Quotes About Migration

I've got a deep dark suspicion that pretty soon we should start looking around for another planet for ourselves.

California is a garden of EdenA paradise to live in or seeBut believe it or notYou won't find it so hotIf you ain't got the do-re-mi

When I 'bout 17 I left Kentucky and goes to Indiana and white folks sends me to school to larn readin' and writin', but I got tired of dat and run off and jine de army. Dat in 1876 and dey sends me to Arizona.

Everyone in California is from somewhere else.

I want to see where you live.", I say. "You look in my eyes. "Be my guest." *** That's how all start. From a misunderstanding. When you say "guest" i think you meaning I can stay in your house. A week later, I move out from Chinese landlord.

Somewhere it is written that I was born to leave my home, to constantly leave, each time leaving a part of me behind.

What's a house when you've lost a country?' she says with a sigh.

Spanish Expulsion and its ripples One of the great disruptions experienced by Jews prior to the modern age occurred in Spain with the Edict of Expulsion in 1492.

explanation. Why didn't they accumulate a much larger population?

Francis Bretherton, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, told Time that if the Great Plains became a dust bowl and people followed the seasonable temperatures north, Canada might replace the United States as the Western superpower.

Our task (the rich countries), in our own interest as well as theirs, is to help the poor become healthier and wealthier. If we do not, they will seek to take what they cannot make; and if they cannot earn by exporting commodities, they will export people. In short, wealth is an irresistible magnet; and poverty is a potentially raging contaminant: it cannot be segregated, and our peace and prosperity depend in the long run on the well-being of others.

Molly had moved when the rest of the world was still,

These forced migrants were also promised freedom of religion, and were permitted to construct their own houses of worship. News of this decree spread widely along the frontier zones and in Europe as the Ottomans advertised—also in European newspapers—for immigrant families wishing to settle as farmers in the Levant.

I have been a refugee for the last forty years in the luminous land of opportunity. Still my heart is aching with hiraeth for my native land.

When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.

Anybody with any ambition at all, or intelligence, has left Canada and is now living in New York.

From the strictest humanitarian viewpoint, any attempt to stop the processes by which over crowded cities purge themselves is not a kindness.

The only group of Atlanteans that was truly successful in transplanting their knowledge to a new location was the group that landed in what is now Egypt.

migrants bring economic benefits to a country, including for its workers in terms of more jobs and higher economic growth,

Le pèlerinage est, avec la guerre, la plus ancienne cause du déplacement des hommes.

That these people would leave their homes, their cultures, their families, even their languages, and venture into tremendous peril, risking their very lives, all for the chance to get to the dream of some faraway country that doesn't even want them.

I'm grateful to the following writers, whose work you should read if you want to learn more about Mexico and the realities of compulsory migration: Luis Alberto Urrea, Óscar Martínez, Sonia Nazario, Jennifer Clement, Aída Silva Hernández, Rafael Alarcón, Valeria Luiselli, and Reyna Grande.

Lydia understands that it's not a disguise at all. She and Luca are actual migrants.

Lydia's English is a help, but there are many different languages in el norte. There are codes Lydia hasn't yet learned to decipher, subtle differences between words that mean almost, but not quite the same thing: migrant, immigrant, illegal alien. She learns that there are flags that people use here, and those flags may be a warning or a welcome. She is learning.