Human Migration in Deep Time

In this final miniseries for Season 2, "Migration and Mobility Rights", we reflect on the arbitrary nature of national borders, in light of humanity's much more fluid histories of movement. In this episode, we're going back to those deeper histories of migration, to remind ourselves how fragile and recent so many of our ideas about human group structures really are. Yes, we've had eras of more recent recorded time where mobility was restricted, but are these necessarily the examples we want to emulate today?

REFERENCES

Dowty, Alan. Closed Borders: The Contemporary Assault on the Freedom of Movement. Yale University Press, 1987.

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