<aside> 💡 Migrants are those who leave their homes for a variety of different reasons that include:

• Seeking better jobs and access to better health care
• Running from famine, war, or natural disasters
• Fleeing persecution and looking for political and religious freedoms they do not enjoy at home </aside>

Understanding what migration is—who migrates, where they come from, and where they settle—and what causes migration—both the crises and the opportunities—can affect our understanding of critical issues such as national security economics, climate change, global health, and more.

For Migrants, Labels Matter

Economic migrants are seeking job opportunities abroad, they may or may not be authorized to work in a given country

Migration Today

National Migration Policies

Lasting Effects of Emigration

Internally Displaced Persons: Migrants Who Do Not Cross a National Border

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People who are forced from their homes but remain inside their own country

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• Do not have the same protections as refugees, more vulnerable
  • International law does not apply to them, IDPs do not receive the same rights that is normally given to refugees
• Other national governments/institutions are unable to intervene out of respect for sovereignty; the norm that states have the right to govern themselves without interference from other countries