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£14.99
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2 July 2024
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978-1-91308-344-1
Ebook
978-1-91308-345-8
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For hundreds of thousands of years our ability – and willingness – to move over vast distances has allowed humans to escape existential threats and thrive as a species. Yet human mobility today faces ever stronger barriers that not only harm the lives of potential migrants, but also threaten our own societies. The migration impulse is a core facet of the human condition: in attempting to suppress it, governments are sacrificing the future of humanity for the sake of short-term political gain.
In The Shortest History of Migration, a visionary thinker tells the millennia-spanning story of the movement of peoples, and offers the reader a powerful set of tools to understand the present as well as the past.

Old Street Publishing The Shortest HIstory of Migration

For hundreds of thousands of years our ability – and willingness – to move over vast distances has allowed humans to escape existential threats and thrive as a species. Yet human mobility today faces ever stronger barriers that not only harm the lives of potential migrants, but also threaten our own societies. The migration impulse is a core facet of the human condition: in attempting to suppress it, governments are sacrificing the future of humanity for the sake of short-term political gain.
In The Shortest History of Migration, a visionary thinker tells the millennia-spanning story of the movement of peoples, and offers the reader a powerful set of tools to understand the present as well as the past.

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‘Ian Goldin is one of the great authorities on globalisation’
—Gordon Brown

 
 
  • 'In this impressively succinct yet wide-ranging book, Ian Goldin convincingly shows that migration has always been an integral part of humanity, inextricably linked to social transformation and development, and why ill-conceived policies to stop migration have therefore often been so ineffective and counterproductive'
    —Hein de Haas, author of HOW MIGRATION REALLY WORKS
  • 'an indispensable guide to our common origins – and our shared destiny'
    —Dr Parag Khanna author of CONNECTOGRAPHY
  • 'a bold and compelling account of the story of migration… [Goldin] generally shifts the global picture away from the usual suspects – the USA and Western Europe. There is much to admire in this book for both old hands and newcomers to the subject.'
    —Robin Cohen
  • ‘A uniquely informative account of the state of the world in the 21st Century. A riveting account of humanity’s most pressing challenges and innovative solutions.’
    —Steven Pinker on TERRA INCOGNITA
 
 
Ian Goldin

Ian Goldin is Professor of Globalisation and Development at the University of Oxford. His books include Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years, Age of Discovery: Navigating the Storms of Our Second Renaissance and, most recently, Age of the City: Why Our Future will be Won or Lost Together.