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Don't Close the Golden Door: Our Noisy Debate on Immigration and Its Deathly Silence on Development
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher(s): Center for Global Development; Center for Global Development
Author(s): Michael Clemens; Samuel Bazzi; Michael Clemens; Samuel Bazzi
Topic: Population and demographics (Immigration and immigration policy)
Abstract:
International migration has long been a central tool in the battle against global poverty and inequality, but the recent heated political debate over immigration reform has largely failed to recognize how migration shapes the development process. In this essay, research fellow Michael Clemens and co-author Sami Bazzi outline five major reasons why migration is a development issue in today’s world, and they suggest an agenda for the next U.S. administration to make U.S. migration policy work for the United States, for countries of origin, and for the migrants themselves.