★★★★★ k.A. 27.06.2026 ean-shopping.de

Das Buch bietet interessante Einblicke in die Migrationsgeschichte und stellt einige gängige Annahmen in Frage, allerdings ist die Darstellung teilweise zu sehr auf spezifische Theorien fokussiert.

★★★★★ k.A. 27.06.2026 ean-shopping.de

Wichtig!

★★★★★ Stefan 21.06.2024 amazon.de

While this book has many problems, the main one is this: the author promises arguments based on data which made me want to read the book, because migration debaters in both sides are usually aggressively disinterested in data. However, the appalling use of data by the author seems to indicate that he shares that disinterest. Example Chapter 2 with the hypothesis that legal migration is much larger than illegal migration. Yes, true and simple enough, the point could have been made in a paragraph. Instead the author produces a data-disaster. As a proxy for illegal immigration into the EU, he uses arrivals by boat in four countries until 2022. Problem one: The sources mentioned in the footnote are from 2008 and 2017 respectively, meaning they cannot support data from 2018 to 2022. Problem two: He then uses the boat arrivals from three of the four countries (excluding Greece without explanation) To state that these make up only “around 3-3.5 per cent” of legal immigration into the EU. For comparison: according to the European Commission’s readily available official data, total illegal immigration was at over 9% in 2022 and over 90% in 2015 of legal immigration. Where the author, with his data set, claims arrivals were at “almost a million” in 2015 (here apparently including Greece again), the European Commission data shows 1.8 million illegal arrivals. Such creativity in relation to data, while to be expected in political manifests, seems rather disappointing in a book that claims to want to go beyond just such practices. From a strictly scientific point of view 0 Stars. 3 Stars for the effort.