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Immigration special

To help break the taboo around immigration, the Guardian is devoting much of its opinion site and its long read to the subject for a day.
  • Flights delayed due to snow at London Heathrow Airport, Britain - 06 Feb 2012

    UK immigration: generational Ponzi scheme or economic saviour, or both?

  • A Polish care worker in Manchester

    Minus migrant labour, Britain would collapse

  • african baby is vaccinated. Image shot 03/2009. Exact date unknown.

    An immoral plundering of other countries’ intellectual resources

  • A winter day in Warsaw

    The uncertain effects of population flows on the environment

  • Tale behind the UK’s open-borders policy on 2004 EU enlargement

  • Personal stories of outsiders who have come to Britain hit home

  • Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov

    What has immigration ever done for us?

    Philippe Legrain
  • Canadian flag

    European politicians envy Canada’s points system for migrants. But how well has it worked?

    Audrey Macklin
  • George Soros

    Why the next George Soros will probably be a refugee

    John Skoyles
  • A child peers out during the migrant's day march for immigrant rights in Trafalgar Square

    I stand by Labour’s immigration policy in the 90s. But I do have one regret

    David Blunkett
  • How immigration came to haunt Labour: the inside story

  • As migrants we leave home in search of a future, but we lose the past

    Gary Younge
  • Britain’s gain is eastern Europe’s brain drain

    Ivan Krastev
  • Immigrants in their own words: 100 stories

  • Six icons of Britishness that were actually created by immigrants

    Oliver Wainwright
  • Open borders or fair wages: the left needs to make up its mind

    Paul Ormerod
  • The Guardian view on immigration: it’s not more talk we need, it’s more honesty

  • Immigration: let’s change the way we talk about it

    Jonathan Freedland
  • Growing up between cultures is tough – until you realise it’s a creative blessing

    Meera Syal
  • I’ve changed. I now believe Britain needs migrants

    Kelvin MacKenzie
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