Sophia Wolpers

All things migration @Labor_Mobility looking closely at GER, ECOWAS and Australia-Pacific; me on Niger views my own; she/her 🏳‍🌈

[Sophia Wolpers @STWolpers]

Our team at LaMP works with governments around the world to scale up and improve their @labor_mobility systems - reach out if you would like to know more or work with us!

[Sophia Wolpers @STWolpers]

What If Europe Faced a Lack-of-Migration Crisis?
Great scenario setting by @alia_fakhry if the EU countries don't properly rethink their labor immigration systems quickly. https://t.co/BGlcZqxJsM via @dgapev

[Labor Mobility Partnerships @labor_mobility]

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⭐ Vote for our #SOCAP25 workshop, here: https://t.co/l3sgDOxwbl

[Sophia Wolpers @STWolpers]

What the EU should have proposed to the UK in order to have made a meaningful negotiation approach on the Youth Mobility visa.

And what the UK should carefully consider to ensure it can stay an innovative country. Young minds are the biggest motor of innovation after all!

[Centre for British Progress @BritishProgress]

*New briefing* from @STWolpers & @jujulemons

🇬🇧 should expand its Youth Mobility Scheme to compete in the global race for talent.

Talent creates growth: 1 in 5 FTSE 100 companies were founded by migrants, and 39% of the UK's fastest growing startups have migrant founders.

[Steffen Lüdke @stluedke]

Ich habe mit @heindehaas über seine Kritik an der europäischen Migrationspolitik gesprochen, diesen Teufelskreis an falschen Slogans und Fake-Lösungen, wie er sagt - und darüber was es wirklich bräuchte, um irreguläre Migration zu regulieren.
@derspiegel
https://t.co/SQNdmKYyNQ

[David Lawrence @dc_lawrence]

The next government should read this from @STWolpers & @jujulemons

Expansion of YMS is popular with the British public, the EU wants it, and our economy needs it. What's not to like?

👇👇👇

[Centre for British Progress @BritishProgress]

*New briefing* from @STWolpers & @jujulemons

🇬🇧 should expand its Youth Mobility Scheme to compete in the global race for talent.

Talent creates growth: 1 in 5 FTSE 100 companies were founded by migrants, and 39% of the UK's fastest growing startups have migrant founders.

[Julia Willemyns @jujulemons]

@STWolpers & I make the case for expanding the YMS so 🇬🇧 can 🏅 in the global race for talent.

[Nathan Thrall @NathanThrall]

Deeply grateful to @BoellStiftung not only for drawing more attention to @mashagessen's brilliant and humane @NewYorker essay but also for proving, in its reaction to the piece, the very points that Masha so powerfully makes.
https://t.co/YyTSHML2q3

[Ryan @ryanbedwards]

🚨🔥 🥳We’ve recently finished collecting the 1st wave of what we hope will be a helpful panel data resource, which we’ve uncreatively called the Pacific Labour Mobility Survey. Here is a quick thread, as we have just released a report with all the main descriptive findings. 1/N

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

One final thought:

Fact-checks after the fact are inherently limited. “A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on”.

Forensic, investigative, truth-seeking work should be a proactive part of breaking news coverage, not a reactive add-on afterwards.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

Some quick thoughts on why large parts of the mainstream media keep slipping up on Gaza/Israel (and why it was the same at times with Covid):

The main reason is a failure to keep pace with modern news gathering techniques, but there’s more.

[Sophia Wolpers @STWolpers]

@LillyBlaudszun Ich war dort zu dem gleichen Zeitpunkt. Es gab keinen „Tot Israel“ chor von der Demo. Was es gab war „Free, free Palestine“
Das alleine ist aber nicht antisemitisch.
Bevor hier ganzen Gruppen irgendetwas unterstellt wird uns sie alle unter Generalverdacht kommen…

[Helen Dempster @helen_dempster]

Pretty straightforward @WSJ editorial today. Birth rates are going down, unemployment is going down, and labor shortages are going up.

"Someone needs to make the case that admitting foreign workers is good for Americans."

https://t.co/zdTTa7eItA

[amelia gentleman @ameliagentleman]

It's strange how Suella Braverman says here that 4,000 people have received Windrush compensation when the actual figure is only 1,681 - much lower.

The press office says she made a mistake

But this was the most important figure for the interview

https://t.co/PPvs6IL7bG

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Fifty five (55) men, women & children drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Italy.

Tomorrow Italian PM Meloni will meet Sunak & they’ll smile for the cameras & say more of the same enforcement & cruelty is the answer to this never ending nightmare https://t.co/cSaJetcRMD

[Jason Wendle @jgdubya]

When I talk about the need for more funding for legal and safe labor migration, sometimes folks from the US and UK highlight the seemingly impossible political barriers, questioning whether resources invested in mobility will make a difference...

1/n

[Toman Barsbai @TomanBarsbai]

The average low-skilled immigrant to the U.S. generates an indirect fiscal benefit of $750 (through their effect on resident wages and labor supply).

[Labor Mobility Partnerships @labor_mobility]

Featured on @npr, @AriShapiro and LaMP’s Research Director @LantPritchett discuss #migration’s positive economic impact across high-income countries facing #populationdecline. Listen in @npratc: https://t.co/tZPj6Qi7I5 #labormobility

[Labor Mobility Partnerships @labor_mobility]

#Responsiblerecruitment practices can only be successful and truly ethical if workers are consulted in the design. Our team examines the findings of @EquitableFood & our conversations with #farmworkers to identify their key priorities. https://t.co/hIaWAvVNal

[Labor Mobility Partnerships @labor_mobility]

"A winning #migration strategy can deliver both near-term and long-term payoffs....Such a strategy requires not only effective integration of immigrants, but also an optimal #migrationmix—one that acknowledges the many forms of additive value that global talent offers."

[Labor Mobility Partnerships @labor_mobility]

Out today! @BCG's A New Migration Strategy for Growth and Innovation presents a framework to aid policy makers in increasing economic growth & social cohesion through migration policies. Co-authored by LaMP's @RebekahL_Smith and Janina Kugel and others https://t.co/5tyMz5Ovs8