It's Friday, December 7th, 2018, and you're listening to Inquiring Minds up to date.

I'm Indraeis Gantus.

And I'm Kishore Hardy.

Anything catch your eye in the news this week?

Yeah.

So tomorrow, December 8th, is actually a major UN conference on migration in Morocco.

And in anticipation of this event, the UCL Lancet Commission on Migration and Health

has released a major report.

And one of the things that the report does is to bust a bunch of myths that a lot of

us hold about migrants.

Like, what are we talking about here?

Like, climate change induced migration or something else entirely?

Yeah, no, so this is just, you know, it might, obviously there are many different reasons

why people move from one place to another, but this sort of covers migration, you know, in general. There is a focus

on rising numbers of people crossing borders. And so that makes a lot of people think that this is a

problem that is accelerating and, you know, that the numbers are increasing exponentially. But in fact, the

actual population of international migrants has changed very little in the last 30 years. So in

1990, it was about 2.9% of the world's population. In 2017, it's 3.4%. So in terms of, you know,

in terms of raw people, that's a lot of people, but not necessarily so much so that we

notice a dramatic difference. That's right. That's right. So I don't know that we can say

necessarily that climate change has so far, has already, you know, caused a huge increase in

the number of people

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