Quotes About Migration

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific

The complicated formula that allowed these purchases included their assistance in obtaining Con O'Neill's pardon, his release from prison, and, oddly, a knighthood for O'Neill balanced by a pledge from the two lairds to King James that the land would be "planted with British Protestants." 6 Almost immediately, Montgomery and Hamilton began arranging the migration of large numbers of lowland Scots into their Ulster lands.

Food, like language, is always in motion, propelled by the same events that fill our history books. Wars, advances in science and technology, and shifting patterns of migration and commerce are continuously shaping and reshaping the foods that sustain us.

The godwits vanish towards another summer. Everywhere in light and calm the murmuring Shadow of departure; distance looks our way; And none knows where he will lie down at night.

Distance looks our way; the godwits vanish towards another summer and none knows where he will lie down at night.

So I, a migratory bird, am suffering from the need to return to the place I have come from before the season and sun are right for my return. Do I meet spring summer or winter? Here I live in a perpetual other season unable to read in the sky, the sun, the temperature, the signs for returning.

If immigration and diversity bring cultural enrichment, why do whites move out of those very parts of the country that are being "enriched"?

blacks are suffering more from the invasion [of Spanish] than whites because they have fewer resources with which to run away from immigration.

It's always good to motivate migration by means of some kind of bonus. For example, offer functionality in the new API that cannot be achieved in the old version.

The tiny Emirates has more than eight million migrants—more than Canada, France, Australia, or Spain. A rags-to-riches story on a nation-state scale, it was a sleepy patch of desert until the 1960s, when it discovered it held 9 percent of the world's oil.

No country relies on migrants more than the United Arab Emirates, where 88 percent of the population and nearly the entire private workforce is foreign-born.

Migration had brought development, to a degree that no one had imagined. And development brought more migration.

Gloria Anzaldúa, who revolutionised the Chicana writing of her generation, called the border 'una herida abierta – an open wound – where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds. And before a scab forms, it haemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two countries merging to form a third country – a border culture.

En Lima, capital de Perú, la interrupción del abastecimiento alimentario ha llevado a centenares de miles de habitantes de zonas rurales, que habían emigrado a la ciudad en busca de trabajo, a tener que volver a sus pueblos recorriendo a veces centenares de kilómetros a pie por falta de transporte.

The night before I left home, there was the wake in our kitchen as was the custom for anyone going so far away. The kitchen was full of people, two men left their flash lamps lit

More than six out of ten runaways from the Balls and their peers had been born in Africa.

They treat Haitians like dogs in the Bahamas, a woman says. To them, we are not human. Even though their music sounds like ours. Their people look like ours. Even though we had the same African fathers who probably crossed these same seas together.

There is a significant moral difference between a person who commits a violent crime and a person who tries to cross a border illegally in order to put food on the family table. Such migrants may violate our laws against illicit entry, but if that's all they do then they are trespassers, not criminals. They deserve to have their dignity respected.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of a March thaw, is the spring.

The enthusiasm of geese for high water is a subtle thing, and might be overlooked by those unfamiliar with goose gossip...

By this international commerce of geese, the waste corn of Illinois is carried through the clouds to the Arctic tundras, there to combine with the waste sunlight of a nightless June to grow goslings for all the lands between. And in this annual barter of food for light, and winter warmth for summer solitude, the whole continent receives as net profit a wild poem dropped from the murky skies upon the muds of March.

A cardinal, whistling spring to a thaw but later finding himself mistaken, can retrieve his error by resuming his winter silence. A chipmunk, emerging for a sunbath but finding a blizzard, has only to go back to bed. But a migrating goose, staking two hundred miles of black night on the chance of finding a hole in the lake, has no easy chance for retreat. His arrival carries the conviction of a prophet who has burned his bridges.

By this international commerce of geese, the waste corn of Illinois is carried through the clouds to the Arctic tundras, there to combine with the waste sunlight of a nightless June to grow goslings fro all the lands between. And in this annual barter of food for light, and winter warmth for summer solitude, the whole continent receives as a net profit a wild poem dropped from the murky skies upon the muds of March.