(Part 2) Reddit mentions: The best emigration & immigration studies books

It's a review of the book The Scramble for Europe by Stephen Smith. There is a video of him giving a ten minute presentation here:

• Africa's Scramble for Europe YouTube (10 min)
  
  Hopefully someone will post a mirror for you soon.

I bought/read this book when it came out.

Jason Riley is a fervent supporter of open borders.

https://www.amazon.com/Let-Them-Case-Open-Borders/dp/1592404316

Really good book on this subject by Stephen Smith: https://www.amazon.com/Scramble-Europe-Young-Africa-Continent/dp/1509534563

Walls don't work. For more info, read this.

I answered your second question. I'll add emphasis if that helps you.

I'm mixed and identify as white like Obama identifies as black. Half my family are Christian Republicans and the other half is white. Apparently it is very common with Asians/Indians and to a lesser extent Latinos with mixed ancestry to identify as white. Maybe you just don't notice?

There's a book which corroborates what I am saying with data: https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Paradox-Immigration-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0871545136

How is that myth still alive? "Invasions" during a time when it took 6 months to travel from Rome to England did not lead to any mass settlements... are you paid to post such nonsense or do you really believe it? If only some scientists did genetic testing to decipher our population's history... oh wait, they already did that multiple times:
http://www.amazon.com/Four-Flags-Indigenous-People-Britain/dp/1445287757
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nation-Immigrants-Demographic-History-Britain/dp/1903386586
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/12th-may-2001/20/barking-racists

Verdict: false.

Secondary source because the primary sources are not free.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/01/tokelau-island-migrant-study-final-word.html
http://blog.zeroinginonhealth.com/2008/11/19/nutrition-transition/

This population's dietary history is also described by Taubes in GCBC

Only $125 to expand your knowledge of the human condition ;).

You may want to read Wounded Border/Frontera Herida. I had to read it in my English class.

Languages typically die off by the 3rd or 4th generation. A book I read a few years back, Replenished Ethnicity goes into how a steady influx of immigrants can prolong the attachment to one's ancestral home.

Right now, the largest immigrant communities in the US are Asian and Latin American... as such, these communities are likely to have stronger cultural ties to their nation of origin - including language.

With Western Europe, we simply don't have the same degree of immigration as we used to - there is no 'new blood' to keep cultural ties current.

Although most of us are too far removed from our ancestral origins for the language to persist, many cultural practices have taken firm hold - a lot of regional variation in the US is directly tied to the origins of their immigrants.

Growing up in Wisconsin, while I don't consider myself "German" I do feel a lot more comfortable/familiar visiting Germanic and Nordic regions of Europe than I do when visiting anywhere else. The humor, food, and overall way that people carry themselves is almost identical to what I grew up with.

edit: There are still many of us whose grandparents or great-grandparents who emigrated from Europe; I do know a few people that still speak Polish/German/Norwegian in their homes, but it's a minority.

here http://middleeastweek.org/home/2015/9/29/syrian-diaspora-in-the-gulf
https://www.amazon.com/Godfathers-Thieves-Diaspora-Crowd-Sourced-Revolution-ebook/dp/B0155RJN46/ref=sr_1_1?tag=mideaswee-20#nav-subnav

https://www.amazon.com/Stealth-Invasion-Conquest-Immigration-Resettlement/dp/1944229582

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/get-rid-borders-completely/409501/

http://time.com/4062074/migrants-open-borders/

https://openborders.info/moral-case/

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/branko-milanovic-economist-proposal-open-borders-migration-citizenship

http://fortune.com/2016/04/17/immigration-open-borders/

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1407506?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

https://www.amazon.com/Let-Them-Case-Open-Borders/dp/1592404316

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-100-trillion-case-for-open-borders-2017-2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/14/why-economists-love-and-politicians-detest-the-idea-of-opening-the-borders-to-lots-more-immigrants/?utm_term=.01db014312eb

http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199731732.001.0001/acprof-9780199731732-chapter-6

http://www.wsj.com/video/opinion-the-case-for-open-borders/9A862A4A-BA82-4BA0-A25D-791F68D415D0.html

https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/joseph-h-carens/case-for-open-borders

http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2016/03/the_freedom-lov.html

Etc...

Incentivado? Também não. A enorme maioria das pessoas que votam não são remotamente informadas o suficiente pra um voto competente. A enorme maioria das pessoas simplesmente não devem votar, já que o voto delas só polui a qualidade da democracia. Nós não vamos ter governos melhores se quantidades maiores de pessoas mal-informadas nos assuntos cruciais votando. Ótimo livro que eu recomendo, de dois cientistas políticos debatendo esse assunto: Compulsory Voting For and Against.

http://www.amazon.com/UNMAKING-AMERICANS-MULTICULTURALISM-UNDERMINED-ASSIMILATION/dp/068483622X

I think the current problems with immigration are part incompetence and part malice. Big business really does love the cheap labor. Religious Americans are still having enough kids to sustain/grow their populations, so once we get immigration under control I think most things will sort themselves out over time.

I will check out the book you mentioned.

Extensive quotes in the article from the book "Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race." Anyone but someone named Bubba would have recognized that.

You are correct that immigrants create jobs, but not all immigrants are created equally. I apologize for not having an online source, but the book below claims that the immigrant community with the largest number of business owners is...wait for it...Iran. Turns out something messy happened over there a while back, and anyone who was educated enough to run a business left the country. The immigrant community with the lowest rates of business ownership come from central america.

Not to belabor the point, but we already have a mechanism in our immigration law for people with a large enough amount of cash who want to come here to start a business. Who this doesn't help are the people, like the iranians, who had lost everything physical that they owned, but still retained their business acumen and experience that allowed them to thrive once actually here.

http://www.amazon.com/Becoming-American-Immigration-Nations-Future/dp/1442228946

All the links to the pictures of the sticker are flagged as non-secure for me, but they're by the same people that wrote this alt-right book.


And here is the Wikipedia synopsis of the movement:

The identitarian movement (otherwise known as Identitarianism) is a European and North American[2][3][4][5] white nationalist[5][6][7][8] movement originating in France. The identitarians began as a youth movement deriving from the French Nouvelle Droite (New Right) Génération Identitaire and the anti-Zionist and National Bolshevik Unité Radicale. Although initially the youth wing of the anti-immigration and nativist Bloc Identitaire, it has taken on its own identity and is largely classified as a separate entity altogether.[9]

The movement is a part of the counter-jihad movement,[10] with many in it believing in the white genocide conspiracy theory.[8][11] It also supports the concept of a "Europe of 100 flags".[12] The movement has also been described as being a part of the global alt-right.[13][14][15]

Doug Saunders' Arrival City argues the exact opposite point.

> as long as immigrants are not welfare queens, I benefit from having them around.

True, but they have children whose welfare usage is higher than the native average. See chapter 9 of Borjas' We Wanted Workers: while immigrants themselves may not use more welfare than natives, immigrant-headed households do (because their children are eligible for all sorts of taxpayer-funded assistance). In the context of Mexican immigrants, I expect this to last indefinitely: Generations of Exclusion by Tellez and Ortiz shows that while high-school graduation rates jump from the first generation to the next, they stay at a measly 73–87% (compared to whites' 90%) over four generations.

So you benefit from having immigrants, but you lose money as their kids come of age here and consume more welfare.

> hate

I never said that. Furthermore, there's no way I would say that, because I simply don't have strong emotions on this subject one way or another.

> I'm extremely confused by this argument.

A policy that lets in unskilled people (they're not just labor, they're people) lowers the price of unskilled labor and, in a generation, increases the supply of unskilled labor and the percentage of people on welfare rolls. Many people on the Bernie Sanders wing of the left think that this is a bad thing, so they try to institute wage minima well above the market-clearing price. This makes work pay (for those who can still find jobs), but it doesn't do anything about the increased number of welfare recipients a generation or two or three or four or five down the line.

I propose a different strategy for making unskilled labor more remunerative, reducing welfare rolls, and reversing both inner-city and Fishtown dysfunction: Reduce the domestic supply of people willing and able to supply unskilled labor. This raises the market-clearing price, making it more worth it to stay employed, even if you're doing something unglamorous like making sure the trash is dumped and the bathrooms are clean.

Many Filipinos self-identify as Latino, yet they complain about not being included in the Asian-American dialogues. It's a classic case of wanting to have your cake and eat it too. A number do identify as Asian, and I'm not really opposed to having them be included, but if you yourself claim to be Latino, why should you get to speak on Asian matters?

Heck, I'm 1/4 Hispanic myself, and even have a Spanish surname because my grandfather changed it when he moved to a Spanish-speaking country, but my looks alone would probably exclude me from most Hispanic-American discussions.

It is an SPLC accusation.

SPLC is an organization dedicated to fighting discrimination.

> The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded by civil rights lawyers Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin Jr. in 1971 as a law firm designed to handle anti-discrimination cases in the United States.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Poverty_Law_Center

John Tanton a eugenicist

> John Tanton, the architect of the modern day anti-immigrant movement, wrote a paper in 1975 titled, “The Case for Passive Eugenics.” In the paper, Tanton promotes a “passive” form of eugenics, which he clearly considered more palatable to the public. He cited as an example the practice of “restricting childbearing to the years of maximum reproductive efficiency, between the ages of 20 and 35.” In the paper, Tanton also noted, “Hitler’s reign in Nazi Germany did little to advance the discussion of eugenics among sensitive persons.” Tanton later formed a pro-eugenics organization, the Society for Genetic Education (SAGE).

http://www.adl.org/civil-rights/immigration/c/ties-between-anti-immigrant-eugenics.html

John Tanton considers non-whites lesser to whites


> Dr. Tanton promoted the work of Jared Taylor, whose magazine, American Renaissance, warned: “America is an increasingly dangerous and disagreeable place because of growing numbers of blacks and Hispanics.” (To Mr. Taylor, Dr. Tanton wrote, “You are saying a lot of things that need to be said.”)

> “One of my prime concerns,” he wrote to a large donor, “is about the decline of folks who look like you and me.” He warned a friend that “for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/17immig.html?pagewanted=all

This is white nationalism with a side of eugenics.

We fought WWII because of this evil shit.

And as to Jerry Kammer, I think this guy gives a good explanation of just a tiny bit of everything that is wrong with the nativist Right:

> CIS also hired prominent Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jerry Kammer as a senior fellow and has published a document in which it denounces the Southern Poverty Legal Center (SPLC) for what it calls a smear campaign. The document and the panel essentially tried to discredit the SPLC and to distance CIS from Tanton. Besides the narrow and problematic defense of the nativist Right as non racist, the panel and documents associated with it do not confront the racial politics of the enforcement-through-attrition strategy proposed by its fellows, nor do they confront the politics of racial profiling and the mass deportation of Latinos that have resulted because of the policies they fought to implement.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199342938

Guys like Jerry Kammer just throw their hands up in the face of injustice.

And here you are defending those same policies

> "In this brand new SteynPost, Mark considers the latest attempt to discuss the demographic transformation of Europe without getting damned as a racist white supremacist, etc, and the crude arithmetic of the latest UN population statistics."

Book he mentions: https://www.amazon.com/Scramble-Europe-Young-Africa-Continent/dp/1509534563

Mark Steyn's 2017 interview with Jordan Peterson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4obxH2vSms

Mark Steyn's 2018 interview with Lindsay Shepherd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUMkRa6lBAQ

I was reading a book on the arguments for and against compulsory voting, and one of the arguments that stuck with me was about voter ignorance. The point the guy, Jason Brennan, made was that it's not the bottom quartile of potential voters that are ignorant. That's the second to bottom quartile. The bottom quartile of citizens are actually actively wrong. You give them a 100 question true or false test they'll get under 25 right. They're not just ignorant, but misinformed.

None of my outrage is fake. I have some reading for you, because I suspect my perspective is confusing without a little academic foundation:

https://www.amazon.com/Diversity-Paradox-Immigration-Twenty-First-Century/dp/0871545136

http://www.russellsage.org/research/post-racial-society-or-diversity-paradox

The best research (above) shows that the most effective way to reduce discrimination is to gradually increase the circle of what is considered an in-group. I am outraged that the left was complicit in restricting the circle. Nobody went, "Wait, Arabs are Caucasian and Caucasian are white" or anything like that. Note, these arguments are a bit disingenuous if you don't believe in race, but the important part is undermining WNs. The fact that "white" is even a commonly used label is itself a concession to WNs, and we won't be able to make completely coherent arguments before we back out of this paradigm. The left ceded ground to literal WNs and let them control the definition of one of the most important designations in our society. There's a reason Arabs all mark white in the census, yet in recent times they've been repeatedly described by the left as "brown".

Social progress, if we're going to engage in it, will eventually end the categories of "brown", "yellow", etc. They are meaningless categories and carry no information. The left isn't going to tear down the entire institution of racism in one fell swoop. Given that, one has to wonder why the left's central project is not expanding the circle. Is it because it reduces their political coalition? Maybe, maybe not. Either way the left is still a stooge trapped in the paradigm of white supremacy.