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 peo- ples, and offers the reader a powerful set of tools to under- stand the present as well as the past.