Lots of rich countries are having heated debates about migration at the moment.
Dr Roxana Barbulescu, researcher on international migration at the University of Sheffield, said the numbers claiming unemployment benefits were minuscule.
"We should be competing for these people," says Jean-Pierre Garçon, head of international migration at the Paris-based OECD.
Maaza Mengiste will be speaking on a panel about migration at the Africa Utopia festival at London's Southbank Centre this Sunday 13 September.
Ali Bensaad, a researcher in migration at the Provence University, in southern France, suggests that the typical Algerian clandestine migrant is likely to have some form of employment.
But Jean-Francois Durieux, who is in charge of climate migration at the UN refugee agency, cautioned against reworking the UN convention on refugees.
Government sources insisted that the prime minister was not abandoning his plan to place migration at the heart of his renegotiation plan.
It would be a decision to engage with problems – economic regulation, climate change, migration – at the continental level because there are no self-contained national solutions.
Mary Frank's vision culminates in great washes of azure blue and the serene geometries of snow-covered mountains in "Migration" (at the Neuberger) and "Twice" (at D.C. Moore).
Surveys of Thai workers show a steady decline in their productivity, says Pracha Vasuprasat, an expert on migration at the International Labour Organisation.
The immigration minister, James Brokenshire said on Tuesday night that the UK government was continuing to work closely with the French authorities "to respond to the challenges of illegal migration at the UK border".
