LONDON – At the height of the Arab uprisings last spring, many Europeans were gripped by nightmare visions of a tsunami of migrants crashing against the continent’s shores. The wave never hit, but its specter fed a tenacious anti-immigrant populism that has concealed an important new trend: migration to Europe – and to the United States – has largely stalled.
伦敦——去年春天，在阿拉伯起义愈演愈烈之际，许多欧洲人被大批移民将涌入欧洲的可怕远景困扰。事实并非如此，但是这种恐惧感催生了强烈的反移民民粹主义，这掩盖了一种重要的新趋势：移民欧洲和美国基本上停滞了。对于许多国家而言，移民国外的人要比入境的移民要多，这主要是因为经济危机导致西方的就业岗位减少。