Global Migrations and Global Development, 1800–2000

The presentation will tackle the following questions and issues: Did modern migrations mark a mobility transition in human history or simply an acceleration of previous trends? What types of migrations have continued, declined, or surged over the last two centuries?  Research over the last two decades has shown the existence of major non-Atlantic migratory flows. But this presentation will actually show that Euro-Atlantic migration represented an exceptionally integrated process that both flowed from and ushered the economic gap between "the west and the rest." The last section compares the second wave of global migration (WW II to the present) to the first (1840s-1920s) and the implications of this for global development and inequalities.