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26 May 2026

UK in changing EU's Portes: Race and space: the rise and fall of “net migration”

Jonathan Portes asks how useful a measure immigration statistics are and argues that they have served to legitimate politics of racialised grievance. 

The BBC headline for last week’s immigration statistics was “UK migration drops to 171,000 – almost half 2024’s...

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