How Migration Really Works Av Hein De Haas

<p><b>Global migration is <i>not </i>at an all-time high. The climate emergency will <i>not </i>lead to mass migration. Border restrictions have actually produced <i>more </i>migration. </b>These statements might sound like they completely contravene common intuition about migration - but the facts behind the headlines reveal a different story to the ones we''re often told. In this ground-breaking book, based on over three decades of research, migration expert Professor Hein de Haas destroys the myths that politicians, interest groups and media regularly spread about immigration.<br><br>Comparing trends and perspectives from Western ''destination countries'' (UK, US and Europe) as well as ''origin countries'' in Asia and Africa, de Haas shows migration not as a problem to be solved, nor as a solution to a problem, but <i>as it really is</i>. <i>How Migration Really Works </i>will offer an essential new vision of migration based on facts rather than fears, and a paradigm-altering unders