Photo of woman holding sign reading “We are all immigrants” at the Women’s March in New York, NY, January 22nd, 2017.
“We are all immigrants” — photo by Robert Stribley

Free Flow

The economic imperative for restoring immigration and labor movement in the wake of COVID-19

Robert Stribley
11 min readDec 5, 2020

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As many western industrial nations drifted towards protectionism if not outright nationalism in the last decade, an already constrictive environment had developed for the free movement of the labor market. The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, gave such nations just the hammer they…

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Robert Stribley

Writer. Photographer. UXer. Creative Director. Interests: immigration, privacy, human rights, design. UX: Technique. Teach: SVA. Aussie/American. He/him.