"It makes some points that deserve to be better known: for example, it sets out data showing how family reunification, not the hunt for a new job, is the main cause of inward immigration in most European countries. Of the countries studied, only in Portugal and Denmark are a majority of new arrivals work related, it finds."
THE LAST TOURIST - After Thomas Coryat (1577–1617)
Robin Hunt walked across some of Europe in the spring and summer 2007. In 2010 and 2011 he returned to finish the route, the poor man's Grand Tour: here's travel, cities, the country, art, love, literature, mirrors and printing presses. The Old Europe of 1608, the confused New Europe and much in between. The End (of the writing) is in sight...
Monday 4 June 2007
Family, not work
The Economist's "Certain Ideas of Europe" blog, is good today on immigration. Go to the site to download a new report, sponsored by the Dutch temporary employment agency Randstad, "Mind the Gap."
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