An International Security Series: Migration

Explore historical migration patterns and the roots of displacement, examining Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia and how these histories shape current migration issues worldwide.

Trace early european migration history pre-1970s: industrial-era internal migrations, postwar guest workers, and temporary settlement policies that shaped modern european mobility.

Trace the migration history of the Americas from Pre-Columbian indigenous movements to European colonization, forced migration, and evolving U.S. immigration policies that shaped the American dream.

Explore the history of Asian migration from early movements to globalization, highlighting colonization, restrictive policies, overseas contract workers, brain drain, and remittances shaping Asian economies.

Explore the long arc of African migration from the Atlantic slave trade and colonization to postcolonial shifts, internal and intercontinental movements driven by conflict and opportunity.

Examine causes of displacement, including political violence, armed conflict, human rights violations, and development-induced moves affecting indigenous communities, and analyze violence and displacement dynamics.

Explores why people migrate, distinguishing voluntary from forced displacement, and examines environmental refugees driven by climate events and climate processes, including sea-level rise, drought, and disasters.

Explore how migration shifts from humanitarian aims to politicized issues in developed countries, and analyze securitization, norms, institutional frameworks, international organizations, and global health security and border concerns shaping governance.

Migration reshapes migrants' security needs and host society threats, prompting debates on framing, resources, cultural identity, and legal status, while advocating multicultural harmony to balance risks.

Explore how social norms shape migration policies and how cities influence national frameworks for managing irregular migrants. Examine policing migration, sanctuary city models, and the risks of trafficking and smuggling.

Explore how migration policies intersect politics, sovereignty, and global governance, guided by the world migration report, addressing human trafficking, smuggling, and the need for binding and normative frameworks.

Explore how international conventions and organizations shape migration policy, balancing sovereignty with migrant rights and family unity.

Examine how international conventions and organizations safeguard migrants and refugees, from the 1951/1967 refugee conventions to anti-trafficking and smuggling protocols, supported by IOM, UNHCR, and ILO.

Explore how health security intersects with migration, tracing disease movements and quarantine practices from plagues to COVID-19, and how host nations assess migrants to protect public health.

Explore the reasons and motivations behind migration, the global dimensions shaping moves, and regional trends across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Europe.

Explore the global dimension of migration through the UN definition of international migrants, distinguishing short- and long-term moves, internal displacement, refugees, asylum seekers, and the role of remittances.

Europe's regional migration landscape blends intra-regional mobility, labor migration and free movement with evolving refugee flows, border openness, and transit routes via the Balkans and Turkey.

Explore how the United States and Canada attract migrants, from skilled workers and students to refugees and irregular entrants, and how regional mobility shapes destinations such as Florida.

Explore Africa’s regional migration dynamics, including intra-African mobility, open border initiatives, displacement from conflict, economic drivers, and the growth of African migrants in Europe, the US, and beyond.

Asia drives the largest migrant share through economic growth, labor needs, and regional flows, while displacement, xenophobia, climate change, and conflict shape migration across Western Asia and beyond.

Explore regional migration dynamics in Latin America and the Caribbean, where arrivals rise, departures remain high, and remittances support Caribbean economies.

Oceania's mix of island nations and Australia and New Zealand drives ongoing migration, with Pacific islanders emigrating mainly to these destinations, while refugee policies and offshore processing shape regional flows.

Contemplate the idea of a global village and how migration has affected populations worldwide. Highlight similarities and differences across regions, uneven results, and the diverse motivations behind migration.

Explore transnational organised crime, its use of legal and cultural differences to evade detection, and how law enforcement combats it through prevention and investigation.