More people than ever before are on the move, right? Not exactly. More people may be moving, but there are also more people in the world.

In this episode of Migration 101, a course on the drivers and impacts of migration with Professor of Sociology Hein de Haas, one of the world’s leading migration researchers, we take a closer look at the history of migration and what this means for the future.

Have a look at Chapter 1 of The Age of Migration, one of the world’s leading textbooks on migration written by Hein de Haas.*

Hein explains how the world has not, in fact, become more migratory in this article for the International Migration Review.

For a fun and interactive picture of the global flow of people, visit the Global Migration project.

Also, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) makes it real easy for you to see in/out migration for each country in the world: just click on a country to find out more.

This is an eye-opening read from Spiegel Online on the large numbers often quoted in connection to migration: The World is Staying Home.

What will migration from North Africa look like? A report on the future of migration from that region to OECD countries.

For an example of how global migration may be changing, an article on China’s first immigration agency from Bloomberg.

And since we are on the subject of counting humans… Our world feels like an overpopulated place, but according to this fun analysis in Wait by Why, if we lived as densely as people do in Manhattan, all 7.3 billion of us would fit into New Zealand.

*Extract from The Age of Migration, 5^th Edition by Stephen Castles, Hein de Haas and Mark J. Miller. Reproduced with permission from Palgrave Macmillan.  For full details see here.