 record-setting number of natural disasters on almost every continent where migrants are often disproportionately affected and upsurge in identity politics fueled by politicians who sometimes espouse fear of the other which both endangers migrants and denies economies and societies the contributions that migrants are there to make growing and insensifying anti-migrant anti-refugee sentiments which some are using to evoke fear of multi-ethnic societies and some of which attempt to expel generations old ethnic groups of their own as is tragically occurring at this very moment in Myanmar