Fearonomics: why we fear migration

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The new episode of the EBRD’s Fearonomics podcast looks at the most common fears around migration.

The rate of growth of displaced people in the world is alarming. A 100 million is the latest UNHCR estimate -which equals to 1 per cent of the global population.

This stark anti-record reflects the precarious state of the world we are in.

The War on Ukraine, other conflicts, human rights violations, persecutions and violence are behind the unprecedented movement of people.

At the same, as the Covid-19 restrictions are being lifted across the world, the economic migration is expected to bounce back to pre-pandemic levels.

For centuries, the world has been living with the idea that migration has to hurt us and bring the world down. But why? Why are we so afraid of migrants?

Listen to Jonathan Charles, the EBRD’s Managing Director of Communications, in discussion with Sergei Guriev, former EBRD Chief Economist and currently Professor of Economics at Science Po, and Beata Javorcik, the EBRD’s Chief Economist who is also Professor of Economics at Oxford University.

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