Category: Immigration
We Shall Overcome
“Successful migrants must overcome cultural, economic, legal and social barriers and they do.” Simon Burrow... Read More
Who Benefits from Immigration?
“In Britain chicken tikka has become the most popular national dish.” Immigrants are not invaders they add to the culture in many ways. Food is just one of them. The flower photo is from Kew G... Read More
Cleaners Wanted
“Vacancies for cleaning jobs coexist with unemployment in every rich country.” From Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them by Philippe Legrain A rare photo of me with a Hohokam petroglyph fro... Read More
A Better Life
No matter what President Trump says, immigrants are not an invading army: they are coming in search of a better life. Adapted from Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them by Philippe Legrain A field of Da... Read More
Global Economic Justice
Freer international migration, like freer trade, will lead to a more just world. Adapted from Immigrants Your Country Needs Them by Philippe Legrain In the winter from the “senior summit” ... Read More
Real Courage
Immigrants are generally hard working and enterprising. Every immigrant is also an emigrant who had the courage to uproot him or herself and move to a foreign land. Adapted from Immigrants Your Countr... Read More
Toleration
“Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.” Helen Keller Toleration of the stranger is difficult. But it has to be one of the cornerstones of a humane immigration policy. Photo is courtesy ... Read More
