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  • 7 - Migration in Science

  • Edited by Johannes Knolle, Imperial College London, James Poskett, University of Warwick
  • With contributions by David Olusoga , Chandran Kukathas , Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll , Filippo Grandi , Eva Harris , Kavita Puri , Venki Ramakrishnan and Iain Couzin
  • Book:
    Migration
    Published online:
    25 March 2020
    Print publication:
    04 June 2020, pp 148-165

  • Summary

    Science is an international endeavour. Its development depends on exchanges of ideas and expertise, which are made possible by people moving from one part of the world to another. I myself am an immigrant at least twice over. I grew up in India and studied in the United States, spending almost three decades there before moving again to England almost 19 years ago to work at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) in Cambridge. I was not the first immigrant to arrive there. In fact, the first three directors of the LMB were all immigrants. The first director, Max Perutz (1914–2002), was Austrian. The second, Sydney Brenner (1927–2019), and the third, Aaron Klug (1926–2018), were both South Africans. The current director, Jan Löwe, is also an immigrant, from Germany.

Migration
  • Edited by Johannes Knolle, James Poskett
  • With contributions by David Olusoga , Chandran Kukathas , Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll , Filippo Grandi , Eva Harris , Kavita Puri , Venki Ramakrishnan and Iain Couzin
  • Published online:
    25 March 2020
    Print publication:
    04 June 2020
  • Migration is in the news every day. Whether it be the plight of refugees fleeing Syria, or the outbreak of the Zika virus across Latin America, the modern world is fundamentally shaped by movement across borders. Migration, arising from the 2018 Darwin College Lectures, brings together eight leading scholars across the arts, humanities, and sciences to help tackle one of the most important topics of our time. What is migration? How has it changed the world? And how will it shape the future? The authors approach these questions from a variety of perspectives, including history, politics, epidemiology, and art. Chapters related to policy, as well as those written by leading journalists and broadcasters, give perspective on how migration is understood in the media, and engage the public more widely. This interdisciplinary approach provides an original take on migration, providing new insights into the making of the modern world.