migration

T. Limanochet Jamir, City Law College, Dimapur ABSTRACT This study examines the complex dynamics of migration in Nagaland, focusing on the distinct yet often intersecting experiences of Naga or local internal migrant women and external migrant women from outside the state. The research specifically looks at women in Dimapur's unorganised sector, where many are employed as domestic workers and dai…

Over the last decade, socioeconomic collapse in Venezuela has provoked the largest displacement crisis in the Americas, sending millions across borders in search of stability and opportunities. This research investigated the experiences of twelve Venezuelan migrant families who recently arrived in Denver, Colorado—an emerging and understudied site of large-scale migrant reception.

Background: Despite the growth of environmental migration studies in recent decades, spatial analyses examining the impact of climate variability on migration within the United States at a finer geographical scale remain limited. Objective: This study aims to investigate the environmental aspects of migration and explore the heterogeneous impacts of the environment on age- and place-specific migr…

Migration research focuses primarily on high-income countries and regions, such as Europe, North America, and parts of Asia. Despite their significant migrant populations, researchers have found that low-income countries, particularly in Africa and parts of Asia, are underrepresented. A recent study identified and analyzed about 125,000 migration-related publications. It shows that research outpu…

The College of Arts and Architecture’s Woskob Family Gallery, located at 146 S. Allen Street in downtown State College, will host a cross-disciplinary faculty panel to discuss the current migration landscape, asylum and refugee law and on-the-ground advocacy efforts at 4 p.m. on April 16.

The Ambiguity in Terminology Use of Asylum and Refuge in the Latin American and Caribbean Region Abstract It seems that humans migrating from one place to another is an increasing phenomenon nowadays. Particularly, there are those who migrate involuntarily within the region or to other continents due to widespread and systematic violence as in Central American countries, or the acute crisis in co…

KUOW heard from more than a dozen families that said climate change was a driving factor in their decision to relocate to the Pacific Northwest. Climate migration is difficult to study, and even harder to predict, because a complex constellation of factors guides the decision to pick up and move. A literature review from the Climate Impacts Group is mentioned. 

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Introduction Weighing in at a single ounce, the white-crowned sparrow can fly 2,600 miles, from Mexico to Alaska, on its annual spring migration, sometimes traveling 300 miles in a single night. Arctic terns make even longer journeys of 10,000 miles and more from the Arctic Circle to Antarctica, while great snipes fly over food-poor deserts and seas, sometimes covering 4,200 miles in four days wi…

Mass migration presents a challenge to democracy in multiple ways. Chief among them is that anti-immigrant sentiment often plays a major role in the advance of illiberal and anti-democratic politics. We've seen this play out in the United States, where President-elect Donald Trump has promised a dramatic crackdown on immigration and the mass deportation of millions. But the scale of today's migra…

Migration Policy on the Run: New arrivals’ experiences of idleness, inertia and indifference In recent years, Social Science Works has conducted extensive research on the living conditions and perspectives of refugees in Germany. In this context, Laila Keeling, Anjali Zyla, Sahba Salehi, Nadia Lejaille, Genevieve Soucek and Hans Blokland have spoken to a wide range […] The post Social Science Wor…

How did this project come about and what was the original plan? For that we have to go back to 2020. In that year, we were invited by the municipality of Rangsdorf, in the so-called Speckgürtel (“Bacon Belt”) of Berlin, to conduct workshops for the refugees who were housed in this municipality. Since 2016, Social Science […] The post General Introduction to Migration Politics on the Run appeared …

According to the High Commissioner for Refugees of the United Nations, by early 2023 there were more than 100 million people worldwide, about 40 percent of them children, who had been forced to leave their homes due to war and violence. About half of these had been forced to leave the homeland as well. The […] The post Preface Migration Politics on the Run appeared first on Social Science Works .

Summary: As the planet continues to warm, forced migration is growing in places least responsible for Read More ...

BRI researchers, in a long-term collaboration with the National Parks Service, have provided the first documentation of the migratory routes and wintering locations of two territorial adult male Arctic Warblers from Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska. This study, carried out as part of the National Park Service's Critical Connections Program and published in [...] The post First documenta…

As the Russian war against Ukraine entered its second month and U.S. President Joe Biden announced the U.S. will accept up to 100,000 displaced Ukrainian people, W&M News asked Professor of Sociology Jennifer Bickham Mendez to talk about forced migration.

By Boyana Buyuklieva, UCL Migration – the movement of individuals or households from one place of usual residence to another is an important topic within geography. This is partly because individual choices, but also circumstances, manifest themselves as population behaviours and in turn, population behaviours set the context for policymaking, including where to place public […]

By Hera Jay Brown, (she, her) Rhodes Scholar and M.Phil. student, University of Oxford and Allegra Salvini, (she, her) Independent Researcher, Master in International Migration and Public Policy, The London School of Economics and Political Science. Introduction This article explores the class dimensions of naturalisation in Malta using two case studies between those seeking international […]

Often, a friendly person will tell me, “sure, Fabio, I get what you are saying about immigrants. But wouldn’t open borders lead to massive tidal waves of people and that could have real problems?” I hear you and it’s not an insane comment. Here’s a few responses that critics should think about. First, we’ve been […]

Sahar Priano, after graduating from UC Berkeley with degrees in Peace in Conflict Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Italian Studies, is completing her Master’s Degree at the University of Bologna’s Law School studying migration, human rights, and development. Priano is currently researching the crossroads between conflict and climate change. Introduction This article focuses on the…