When the topic of immigration comes up in a political speech, facts are often distorted or buried under bombastic sloganeering. The result is a wide gap between the public’s perception and the realities of this issue. And the rise of Donald Trump and the surprising outcome of U.K.’s Brexit referendum show that politicos are spreading misinformation with great success.
In his corner of the internet, data wizard Max Galka has also been questioning the quality of information people consume on immigration. On his website, he writes:
Wherever you stand politically on immigration, you have to admit, it’s pretty strange how rarely basic stats like these enter the debate. For all the discussion in the U.S. about border fences and immigration limits, the simple question of “how many immigrants are there?” hardly ever even comes up.
In an effort to answer that question, Galka created a dazzlingmap of migration to and from each of the world’s countries between 2010 and 2015, based on estimates from the U.N. Population Division.
[For more of this story, written by Tanvi Misra, go to http://www.citylab.com/housing...ian-migrants/490028/]
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