Paul Collier Essay

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How migration is changing our world? This question alone is ambiguous in nature and can be analyzed in multiple ways. Migration has become a dominating issue in world politics as well as domestic politics. The intensity of the issue has developed throughout history, and its reign in societies has caused many people to self-diagnose the benefits and downsides of migration without truly understanding the complex nature of migration, people, and interaction with one another. Now a days everyone is a self-made critic with a stake in who gets to migrate to what country and how this process should be conducted. This approach to migration is nothing new to international policy; however, it has become more of a taboo issue in its reign through decades …show more content…

Migration to Collier is something more than the revenue or per capita with origin states and destination states. Through posing three very clear arguments in the beginning of his text, Collier asked, “what determines the decisions of migrants, how does migration affect those left behind and how does migration affect the indigenous populations in host countries” (Collier 6). To analyze this argument Collier states that migration policy and knowledge has to stand free from emotion; viewing migration in an objective viewpoint rather than a subjective viewpoint helps cut out the idea that migration is simply an economic issue rather than a complex issue. Understanding that there is a flawed knowledge about migration as a whole is a start in properly addressing migration. Collier shows that due to policy makers establishing policy based on the evidence of economics it limits how well policy can fully accomplish any progress in the issues of migration. By eliminating emotional standpoints Collier suggest that the pre-established judgements and ignorant notions most of us feel entitled to have will be corrected. This way, many people can approach the question of migration not through a value based opinion on rights or wrongs, but rather an evidence based analysis not limited by economic

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