Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them by Philippe Legrain Summary
Overview of Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them
Legrain's award-nominated manifesto demolishes immigration myths with razor-sharp economics. Praised by Tyler Cowen as "the single best defense of liberal immigration policy," it reveals why welcoming foreigners isn't just compassionate - it's essential for your country's prosperity and innovation.
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キーアイデアを瞬時にキャプチャして素早く学習
楽しく魅力的な方法で本を楽しむ
重要なポイント
The Global Migration Paradox
Every year, approximately 2,000 people drown in the Mediterranean Sea attempting to reach Europe from Africa. Along the U.S.-Mexico border, more people die annually than were killed during the entire 28-year existence of the Berlin Wall. These deaths aren't accidents - they're the direct result of border policies deliberately channeling migrants into treacherous terrain. Yet despite this massive enforcement apparatus, borders remain remarkably porous. The United States hosts approximately 12 million undocumented immigrants, while Europe contains 7-8 million. The cruel irony? These border controls actually foster the very illegality they claim to prevent. They raise migration costs, create lucrative markets for criminal smugglers (generating an estimated $20 billion annually in the Americas alone), leave migrants vulnerable to exploitation, and encourage black market economies. The current system causes death while undermining the rule of law - all while failing at its stated purpose of preventing migration. Mass international migration began in the early nineteenth century, enabled by revolutionary transportation advances. In the century after 1820, approximately 60 million Europeans crossed the Atlantic seeking new lives. By 1910, one in seven people in the U.S. was foreign-born. The pattern reversed after World War II, with migration flowing primarily from developing nations to wealthy ones. Europe transformed from a continent of emigration to one of immigration. America's watershed 1965 reforms abolished national quotas designed to exclude Latin Americans and Asians, leading to surging immigration from these regions. Despite these waves of migration, only 175 million people worldwide (just 2.9% of global population) lived outside their birth country in 2000. The controversy arises because migrants concentrate in a handful of rich countries with low birth rates, where the immigrant share nearly doubled between 1970-2000.
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Migration's Global Benefits
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