Sutherland was right: Migrants are the saving of our economy

Peter Sutherland achieved many great things in many fields. Yet he had much more to give. In more recent years, we remember him as a sound voice on international migration through his role as the UN’s special representative for international migration.

He put migration centre-stage at a time when it wasn’t particularly fashionable, challenging the international community to examine its openness to inward migration and calling on the EU to undermine the belief ...