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Glynn Custred Sighs About Social Science
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Glynn Custred writes:
An article by
Gary Freeman from U.T. Austin in
International Migration Review(1995)[i]
explains why the majority of people in a liberal
democratic country favor restrictions on immigration but
why they will not only fail to get such policies, but
why immigration will indeed expand. This, he says, is
even more the case in the English-speaking immigrant
receiving countries due to the "folklore" of immigration
built into their political and popular cultures. (I call
it the
huddled masses myth.) Freeman also observes the role
played by the kind of
demonization you have suffered.
A follow-up article[ii]
criticizes Freedman (they never let a critic of received
wisdom have his say alone). That article, by
Rogers Brubaker, concedes all of Freeman's points,
complaining only that the model he presents is too
inclusive.
Have you ever heard of Freeman's
explanation? Of course not. As far as I know he is the
only social scientist who is talking about this, and is
thus grandly ignored.
[i] Gary Freeman, “Modes of
Immigration Politics in Liberal Democratic States,”
International Migration Review 29:4 (Winter
1995), pp. 881-902.
[ii] Rogers Brubaker, “Comments
on 'Modes of immigration politics in liberal
democratic states.'” (reply to G. Freeman, in this
issue), International Migration
Review 29:4 (Winter 1995)
September 21, 2002
