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TED Radio Hour

Listen Again: Migration

TED Radio Hour

NPR

Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.421.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Original broadcast date: April 30, 2021. Migration is a part of everyone's history. This hour, TED speakers explore ideas about places we call home — and how these experiences continue to reshape our culture, countries, and species. Guests include bioarchaeologist Carolyn Freiwald, journalist Isabel Wilkerson, comedian Maeve Higgins, and ecologist Sonia Altizer.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Manouche and migration.

0:03.1

Human migration has shaped so much of our history.

0:07.6

It is happening again right now,

0:09.7

as we see Ukrainians fleeing their homes.

0:12.6

The EU is estimating up to seven million people

0:15.5

will be displaced.

0:16.9

And these refugees, many of them

0:18.6

are looking for shelter in a community

0:21.1

and culture that isn't their own.

0:23.7

This migrant crisis is, of course, only the most recent.

0:26.6

But I think it's also a moment when we can look again

0:30.7

at how migration shapes the human experience.

0:34.6

These are the questions we explored in an episode

0:36.8

back in April of last year.

0:38.5

And I've been thinking about it a lot,

0:40.3

especially my conversation with the wonderful Isabel Wilkerson,

0:44.3

who studied so in depth the great migration here in the US,

0:48.4

which many of us know so little about.

0:51.4

So whether you're listening to this episode again,

0:53.6

or for the first time, I hope it sparks

0:56.4

something new in you too.

0:58.5

It definitely did for me.

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