... believes there is too much international migration

[Cees Binkhorst]

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International Migration - This house believes there is too much
international migration.
Na 4 dagen: 34% voor, 66% tegen

Defending the motion
Demetrios G. Papademetriou is president and co-founder of the Migration
Policy Institute. He is also the convener of the Transatlantic Council on
Migration and its predecessor, the Transatlantic Task Force on Immigration
and Integration (co-convened with the Bertelsmann Stiftung). The council
is composed of senior public figures, business leaders and public
intellectuals in Europe, the United States and Canada. Mr Papademetriou is
also co-founder and international chair emeritus of Metropolis,
International Forum for Research and Policy on Migration and Cities. He is
chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Migration. Mr
Papademetriou has been chair of the Migration Committee of the
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, director for
Immigration Policy and Research at the US Department of Labor, chair of
the Secretary of Labor's Immigration Policy Task Force and executive
editor of the International Migration Review. He has published more than
250 books, articles, monographs and research reports on migration topics
and advises senior government and political party officials in more than
20 countries (including numerous European Union member states while they
hold the rotating EU presidency).

    As both introductory statements recognise, immigration brings enormous
economic benefits. But societies are not the sum of their economic
transactions. Migrants are not widgets that can be moved around in
order to achieve an efficient allocation of resources.


Against the motion
Dr Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah is director of the Royal Commonwealth
Society (RCS), the oldest and largest civil-society organisation devoted
to the Commonwealth. Prior to joining the RCS, he spent five years at the
Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), the UK's leading independent
think-tank, where he was head of migration research and, latterly, deputy
director. He is the author of several books and reports, and his work has
appeared in academic journals such as Contemporary South Asia, Geography,
International Migration, Oxford Development Studies, Third World Quarterly
and World Economics. Mr Sriskandarajah writes regularly in BBC Online, the
Financial Times and The Guardian; has given more than 500 broadcast
interviews (including on flagship current affairs programmes such as BBC
Breakfast, Newsnight, Politics Show, Today, World at One and World
Tonight); and is regularly quoted in UK and international publications
(including The Economist, Newsweek and TIME).

    I have been pleasantly surprised by the sophistication and maturity of
the debate so far. Many other migration debates descend into unhelpful
extremes. But beware the straw men that lurk even in Economist
debates.

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