Listen Again: Migration

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Original broadcast date: April 30, 2021. Migration is a part of everyone's history. This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about places we call home — and how these experiences continue to reshape our culture, countries, and species. Guests include bioarchaeologist Carolyn Freiwald, journalist Isabel Wilkerson, comedian Maeve Higgins, and ecologist Sonia Altizer.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Manouche and migration.
0:03.1	Human migration has shaped so much of our history.
0:07.6	It is happening again right now,
0:09.7	as we see Ukrainians fleeing their homes.
0:12.6	The EU is estimating up to seven million people
0:15.5	will be displaced.
0:16.9	And these refugees, many of them
0:18.6	are looking for shelter in a community
0:21.1	and culture that isn't their own.
0:23.7	This migrant crisis is, of course, only the most recent.
0:26.6	But I think it's also a moment when we can look again
0:30.7	at how migration shapes the human experience.
0:34.6	These are the questions we explored in an episode
0:36.8	back in April of last year.
0:38.5	And I've been thinking about it a lot,
0:40.3	especially my conversation with the wonderful Isabel Wilkerson,
0:44.3	who studied so in depth the great migration here in the US,
0:48.4	which many of us know so little about.
0:51.4	So whether you're listening to this episode again,
0:53.6	or for the first time, I hope it sparks
0:56.4	something new in you too.
0:58.5	It definitely did for me.
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