On the road again

• Autores: Debora MacKenzie
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3068, 2016, págs. 29-37
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Humans migrate. It is a characteristic of the species. Yet now a migration crisis is headline news. More than a million desperate people fled to Europe in 2015, and nearly 4,000 died trying. The influx is increasing and about to swell more as the weather improves. The UN says Europe faces "an imminent humanitarian crisis, largely of its own making. And it is not alone. The UN has also censured Australia for sending boatloads of refugees to squalid camps in other countries, while US politicians talk of building a wall while tens of thousands of lone children flee violence in Latin America across the US-Mexican border. Here, MacKenzie asks whether modern immigration can really be a crisis