Why do people keep leaving home, even when the journey is dangerous, the outcome uncertain, and the risks well known? For years, the standard answer has been economic: people migrate because wages are higher elsewhere, because jobs are scarce at home, because hardship pushes them out. That answer isn’t wrong but it isn’t enough. After […]
For decades, migration research has largely asked one question: what pushes and pulls people across borders? Wage gaps, labour demand, conflict, and policy have dominated the conversation, and rightly so, they matter. But the field is quietly shifting. Having spent years researching why people migrate even when the outcomes are uncertain, I’ve watched the questions […]
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Who am I, once I leave the place that made me? It’s a question migrants rarely get to ask out loud, because they’re usually too busy answering more urgent ones: where to live, how to work, how to belong. But underneath those practical questions sits a quieter transformation, one that shapes how a person sees […]
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When we talk about people crossing borders, the conversation almost always turns to numbers, wages, visas, distances, costs. What gets left out, again and again, is the emotional weight carried inside every single journey. Having spent years researching why people migrate, I’ve come to believe that emotion isn’t a side effect of migration, it’s one […]
Why does someone leave home when part of them clearly doesn’t want to? It’s a question that doesn’t fit neatly into the usual story we tell about migration, the one where people simply choose to go because life will be better elsewhere. In my research, I kept meeting people who wanted to leave and felt […]
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