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The New Nomads

How the Migration Revolution is Making the World a Better Place

By: Felix Marquardt

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Paperback | 7 July 2022

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We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. 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'. 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. And now a new kind of nomad is emerging. 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. Young people from everywhere are moving everywhere. 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. They are doing so because movement has become a key to their emancipation. After centuries of becoming sedentary, the future of humanity and the key to its enlightenment in the 21st century lies in re-embracing nomadism. Migration fosters the qualities that will allow our children to flourish and succeed. 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.

About the Author

Austrian-American born and raised in Paris, Felix Marquardt counts nine different nationalities in his own nuclear family. He is the founder and chair of Youthonomics, a think tank and data analytics social business focused on youth empowerment. Over the years, he has advised several heads of state, including most recently Emmanuel Macron. He used to run communications for the International Herald Tribune and is a regular contributor to CNN, the BBC, The New York Times, Guardian and Die Welt.

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