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- 1 online resource.
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- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 08, 2023).
- Contents
- Introduction: Living on a broken planet -- Human migration -- The global refugee crisis -- Origins and causes of human migration -- A brief prehistory of the peopling of the world -- European exploration and transoceanic migration -- The Columbian exchange -- Conquest and colonialism -- Adventurers, Pilgrims, and Puritans -- The Atlantic slave trade -- Australia: transportation beyond the seas -- Ireland and the great Atlantic migration -- World War II and mass migration -- Decolonization and the partition of India -- Post-World War II refugee protections -- Guestworkers and asylum seekers in the Federal Republic of Germany -- Terrorism, war, and displacement in Iraq and Afghanistan -- Migration and the Arab spring revolution -- The 2015 refugee crisis in Europe -- Russia's invasion of Ukraine -- Conclusion -- Migration's global impact -- The psychosocial toll: between happiness and sorrow -- Race, ethnicity, and culture -- America: beyond the melting pot -- Multiculturalism and the Canadian mosaic -- Europe under strain -- Informal settlements in Italy -- Parallel societies in Sweden -- What effect does immigration have on the U.S. economy? -- Immigration and crime -- Migrants and military readiness -- The environmental impact -- Food, the most enjoyable contribution of all -- Conclusion -- Responses to global migration -- Xenophobia and violence in South Africa -- Ethnic cleansing: Rohingya refugees in Myanmar and Bangladesh -- Turkey and the Syrian crisis -- European responses to immigration -- Brexit: Britain's exit from the European Union -- Support for right-wing nationalists in Germany -- Nongovernmental organization responses: sea-watch -- The United States under Donald Trump -- Deportations -- The travel ban -- Refugee restrictions -- Birthright citizenship -- Child separation -- Neo-Nationalism -- Exodus from Venezuela -- Australia's "Pacific Solution" -- New Zealand: massacre in Christchurch -- Conclusion -- Future implications of global migration -- Population growth in the twenty-first century -- Demographic pressures in an unequal world -- Japan: the world's oldest society -- Germany's baby bust -- An older, more diverse America -- Defusing India's population bomb -- Nigeria: Africa's most populous country -- The age of climate migration -- The new abnormal: world on fire -- Hothouse earth: heatwaves and eco-anxiety -- Abandoning Jakarta: Indonesia's sinking metropolis -- International efforts to address coming crises -- The Nansen initiative -- The global compact for safe, orderly, and regular migration -- The global compact on refugees -- Globalization and migration -- Technology: extending borders into cyberspace -- Global health and the next pandemic -- Conclusion.
- ISBN
- 9781440858451
- 1440858454
- 9798216171843
- OCLC
- om3619817804
- Author
Dickinson, Eliot, author.
- Title
Human migration and the refugee crisis : origins and global impact / Eliot Dickinson.
- Publisher
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, [2023]
- Type of Content
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- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 08, 2023).
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