“Discuss, with reference to one or
more countries, the interaction between the
economic impacts of immigration and
recent political developments.”
Important. This is not a specific research question, but rather a broad topic or set of topics. To make it
manageable, you will need to define a more specific question. Your title should be your question/issue,
not the general one above. This could be (for example) something like “Why has immigration become a less
salient political issue in the UK since the Brexit referendum? “.
But you can discuss Brexit, Trump, the rise of anti-immigrant populist movements in various EU countries,
or any combination you please. You can completely define your own question/topic. Focus on quality of
analysis.
One common error can be to cover the economic evidence of the impact of immigration in detail but to
discuss the political implications very superficially or not at all. The point of the paper is for you to show the
connection between the economics and the politics.
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