Vivek with India’s PM Modi in 2025. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Vivek with India’s PM Modi in 2025. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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The debate around immigration has long centered on its economic costs and benefits. Much of the populist concern has focused on low-skilled immigrants, those who consume more in public services than they contribute in taxes, placing a fiscal burden on the host country. This framing, while not without merit, misses a more consequential and politically thorny dimension of the immigration question: the influence of high-skilled, cognitively capable immigrant groups who, despite their productivity, can reshape the societies that receive them in ways that are not always in the interest of the native population. (more…)