MCAF Investor Roundtable on 'How Migration Really Works' with author Hein de Haas
We are thrilled to be offering MCAF Working Group members and the wider institutional investor community an exclusive roundtable dialogue with Hein de Haas, author of ‘How Migration Really Works’. We know that investors have lots of questions: What do risk aware investors need to know about the present and future of human mobility and migration policy? What is broken and what needs fixing in order to enable respect for human rights, and the stable and effective mobility pathways required to support labour markets and human flourishing across key markets? How have border restrictions and militarisation actually produced more movement across borders? Will the future of ageing economies in Europe turn into a Japan-style deflation scenario or will immigration support economic resilience? As policy debates on the subject reach fever pitch across the G20 and beyond, how can institutional investors and globally important asset allocators sift the facts from fear-mongering and distorted rhetoric? In How Migration Really Works, based on over three decades of research, Professor Hein de Haas explodes the 22 myths that politicians, interest groups and media regularly spread about human mobility.
Register here to join the MCAF Working Group members for a dialogue on Hein de Haas’s acclaimed new book. Working Group members will have the opportunity to ask de Haas questions about the 22 myths he addresses in his book.
The analysis in the book takes readers on a global tour, comparing evidence from what are commonly considered Western ‘destination countries’, including the United Kingdom, United States and a number of European counties, as well as ‘origin countries’ in Asia, Africa and Latin America. De Haas equips readers with essential knowledge on migration based on the best evidence, and drains the vitriol from a debate that has poisoned politics for decades.
About MCAF
The MCAF Working Group convenes institutional investors interested in financially material trends in human mobility and offers resources for sector-specific analysis & stewardship teams. We work to support investors to:
Publish new investment research. New research on migration as a financially material megatrend published by at least one Working Group member. MCAF will publish its own brief introduction to migration response scenarios in H1 2024 as part of this process.
Integrate human mobility into existing research & policy engagement programmes. We are engaging with investment industry leaders who are already working on modern slavery & human trafficking, Just Transition, climate adaptation finance, and human capital themes to present to the Working Group and explore how human mobility data can be integrated into these existing projects.
Bring a migrant rights and racial equity lens into stewardship initiatives. We are in the process of mapping existing investor engagement with companies on migrant rights, and assessing new stewardship opportunities across a number of companies, in Europe and North America.
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About Hein de Haas, author of ‘How Migration Really Works’
Hein de Haas is a sociologist and a geographer who has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Morocco and the United Kingdom. He is currently Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Between 2006 and 2015, he was a founding member and co-director of the International Migration Institute (IMI) at the University of Oxford. He continues directing IMI from its current home in Amsterdam. In his work, De Haas has advanced a new, long-term view of migration as an intrinsic part of global change and development. He is lead author of The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World, a seminal text book in the field of migration studies. His new book How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics was be published by Penguin in November 2023 (US edition with Basic Books) and is translated in eight languages.