The Migration Question

Who are these migrants? Do they steal our jobs? Can we help them in their home countries? Do border controls improve security? Are open borders desirable? **Leila Simona Talani** and **Dr Matilde Rosina** address these issues and more from their deeply researched study of migration into both Europe and the United States.

Assessing globalisation’s impact on international migration, Leila and Matilde find that it is virtually impossible to stop contemporary flows from the Global South to North. Policies designed to control, limit or deter immigration simply transform some or all regular migrants into irregular ones—exacerbating insecurity for citizens of the receiving state, and criminalising the migrants. Leila and Matilde will propose new thinking to the migration question—particularly since evidence shows that regularising migration is a positive-sum game, in economic, social and security terms.

**Leila Simona Talan**i has been Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of European and International Studies, King’s College London, since 2014; Editor of Palgrave Macmillan’s series on the ‘Politics of Citizenship and Migration’ since 2020.

**Dr Matilde Rosina** is a Lecturer in Global Challenges at Brunel University London and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics. Matilde's research has been featured in leading journals including the Journal of Common Market Studies, Policy Studies, and Mediterranean Politics.

Presented by Conway Hall.

This is an all ages event. Under 16's must be accompanied by an adult.