migration

Human Smugglers and Saviours

Peter Tinti and Tuesday Reitano

How a network of criminals controls global migration

Syrian Refugees: Exodus and the Idea of Home

Bennett Voyles

The German question is not about the number of refugees it can take. Zaher’s story says it all

The First Indian

Lhendup G Bhutia

Who are we? A question as old as 74,000 years

The Great Migration Shift

Open

Humans may have left Africa long before the accepted date of 60,000 years ago

The Great Diaspora

arindam

A new study finds that humans might have taken different migration routes from Africa

The Illiteracy of Influx Theorists

Anil Bhatia

Those who blame Assam’s troubles on mass migration from Bangladesh don’t see that it defies simple economic logic

The Poetry of the Unsettled

Shruti Ravindran

A protagonist of great sensitivity and disaffection earns debut novelist Teju Cole formidable comparisons

Where are the Birds Going?

Shubhangi Swarup

One Northern Shovelor went to Bihar instead of the Arctic. The patterns of bird migration in India are going awry

Bengal’s Descent into Darkness

Jaideep Mazumdar

What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow. If this old saying retains some relevance today, it’s as a way to place the tragedy of the state’s slide in perspective.

Waiting for Godwits

Pramila N. Phatarphekar

They practice ornithology in their backyards—naming little birdies with broken legs and studying the impact of global warming on transcontinental avian migrations