Wadsworth, Jonathan (2017) The net migration target is one of the strangest political fetishes in recent history. LSE Brexit (19 Jun 2017). Website.
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The net migration target is one of the strangest political fetishes of modern political history, writes Jonathan Wadsworth. He argues that it is far from obvious why any government would seek to target something over which it has very little control. Even if migration from the EU fell to zero, the net migration numbers would be way above the 100,000 target. He concludes that the evidence of immigration’s impacts in the UK is that it seems to matter much more politically than it does economically.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2016 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain J Political Science > JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Jun 2017 08:29 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 21:04 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/81608 |
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