Demography and migration

videoDemography and migration
The volunteers who offer a last line of care for migrants at a contentious border
30 minutes

videoDemography and migration
In California’s farmlands, immigrant workers share their stories of toil and hope
17 minutes

essayMusic
The beat of goombay
Diasporas are made of vast constellations of countless people, fused together through memory, meaning – and music
Salwa Halloway

essayEthics
Moral refuge
You can believe in border control yet protect those fleeing to safety. So what is our ethical obligation to refugees?
Bradley Hillier-Smith

essayDemography and migration
The vanishing of youth
The precipitous decline of birthrates throughout the world poses a serious threat to humanity. What is to be done?
Victor Kumar

essayThe environment
On unstable ground
A ‘great reshuffle’ of the land is underway. It will force us to reconsider traditional ideas of property and ownership
Michael Albertus

videoLanguage and linguistics
Why Susan listens to recordings of herself speaking a language she no longer remembers
5 minutes

videoFamily life
The migrants missing in Mexico, and the mothers who won’t stop searching for them
21 minutes

essayGlobal history
There are no pure cultures
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history
Inanna Hamati-Ataya

essayBiography and memoir
A grief with no name
As a child, I was torn from a culture that I never knew. It is a loss that defines me, even as I struggle to define the loss
Jelena Markovic

essayNations and empires
Utopia brasileira
Within less than a decade, Brazil will have as many evangelicals as Catholics, a transcendence born of the prosperity gospel
Alex Hochuli

videoHuman rights and justice
Can providing humanitarian aid be illegal? A troubling case from the US-Mexico border
17 minutes

videoFamily life
The precious family keepsakes that hold meaning for generations
10 minutes

essayArchaeology
Beyond kingdoms and empires
A revolution in archaeology is transforming our picture of past populations and the scope of human freedoms
David Wengrow

videoWellbeing
Born in China, Zee seeks a gender-affirming life in the American Midwest
11 minutes

essayHome
Return of the descendants
I migrated to my ancestral homeland in a search for identity. It proved to be a humbling experience in (un)belonging
Jessica Buchleitner

essayAnthropology
Societies of perpetual movement
Why do hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary? New answers are emerging from the depths of the Congolese rainforest
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias

essayGlobal history
One ship, many stories
How a single, unglamorous, workaday merchant vessel tells the history of the 19th-century world in many violent chapters
Boyd Cothran & Adrian Shubert

essayStories and literature
Citizens
Devon, 1970s: I’m a rector’s son, hanging out with Boz the biker. My life is about to open up – what does it promise for him?
Tim Pears

videoDemography and migration
One story, in a sea of millions, of swimming from China to freedom in Hong Kong
14 minutes

essayDemography and migration
Asians in early America
Asian sailors came to the west coast of America in 1587. Within a century they were settled in colonies from Mexico to Peru
Diego Javier Luis

essayEconomic history
Matrimony and the market
The sexual revolution promised new norms of intimacy based on egalitarianism. So far, only the rich have cashed in
Daniel Tutt

essayArchaeology
Finding the First Americans
Archaeology and genetics can’t yet agree on when humans first arrived in the Americas. That’s good science and here’s why
Jennifer Raff

videoDemography and migration
How the world’s harshest lockdown hit India’s millions of migrant workers
27 minutes