Them and Us: How immigrants and locals can thrive together

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What do we really know about immigration? The defining issue in the world right now is immigration. Taking back control. Building that wall. Keeping them out. It's the only thing politicians seem to agree on: immigration is a bad thing and that there should be less of it. The trouble is, that isn't really true. In fact, immigration is good for you. Not just for the elites in their luxury flats in Mayfair, but for everyone. Immigrants benefit us all in a number of ways (eight ways, actually), and the criticisms that we make about immigration are all solvable. This is the book that will close the gap between myth and reality - and possibly, in the process, close the gap between them and us.

Philippe Legrain is a critically acclaimed writer, thinker and communicator who is a leading voice in the international migration debate. Through his work and writing, as well as his international media and social media profile, he has been at the heart of the immigration debate for many years from a variety of vantage points: as the founder of Open Political Economy Network (OPEN); as a senior visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)'s European Institute; and as a commentator for Project Syndicate, Foreign Policy, the Guardian and many other international media outlets. His book Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them was shortlisted for the 2007 Financial Times Business Book of the Year. Philippe was previously economic adviser and head of the team providing strategic policy advice to the President of the European Commission, special adviser to the Director-General of the World Trade Organization and a journalist at The Economist. This is his fifth book.

'Underpinned by scholarship...entertaining... Legrain's book fizzes with practical ideas.' * The Economist *