Ian Goldin and Hein de Haas chaired Stephen Law

Experts on globalisation and migration Professor Ian Goldin and Professor Hein de Haas discuss migration and how it works. Are immigrants really ‘stealing our jobs’? Is the EU facing a migration crisis? Why do people migrate at all? At a time where migration seems to be in every other newspaper headline, how much do we really know about how it works? And what are its political and economic repercussions?

De Haas is a Dutch academic, known for his research on migration and development. He is a founding member of the International Migration Institute at the University of Oxford and is currently a professor of sociology at the University of Amsterdam. De Haas has made significant contributions to migration studies and has had a notable impact on both academic and policy discussions in this field. His most recent work is How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics.

Goldin is a professor of globalisation and development at the University of Oxford and the founding director of the Oxford Martin School. He has also previously served as the vice president of the World Bank and as an advisor to President Mandela. Goldin has authored many books and papers on the topics of migration and globalisation, including Exceptional People: How Migration Shaped Our World and Will Define our Future and his forthcoming The Shortest History of Migration.