“Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World” is devoted to questions of mass migration and the book reflects sound public policy of the escalating migration problems. The author examines this topic from three perspectives: the migrants, migrant-receiving societies and countries which they left. Migration makes migrants better off because they have returned home in the other cases. Those who come from poor to rich countries begin to earn at people in rich countries quickly enough. Their productivity soars because they run away from countries with incompetent public models. Nigerian workers less productive in Nigeria than in New Zealand, because society around is incompetent: often they have power outages, managers are engaged in a struggle with hungry bribes to bureaucrats.
Ian Birrell maintains the basic theses of Paul Collier but considers the author's position somewhat contradictory because previously he thought that "he has praised military coups to remove unpleasant regimes" (Birrell) but now refers to the migration of more positive. Rupert Edis considers that the author exaggerates the benefits for immigrants because they are big social spending, "large numbers of incomers exert pressure on public goods like schools and social housing" (Edis) and this policy is heavily influenced by "liberal-left elite" ideas .
I believe that migrants have already created such conditions under which influence future migration will only increase. I agree with the author that as many Western countries grant migrants the opportunity to initiate a visa support to relatives, large unassimilated diaspora will only grow. Developed countries can provide such benefits to migrants as good governance and the rule of law. So far, the state receiving migrants benefited from immigration, but in the future, if all this continues unchecked, will suffer. The labor market for the most part, migrants fill the empty niche as a supplement to the indigenous population, and fresh intellectual resources increases the productivity of local companies. However, Paul Collier is right about the fact that a rich country, inviting everybody to live on unemployment benefits, long retained its status. Immigrants assimilate better in the US than in most European countries, because there is a lower level of social security. In Europe, it is able-bodied visitors live on the allowance that causes indignation of local residents. In America, immigrants have to work, so they are better able to integrate into a new society.
Works Cited
Birrell, Ian. "Exodus: Immigration And Multiculturalism In The 21St Century By Paul Collier – Review". the Guardian. N.p., 2013. Web. 19 Feb. 2016.
Collier, Paul. Exodus: How migration is changing our world. Oxford University Press, 2013. Print.
Edis, Rupert. "Exodus By Paul Collier, Review". Telegraph.co.uk. N.p., 2013. Web. 19 Feb. 2016.
