Tunku Varadarajan’s review of Hein de Haas’s promising book “How Migration Really Works” (Jan. 6) cites the demand for labor in the West as the “main driver”…
On July 16, the European Commission signed a Memorandum of Understanding’ with Tunisia, granting the country millions of euros to prevent migrants and refugees from crossing the Mediterranean to seek shelter in Europe. But why did the Dutch prime minister play a pioneering role in the conclusion of the Tunisia deal, if only a small proportion of the migrants along this route travel on to the Netherlands? This analysis examines how the Dutch anti-migration policy became self-evident.