Despite changes in movement patterns over recent decades, migration has been a natural phenomenon for millennia. Climate and environmental shifts continue to profoundly influence the movement of people, birds and other species around the globe. 

In a new episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell, Cornell Law School Distinguished Immigration Scholar and attorney Marielena Hincapié and Garvin Professor Amanda Rodewald, senior director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, explain why people and birds migrate — and what individuals, communities and policymakers can do to develop sustainable solutions for an interdependent world.

"We need to start changing and reimagining and rethinking migration of all species. What we need to do is look at . . . migration not as the problem, but really look at the underlying causes, and then also look at this from a global perspective. How do we across countries, both nation states and local governments and all of us from our different perches, how do we contribute to building a more equitable society, a more sustainable society where all of us, the planet, all living beings, birds and people, get to thrive?"

—Marielena Hincapié

Tune in to Episode 46, Rethinking Migration: The Shared Journeys of People and Birds.

This episode of the Cornell Keynotes podcast from eCornell is co-sponsored by the Cornell Law School Migration and Human Rights Program and the Cornell Migrations Program.

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Quotes have been edited for clarity.