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On the Move Migrations Seminar - Rent Theory and The Global Migration Crisis
- 1. Rent Theory and The Global Migration Crisis Franklin Obeng-Odoom School of Built Environment University of Technology Sydney Presentation in Oslo, 26.10.16 ISSC conference: ‘On the Move – Global migrations, challenges and responses’
- 3. Structure 1. The Orthodoxy 2. Challenging the Orthodoxy 3. The Georgist Perspective 4. The Beautyful Ones are Not Yet Born
- 5. Model Development Culture Capitalism Problems with the Orthodoxy
- 6. The Georgist Rent Approach
- 7. Framework • Race, culture, and overpopulation are not the causes of social problems. • Rather, social problems arise from or are fundamentally shaped by a combination of the following: (a) The private capture of socially created rent; (b) The capture of wages by either public (through taxation) or private (exploitation) interests; and (c) Social progress (e.g., technology and education) that accentuates ‘a’ and ‘b’.
- 8. Application to Migration • Increasing rent arising, e.g., speculation, public investment + increasing taxes on wages make labour worse off, setting in motion forces of poverty (e.g., through unemployment, hunger, disease, limited farmlands); • Tenants may (a) downgrade/overcrowd (b) protest (c) migrate – or a, b, c at different times; • Landlords respond by (a) eviction (b) generating/supporting discourses that divert attention from the land/rent question (e.g., ‘resource curse’) (b) lobbying the state to hold down protests; • The state responds e.g., via (a) police force (b) strengthening the property rights of landlords (e.g., through laws, public investment for private gain, PPP ‘affordable housing’), and (c) assist migration (in which case some landlords may avail themselves of the opportunity to migrate and create similar rent relations in the destination)
- 9. Proposed Solutions • Common land values; not land. How? E.g. Land tax (including resource tax on mining TNCs, (at every scale)) • Protect the reward of labour individually and collectively. How? Abolish income tax, make migrants – all labour – enjoy their reward • Put the revenues from land tax to public uses, e.g., investment in public services for all • Give migrants work, make them permanent, and make them and locals contribute to – and benefit from - the common wealth.
- 10. Expected Outcomes • Less inequality, less conflict; less poverty…. • Flourishing economy, prosperous labour; • Less migration, • benign migration (when it happens) because of the protection of labour and support for both residents and migrants through increasing common wealth
- 11. Empirical Proof: The Irish Crisis
- 12. Denial of Land Rights: The Kampungs of Indonesia
- 14. Border Cities: Rabat and Tapachula
- 15. The Potency of the Georgist Remedy
- 16. Georgism and the Others
- 17. The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born • How does the current migration crisis relate to unequal access to land? • In what ways can a focus on unequal access to land help us to explain the migration crisis? • How is the Georgist approach different from and superior to the orthodoxy?
- 19. Rent Theory and The Global Migration Crisis Franklin Obeng-Odoom School of Built Environment University of Technology Sydney Presentation in Oslo, 26.10.16 ISSC conference: ‘On the Move – Global migrations, challenges and responses’