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"Migrant" didn't exist as a category until modernity. Before that you had refugees, invaders, slaves, and merchants/sailors (not counting nomads). In the 1300s there were 2 people who didn't fit those special categories (Ibn Batuta, Petrarch,...). Now: 244m, 3% of world.
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If migrants were a country, they'd be the 5th largest in the world. This is a hilariously disenfranchised group. Humanity has put itself into a nativist zugzwang since Westphalia: you move you lose. Instant demotion from human to subhuman.
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Thought experiment: what would it take to organize migrants into a sort of virtual second-order nation? You prove you've lived/worked in 2+ countries, you get a "Globalist" passport that gets you some sort of recognition and privileges in the interstices of world. Like seasteads.
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