What’s Next for Global Migration? Gazing Into the COVID-19 Crystal Ball

With news that viable COVID-19 vaccines are on the horizon, what might 2021 hold in store for the global movement of people, whether for tourism, business travel, or more enduring forms of migration? Alan Gamlen, associate professor of human geography at Monash University in Australia, tackles some of the big questions in this episode, including whether cities will be reshaped by immobility and if countries will need less labor migration. He paints a picture of a world with lower levels of mobility for the next few years, punctuated by periodic spikes.

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What’s Next for Global Migration? Gazing Into the COVID-19 Crystal Ball is an episode from Moving Beyond Pandemic by Migration Policy Institute (Meghan Benton).

This episode is 30:51 long.

This episode was published on Dec 9, 2020.

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