How migration REALLY works - Book Recommendation

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Karolina Baltulytė

Karolina Baltulytė

5 ай бұрын

A celebration of a book: "How Migration Really Works - A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics" by Hein de Haas.
In this age of heated discourse, this book offers a factful and enlightening perspective on the complex topic of migration. It is a literary gem that I urge everyone to read.
Get your copy now: www.amazon.de/-/en/Hein-Haas/...
PS please cope with the blurry parts ;)

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@isaacisgrateful4life
@isaacisgrateful4life 4 ай бұрын
The fact that you took the time to read the book and make a video about it show how good a person you are. ❤
@MrHitomiz
@MrHitomiz 5 ай бұрын
Fully assimilated son of immigrant in France here. You got it 100% right. We strive to be better citizens here. Hope someday we'll be understood.
@ismailkohan7519
@ismailkohan7519 5 ай бұрын
Thanks, Karolina. It was amazing.
@ahsev98
@ahsev98 5 ай бұрын
As a master's student working on Migration studies, I've been looking for this book to find ebook on online library databases and yet couldn't find any 😢 but I'm happy to listen from you, now I'm much more curious about reading it. Thank you 😊
@KarolinaBaltulyte
@KarolinaBaltulyte 5 ай бұрын
thank you! It is a really great book, I think everyone should read it. I read it on kindle , I think if you buy an ebook, you can read it on your computer or phone as well :) I hope you’ll get to read it soon!
@yodiyodi6898
@yodiyodi6898 5 ай бұрын
Thank you for the book rec, I will check it out
@KarolinaBaltulyte
@KarolinaBaltulyte 5 ай бұрын
Your welcome!
@galuhjamu
@galuhjamu 5 ай бұрын
Thank you, Karo, to talk about this topic. Most people indeed do not realize the challenges that people with passports from developing countries have when they seek to travel. The global North tends to have a prejudice against migrants from the global south. Making it difficult for us from the developing countries to adventure out and see the world harmlessly. You make a great point that Europeans performed the biggest migration themselves yet create their own rules that somehow reign over the world.
@KarolinaBaltulyte
@KarolinaBaltulyte 5 ай бұрын
Thank you, Galuh! Yeah it seems like many people on this planet kind of „got used to“ this, and many people, at least in global north, are blind and believe something what is untruth. And well, politicians just keep lying, manipulating and colonialism continues. I wanted to make a video about this topic and while I was doing research I discovered this book.and realized that this topic couldn’t have better communicated and explained as it is in this piece . The author has done amazing work to reflect everything through words and data, and being direct about calling politicians and media liars. It gives me goosebumps cause some of the myths in this book I believed myself.
@AnnaAwesome77
@AnnaAwesome77 Ай бұрын
I definitely will read this book. Amazing information that will help educate and unite us worldwide❤. After all, we are one world of humans, trying to live our best lives and improve the lives of the future humans. ❤🎉
@KarolinaBaltulyte
@KarolinaBaltulyte Ай бұрын
Thank you, Anna! And thank you for your inspiring comment. Yes, education and understanding each other definitely unite us more ♥️ and accepting that we are all the same
@Flimpofloempieflomp
@Flimpofloempieflomp Ай бұрын
Very interesting to see/hear about your book recommendation. While i don't agree with everything you've mentioned some points you're making are valid imho, especially concerning the media and politics being out of control and pushing all sides to extremes. It seems that civil discourse has been thrown out of the window nowadays and the group that screams the loudest is right. Now i'm not a researcher or a scholar and certainly can't put up a book review such as eloquantly as you did. so i did some online sleuthing and came across an article written by an economist and a former researcher of the CPB regarding the book. The author, Hans Roodenburg is an economist and led research at the Central Planning Bureau into the economic consequences of immigration. In this article mr. Roodenburg reviews the book from a more economic viewpoint and applies the 'myths' in Hein de Haas' book to local (Dutch) microdata which seems to paint a different picture. I've tried to translate the article from Dutch to English with the help of google translate. It worked pretty well i must say but please forgive me if there are some errors in the text. If you want a link to the article i can post it but it's all in dutch. Oh and by the way, congratulations on your sobriety. That video was recommended to me and is how i've found you 🙂. 'There is no evidence that immigration affects the viability of the welfare state.' This statement can be found in the book How Migration Really Works , published last week, subtitled The true story about migration based on 22 myths . The author is the social scientist Hein de Haas, currently affiliated with the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The author presents himself as an objective observer who stands above the parties in the immigration debate. And as the subtitle indicates, he sees it as his job to debunk what he sees as myths circulating in that debate. The above quote concerns Myth 9 of 22. Hein de Haas's book is not tailored to the Dutch situation A complete review of that book of over 500 pages is beyond the scope of an article for Wynia's Week . But in the limitation the master reveals himself, and on the basis of a few salient points (mainly of a financial and economic nature) I will try to give an impression of the extent to which the author has succeeded in achieving the ambition expressed in the title of the book. speaks to reality. The present book has been translated from English and is not tailored to the Dutch situation. The argumentation is mainly based on foreign studies and examples. And that is immediately a weak point. Because, especially when it comes to the effects of immigration on public finances, the applicable institutions such as legislation and regulations regarding the tax system and welfare state arrangements, as well as the composition of the migrant population by origin, migration motive and human capital, are of decisive importance. And the destination countries show major differences in this regard. De Haas's claim that there is no evidence that immigration affects the viability of the welfare state is mainly based on a study commissioned by the OECD into the effects of immigration on collective finances in the member states (including the Netherlands) of this organization . This research is based on databases, such as samples, that do not contain sufficient specific information. The result is that differences between migrants and other residents are 'flattened'. Furthermore, the second generation has not been taken into account in the figures, which means that a large part of the effects remains out of view. Regarding the method, the so-called 'static' method was chosen, a 'snapshot' that does not take life course effects into account. Since the migrant population is relatively young, the costs during old age (care, AOW) are underestimated. No further distinction is made between groups of migrants. The often large differences between migrant groups with good and poor economic performance are thus not highlighted. Social assistance benefits mainly go to non-Western immigrants To do such a study properly, you need microdata with exact financial and other data of the residents involved, you also have to include the second generation and take life-cycle effects into account. See the Borderless Welfare State report (2021), which - not surprisingly - reaches much less rosy conclusions. Moreover, these microdata offer the opportunity to differentiate immigrants by origin, migration motive and education level, which provides starting points for a selective immigration policy. The fact that immigration from non-Western countries is at odds with a sustainable welfare state is also evident from the extreme overrepresentation of people with a non-Western migration background in social assistance. More than half of all social assistance benefits go to this group. This is approximately seven times as much per capita as for the rest of the population. This benefit dependence is relatively high and persistent, especially among asylum migrants. This not only concerns the billions in social assistance benefits and extras, such as allowances, that are involved in this overrepresentation, but also the signal that there is something structurally wrong with the ability, or motivation, of the migrants involved to participate. run in the country of arrival. Priority for status holders is unpleasant for other home seekers All in all, there are strong indications that the sustainability of the Dutch welfare state is indeed at risk due to immigration, which calls into question Hein de Haas's 'no evidence'. Another hot topic, in addition to the sustainability of the welfare state, is the pressure that immigration exerts on the housing market in the Netherlands. This market is characterized by an unprecedented and hopeless housing shortage: a shortage of around 400,000 homes, and residents who have been on the waiting list for social housing for years (sometimes in double figures). It is especially painful for those waiting to see that status holders (asylum migrants) are given preference in the allocation of those scarce social housing units. The Amsterdam professor's views on the housing shortage are explained in the book using both foreign examples and more specifically the Dutch situation. He rightly points out that the lagging housing production here in the country is the result of government policy. But this is only half the story, because the housing shortage is of course the result of both supply and demand. And in terms of demand, we are not only dealing with household dilution and replacement demand due to demolition, but also with population growth, which is caused approximately one to one by immigration. A government that is serious about tackling the housing shortage cannot avoid also curbing out-of-control immigration. De Haas is not there yet. He speaks of 'allegations' aimed at refugees, and politicians who often blame the 'mass' influx of refugees and other migrants for the increasing shortage of affordable housing. But moralistic reflections on 'blaming' do not get us any further. There is nothing wrong with identifying the causes of the situation so that the problem can be solved. De Haas could have left out the quotation marks next to 'mass', as far as the Netherlands is concerned. Last year more than 400,000 migrants were added, good for a net migration of almost 230,000 people. Immigration in that one year quickly results in an additional housing shortage approaching 100,000.
@Flimpofloempieflomp
@Flimpofloempieflomp Ай бұрын
'Push factors' don't matter In the author's view, the driving force behind migration is the demand for labor in the more prosperous countries. So-called 'push' factors, such as poor living conditions in the countries of origin, hardly play a role, according to him. He regards these as caricatures that play on stereotypes of 'Third World misery'. Migration is - according to De Haas - not a desperate escape from an unliveable situation, but the outcome of a well-considered decision to seize the opportunity for income improvement offered by the relentless demand for, in particular, low-skilled labor in the countries of destination. Supply and demand meet: at first glance a win-win situation for both migrant and employer. However, they are not the only ones experiencing the consequences of this migration. First of all, there is the issue of wage depression and displacement ('they are taking our jobs'). A myth according to De Haas (number 8 to be precise). Empirical studies by economists on these issues do not lead to clear conclusions and, to the extent that these effects have been demonstrated, they are, according to the author, negligible. But there's more. Immigration of low-paid labor has negative external effects, especially in the Netherlands. First of all, low-paid work leads to a net loss for collective finances. Furthermore, the increase in the population due to labor migration worsens the housing shortage and the already high pressure on sectors such as healthcare and education. It is also possible to point out the negative consequences of increasing population density for the living environment, and then there is the decrease in social cohesion. For a more detailed treatment of these topics, see my previous articles here and here . All in all, reason enough to argue for a cautious labor migration policy. Private benefits and public costs I may have missed it, but nowhere have I read anything that shows that these negative external effects have a place in De Haas's world of thought. Things have changed recently in Dutch civil service and politics. We once again recall this warning from top civil servant Rits de Boer (Inspector General of the Labor Inspectorate): 'On balance, the private revenue model for labor migration is characterized by private benefits and public costs. The social tasks and costs associated with migration are not reflected in the cost/benefit assessment of employment agencies/employers. In that sense, they pass on the burden, not only in the here and now, but also for later generations.' More recently, a similar warning could be recorded from Pieter Hasekamp, director of the Central Planning Bureau, during the EW Economics lecture. In politics, the SP has traditionally been very critical of labor migration as an advocate of the working class, more recently followed by the also left-wing Christian Union. Pieter Omtzigt's NSC has also been very critical of labor migration. As an aside: in my opinion, a factor in these parties is that they are attempting to divert attention from the spiraling asylum problem, which is a major concern for a majority of voters. Can we conclude that De Haas has succeeded in his mission to tell the 'real story' about migration? When we zoom in on the Dutch case, as can be seen from the examples given above, there are some things to be said about that story. In addition, the author tends to downplay, if not downplay, the undeniable problems associated with migration. An example of this is the high crime rate among migrants (Myth 12). We know that almost two-thirds of the prison population has a migration background. De Haas portrays those involved as victims by pointing to prejudice and ethnic profiling as causes. Fodder for the immigration lobby The refugee crisis, the abuse of the asylum procedure, the numbers, it's all not that bad according to De Haas (Myth 3). Regarding those numbers: in the Netherlands it is often heard that asylum seekers and status holders respectively only make up a small part of total immigration. But on the other hand, this group has a relatively large impact on society, partly due to low return migration and high benefit dependence. That the asylum system - especially in the Netherlands - has had its best days has been convincingly demonstrated by that other social scientist Ruud Koopmans in his book The Asylum Lottery (2023). Talk about debunking myths! The Netherlands has an active immigration lobby with hardliners such as Leo Lucassen and Thomas Spijkerboer. Hein de Haas's presentation is generally more moderate, but the gist of his argument is not that different.
@Flimpofloempieflomp
@Flimpofloempieflomp Ай бұрын
Quite a wall of text. 😅
@KarolinaBaltulyte
@KarolinaBaltulyte Ай бұрын
Hey, hey! Wow thank you for your reply and sharing this article with me. It’s very good to read it and gain a new perspective, comments about the book. I’m gonna read it once again, could you still share a link or the article ? Something that I agree about, that the book was generalizing migration globally , and the points he brought up might not apply to everywhere. I think this was lacking of that clarity a bit. Although some of the comments in this article also seem to not really be accurate on what De Haas wrote. For example about the myth 12. In the chapter the authors says much more than this. I feel the article is written by a person who just skipped through the book without fully reading? Or maybe it’s a translation error that gives that impression ? Or maybe he just wanted to comment on certain points only. Anyhow, I appreciate that you shared this with me, I’m gonna look into this more! Thank you
@David73490MY
@David73490MY 5 ай бұрын
What you say towards the end, about the south having the same aspirations..... ouch. Nobody seems to even think about it. Gotta move the spotlight, and fight against myths... they've always been gasoline to these "conflicts".
@mauxuwon6252
@mauxuwon6252 5 ай бұрын
greeting from Thailand
@chelseashurmantine8153
@chelseashurmantine8153 5 ай бұрын
Politicians are totally failing. Thank you for making this. The fear of migration blows my effing mind and is just more a sign of lack of education of human history, and shit, even animal history. Evolution! period.
@chesterdonnelly1212
@chesterdonnelly1212 5 ай бұрын
What is the point of this? Go outside your house and go to your city centre and you will see that migration is out of control.
@gazaini
@gazaini 5 ай бұрын
Very much nice topics, today worlds is so freaking crazy, war, corruption, immigration, I'm just wonder this universe work peace and nice, sorry lol 😅 I go far from the line I guess
@KarolinaBaltulyte
@KarolinaBaltulyte 5 ай бұрын
Crazy times in crazy world !
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