From the International Organization for Migration, here is the latest World Migration Report 2018. Martin Beckstein (Zurich) and Vanessa Rampton (ETH Zurich): Conservatism Between Theory and Practice: The Case of Migration to Europe. Wolfgang Streeck (Max Planck): Between Charity and Justice: Remarks on the Social Construction of Immigration Policy in Rich Democracies. Martina Paric (KU Leuven): Precarity as Identity Formation in Migrant Debate: The Danger of Double Precarity. Postcolonial investigations and the role of necessary discontinuity: Dora Suarez reviews Postcolonial Interruptions, Unauthorized Modernities by Iain Chambers.
When and how can foreign aid slow migration? Josephine Livingstone reviews Rescue: Refugees and the Political Crisis of Our Time by David Miliband. Empire, epidemics and visions of racial apocalypse: Alexandre White on the precursors of contemporary xenophobia. How Europe’s far Right fell in love with Australia’s immigration policy. Why fear of immigrants puts everyone’s freedom at risk: Carlos Lozada reviews Go Back to Where You Came From: The Backlash Against Immigration and the Fate of Western Democracy by Sasha Polakow-Suransky. This land is their land: Immigration is inevitable — when will the West learn that it promises salvation, not destruction? End all immigration controls: They’re a sign we value money more than people.
