Quotes About Migration

I think that's how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough, let's go west.'

Mollie Carter would sing the hymns she loved best: "The Land of the Uncloudy Day," "Amazing Grace," or "The Gospel Ship." But she also sang traditional ballads, known as "English" songs, because the form—if not the songs themselves—had crossed the Atlantic with the English and Scotch-Irish who settled the southern mountains.

This Singer think because he come from where we come from that he understand how we live. But he don't understand nothing. Everybody think the way him think when they leave and come back. That everything was exactly how they leave it. But we different. We harder than him and we don't care. He flee before you turn into something like we. And

I was born in Norway, and when I was little I went to live in Detroit, Michigan. My father was a professor of philosophy at Wayne University, and my mother was also a teacher.

By 1914, approximately 85,000 Jews resided in Palestine, of whom about 35,000 had arrived in recent decades.

Por definición, los Estados son monopólicos, pero recursos tales como personas, ideas, tecnologías y capitales se trasladan de una jurisdicción a otra, generando condiciones de una cierta competencia, donde la jurisdicción que posea buenas instituciones atraerá recursos, mientras que la que no las tenga los expulsará.

Russians and Saudis both expressed frustration with the leadership of their countries, and as many Saudis as Russians told me they would happily move someplace else.

Three thousand Russian families were sent to colonize Azof,

Aryan race occupied Europe north of Greece and Italy: the Keltic, the western; the Teutonic, the central; the Slavonic the eastern; and these, in turn, had ramified into new subdivisions or tribes. To

The people who came were not always the ones who most needed to escape: they were the ones most capable of escaping.

Creatures that are able to flee starvation will do so.

In the 19th century, Europe invaded and colonised Africa. In the 21st century, Africa invades and colonises Europe.

most immigrants are people who have either few skills or very high-level skills and, as a result, do not have good employment prospects in their home countries. By contrast, their compatriots with intermediate levels of skills—such as handymen or mechanics—have plenty of job opportunities available in their communities of origin, and thus tend not to migrate

And in terms of identity, surely one could argue versions of such a crisis have been with us for a very long time. There is nothing new in exile. It is as ancient as the notion of home.

MANY DUTCH CAME AS SETTLERS, THEY PUSHED THE NATIVE PEOPLE OFF THEIR LANDS. THE DUTCH FORMED THEIR OWN COLONY, A

these are the regions where populations of artists and radicals in the 1930s and 1940s morphed into heavily Latino populations in the 1950s and 1960s.

A moss which leaves its ocean becomes pale and dries up and a man which leaves his mother country is a moss which leaves it ocean!

found in more parts of the world than any other butterfly. So painted ladies have many names, like "Cynthia of

Morte silenciosa A noite cedeu-nos o instinto para o fundo de nós imigrou a ave a inquietação Serve-nos a vida mas não nos chega: somos resina de um tronco golpeado para a luz nos abrimos nos lábios dessa incurável ferida Na suprema felicidade existe uma morte silenciada

The transatlantic transport of all of these various Africans to the Americas qualifies as the quintessential moment of transfiguration, the height of human alienation and disorientation.

Unless we can trace our lineage to the original humans and find that we live where they lived, we are all international migrants. Furthermore we are all wanderers. We symbolically carry our homes on our backs, like turtles, snails, and crustaceans -- for the meaning and associations of home are always with us and affect our orientation in space and time, and how we negotiate our way through the world.

by insisting on repatriation, the Rastafarian is liable to jump from the frying pan into the fire.

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor. It was a transient place. People drawn by the dream, people running from the nightmare. Twelve million people and all of them ready to make a break for it if necessary. Figuratively, literally, metaphorically -- any way you want to look at it -- everbody in L.A. keeps a bag packed. Just in case.

But when people move from low- to high-risk countries, their disease rates almost always change to those of the new environment.16 New diet, new diseases.