Smaller towns and villages in Sweden have suffered economically as a result of out-migration.
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Researchers find a relationship between population declines in rural areas and support for populist radical right parties in 28 EU countries.
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Regularising freer movement of people across African borders is one of the continent’s great developmental challenges.
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The plight of those who felt compelled to leave when that reality ended is often overlooked.
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Facing incentives to leave and high unemployment at home, Albania’s young people are migrating in large numbers.
Muslim pilgrims go through passport control in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on June 5, 2022, prior to the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the holy city of Mecca.
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A passport from the United Arab Emirates will get you into far more destinations than one from Afghanistan. Gaps like this have big implications for people’s ability to travel, reside and work.
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Drawn by jobs - or escaping climate change - many people from the Pacific are moving elsewhere.
During the Cold War, Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union was tightly restricted.
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During the Cold War, Russia’s refusal to allow Jews to leave the country reflected its political aims. The same is likely true today, a Jewish studies scholar explains.
Crossing the Mediterranean has taken thousands of West African lives.
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The influx of migrants from West Africa must be viewed as a manifestation of problems in the countries of origin.
People who fled the war in Ukraine rest inside an indoor gymnasium being used as a refugee centre in the village of Medyka, a border crossing between Poland and Ukraine, on March 15, 2022.
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The European Union is once again faced with the danger of destabilization. Putin’s cyberwar on free societies using the migration crisis went well in 2015. He must not succeed now in Poland or beyond.
U.S. Border Patrol agents search for undocumented migrants after they illegally crossed the Rio Grande near Palmview, Texas.
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Demographers have figured out a simple and effective way to estimate the number of unauthorized immigrants – even without information on citizenship.
The Emigrant’s Last Sight of Home – a painting by Richard Redgrave, 1858.
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Migration helped forge the very social, cultural and economic infrastructures that Britain now seeks to wall off from the rest of the world.
Children in this group are growing up with roots in both the U.S. and Mexico.
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Between 2000 and 2015, the population of U.S. citizen minors living in Mexico more than doubled. Who are the kids living on the other side of the border?
Big decisions.
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What migration figures really tell us about the movement of people.
The difference in ageing between Australia and Tasmania of five weeks per year is largely explained by interstate migration.
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For Australia, the median age is 37.2 years. The Northern Territory is the youngest state or territory with a a median age of 32.4 years and Tasmania is the oldest at 42 years.
Outta here.
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Yes, a lot of Turkish citizens are looking for a chance to start new lives abroad – but not all of them are doing it for the same reasons.
Those who’ve stayed in Venezuela are there to fight.
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As democracy unravels and hunger spreads, Venezuelan youth must decide whether to join the resistance or build their lives abroad.
Down the steps of Finland’s famous Bengtskaer lighthouse.
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This problem masks a greater threat to the welfare state than it first appears.
The beefed up border between Bulgaria and Turkey.
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In an unequal, globalised world, should we be able to move between states as freely as we can within them?
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Some perspective on the government’s net migration target.
A line of people outside the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights in Los Angeles.
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How can we possibly know how many millions of people are living in the U.S. illegally? Demographers have actually refined a simple formula that’s worked pretty well since the 1970s.