Quotes About Migration

The 'racial types' they posited are of relatively recent origin, having been replaced over and over by other types of populations in previous centuries.

Ignored are the secular regimes and processes that have historically been evident in many Muslim-majority countries such as Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, and Tunisia, as well as the secularism evident in second- and third-generation migrants from these countries.

The world is full of people looking for meaning in the shape of a bird not native to this country turning up in this country after all.

I want to migrate, but there's nowhere left to go. If I could only find an unclaimed space.

The western seaboard was, in part, settled by migrants from Iberia and south-western France and they often came by sea. There is a clear set of staging posts marked by a shared lexicon. Celtic languages were once spoken in Spain and are still whispered in Galicia, Breton clings on in Brittany, Cornish is being revived, Welsh thrives, Manx survives, Irish is constitutionally enshrined and Scots Gaelic hangs on, just.

What birds are these wildgeese—flying from precincts where the earth and oceans end— with their enormous wings and speckled throats?

That's the problem with very high taxes - they don't redistribute wealth; they redistribute people.

Rather than improving the wealth of their own nation, the Mexican government encourages its poor to come to the U.S. and send money home.

The truth is, however rich people get, they hate paying tax. Some live abroad for a year, or years at a time just to avoid it. Bizarre really - desperate economic migrants are driven to leave their homeland because of poverty; tax exiles are driven overseas by their wealth.

The global realignment is accelerating the migration of growth and wealth dynamics from the industrial world to the larger emerging economies.

Capital goes where it feels comfortable and warm, and if it's cold, it runs to a country which gives it better weather.

Australia has the British way of life - and great weather. I could live there.

There are enough Poles in Chicago to make up one of the largest cities in Poland.

You're a white South African, and right away you have to explain yourself. Occasionally, I get hassled until I explain my point of view. I have to make it clear that I don't live there anymore, and I don't approve of the brutal racial policies.

About 1900 my parents came to the United States as children from what was then the Polish area of Russia.

My grandfather, in 1848, had fled from Germany to find political freedom in the United States.

The globalization that has rescued so many in poor countries has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper.

At Ellis Island, I mean, you didn't go there if you arrived in first class. It was only the poorest, the people in the worst shape.

Land degradation, rising sea levels, famine, and conflict will continue to drive people from their homes and towards cities, with megacities like Mexico City and Lagos becoming increasingly common in some of the poorest parts of the world.

Poorly negotiated and lazily enforced trade deals have caused jobs to flee the heartland.

There is not one single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.

There's a point at which we have to control our borders. The bottom line is the world is full up and the population on the planet is getting bigger and bigger and there ain't much room any more. So, how's it going to work? I don't know.

Jewish immigration in the 20th century was fueled by the Holocaust, which destroyed most of the European Jewish community. The migration made the United States the home of the largest Jewish population in the world.

Mobility will be one of the major beneficiaries of population growth in the world.