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232:, Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University reviewed the book saying: "Magisterial. Paul Collier offers a comprehensive, incisive, and well-written balance sheet of the pros and cons of immigration for receiving societies, sending societies, and migrants themselves. For everyone on every side of this contentious issue, Exodus is a must-read." 26: 302:
exemplifies the problem. This book could have seriously engaged with the large literature on immigration and helped people without Collier's training and position think through the complexities of the issue. Instead, Collier has written a text mortally wounded by incoherence, error, and overconfident
257:, concluding with the statement: "the tone of “Exodus” is problematic. Mr Collier finds endless objections to a policy—more or less unlimited immigration—that no country has adopted. In the process, he exaggerates the possible risks of mobility and underplays its proven benefits." 251:, concluding by writing: "Prof Collier's is a voice to which it is worth paying attention. His book could be better written but this grandson of an immigrant is asking important questions about one of the world's most pressing issues." A review of the book was also published in 298:. They noted that many of Collier's conclusions were unsupported by research, and concluded as follows: "Collier laments the fact that the immigration debate has been marked by “high emotion and little knowledge.” That is true, yet 242:, U.S. Trade Representative, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, praised the book as a "true achievement" and wrote that Collier addressed "taboo topics to straightforward questions that most other scholars shrink from asking." 491:"Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier: A hard-headed book that assesses the effect of the brain drain from poor countries to richer ones. Review by David Goodhart" 603: 410:"Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier – review: Is immigration advantageous, and for whom? Colin Kidd on a humane and sensible voice in a highly toxic debate" 356:"The man who made it OK to talk about immigration: Paul Collier says the worst thing about immigration is that it impoverishes the nations that the migrants come from" 200:, writing: "Given the evidence, Paul Collier's lively study of mass migration paints a curiously bleak picture of the future." Rupert Edis reviewed the book for 490: 680: 675: 571: 459: 437: 638: 335: 125: 670: 172:, Collier argues that Western immigration policy has been driven not by reason, but by emotional responses to postcolonial 281: 409: 383: 544: 500: 216:, calling it a "hard-headed book that assesses the effect of the brain drain from poor countries to richer ones." 25: 152:
affects migrants as well as the countries that send and receive the migrants, and the implications this has for
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called the book "a humane and sensible voice in a highly toxic debate." Ian Birrell also reviewed the book for
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is one of the main, often overlooked, drawbacks of migration. According to
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for its UK release) is a 2013 book by the development economist
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Index


Paul Collier
Immigration
politics
Oxford University Press
Hardcover
Paperback
ISBN
978-0195398656
Paul Collier
migration
development economics
Oxford University Press
multiculturalism
brain drain
Colin Kidd
Western guilt
The Guardian
Colin Kidd
The Guardian
The Telegraph
David Goodhart
The Sunday Times
Melanie McDonagh
The Spectator
Robert Putnam
Robert Zoellick
World Bank Group
Financial Times
The Economist

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