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Category Archives: citizenship
Migration and Human Rights (40): The Economic Efficiency Argument for Open Borders
(source) Immigration restrictions are often defended on the basis of economic arguments. I’ve repeated often enough why these arguments won’t work (see here, here, here and here for example). What I want to do now is spell out one of … Continue reading
Posted in citizenship, economics, globalization, international relations, trade, work
Tagged anti-immigration, comparative advantage, economic efficiency, economy, free trade, freedom of movement, immigration, immigration restrictions, open borders, specialization, trade liberalization, United States
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Human Rights Maps (164): Largest Chinese and Indian Immigrant Communities
More than 60 million Chinese and more than 20 million Indians live abroad. If all of the world’s migrants from all nationalities would form a separate nation, it would be the world’s fifth-largest. (source) Another version, only for China: (interactive … Continue reading
Posted in citizenship, data, human rights maps, international relations, work
Tagged china, diaspora, human rights, immigration, india, map
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Human Rights Maps (162): Apprehensions of Illegal Immigrants at the US-Mexico Border
A combination of better law enforcement and an economic recession has resulted in a steep decline of illegal immigration from Mexico to the US. One way to measure illegal immigration is to extrapolate on the basis of the number of … Continue reading
Posted in citizenship, data, human rights maps, international relations
Tagged border apprehensions, human rights, illegal immigration, immigration, maps, mexico, open borders, recession, u.s.
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Human Rights Maps (144): The “Criminal Immigrant” Stereotype
I’ve argued many times before that the link between immigration and crime is a particularly nasty piece of political cynicism and populism, completely fact-free but unfortunately not devoid of harmful consequences. Three different groups suffer these consequences: potential migrants who … Continue reading
Posted in citizenship, data, globalization, human rights maps, international relations, law, poverty, work
Tagged anti-immigration, crime, criminal immigrant, illegal immigration, immigration, map, maps, mexico, stereotype, United States, violence
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Measuring Human Rights (14): Numbers of Illegal Immigrants
Calculating a reliable number for a segment of the population that generally wants to hide from officials is very difficult, but it’s politically very important to know more or less how many illegal immigrants there are, and whether their number is increasing or … Continue reading
Posted in citizenship, data, international relations, law, measuring human rights, statistics, work
Tagged anchor babies, anti-immigration, border security, census, crime, criminal immigrant, freedom of movement, human rights, illegal immigration, illegal migrants, immigration, immigration restrictions, measurement, measurement problems, migration, open borders, recession, remittances
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