So we have an extremely selective regime that helps many people who don't need it,

that among those who do need help privileges those who are healthy, young,

and relatively speaking wealthy, and who leaves many other people alone.

And now the Good Fight with Yasha Monk. How has migration changed the United States and how has it changed Western Europe?

Why is it that immigrant groups to the United States still seem to integrate a lot better than they do in Western Europe.

What is the best predictor as to whether an immigrant will succeed in integrating into their host society?

Is it the level of qualification they bring with them?

Is it the structure of the labor market and the welfare state in the

country to which they arrive? Or is it something to do with the culture of the place in which

they were raised? And finally, how should we think about the current system of asylum? Is it a moral state of affairs that should be defended or is it actually in many ways

unjust a lottery which doesn't always reward those who are most and needs?

To talk about all these subjects I have invited one of the leading scholars of migration in Europe and around the world.

Rude Copland is a professor at Humboldt University in Berlin

and he also is the director of a research unit on migration and integration

at the Berlin Social Science Center, the VZB.

In this conversation, we also talk about how to respond to all of those things.

How do we reform the asylum system to make it more just?

Can moderate European parties hear the concerns of the voters in such a way

that they remain in charge? Or is the only way the change is going to come to Europe from

right-wing populist parties like reform in the UK, Marine Dep Pen's party in France or even the AFD in Germany.

To listen to that part of the conversation to support this podcast

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