Category: Migration

International migration is the rule rather than the exception

Column by Sara Kalm, senior lecturer in Political Science Migration is not a new phenomenon. In all of history, people have up and left, moving sometimes on their own, more often in groups. During the past few hundred years, this has taken place in relation to the international nation system...

Climate change causes migration

How does weather and climate variability affect the Middle East in regards to migration, decarbonisation, and food security? Postdoc and lecturer Lina Eklund at Lund University sheds light on the complexities of the region and how projects are making a difference. “Climate variability, drought for example, is nothing new or...

The connection between urban and rural

In Africa, the predicted rate of urbanisation is overestimated. In India, the speed of urbanisation is underestimated. Researchers at IIED – the International Institute for Environment and Development – in the UK discovered this when reviewing the data on which the predictions are based.“There are many myths concerning urbanisation”, says...