Lin Manuel Miranda, the creator of the musical Hamilton, has a music video called Immigrants (We Get the Job Done) that might be fun to show in class to stimulate discussion or to assign students to watch outside of class. Here's the YouTube link to the 6-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_35a7sn6ds. And here's an article in Migration Studies analyzing the video: https://doi.org/10.1093/migration/mnx071.
Friday, December 13, 2019
Friday, December 6, 2019
World Migration Report 2020
The International Organization for Migration's comprehensive World Migration Report 2020 is now out, available at https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/wmr_2020.pdf. The report has lots of stylized facts about migration flows worldwide, by region, by group (labor migrants, refugees, stateless persons, etc.) and is a terrific source for recent statistics, particularly about non-Western regions.
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