Philippe Legrain

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The New York Times reports that: about 226,000 fewer people emigrated from Mexico to other countries during the year that ended in August 2008 than during the previous year, a decline of 25 percent. All but a very small fraction of emigration, both legal and illegal, from Mexico is to the United States. Opponents of [...]

There is an interesting article in The Times about Brits who had been living in Spain returning home because of the economic crisis. Tellingly, though, they are referred to as "expats" throughout. It seems that British people abroad aren't migrants, or worse still immigrants. That's a term we reserve for nasty foreigners.

I'm in New Zealand for 2 weeks speaking about the economic benefits of diversity at a series of events in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch. NZ is small country that will always be geographically remote, but it is intimately connected to the rest of the world through its wonderfully diverse people. Their diversity is an often [...]

Christopher Caldwell is an intelligent and educated man. His columns for the FT are often perceptive and original. But his views on immigration in Europe, presented in his new book, "Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West", are paranoid and delusional. Caldwell's book is a cocktail of projected fears: Europe is [...]