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The UN University offers symposiums all over. This one was timed to be in concert with the opening of the UN this week. It dealt with the how climate change will effect migration. It also dealt with the problems of migrants who are identified as "economic migrants" because the term "economic refugee" would be too controversial. Apparently "refugee" carries a lot of weight.
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But the Ambassador from Kiribati was in the audience and spoke about their problems. The island will be underwater in a generation - but neither Australia nor New Zealand want to let them migrate there. The guy looked and sounded Australian, but he was not happy with the Aussies.
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So what the island is doing is focusing almost all their resources on education so as to make their citizens desirable migrants.
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It was interesting. I guess the things I was most surprised by was the fact that for most of the world, the migration is "south to south" - that is underdeveloped nation to another underdeveloped nation. AND the US Mexican migration problems will only get a lot worse. Not only are we the largest North / South border, but projections so that Mexico will be subject to server desertification so there will be mass migration pressure on them.