Year of migration
Migration has been a big issue in 2015. Whether it’s the migration of Syrian refugees to places like Europe [1] and Canada [2], effects of climate change presenting Pacific Islanders with threats of relocation [3], or talk of Donald Trump building a wall along the souther border of the US, the movement of people has been on most of our minds in some way or another this year.
That’s why this map [4], created by folks at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital [5], is so fascinating. It shows migration flows between and within regions for five-year periods, from 1990 to 2010. (And as a special holiday bonus, it totally looks like ribbons used to wrap packages.) In accordance, our 3 Stats this week are dedicated to migration, with figures taken from United Nations Population Division data from 1990-2013.
[Georgia Perry is a freelance writer based in Oakland, California. She's contributed to several print and online magazines including, The Atlantic, CityLab, Portland Monthly Magazine and the Portland Mercury. She was formerly a staff writer at the Santa Cruz Weekly in California. Follow her on Twitter @georguhperry [6].]