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The Next Great Migration: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move
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93/100Author:
Sonia Shah
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date:
June 2, 2020
Shah upends our centuries-long assumptions about migration through science, history, and reporting â predicting its lifesaving power in the face of climate change.
What The Reviewers Say
... arresting.
... a deeply researched and counterintuitive history that much received wisdom about migration—human or otherwise—rests on a series of misconceptions.
... Shah explores the history of intellectual connections among all these migration phenomena, tackling with compassion and insight a deeply complex and challenging subject.
Shah’s overviews of the historical narratives of migration provide important context for our language related to migration. She demonstrates that much of our discourse as journalists, experts, and scholars has roots in mythologies shaped by nationalism and racism. The narratives of nativism and literally made-up theories should be disturbing and maybe will be to those readers who have never been exposed to them before.
