"This is also why falling net migration has not depoliticised immigration...
Public concern is being driven less by the statistic than by a broader sense of disorder, asylum politics, visible demographic change and distrust of govt."
✍️ Jonathan Portes on UK migration
🔗 https://ow.ly/WhqK50Z62qV
Jonathan Portes asks how useful a measure immigration statistics are and argues that they have served to legitimate politics of racialised grievance.
