[…] the resumption, extension, and amplification of migrations. At the very moment when every country is experiencing the multiple threats of globalization, many are having to figure out how to welcome onto their soil millions of people – perhaps tens of millions! [6] – who are driven by the cumulative action of wars, failed attempts at economic development, and climate change, to search for territory they and their children can inhabit.
[6]. Dina Ionesco, Daria Mokhnacheva, and François Gemenne, The Atlas of Environmental Migration (London: Routledge, 2016).
Some will claim that this is a very old problem. But no: these three phenomena are simply different aspects of one and the same metamorphosis: the very notion of soil is changing. The soil of globalization’s dreams is beginning to slip away. This is the truly new aspect of what is discreetly called the “Migratory Crisis.”
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LATOUR, Bruno, 2018. Down to earth: politics in the new climatic regime. Cambridge, UK Medford, MA, USA: Polity. ProQuest Ebook Central. ISBN 978-1-5095-3056-4. page 
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