Why is immigration sometimes a great success, creating a new middle class and revitalizing the economy, and sometimes a failure leading to inter-generational poverty and isolation? And how do you turn failure back into success?
For Doug Saunders, it is a matter of location: Newcomers succeed when they are able to form “arrival cities” – concentrated places of mutual assistance in urban settings. In his latest research, Saunders points to an unnoticed twenty-first-century crisis as most immigration settlement in Europe and North America has shifted from dense urban cores into highrise suburbs without the resources needed for integration. He explores this looming problem, and proposes practical solutions.
Doug Saunders is an author, journalist and consultant in Canada and the UK.