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Behzad Yaghmaian is a professor of political economy at Ramapo College of New Jersey. His books include Embracing the Infidel: Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West.
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On the anniversary of the demolition of the Calais Jungle camp, Behzad Yaghmaian reflects on the stories of the migrants who continue to flock to the area and who are taking riskier and more expensive journeys across the English Channel to the U.K.
Rich countries have a terrible record of policy intervention in the global South, exacerbating the vulnerability of the majority of the world’s refugees, says political economy professor Behzad Yaghmaian. He argues for a radical new approach to refugee protection.
European policy-makers must address cultural and political anxieties about Islam and refugees head on, rather than ceding the public debate to the far right and their self-defeating policies, argues political economy professor Behzad Yaghmaian.
Refugees, migrants and the struggling middle classes in Europe have all been harmed by neoliberal globalization, writes Behzad Yaghmaian. He makes the case for an alternative “solidarity-based globalism,” including universal basic income and an end to austerity.
As part of the series ‘The Cost of Fair Refugee Policies,’ Behzad Yaghmaian argues that economists’ warnings that migration will undermine European welfare states are based on the same mistaken assumptions common to the anti-immigrant movements roiling the continent.
Comparative advantage is the wrong theory for refugee protection, says political economy professor Behzad Yaghmaian, warning that Alexander Betts’ and Paul Collier’s new book ‘Refuge’ could exacerbate the very problem it is trying to solve.
Since the Jungle migrant camp was dismantled, asylum seekers are trickling back to Calais in the hope of reaching the U.K. Political economy professor Behzad Yaghmaian explains why Sudanese asylum seekers living in limbo in Lyon, France, have few other options.
In the second part of his op-ed, political economy professor Behzad Yaghmaian outlines a plan for the global compact on migration – to reduce flows through debt relief, while facilitating safe passage for people on the move.
With the U.N. refugee summit ending with no measurable commitments, political economy professor Behzad Yaghmaian breaks down the global compacts on refugees and regular migration – the main goals of the 2018 meeting – into a plan he says can be achieved in two years.
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