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Doug Saunders

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Hamilton, ON, Canada

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Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Politics

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Doug Saunders (b. 1967) is a Canadian-British author and journalist.

He is the author of the books Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (2011) and The Myth of the Muslim Tide (2012) and is the international-affairs columnist for The Globe and Mail.

He served as the paper’s London-based European bureau chief for a decade, after having run the paper’s Los Angeles bureau, and has written extensively from East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East and North Africa. He writes a weekly column devoted to the larger themes and intellectual concepts behind international news, and has won the National Newspaper Award, Canada’s counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on five occasions.

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The Lost Economies of Irregular Migration

A version of this essay appears in the 2021 edition of Mixed Migration Review. By Doug Saunders[1] Border closures and mobility controls imposed by governments during the COVID-19 pandemic have brought to light a subject often absent from national policy discussions — the important, and in some cases indispensable, economic role played by irregular [.

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Average rating: 4.03 · 1,311 ratings · 197 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World 4.09 avg rating — 766 ratings — published 2010 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West? 3.85 avg rating — 280 ratings — published 2012 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough 4.06 avg rating — 265 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Cultural purity is an oxymoron (Saunders just quoted this).”
― Doug Saunders, Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World

tags: arrival-city

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“The movement to join Washington had a substantial following in the 1850s, centred in Montreal...It faced considerable resistance, though - in part because the United States was having one of its periodic convulsions of nativist politics and a furious debate over the slave trade. In fact, the U.S.-annexation movement would receive its final rebuff not from colonial-minded Canadians but from the Confederate states, who feared that the addition of the British North American colonies to the 31 states would tip the political balance of power away from slavery.”
― Doug Saunders, Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough

tags: american-civil-war, canada, canadian-politics, history, united-states

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“The solution, Britain and its colonial leaders decided, was to import people who were loyal - but not necessarily inventive or talented or ambitious. The colonial administration was soon paying cashiered soldiers from the Napoleonic Wars and bankrupt but loyal British farmers to make the crossing. Reform politicians in Upper Canada complained that the colonial elite had issued a large number of land patents, often for sizable estates, to loyal Tories in Britain without regard for any other qualities….The strategy worked….But it also had the effect of choking the economic and civic life out of nascent Canada, at a moment when the Industrial Revolution was beginning to transform the rest of the Western world.”
― Doug Saunders, Maximum Canada: Why 35 Million Canadians Are Not Enough

tags: british-empire, canada, culture, demographics, history, immigration

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