Migration Matters

Part four of our course Migration 101: Many fear that climate change will bring much of the world's poor to the shores of Europe. But is this based in evidence? Not exactly, says Hein de Haas, one of the world’s leading migration scholars.

Part three of our course Migration 101: We often think that poverty is the main driver of migration, but it’s not that simple, says migration scholar Hein de Haas.

Part two of our course Migration 101: Is Europe being overrun by migrants? Leading scholar Hein de Haas gives us his answer.

Part four of our course Six Impossible Ideas (after Brexit): In our political and media narratives, we often operate with binary notions: secure or insecure borders, legal or illegal immigration. Ruben Andersson, an anthropologist at Oxford University who researches undocumented migration from West Africa to Southern Europe, challenges this way of thinking.

Part three of our course Six Impossible Ideas (after Brexit): Taking back control, Make America great again, Au nom du peuple. All these slogans promise citizens the ease and comfort of regaining control of their countries from migrants and outsiders, but do they deliver this in practice, challenges Chandran Kukathas of the London School of Economics.

Migration Matters was founded in January 2016 to address the public’s biggest conundrums and fears surrounding migration and the so-called refugee crisis. Our mission is ambitious but simple: to approach the migration debate as an open and evidence-based conversation, where no concern is ridiculed and no question dismissed.