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Migration - Not a One Way Street

Jim Riley

4th September 2009

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Here’s a thought to update our understanding of migration. In a globalised world, migration is not necessarily a once-in-a-lifetime process. The cost and availability of travel mean that increasing numbers of people can migrate - for a while, so to speak; migration can be temporary. This means that sociologists (and others) talk of ‘integration’ may be a bit less relevant these days, although postmodernist influenced ideas of cultural hybridity are perhaps more important. All of this is discussed by Laurie Taylor in this week’s Thinking Allowed.

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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