Martha Brill Olcott
Senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her book Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise was published in 2001.
Senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her book Kazakhstan: Unfulfilled Promise was published in 2001.
In the United States and Europe, immigration tends to divide people into opposing camps: those who claim that newcomers undermine economic opportunity and security for locals, and those who argue that welcoming migrants and refugees is a moral and economic imperative. How should one make sense of a debate that is often based on motivated reasoning, with emotion and underlying biases affecting the selection and interpretation of evidence?