**Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free!**

* articles

    * [The elimination of barriers to labor mobility (i.e. open borders) is estimated to increase global GDP by 50-100%](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.25.3.83)

    * [Immigration increases productivity through increased specialization of labor](https://www.nber.org/papers/w15507)

    * [Net economic effects of immigration are positive for almost all US immigrants, including low skill ones](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/pol.20220176)

    * [Unauthorized immigration is good fiscally](https://news.rice.edu/news/2020/economic-benefits-illegal-immigration-outweigh-costs-baker-institute-study-shows)

    * [The available evidence suggests that on average, immigration doesn't reduce wages for anyone besides earlier immigrants](https://wol.iza.org/articles/do-immigrant-workers-depress-the-wages-of-native-workers/long)

    * ["Overall, immigration on net appears to be a net job creator in the U.S. economy when including unauthorized immigrants"](https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w27778/w27778.pdf)

    * [An increase in the migrant share of the population does not increase the Gini coefficient (a measure of income inequality) but does increase GDP per capita by up to 2% for each 1 percentage point increase of the migrant share](https://www.elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/062/2016/008/article-A001-en.xml)

    * [Immigration doesn't degrade institutions](https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/16s200z/immigration_and_institutional_decay_claims_vs/)

    * [Integration of Muslim immigrants and their descendants into mainstream European culture isn't slowing down and by some measures is accelerating with each passing generation](https://upbeatglobalist.substack.com/p/is-muslim-immigrant-integration-slowing)

    * [Unauthorized immigrants have lower felony arrest rates than both authorized immigrants and native-born US citizens](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117)

    * [Freedom of movement is a human right](https://spot.colorado.edu/%7Ehuemer/papers/immigration.htm)

* books

    * Kwame Anthony Appiah's [*Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers*](https://www.amazon.com/Cosmopolitanism-Ethics-World-Strangers-Issues/dp/039332933X/) (2006)

    * Alex Sager's [*Against Borders: Why the World Needs Free Movement of People*](https://www.amazon.com/Against-Borders-Off-Fence-Morality/dp/1786606283/) (2020)

    * Alex Nowrasteh's [*Wretched Refuse: The Political Economy of Immigration and Institutions*](https://www.amazon.com/Wretched-Refuse-Political-Immigration-Institutions/dp/1108702457/) (2020)

    * Johan Norberg's [*Open: How Collaboration and Curiosity Shaped Humankind*](https://www.amazon.com/Open-Collaboration-Curiosity-Shaped-Humankind/dp/1786497190/) (2021)