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How Migration Really Works review: Prepare to have your mind changed

Migrants cross the Rio Grande in Mexico, en route to the US

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How Migration Really Works
Hein de Haas (Viking Books)

EVERYONE who starts geographer Hein de Haas’s How Migration Really Works will have opinions about migration – few will finish with their preconceptions intact.

Drawing on three decades of research from his time at the University of Oxford and the University of Amsterdam, de Haas shows that everything we think we know about migration is wrong.

This isn’t because migration is an especially complex matter, but because economic and political interests, on both the left and the …


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