'A dazzlingly original picture of our relentlessly mobile species ' NAOMI KLEIN 'Fascinating .
. . Likely to prove prophetic in the coming months and years' OBSERVER ' A dazzling tour
through 300 years of scientific history ' PROSPECT 'A hugely entertaining life-affirming and
hopeful hymn to the glorious adaptability of life on earth' SCOTSMAN __________________ We
are surrounded by stories of people on the move. Wild species too are escaping warming seas
and desiccated lands in a mass exodus. Politicians and the media present this upheaval of
migration patterns as unprecedented blaming it for the spread of disease and conflict and
spreading anxiety across the world as a result. But the science and history of migration in
animals plants and humans tell a different story. Far from being a disruptive behaviour
migration is an ancient and lifesaving response to environmental change a biological
imperative as necessary as breathing. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out
of Africa. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Unhampered by borders
migration allowed our ancestors to people the planet into the highest reaches of the Himalayan
Mountains and the most remote islands of the Pacific disseminating the biological cultural
and social diversity that ecosystems and societies depend upon. In other words migration is
not the crisis - it is the solution. __________________ Tracking the history of
misinformation from the 18th century through to today's anti-immigration policies The Next
Great Migration makes the case for a future in which migration is not a source of fear but of
hope.
