We have lost the plot when it comes to migration.
Our times require more migration, not less.
Part memoir, part generational manifesto, The New Nomad is both the chronicle of this revolution and a call to embrace it..
Migration fosters the qualities that will allow our children to flourish and succeed.
After centuries of becoming sedentary, the future of humanity and the key to its enlightenment in the 21st century lies in re-embracing nomadism.
They are doing so because movement has become a key to their emancipation.
Or rather, they are moving to where they expect to improve their lives and are turning the world into a beauty contest of cities and regions and companies vying to attract them.
Young people from everywhere are moving everywhere.
What used to be a movement largely from east to west, south to north, developing to developed country is becoming more of a multilateral phenomenon with each passing day.
And now a new kind of nomad is emerging.
When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills.
We\'ve got it all wrong.
Far from being abnormal, the act of going in search of a better life is at the core of the human experience.
In our collective consciousness, the term \'migration\' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing \'their\' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade \'ours\'.
We have lost the plot when it comes to migration
