Quotes About Migration

like most people of the time, that North America

Even in the free North, the initial turnover from black to Irish labor does not imply racial discrimination; many of the newly arrived Irish, hungry and desperate, were willing to work for less than free persons of color, and it was no more than good capitalist sense to hire them.

There is a strong and fairly substantial theory in India as elsewhere that the gypsies of Europe originated in tribes driven out by Indian population displacements of the remote past.

You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.

questa inetta Unione Europea che coi suoi quindici e c'è chi dice venti milioni di mussulmani ci sta trasformando in una provincia dell'Islam, non è l'Europa. È il suicidio dell'Europa.

A man does not belong to the place he was born in, but to the place he chooses to die.

When did your family come to the US?" Joaquin bit back a grin. "We didn't. The United States came to us." Mia's brow furrowed in confusion. "What do you mean?" "My family has been living in Colorado since before this was a state or even a US territory. After the Mexican-American war, the border shifted south, making the San Luis Valley part of the United States. As my grandma likes to say, 'We didn't move. The border moved over us.

At first, when California started winning its water lawsuits and shutting off cities, the displaced people just followed the waterright to California. It took a little while before the bureaucrats realized what was going on, but finally someone with a sharp pencil did the math and realized that taking in people along with their water didn't solve a water shortage.

The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.

villages grew into towns, towns into cities. And people began to live on the earth rather than within it.

Why did the first settlers come?" Hildy asks me. "Why does anyone look for a new place to live?" "Cuz the place yer a-leaving ain't worth staying for," Tam says. "Cuz the place yer a-leaving is so bad ye gotta leave.

Hey, look up there!" he said as he pointed toward the sky. "A flock of turtles." Like a fool, I looked. I knew it wasn't the right time of year for turtles to migrate, but I looked anyway. When

that Chaldea was the original home of these stories and that the Jews received them originally from the Babylonians

For every $135 of public money spent on an asylum-seeker in Europe, just $1 is spent on a refugee in the developing world.

There is no analytic presumption that migration produces gains either for the societies that migrants join, or for those they leave; the only unambiguous gains are for the migrants themselves.

Whether or not migrants realize it, the impetus for their emigration is to escape from those aspects of their countries of origin that have condemned people to low productivity.

Armed incursions can in principle be militarily opposed. Migration is in the end a more powerful force because it is ultimately irresistible: laws that nations introduce to limit it are ultimately unenforceable.

It's pretty simple. When people got out of Africa and Asia and reached other parts of the world, all hell broke loose.

It was a puzzling thing as to why they packed up in towns in the way they did.

For a moment he asked himself where it would be better. Cities of the North, with their sections for blacks only. The South in ruins and seething with bitter ex-Confederates and confused and rootless freedmen. Unknown places with unknown rules, and all in a perilous state of flux.

I consider how we have crowded them and dispossessed them from the Atlantic on westward. They have been driven and harried and cheated. Perhaps they feel that by taking captives they will convince us to stop.

When these people, my mother and people like her, came out here it was like leaving a reality; leaving a planet; turning your back. I guess we don't appreciate it was such a big deal that they may never come back, never see their family again. – John Savi?

An Italian migrant once told me that … and he said, 'To be a migrant is both a curse and a blessing, because you will always hang between two countries.' This is a very good country, I quite enjoy it, it's fine, but I miss my country [Holland]. But I can't go back anymore my country's not my country anymore. Tinie Nieuwenhoven's, Dutch

One thing that I find very weird here in Australia is Latvians in Australia celebrate Latvian traditions by a calendar, not by the seasons as they do in Latvia. It's a bit strange for me, everyone said a few weeks ago, 'Merry Christmas,' in Latvian, or maybe Winterfest, and here I was sweating like a pig saying, 'Merry Winterfest!' – Viktor Brenners, 2nd Generation DP