Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier

By Paul Collier

Mass foreign migration is a reaction to severe international inequality, and immigration has a profound effect at the means we are living. but our perspectives - and people of our flesh pressers - stay stuck among extremes: renowned hostility to migrants, tinged through xenophobia and racism; and the view of industrial and liberal elites that 'open doors' are either economically and ethically vital. With migration set to speed up, few concerns are so urgently wanting dispassionate research - and few are extra incendiary.

Here, world-renowned economist Paul Collier seeks to defuse this explosive topic. Exodus appears to be like at how humans from the world's poorest societies fight emigrate to the wealthy West: the consequences on these left in the back of and at the host societies, and explores the impulses and considering that tell Western immigration coverage. Migration, he concludes, is a truth, and we urgently have to imagine basically approximately its chances and demanding situations: it's not a question of even if migration is nice or undesirable, yet how a lot is best?

Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the research of African Economies at Oxford collage and a former director of improvement learn on the global financial institution. he's the writer of, between others, the award-winning the ground Billion and The Plundered Planet.

'Exodus is a crucial publication and one i've been ready to learn for a few years ... [it is] a piece that's humane and hard-headed approximately one of many maximum problems with our times'

David Goodhart, Sunday Times

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