Migrants come to the UK to find jobs, not to claim benefits
Until there is concerted action to revive the failing economies of southern and eastern Europe, there is little hope that the government’s net migration target will be met.
Immigration
The St George’s Cross has become an emblem of the working class
Like a vote for Ukip, to fly the St George’s Cross is as much to declare one’s antipathy to the liberal, metropolitan well-to-do middle-classes as it is a protest against the EU.
Migration Watch and the Daily Express are dangerously close to open racism
What’s important to Migration Watch and the Express is not a baby boom as such, but a ‘foreign baby boom’.
Rochester’s concerns about immigration are bound up with failing public services
For the residents of Rochester, addressing their concerns about living standards, schools and healthcare would go a long way to dampening their worries about immigration.
More migrants are becoming British citizens. And it could help to calm concerns about immigration
Settling down and ‘fitting in’ are valued deeply by migrants and long-settled residents alike.
What the left should take from Rochester and Strood
Majorities have group identities just like minorities, and that’s fine.
Five myths about public attitudes towards immigration
British Future’s report shows how the fear of being stereotyped stops the moderate majority from communicating their ideas.
Revealed: how our media shuts out migrant voices
From January to April, only 8 per cent of Daily Mail stories on migration featured a migrant voice, and only 6 per cent of Times articles.
Labour’s new immigration policy: more moderate voices needed
The complex views of the majority on immigration are not always easily represented in opinion polls.
What’s really putting Indian students off UK universities?
The coalition’s policies are as much to blame as UKIP in creating the perception that the UK is hostile to overseas students.