Abstract:

The global population is on the decline, proven by the lowest population growth rate ever (below 1%) owing to low fertility rates, causing us to peak at a projected 10.4 billion humans in 2086 before it falls (Ritchie et al., 2022). Thus, we are moving into a post-people world (Generation1.ca, 2024). Finding people to research is cost and time intensive, especially those with rich attributes, such as global immigrants. It doesn?t matter which type of immigrant, as immigration is a complex journey with similar yet nuanced differences for each story. In this post-globalised, post-pandemic, post-generative AI (GenAI) world, we know global migration continues to grow particularly from low-income countries to high-income countries, for the time being. Once people diminish, we will need to rely on museums and artificially generated or simulated models to preserve the historic truths that made and saved human-led empires and civilizations (Dandapani, 2024a). Global immigrants, the fastest growing group of consumers and citizens in North America, are often navigating many microcultures and selves in their quest to belong, survive and thrive in their new societies.