Anthony Barnett explains why we are republishing People Flow:
I have long thought that migration should be treated as a serious, positive force. I'm proud that in 2003 openDemocracy joined forces with Demos to publish People Flow, in which among other things Theo Veenkamp of the Dutch Ministry of Justice argued for linking migration and welfare. We ran a huge debate edited by Rosemary Bechler in which even David Blunkett participated. No notice whatever was taken. Then in the run-up to the 2005 election there was a classic Blairite panic. It laid the basis of a Green Paper. Here is what Tom Bentley, then Director of Demos, wrote at that time:
