OECD report deploys facts against anti-migrant alarmism

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a policy research body bringing together the world’s richest developed countries, has suggested that fears about migration and hostility towards migrant workers are unjustified. A new report from...

Lord Carey is wrong on immigration, critics say

People working with migrants in the churches and civic organisations have expressed dismay at the recent comments on immigration by former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Carey, who has joined a cross-party group calling for stricter controls. They say that his approach...

Welcoming migrants is not optional, says world church body

Migration “is a fact of life. It is as much an instinct to survive as it is an inevitable consequence of globalization. We can neither turn our backs on it, nor control it,” declared a statement of participants at a 15-16 April Public Hearing on Migration...

Brown accused of treating migrants as second-class people

Home Office plans to introduce an “earned citizenship” system for immigrants from outside the European Union who want to become British have been attacked as potentially descriminatory and degrading by campaigners. Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave strong...