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International migration is transforming political space. Since 1980, the number of international migrants has more than doubled, reaching an estimated 214 million in 2010. Enabled by revolutions in transport and communications and encouraged by global patterns of crisis, inequality and opportunity, more people are now on the move. These movements run against the grain of the state system. Migrants challenge sovereign borders, reshape political identities and make it difficult to sustain the idea of discrete national homelands. In these several ways, international migration calls into question state territoriality, a fundamental — perhaps the fundamental — principle of the international system.1
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Vigneswaran, D. (2013). Introduction. In: Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System. Palgrave Studies in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391291_1
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