1️⃣Should migrants have equal rights w natives or be privileged over them?
2️⃣What attracts them: political freedoms, economic incentives or social recognition?
3️⃣Should there be numerical limits to immigration?
My new article tells how 17–18th pol economists replied
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The push-pull theory is regarded as a modern framework in migration studies. This article challenges this view by tracing debates on attracting and retaining foreigners back to the seventeenth century...