Quotes About Migration

La palabra 'migración' significaba para los de Tres Camarones la temporada en que el atún y las ballenas pasaban rumbo al norte por la costa, o cuando las guacamayas llegaban del sur. No sabían de otro significado

an internal government report proposed that "everything should be done to ensure that as few Poles as possible remain in this country.

but place is unimportant to a traveler, if that's what I can be called. If it were important, people couldn't bear to move on.

migration undermines cooperation.

people were moving in droves into the city to get new manufacturing jobs. Apartments that once had housed a single family and their servants, surrounded by their comfortable settees, their ferns, and their china, now were broken up and subdivided, with each room housing a whole family.

becoming French." Meanwhile, as the birth rate of Europe's indigenous population remains stagnant, the newcomers are fruitful and multiplying. Over time, resentment toward them has grown, along with

Ultimately, illegal immigration is a symptom of failures that extend well beyond Europe and that will not be solved either by welcoming newcomers or by keeping them out.

More broadly, it is vital for leaders to work across international boundaries to minimize the number of people who feel the need to leave their home countries in the first place.

Cosmopolitanism, once considered a virtue, is less in vogue than nativism.

Uncontrolled migration produces social friction not because many refugees are criminals and terrorists (they aren't), but because living side by side with strangers requires two precious commodities: goodwill and time. Both are necessary to build trust; neither is as widely available as we would like.

Since the court migrated so often from place to place, horses, mules, coaches, carts and litters were essential

And there, next to me, as the east wind blows in early fall, a season open to great migrations, are those lives, threading the air and waters of the sea, that come out of an incomparable darkness, which is also my own.

Canon Campbell told me that most smart-ass Canadians tend to move to the United States. I

Emigrant Gap. Califo

But I don't call it immigration, I call it migration. As a species it's very healthy for us to get up and move around the planet. Sometimes certain groups of people have to do that for economic reasons. Nobody's doing it just to be spiteful. Everybody loves the idea of a homeland. I used to, but I've kind of got the bigger picture now. It's a home planet to me.

Begitukah semua orang, yang begitu lama meninggalkan negerinya, sehingga mereka tak betah lagi dimana pun, baik Belanda maupun di Hindia? Atau, kita akan terbiasa lagi, bila saja mempunyai keluarga, sebuah home?

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

and the one mistake they made above all others—the mistake that has always threatened the culture of a people—was the attempt to set up a new life here, yet bring from the old world most of its laws, most of its corruption and nearly all of its errors. They brought over with them many of the very things they had attempted to escape.

La migración, con todas sus fatigas, sus peligros y sus tragedias, se inscribe en la misma perspectiva. La esperanza, por muy ilusoria que a menudo demuestre ser, ordena la fuga hacia adelante. La migración no se identifica con la felicidad,

Il faut croire que nous, les Polonais, avions la maladie de vouloir changer de nationalité.

Hur fick ni modet att våga lämna indien? - Frågan är felformulerad. Det är rädsla som får folk att fly, modet är det som driver oss framåt. Får oss tro på ett annat liv. Mod, det är att hoppas.

with the newcomers in control of some areas and the pre-existing population in control of others.

the Irish were starting to colonize the western seaboard of what is now Scotland

but the vikings who targeted Kent and Hampshire are likely to have come directly from Scandinavia