Lant Prichett Quotes

People tend to migrate from the third world to the metropolises of the very countries that once dominated them. Algerians to Paris; Puerto Ricans to New York; Pakistanis to London.

Migration powers economic growth, reduces inequalities, and connects diverse societies. Yet it is also a source of political tensions and human tragedies.

It could be argued that, in Thailand, many foreigners have come and gone, and the number of people who are considered to be Thai have traveled abroad in a great number.

It is time we recognised the huge contribution that migration has made to the economic growth of this country.

Without economic growth and job creation in Mexico, we won't be able to confront the migratory phenomenon.

My concern is that all these people never want to come back to France…. These people are the gold mine of our economy and for our society for the future.

Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.

The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

I've done a lot of things away from my homeland.

My grandparents all came from Lithuania to South Africa.

Our ancestors... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice, has placed them, of going in quest of new habitations, and of there establishing new societies, under such laws and regulations as, to them, shall seem most likely to promote public happiness

The more we can open the border [with the US] the more we can develop.

Emigration is the great fact of Irish social history.

The rich world has lots of well-paying jobs and an aging population that cannot fill them. The poor world has desperate workers. But while goods and capital can easily cross borders, modern labor cannot.

Immigration makes losers and winners.

A familiar question for Australians is how much we are a product of our circumstances, and how much we are what we have made ourselves to be. In truth, by the act of migration the country was made: by that voluntary act and by the emigrants' ambitions it was built.

Invite colonists from all the other nations of Europe.

Migrants are essentially escaping from countries with dysfunctional social models.

Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.

I think humans are migratory animals.

When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality.

I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.