of fury.

I’m incredibly delighted and proud to say that I’m going to become a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics’ European Institute as of 1 September. It is a leading international centre dedicated to studying Europe and its place in the world, an aim that intersects well with my work on globalisation and migration. [...]

For those of you who understand Norwegian, Immigrants has been reviewed, positively I’m told, on Civita’s website.

With the US immigration debate heating up as the Senate debates an ambitious immigration reform bill, Princeton University Press have brought forward the publication of Immigrants in the US to 21 June. :)