Cambridge is well placed to advance our knowledge about the reasons and causes, the impacts and consequences, of moving populations within and across national boundaries
- Professor Madeleine Arnot and Professor Loraine Gelsthorpe
Immigration and migration have become symbolic of the 21st century. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN), called this century the “new migration age”, a second stage of globalisation, the first being the movement of goods and capital.
Estimates from the UN suggest that although only 3% of the global population is living outside their country of origin, absolute numbers grew from 155 million in 1990 to 214 million in 2010. In Europe (including Russia), this means an increase from 49 million to 70 million (UNDESA, 2011). Of the world’s migrant population, 16 million (8%) are refugees, with a further 26 million internally displaced. Just over a third of international migrants have moved from a developing to a developed country.
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Image: Sudanese hitchhiker
Credit: Christiaan Triebert
Reproduced courtesy of the University of Cambridge
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