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Martin Baldwin-Edwards

Martin Baldwin-Edwards is co-director of the Mediterranean Migration Observatory, Panteion University, Athens, Greece. He contributed the regional study for the Global Commission on International Migration on The Middle East and the Mediterranean, has served as a consultant on immigration to two European governments, and is the author of more than fifty publications on international migration, including The Politics of Immigration in Western Europe (ed. with M Schain, 1994) and Immigrants and the Informal Economy in Southern Europe (ed. with J Arango, 1999).

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The road to riches

Martin Baldwin-Edwards, an expert advisor for the Global Commission on International Migration, defends its report from Gregory A Maniatis’s critique.

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