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Amazing animal journeys
Shares the migration stories of such species as wildebeest, butterflies, bats, and whales, with the help of a map that plots the course for each.-- Source other than Library of Congress.
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Fit to Be Citizens?
Meticulously researched and beautifully written, Fit to Be Citizens? demonstrates how both science and public health shaped the meaning of race in the early twentieth century. Through a careful examination of the experiences of Mexican, Japanese, and Chinese immigrants in Los Angeles, Natalia Molina illustrates the many ways local health officials used complexly constructed concerns about public health to demean, diminish, discipline, and ultimately define racial groups. She shows how the racialization of Mexican Americans was not simply a matter of legal exclusion or labor exploitation, but rather that scientific discourses and public health practices played a key role in assigning negative racial characteristics to the group. The book skillfully moves beyond the binary oppositions that usually structure works in ethnic studies by deploying comparative and relational approaches that reveal the racialization of Mexican Americans as intimately associated with the relative historical and social positions of Asian Americans, African Americans, and whites. Its rich archival grounding provides a valuable history of public health in Los Angeles, living conditions among Mexican immigrants, and the ways in which regional racial categories influence national laws and practices. Molina's compelling study advances our understanding of the complexity of racial politics, attesting that racism is not static and that different groups can occupy different places in the racial order at different times.
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Pathways and consequences of legal irregularity : Senegalese migrants in France, Italy and Spain
This open access book provides a unique study of the complexities and consequences of irregular legal status of Senegalese migrants in Europe. It employs sophisticated quantitative methods to analyze unique life-history data to produce policy-relevant conclusions. Using the MAFE dataset as empirical evidence, the book focuses on the legal paths of Senegalese migrants in three different European countries. It shows how multiple contexts of reception produce pathways into irregular legal status and how the resulting complex configurations of irregular status shape migrants' economic integration into their host societies as well as their ongoing participation in the development of their sending societies. The book thereby increases our understanding of the functioning of African migration systems and the corresponding inclusion patterns in Europe. As such this book will be of interest to scholars working in migration studies, policy makers, and legal professionals.
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Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire
In Migration and Mobility in the Early Roman Empire seventeen specialists in the fields of Roman social history, Roman demography and Roman economic history offer fresh perspectives on voluntary, state-organised and forced mobility during the first to early third centuries CE.
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Arctic tern migration
\"Simple text and full-color photography introduce beginning readers to arctic tern migrations. Developed by literacy experts for students in kindergarten through third grade\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Migrations in the German lands, 1500–2000
Migration to, from, and within German-speaking lands has been a dynamic force in Central European history for centuries. Exemplifying some of the most exciting recent research on historical mobility, the essays collected here reconstruct the experiences of vagrants, laborers, religious exiles, refugees, and other migrants during the last five hundred years of German history. With diverse contributions ranging from early modern martyrdom to post-Cold War commemoration efforts, this volume identifies revealing commonalities shared by different eras while also placing the German case within the broader contexts of European and global migration.
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The atlas of bird migration : tracing the great journeys of the world's birds
Explanation of flight techniques, navigation, feeding and biology of migrating birds as well as environmental threats to migrating species and conservation initiatives. Maps trace migration routes of over 100 species of birds divided by geographic regions and a supplementary catalogue details the route of 500 additional species.
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Learning Through Life Transitions
This paper examines the relational dynamics that shape learning during life course transitions, particularly in the context of migration. Adopting a relational doing transitions framework, the study investigates how the interplay between transitions, such as migration and transitions into parenthood, along with different actors influences learning processes. Data were collected through 20 biographical-narrative interviews with those dubbed “skilled” migrants to Canada and analysed using the documentary method. The analysis empirically underscores that learning is co-produced through complex social interactions, rather than being an isolated individual process. The findings suggest that aspects such as family roles, cultural dislocation, and gender norms can both enable and constrain learning during transitions. This research challenges linear models of transitions, highlighting the intertwined nature of personal and social dimensions in shaping learning experiences and educational opportunities. The paper concludes by emphasising that adult education practices must consider these relational factors to better support persons navigating transitions during times of societal change. Članek obravnava relacijsko dinamiko, ki vpliva na učenje ob prehodih v življenjskem toku, zlasti v kontekstu migracij. Na podlagi relacijskega okvira življenjskih prehodov raziskava odgovarja na vprašanje, kako medsebojni vpliv med prehodi, kot so migracije in prehodi v starševstvo, skupaj z različnimi akterji učinkuje na učne procese. Podatki so bili zbrani z 20 biografsko-narativnimi intervjuji s tako imenovanimi usposobljenimi migranti, namenjenimi v Kanado, in analizirani z dokumentarno metodo. Analiza empirično prikazuje, da se učenje soustvarja v okviru kompleksnih družbenih interakcij, torej ne gre za izoliran proces na individualni ravni. Ugotovitve kažejo, da lahko dejavniki, kot so družinske vloge, kulturna dislokacija in spolne norme, tako spodbujajo kot omejujejo učenje med prehodi. V raziskavi je poudarjena prepletenost osebnih in družbenih razsežnosti pri oblikovanju učnih izkušenj in izobraževalnih priložnosti, s čimer kljubuje linearnim modelom prehodov. Prispevek se končuje s poudarkom, da morajo prakse izobraževanja odraslih upoštevati te relacijske dejavnike in v času družbenih sprememb osebam pri prehodih ponuditi kakovostnejšo podporo.
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We travel so far...
Describes the epic migrations undertaken by more than 25 of the world's animal species, including humans.
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Debating the highland clearances
Storm clouds always gather over the story of the Highland Clearances. The eviction of the Highlanders from the glens and straths of the Highlands and Islands of the north of Scotland still causes great historical dispute more than a century after the events. The Highland Clearances also generated a great deal of contemporary controversy and documentation. The record comes in diverse forms and with radically different provenances, offering excellent material for exercises in historical analysis and selection. Debating the Highland Clearances introduces the Highland Clearances as a classic historical problem. Eric Richards reviews the historical debate and examines the methods and sources employed by the combatants past and present. The debates among historians, novelists, politicians and economists are no less passionate today and raise major questions about interpretation and the appropriate frame of reference for the noisy and continuing public debate about the Highland Clearances.This book presents a representative anthology of documents illustrating the historical foundations on which the debate is built. The debate is set in context and the author explains why it is not only important for Scottish patriots but for history in general.Key Features:• Organised into two parts; the first considers debates surrounding the Clearances, the second examines a selection of the sources which inform these debates• Presents and analyses an anthology of source material compiled to introduce the debates surrounding the Highland Clearances to audiences learning about historical analysis• Asks why passionate debate about the Clearances has been sustained and provides a modern introduction to its main issues
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