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Marcel Slootweg's avatar

Interesting opinion. Although I like to advise you to read the landmark book How migration really works, written by professor Hein de Haas, a Dutch scholar on migration. He places migration also in a broad historical perspective. Funfact: the main fundings are not foreign direct investment and official development assistance, but the remittances of the migrant workers. Estimates, made by the Worldbank, are about $ 905 billion (2024).

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Katfud's avatar

I suppose the point of contention is whether interdependency in the post globalisation world means we benefit from the faster development of third world countries sending immigrants, though them becoming greater consumers of the services/higher cost goods offered by the developed world, or whether over the long term we suffer erosion of our standard of living through competition as they become lower cost competitors.

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