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Labour Market Economist at CEP and LSE. Personal Views Only. Currently posting mostly at @alanmanning4.bsky.social
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The fear of strangers: why do some people reject immigration?

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By Alan Manning
| economicsobservatory.com
This article is part of an upcoming collection on community and local policy by the Policy Hub for the Huth Initiative for a New Political Economy. In 1751, Benjamin Franklin, champion of Enlightenment reason, wrote about the immigration of Germans into Pennsylvania: ‘Why should the Palatine Boors be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours?
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More migration or less migration? The answer is boring

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By Alan Manning
| Aeon Verified
The share of migrants in some high-income countries has roughly doubled in the past 35 years, reaching historic highs. In the United States, migrants made up 14.8 per cent of the population in 2024 – very similar to the previous high around 1910 and more than triple the proportion at the low point in 1970. This is despite most people saying they want a decrease in immigration.
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Make immigration boring - Alan manning

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By Alan Manning
| QOSHE
Make immigration boring The fiercest political battle of our age needs less moral drama and more hard thinking about numbers and fair tradeoffs by Alan Manning  BIO Whitechapel High Street in London, United Kingdom, December 2025. Photo by Mike Kemp/Getty Images is professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His latest book is Why Immigration Policy Is Hard: And How to Make It Better (2025).
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