ABSTRACT
We all have a lot to learn from the over 1 million refugees across Europe (Chan 2015), among the 60 million people—1 out of 122—worldwide ousted from their homes (D. A. Graham 2015) and the 232 million migrants moving around the planet in search of a better life. Those lessons, evident in a number of recent books about refugee camps listed at the end of this chapter, may not seem obvious to those who leave and return to the same abode and who go to and from the same workplace every day, but such a settled existence has begun to change for increasing numbers of people, which makes the global migration now underway one of the largest in human history, a useful case study in what many people will face in the future (Adams 2015). This migration also has profound implications for architecture, especially when we define it broadly as the built environment and human habitation of all sorts. While the percentage of migrants has remained relatively steady, at roughly 3 percent of the population, the forces that have prompted the movement of so many millions of people will affect almost everyone on the planet to varying degrees.
