Name: Why Immigration Policy Is Hard And How To Make It Better
Start: 2026-02-26T16:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-26T18:00:00+00:00
Location: Darwin Lecture Theatre - B40, Darwin Building

Why Immigration Policy Is Hard And How To Make It Better

A distinguish talk by Professor Alan Manning based on his newly published book, Why Immigration Policy Is Hard.
About this Event

About the Talk

Our world is very unequal so more people want to move from lower- to higher-income countries than are realistically going to be admitted: managing this imbalance is what makes migration policy hard. But we make immigration policy harder than it needs to be by discussing migration in a binary, polarized way. There are practical ways to make migration a less salient, divisive issue in our politics to reduce the gap between what people want and what they get.

About the Speaker

Professor Alan Manning is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and is director of the Centre for Economic Performance's Labour research programme. From 2009-2012 he was Head of the Economics Department at LSE; from 2004 to 2011 he was a member of the NHS Pay Review Body and from 2016-2020 the Chair of the Migration Advisory Committee.