Sonia Shah: What’s Driving the Migration of Humans and Other Species

Over 70 million people have been forcibly displaced worldwide, with large increases in recent years having been driven by a complex mix of factors, including environmental shocks, conflict, and economic crisis. As ever, the vast majority of these people stay within countries or regions and suffer. Meanwhile perceptions of migration -- which are often incorrect -- are exploited by regressive political movements. In this episode of the "Great Unraveling?" series, Sonia Shah joins Laurie Laybourn-Langton to explore the factors driving migration -- how fragilities in social, economic and political systems, as well as environmental destabilization, could impact migration into the future, and how we should think differently about migration as a problem.
Sonia Shah is a science journalist and prize-winning author. Her books include Pandemic: Tracking Contagions from Cholera to Coronaviruses and Beyond, and The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move.