Sonia Shah

Where are there places where there's enough housing to accommodate people quickly, enough jobs, enough schools, enough, you know, all of those things.

We can kind of evaluate places in that way, and we can encourage our migrants to go to those places.

I mean, some of it happens naturally, like Zeke says.

because it's in migrants' interests themselves to go to those places.

But sometimes it doesn't.

And, you know, policymakers could address that.

We could make migration safe, humane and dignified by giving people papers, by giving people legal channels.

If they had more legal channels to move, then they wouldn't move in disaster circumstances.

They wouldn't move all at once in the most disruptive way possible to the closest place that they can get to.

as opposed to maybe somewhere else which would make more sense and would have more absorptive capacity.

These are all things that could be evaluated by policymakers and incentives could be put into place to move migration in ways that we will capitalize on the benefits and minimize the disruptions.

I think, you know, the UN has come up with a lot of great ideas on how to do this.

There's a global compact on migration that several countries have signed.

This is not rocket science.

This is like basic policymaking.

But like Zeke said, we have to change the way we think about migration.

And I think, you know, economically, yeah, we can think about it instrumentally.

Like, do we need migrants?

Yes, we do.

Let's turn the faucet on.