Migration - Not a One Way Street

Here’s a thought to update our understanding of migration. In a globalised world, migration is not necessarily a once-in-a-lifetime process. The cost and availability of travel mean that increasing numbers of people can migrate - for a while, so to speak; migration can be temporary. This means that sociologists (and others) talk of ‘integration’ may be a bit less relevant these days, although postmodernist influenced ideas of cultural hybridity are perhaps more important. All of this is discussed by Laurie Taylor in this week’s Thinking Allowed.