Burgh Diaspora Archives

What the Rust Belt Can Teach Us About White Flight, Gentrification, and Brain Drain

With a focus on why people leave, we ignore at least half of the migration story.

The ontology of refugee is the problem, not the solution.

Nations—and even cities—don't globalize. Globalization spreads block by block.

Houston has a de facto zoning problem.

Get ready for an unprecedented economic boom in the United States.

In 2006, the digital economy underwent a dramatic transformation that changed the map of talent migration.

Journalists have replaced teachers as the curators of expertise.

In order for tech workers to cash out on home equity, Proposition 13 forces them to move to another state.

With the homeland as neither nation nor state, Puerto Ricans twist in the wind of political whimsy.

From 2000–2013, Atlanta has fallen further behind other large metros in growing its population of college-educated young adults.