Patrick Breyer, a staunch defender of digital rights, laments the Pirate Party’s exit from the EU Parliament as a blow to online privacy.

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    20 days ago

    I partly agree, which is why I mentioned spending resources more effectively in the countries.

    Pull effects are absolutely real, ignoring them is idiotic.

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      20 days ago

      Pull effects have never been empirically shown. You’re repeating the right’s talking points.

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            20 days ago

            Fair point, but that still gives me room to doubt the claim that pull factors have no impact on migration, I must appologize to my overly confidant commwnt earlier in the thread

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              As I said: the theory of push- and pull-factors is outdated and not really taken seriously in academics anymore. Are you claiming that you know reasons for migration better than academia?

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                To be frank, no, I don’t claim to understand migration factors better than experts.

                But if that theory is no longer seen as credible, I wonder how academia explains migration factors.

                For me it isn’t good enough to just say that the theories are wrong, I need to know what factors they believe causes migration instead.