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.
Europeans cannot take pride in their continent if all they seek to do is raise barriers. A new international debate must take place. [Reposted from openDemocracy, May 2003]
Finally Blair acts. No skills. No English. NO ENTRY.
This is how the front page of Britains leading tabloid newspaper, the Sun, greeted the Blair governments latest proposals
The furious public argument swirling around British political and media institutions for the past year has often seemed a bizarre illustration of what a famous historian once called The Peculiarities
Read Anthony Barnetts introduction to the Mulgan /Bentley exchange, charting the shift in governance under New Labours Third Way from we know best to we learn best
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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
People movement is part of human nature. For as long as we have known, the drive to explore new surroundings, flee from threat and improve our circumstances has produced flows
Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have been one of the success stories of civil society and democracy for two decades. They have brought together issues of social justice, the environment and sustainability.
