{"id":5307,"count":15,"description":"Migration<\/strong> is one of the great humanitarian issues of our age and our interviews recommend books that cover the subject in all its complexity and place the issue in its economic, historical and social context.\r\n\r\nSouth African economist Professor Ian Goldin of the University of Oxford talks us through the best books on immigration<\/a>, including a key textbook. Having more people is key for a country to prosper, so whatever populist politicians might say, from an economic perspective immigration is a good thing.\r\n\r\nOf course migration is about much more than just economics and we have a number of interviews and book recommendations dedicated to refugees<\/strong> and, in particular, the crisis that erupted after the Syrian civil war<\/a> broke out in 2011. We even have an interview with Patrick Kingsley, a journalist who covered the crisis, conducted by Ziad Ghandour, a refugee from Damascus<\/a>. Ziad worked for Five Books<\/em> before joining the BBC. The President of the International Rescue Committee\u2014and former British politician\u2014David Miliband also chooses his best books on refugees<\/a> and talks about the challenges of global migration.\r\n\r\nA lot of our migration coverage focuses on the United States, where millions of immigrants<\/strong> live and work without a path to citizenship. Stanford historian Ana Minian chooses her best books on immigration from an American perspective<\/a>, discussing the extent to which the US is a nation of immigrants and puts current debates about the subject in some historical context. Professor Ruth Gomberg-Munoz of the University of Illinois at Chicago talks about America\u2019s undocumented workers<\/a>, and discusses the mutual dependence of slums and \u201curban glamour zones\u201d.\r\n\r\nTurning to the UK, where 'multiculturalism<\/strong>' is the word that stands for the complex relationship between a country's perceived national identity and how that interacts with people who arrive and do things differently, sociologist Tariq Modood talks about books to read about multiculturalism<\/a>. In this own book,\u00a0Multiculturalism<\/em>, he argues that multiculturalism provides a solution to many of today's problems. We also\u00a0have British journalist David Goodhart talking about the experience of immigration and multiculturalism in Britain <\/a>and what helps multiculturalism succeed or fail. Goodhart shot to prominence in 2004 when he published in an article \"Too Diverse?\"<\/a> in the ideas magazine he founded and was editor of at the time, Prospect<\/em>. He expanded these ideas in a book, The British Dream, <\/em>and continues to represent the anti-immigration stance in public debate.\r\n\r\nAlthough many of our interviews on migration include recommendations of fiction or beautifully-written memoirs, we also have interviews dedicated to the literary angle.<\/strong> Novelist Mohsin Hamid chooses his best books of transnational literature<\/a>, while literature professor Claudia Sadowski-Smith recommends her favourite 'border stories.'<\/a>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/politics-and-society\/migration\/","name":"Migration","slug":"migration","taxonomy":"category","parent":6245,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/6245"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=5307"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=5307"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=5307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}