Migration debates often begin in the wrong place. They ask how many migrants a country should accept, which migrants should be prioritised and how quickly they should arrive. These are important ...

Imagine your hometown could speak. What stories would it tell about the people who shaped it? If you live in cities like Chicago, Detroit, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, you’ve probably heard a tale or ...

The movement of people away from their place of usual residence—known as migration—has long shaped human history. These patterns, which involve many types of movement, including across international ...

Migration has shaped human history since the beginning of time. As politics and society have evolved, so too have the terms we use to understand and govern human mobility. What is immigration? What is ...

Net overseas migration is declining. It peaked in 2023, and as of mid-2026 it has dropped by 45%. Yet public sentiment has moved the other way. The Lowy Institute's 2026 poll, released last week, ...

This essay is part of The Great Migration, a series by Lydia Polgreen exploring how people are moving around the world today. We are living in an age of mass migration. Millions of people from the ...

At least five financial groups or think tanks have published 2025 projections about "net migration" — how the number of people immigrating to the U.S. compares with the number moving out of the ...