The existing European approach to migration does not match reality or recognise the evolving complexity of human mobility. In our People Flow pamphlet of 2003, openDemocracy and Demos proposed a model that does.
The most remarkable thing about the Dutch vote on the European constitution is not the actual result of the referendum – a decisive vote of 61.6% against the treaty and
The assassination in Amsterdam of the filmmaker Theo van Gogh on 2 November 2004 most probably by an Islamist radical has had a paradoxical effect in the Netherlands. It has
Read Theo Veenkamps call for pragmatism, firmness, and imagination in European migration policy as he responds to contributors to the People Flow debate on openDemocracy
The multiple migration flow
The innovative thought experiment about how best to manage 21st century European migration has provoked a rich, diverse debate in openDemocracy. Here, People Flow author Theo Veenkamp reviews the debate
Does migration erode or enhance national culture? This question is highly sensitive in many European countries. The problem with the existing European approach to migration is that official distinctions between
