All very well said, Ravi. But it is getting late ... what is taking so much time?
The Salah impact on hate crime statistic is _amazing_. It strikes me that there is a link to your point about immigration. Attracting the right immigrants could be good for us and good for them (and even, in the best cases, good for the places they come from). But we have learned that it is tricky to get right. Could one really promising area for end-to-end thinking be to understand & learn from all perspectives what makes for a successful integration, and then invite more in - the Salah example, is obviously extreme, but I expect that the same effect happens at all levels of society.
I'd like to write more on your immigration point. I think there are three things that we might learn from with regard to successful integration: first, how we match people to the right places - at IRC, we worked with Stanford to build an algorithm to place refugees in the right city, based on decades of data resettling refugees in 20 cities. The political point is that you can then say that we are matching people to the right labour market. Second, the Canadian sponsorship model is interesting to learn from. Instead of just relying on the welfare state, having social networks that can help with the soft aspects of integration, has huge potential. There are a variety of sponsorship models that could work, not just ones that place quite such a burden on the private sponsor as the Canadian model does. Third, financial flows - how do we make sure that the money follows the person so that we genuinely say that public services are not placed under greater pressure, and instead are strengthened to enable better integration.
All very well said, Ravi. But it is getting late ... what is taking so much time?
The Salah impact on hate crime statistic is _amazing_. It strikes me that there is a link to your point about immigration. Attracting the right immigrants could be good for us and good for them (and even, in the best cases, good for the places they come from). But we have learned that it is tricky to get right. Could one really promising area for end-to-end thinking be to understand & learn from all perspectives what makes for a successful integration, and then invite more in - the Salah example, is obviously extreme, but I expect that the same effect happens at all levels of society.
I'd like to write more on your immigration point. I think there are three things that we might learn from with regard to successful integration: first, how we match people to the right places - at IRC, we worked with Stanford to build an algorithm to place refugees in the right city, based on decades of data resettling refugees in 20 cities. The political point is that you can then say that we are matching people to the right labour market. Second, the Canadian sponsorship model is interesting to learn from. Instead of just relying on the welfare state, having social networks that can help with the soft aspects of integration, has huge potential. There are a variety of sponsorship models that could work, not just ones that place quite such a burden on the private sponsor as the Canadian model does. Third, financial flows - how do we make sure that the money follows the person so that we genuinely say that public services are not placed under greater pressure, and instead are strengthened to enable better integration.