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              Global migration

              • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
                Europe Express
                Asylum ruling against Greece exposes Europe’s migrants dilemma Premium content

                Curbing irregular arrivals is a political priority but legal and humanitarian questions cannot be brushed aside

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                A Spanish police officer and Frontex officer receive migrants arriving in the Lanzarote port of Arrecife this week. A baby boy was born on a small, crowded boat carrying 60 people on the deadly Atlantic migration route from Africa to the Canary Islands
              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                Social affairs
                Liberal Americans consider moving to UK after Trump win, lawyers say

                Advisers cite rise in US citizens weighing up emigration amid fears over introduction of socially conservative policies

                People queueing to get their passports checked by officials
              • Friday, 10 January, 2025
                News in-depthItalian economy
                Italy’s luxury wineries rely on illegal migrant workers

                Barolo, Barbaresco and other high-end wines made in Langhe region grapple with dependence on undocumented labourers

                The small town of Barolo nestled amongst vineyards in the Langhe region of Piedmont
              • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
                Poland
                Poland rethinks offer to repatriate relatives of Soviet era deportees

                Programme offering exiled Poles and their descendants residency is under review amid immigration security fears

                Maciej Duszczyk, undersecretary of state at the Ministry of the Interior and Administration
              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                FT Swamp Notes
                The battle for working people Premium content

                Laura Loomer makes an important point about supporting American workers in the face of global competition

                Maga influencer Laura Loomer
              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                Rana Foroohar
                Maga vs the billionaires

                Trump’s fragile coalition is already splintering over immigration

                Illsutration of a city skyline in front of which two faces in profile stare at each other. One is wearing a blue cap and the other a red Maga one. On each cap is a miniature person, one wearing red, the other blue, arguing with each other
              • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
                US politics & policy
                Trump uses New Orleans attack to push security and border agenda

                President-elect blames US military veteran’s alleged terror act on Biden’s immigration policy

                A member of the FBI’s evidence response team takes photographs at the site of the attack on Bourbon Street in New Orleans on January 1 2025
              • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
                US economy
                The coming American labour market shock

                Ignore the Fed’s flip-flop and focus on labour dynamics

              • Thursday, 2 January, 2025
                UK immigration
                UK to target people smugglers with travel bans and social media curbs

                Announcement comes after data shows small-boat crossings rose 25% in 2024

                A group thought to be migrants arrive in Dover on a Border Force vessel
              • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
                Bahram Salavati
                Iran’s brain drain is happening at an alarming rate

                The country’s loss of human capital underscores systemic problems

                Young Iranian men and women walking together in Tehran
              • Tuesday, 31 December, 2024
                UK immigration
                Cabinet warned Blair against free movement of new EU citizens from Poland

                Concern expressed by John Prescott and Jack Straw in 2004 over possible migration wave later borne out in Brexit vote

                Jack Straw, John Prescott and Tony Blair
              • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
                US politics & policy
                Musk’s fight with Maga reveals split on immigration within Trump’s circle

                President-elect’s new allies in Silicon Valley suffer backlash over foreign workers from his core supporters

                Elon Musk
              • Friday, 27 December, 2024
                UK immigration
                Small-boat crossings to UK rise by fifth but remain below European peers

                Starmer has vowed to crack down on criminal gangs bringing migrants across English Channel

                Migrants board a smuggler’s inflatable dinghy in an attempt to cross the English Channel
              • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
                OutlookPatti Waldmeir
                The migrants who face becoming political pawns again

                Many of those bussed in by the Texas governor have been absorbed by Chicago but could now have their lives upturned again

                Venezuelan migrants as they wait for a ride-share at the 1st District police station in Chicago
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                EU immigration
                Italy’s deputy PM Salvini cleared over 2019 stand-off with migrant ship

                Verdict is a rare victory for Giorgia Meloni’s government amid tension with judiciary over curbing migration

                Italy’s deputy premier Matteo Salvini arriving at the bunker courtroom of Pagliarelli prison in Palermo, Sicily, ahead of the court ruling
              • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
                UK immigration
                Skilled migrants contribute more to public finances than working Britons, report finds

                Migration Advisory Committee figures highlight trade-offs of tighter UK immigration policy

                People waiting in a queue to enter the UK at passport control at Heathrow airport
              • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
                The Economics Show podcast30 min listen
                Martin Wolf interviews Lant Pritchett: Is mass immigration inevitable?

                The renowned development economist on why migration is essential

              • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
                EU immigration
                EU nears migration deals with Jordan and Morocco

                Brussels pursues more economic partnerships in return for tougher border control after pacts with Egypt and Tunisia stall

                Jordan’s King Abdullah receiving European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in Amman
              • Monday, 16 December, 2024
                Inside Politics
                Why numeric migration caps fail

                Previous Tory governments kept breaking promises and eroding trust — would setting a range of targets be any better?

                Keir Starmer in a hard hat at a construction site
              • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
                Andy Haldane
                How to get from the me to the we society 

                Social capital can become a golden thread woven throughout public policy, from health to housing to education

                Illustration of a crowd of people with boxes on their heads. Two of them have removed the faces from their boxes to reveal the head of a man and a woman
              • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
                UK immigration
                Labour-aligned think-tank urges Starmer to set UK immigration target

                The system would include sub-targets for different types of visas

                People queue at UK Border Passport Control at Heathrow airport
              • Friday, 13 December, 2024
                Italy
                Migrants ‘drugged and beaten’ at privately run Italian detention centres

                Council of Europe urges action on ‘disturbing’ conditions including broad distribution of unprescribed tranquilisers at one site

                Migrants in the Italian city of Bari hold a protest against living conditions
              • Friday, 13 December, 2024
                The Big Read
                Does the UK have enough workers to ‘get Britain building’?

                The Labour government dreams of kick-starting a housebuilding boom, but the construction sector relies heavily on migrants to plug a skills gap

              • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
                Europe Express
                Why the EU debate on outsourcing solutions for migration is not going away Premium content

                Also in this newsletter: Poland seizes the moment to push for EU defence spending

                Tunisia’s President Kais Saied, second from left, and president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen
              • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
                News in-depthSyrian crisis
                ‘We need time’: Syrians in Europe resist calls to return home

                Refugees in Germany and elsewhere are in ‘wait and see’ mode after fall of Assad regime

                Women draped in German and Syrian flags celebrate the fall of Assad in Duisburg on Tuesday
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