The Dream of Europe: Travels in the Twenty-First Century
by Geert Mak · 27 Oct 2021 · 722pp · 223,701 words
Poland 5.50 marks, in Bulgaria 1.40 marks, compared to a German on 48 marks. That alone might have unforeseen consequences. To prevent a mass immigration of Eastern European guest workers, the EU had given the member states permission to limit the influx for seven years. Only Sweden, Britain and Ireland
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, since there were no children to be found for miles around. In Bosnia, Serbia, Hungary, everywhere in Eastern and Central Europe, the villages emptied. Here, mass migration, as one Eastern European commentator wrote, ‘is simply a rational response to the large differences in the standard of living’. In 2010, some 1,500
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called UNITED for Intercultural Action, has published an annual ‘List of Deaths’, and it is by far the most accurate survey of the casualties of mass migration to Europe. The results are shocking. In total, between 1993 and June 2018, 34,361 migrants died. They disappeared en masse in the Sahara, suffocated
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– our own – is little troubled by it as yet. Moreover, the people who will suffer most from the damaging consequences, from floods, drought, famine and mass migration, are among the poorest and most powerless of the world’s population. Greenhouse gases are a global problem, inflicting damage all over the world, no
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for the protection of humans, one prepared to take our fellow beings, those without passports and visas, to the land of their heart’s desire?’ Mass migration is inextricably bound up with Europe’s fate. In the 1920s and 1930s, after the Russian Revolution and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, hundreds
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and children. A scenario leaked from the interior ministry in which another 920,000 asylum seekers were expected. The internet buzzed with conspiracy theories: this mass immigration was part of a government plan to change the ethnic composition of the German people. According to the German Institute for Economic Research, in 2015
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the refugees as about the fact that the European Union and European politicians had created the impression that they’d completely lost control of this mass migration, and therefore of their borders and their sovereignty. The Willkommenskultur and Merkel’s decision to open the borders on 4 September 2015 put the other
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about ‘our boreal world’ (not everyone was convinced he meant ‘northern’ rather than ‘white’) and ‘the systematic dilution of the homogenous population by waves of mass immigration’. In the spring of 2019 he came from nowhere to make his Forum for Democracy (FvD) the biggest party in the Netherlands, for a short
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; Frontex and 118, 119, 141, 339, 482; Italy moves borders into Libya 119–20; Lampedusa, arrivals in 110–12, 115, 120, 334, 339, 369, 482; mass migration in Europe, history of 333–4; Mediterranean crossings 110–15, 119–20, 331–3, 335–6, 337–8, 339, 340, 341, 343, 344, 345, 348
The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
by John Fabian Witt · 14 Oct 2025 · 735pp · 279,360 words
, American voters elected Harding to the presidency on the basis of an impossible promise to restore the greatness of an imagined Anglo-Saxon past, before mass immigration from southern and eastern Europe, before Black migration to the North, before the flu pandemic of 1919, and before the creative destruction of modern capitalism
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iteration just a few years before. But Garvey had always been divisive among Black American radicals, and in any event, as the closest observers noted, mass migration to the North was undermining the demographics on which the Black Belt thesis relied.19 The five Black delegates from the United States at the
Our Dollar, Your Problem: An Insider’s View of Seven Turbulent Decades of Global Finance, and the Road Ahead
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behind. To help the rural population, and at the same time relieve upward wage pressure for firms on the eastern coast, the government orchestrated a mass migration from the underemployed agrarian sector to its cities, on the order of 10–15 million people per year.13 In most developing countries, the “Lewis
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happens on its own, as poor rural farmers migrate to the city in search of better employment opportunities. The Chinese authorities, having witnessed how uncontrolled mass migration overran urban centers in places like India and Brazil, attempted to control the rate of urbanization. China’s household registry, or “Hukou,” system requires that
Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
X that echoed Gamergate. By late 2024, coinciding with Musk’s full-throated endorsement of Trump, growing discontent among left-leaning users led to a mass migration to alternative platforms like Bluesky. By the 2020s, the internet no longer resembled the vibrant, user-driven playground it had once been. Platforms like Facebook
Immigration worldwide: policies, practices, and trends
by Uma Anand Segal, Doreen Elliott and Nazneen S. Mayadas · 19 Jan 2010 · 492pp · 70,082 words
satisfactory and meet physical, social, and emotional needs, the likelihood of leaving is minimal. Economic, political, or religious turbulence can cause dissatisfaction and result in mass migrations. For example, poor economic conditions, low income, and overcrowding in the home country often force individuals to seek opportunities elsewhere. As an illustration, from 1996
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persons. These former population movements, which were at that time internal migrations by nature, in many respects determined causes and the structure of the current mass migration exchange between Russia and so-called new foreign states (Iontsev & Magomedova, 1999; Kabuzan, 1998). ‘‘New Foreign States’’ Phenomenon The term ‘‘new foreign states’’ (blijnee zarubejie
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the splash of ethnic intolerance and open nationalistic conflicts, as well as in ousting of ‘‘ethnically different’’ population from local labor markets, and finally in mass migration outflows to the places where these people hoped to find guaranties at least of ethnic security (Iontsev & Ivakhniouk, 2002:57). For ‘‘ethnic Russians’’ living in
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December 15, 2008, at http://www. unhcr.org/statistics/STATISTICS/48f742792.pdf. 10 Spain A ‘‘New Immigration Center’’ David Corkill Spain was a latecomer to mass immigration. In common with other countries in Southern Europe, Spain’s position in the international migration system only recently shifted from that of a sending country
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following World War I and the Great Depression and the West European phase following the oil crisis in 1973, which saw the end of the mass migration of Spanish workers. Spain Internal migrations, so buoyant between 1960 and 1973, eventually subsided during the 1980s as high unemployment limited internal migration primarily to
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has had a prominent impact on the long history of migration into and out of the country. Pakistan’s partition from India resulted in the mass migration of Muslim minorities from India to Pakistan and of Hindu minorities from Pakistan to India. Postpartition, approximately 11.5 million people crossed the borders. About
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and in the level of technological and economic development, persists despite the relative integration of the world economic system. In turn this gives rise to mass migrations of labor from the less to the more developed regions’’ (Richmond 1994: 32). Inequalities in the level and pace of development within the Third World
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indistinguishable from traditional refugees. Nonetheless, the mandates of many NGOs, governmental agencies, and international institutions are based on this distinction. Despite the crippling effects of mass migration movements, the refugee situation in Africa is considerably more positive than it was in the 1990s. With the end of major wars in Angola, Mozambique
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Hostile Environment: How Immigrants Became Scapegoats
by Maya Goodfellow · 5 Nov 2019 · 273pp · 83,802 words
people can’t scrape together enough money to move, and many others might not want to move in the first place. The frenzied discussion about ‘mass migration’ ignores that the vast majority of people stay where they are or move within countries. In 2016, estimates suggested only 3.2 per cent of
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the Home Office, gave succour to this line of argument when he wrote that Labour had an intentional policy to ‘open up the UK to mass migration’.10 An article treasured by the far right, this is taken as proof that Labour were part of an elite group colluding to change the
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former liberal, he presents himself as a ‘straight-talker’ who is willing to challenge the left when, as he claims, it ignores peoples’ concerns about ‘mass immigration’ and the assumed threat it poses to social democracy and the welfare state. On TV, and in the pages of magazines, newspapers and two books
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immigration debate is framed as a clash of classes: the ‘liberal metropolitan elite’ versus the ‘left behind’. The former are thought of as champions of ‘mass immigration’, depicted as colluding with one another to let migrants into the country without the consent of the public, championing ‘globalisation’ and caring little for the
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
by Harsha Walia · 9 Feb 2021
organizing around the world. Walia provides a historical analysis of policies that have cut down people’s well-being and driven poverty, violence, terror, and mass migration, and highlights the myriad forms of resistance and organizing that are all too often invisibilized. An excellent explanation of borders, migration, and the exploitative systems
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repressive practices of detention and deportation. Such representations depict migrants and refugees as the cause of an imagined crisis at the border, when, in fact, mass migration is the outcome of the actual crises of capitalism, conquest, and climate change. The border crisis, as I argue in the first part, is more
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in the US-funded Caracol Industrial Park zone in northern Haiti.36 The long shadow of attempts to subjugate Haiti provides the context for Haitian mass migration and ensuing mass expulsion from the US in the 1980s. During the Cold War, Haitian refugees fleeing US destabilization were detained and deported, while Vietnamese
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imposed a public ban on the burqa, sought to prevent Muslim and Jewish students from accessing non-pork meals in schools, and promised to end “mass immigration.” Similarly, although the number of DPP’s seats sunk in recent elections, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats captured some of the far-right vote with
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, contagious disease, and social backwardness—a right-wing revanchism converging around racism. This European-wide surge in xenophobic nationalism is based on racist fears of mass immigration but not its actuality, since most migrants are immobilized outside Europe. Despite significant differences between far-right forces across Europe, race and immigration operate as
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onto migrants by far-right forces who began calling for “Austria First,” a referendum on immigration issues. More recently, a billboard campaign in Canada against “mass immigration” and in support of the far-right People’s Party of Canada was paid for by an organization headed by a mining company CEO. The
Let Them In: The Case for Open Borders
by Jason L. Riley · 14 May 2008 · 196pp · 53,627 words
jobs available to nonimmigrant workers?” wrote Thomas Muller, the study’s author. “The answer for the 1970s is little if at all,” he concluded. “Despite mass immigration to Southern California, unemployment rates rose less rapidly than in the remainder of the nation.” Muller also found that labor-force participation rates among natives
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against today’s Latinos were thrown at previous immigrant groups. But how easily some of us forget. Ireland was the source country of the first mass migration to the United States. The Irish flooded America in the middle of the nineteenth century, particularly the cities. In 1850, more than a quarter of
Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities
by Eric Kaufmann · 24 Oct 2018 · 691pp · 203,236 words
’s Next American Nation (1995) mounted a stinging critique of the American elite’s universalist individualism. In the book, Lind offered a groundbreaking attack on ‘mass immigration’ as a policy which both right- and left-wing American elites favoured but which was opposed by working-class Americans of all races. John Judis
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Immigration Reform Caucus, which worked closely with FAIR to advance the anti-immigration agenda. In 2001, he sponsored a proposed moratorium on immigration entitled the Mass Immigration Reduction Act which called for immigration to be restricted for a period of five years to the spouses and children of American citizens. Though unsuccessful
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on immigration due to free movement within its empire but was forced to confront the contradictions between this stance and the very real prospect of mass immigration. This arguably established the legitimacy of a politics of restrictionism for a new era. This was a very different institutional trajectory from North America’s
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pro-immigration policy advisers such as Barbara Roche. According to former Blair speechwriter Andrew Neather, this group recommended from late 2000 that the government use mass immigration to make the country truly multicultural, to ‘rub the Right’s nose in diversity and render their arguments out of “date” ’.14 This cultural rationale
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. Lind made the centre-left case for empowering the American federal state to redistribute wealth, but only as part of a new deal in which mass immigration is reduced and more attention is paid to national solidarity. Alongside critics of cultural individualism such as Daniel Bell and Christopher Lasch, Lind excoriated American
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case in point is Roger Daltrey, lead singer of sixties Mod icons, the Who: ‘I will never, ever forgive the Labour Party for allowing this mass immigration,’ said Daltrey in 2013, a former Labour voter from a working-class London background. ‘I will never forgive them for destroying the jobs of my
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intellectual circles. Christopher Caldwell, a columnist for the Weekly Standard and Financial Times, argues that Europe would not be the same civilization without European people. Mass migration is altering its fundamental essence.99 Thilo Sarrazin, a German Social Democratic politician and ex-central banker, penned his Germany Does Away With Itself (2010
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-right challenger to escape the margins. As long as there is no system breach, English Canada may be able to repress criticism of multiculturalism and mass immigration indefinitely. THE QUEBEC EXCEPTION The one part of Canada where a politics of ethno-traditional nationalism is on the rise is Quebec. In this predominantly
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annual intake of 4–5 million – it only pulled back due, it claimed, to opinion polling. The Conservatives were unwilling to be portrayed as anti-mass immigration despite the preferences of many of their voters.21 Trudeau isn’t the only high-profile Canadian to engage in anti-racist virtue-signalling: a
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by Danny Dorling and Sally Tomlinson · 15 Jan 2019 · 502pp · 128,126 words
have wanted such a picture to be broadcast? In whose interests was it to make it appear as if the UK was under threat from mass migration of people with darker skins or different religions? CHAPTER 3: FROM EMPIRE TO COMMONWEALTH Chapter 3 looks at some of the beliefs and myths underlying
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during the 1920s and 1930s. To accommodate Poles unwilling to return to Poland, Great Britain enacted the Polish Resettlement Act 1947, the UK’s first mass immigration law for people not from the empire. It offered citizenship to around 200,000. The Second World War was only won due to the intervention
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