Hein de Haas (born 1969) is a Dutch sociologist and geographer who has lived and worked in the Netherlands, Morocco and the United Kingdom.

[6] His 2023 book How Migration Really Works: A Factful Guide to the Most Divisive Issue in Politics has been translated in German, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek and Korean.

Hein de Haas has argued that there has been an incompatibility between economic liberalization and labour market deregulation on one hand and political calls for less migration on the other.

From 1998 to 2005, De Haas worked as a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Nijmegen and Amsterdam, including a position as visiting scholar at the American University in Cairo.

[18] At the same time, De Haas has also criticized bad investment environments and especially restrictions on circular migration for keeping remittances' potential from being fully realized and warned against celebrations of migration as "self-help development 'from below'", as this perspective draws away attention from the structural constraints faced by many developing countries and their governments' responsibility to address them.

[19][20][21] Instead, De Haas has argued for politics' engagement of diasporas with regard to supporting the development of their countries of origin.

[23][24] With regard to the link between migration and development, De Haas has criticized the popular ideas that the socioeconomic development of low-income countries will decrease migration, arguing instead that - at least in the short and medium term - improvements in income, education and infrastructure tends to increase people's ability and desire to emigrate.