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Trade is an economic activity, but its greatest impact may turn out to be biological. Charles C. Mann, author of 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, on the world made by Columbus and his seafaring heirs. Delete the scoop?
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This map is a fantastic geovisualization that maps the spatial patterns of languages used on the social media platform Twitter. This map was in part inspired by a Twitter map of Europe. While most cities would be expected to be lingistically homogenous, but London's cosmopolitan nature and large pockets of immigrants.
Tags: social media, language, neighborhood, visualization, cartography. Via Seth Dixon, Nancy Watson 
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Ian Goldin, Director of the Oxford Martin School, warns that a backlash against immigration would wreak havoc on everything from hospitals to the high-tech industry. The interview is part of the Risk Response Network’s “What if?
This is article can be an intriguing introduction to a thought exercise geared towards understanding the economic impact of migration and the social processes that create our world.
Questions to ponder: Which points of the interviewee do you agree with? Are there some that you think his analysis is off-base? What do you think the impacts on a given location would be if there was no migration allowed?
Tags: migration, economic, unit 2 population, immigration, unit 6 industry, labor. Via Seth Dixon, Nancy Watson Delete the scoop?
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Each year, criminals are estimated to generate around $6.75 billion from the smuggling of migrants along just two of the principal routes used for such smuggling, namely from East, North and West Africa to Europe and from South America to North... Delete the scoop?
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They arrive daily at the Greek border with Turkey-- migrants on their way to what they hope will be a better life. But they are also part of one of Europe's biggest problems: illegal immigration. Matina Stevis and Ayla Albarak report from Orestiada.
Greece is already facing many difficult challenges with its economy. Its tenuous economic situaiton is put under greater stress as illegal immigants flood across the border in search of opportunity. Delete the scoop?
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In today's dollars, the bill for U.S. immigration enforcement since 1986 comes to $219 billion — roughly the cost of the space shuttle program. About 80,000 government workers depend on immigration enforcement. Delete the scoop?
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Migrant workers offer face many difficulties that native workers do not. This article looks at those challenges faced by migrant workers in Qatar.
A report says migrant workers in the country risk serious abuse in the run-up to the 2022 football World Cup. Delete the scoop?
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THE greatest wave of voluntary migration in human history transformed China’s cities, and the global economy, in a single generation. Delete the scoop?
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"A large percentage of people in Rust Belt cities live on their own. Cincinnati has 43% of households consist of a single person. Now, 10 of the 25 cities with the highest percentage of people living solo are Midwestern industrial enclaves including Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and St. Louis, according to 2010 Census data."
For more on urban demographic changes in American cities, see: http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2012/05/how-and-why-american-cities-are-coming-back/2015/ Via Seth Dixon Delete the scoop?
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New theory on how and when the first humans came to America. Make sure you check out the graphic.
For decades, scientists thought that the Clovis hunters were the first to cross the Arctic to America. Delete the scoop?
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The past century has been defined by an epic migration of people from rural areas to the city. In 2008, for the first time in history, more of the Earth's population was living in cities than in the countryside. Delete the scoop?
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Data on the state’s international refugee resettlement offer a primer on the sweep of recent world history and a window into U.S. foreign policy.
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Chicago and Illinois have long be a destination of migrants and refuges. This timeline displays the relative change in the demograhics of those these incoming refugees. Delete the scoop?
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Climate Change Is Forcing Entire Countries to Migrate...
This is an issue that Bangkok itself may have to face as some scientist expect rising water levels to threaten its existence in the next 30-40 years. As we learned in 2011, flooding is an issue and its not going to go away unless some practical and substantial steps are taken. Delete the scoop?
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Amazing work from wikipedia, summarizing the evolution of the US formation, originally here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_evolution_of_the_United_States
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's comment, September 17, 2012 10:19 AM
This is very interesting because I had no idea that the United States had gone under such transformation. Even within certain borders, there is much change in respect to who the area belongs to. You definitely have to watch it a few times to get the full affect though.
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September 17, 2012 10:21 AM
Although the moving image makes it hard to actually pinpoint the U.S expansion at specific dates, I don't think that is the point of the map. The point of the map is to show how many times territories have changed, etc. I really like the map.. I have never seen anything like it.
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September 17, 2012 10:42 AM
The United States has changed drastically through the years with state borders, but I noticed that the regions' labels of the country are still similar today. For example, the southwest is much more divided today but still classified as a region with plenty of Spanish culture.
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About 120,000 Myanmar refugees in Thailand may return home within a year, the kingdom's National Security Council said on Thursday, following recent talks between the two nations.
While we often study migration issues in the United States, the issue of migration, refugees and relatied policies are prevalent here in Thailand as well. Delete the scoop?
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More than 6,000 Somali Bantus and ethnic Somalis have made Lewiston, Maine, their home over the past decade. Matt Danzico reports on how both communities have dealt with the dramatic change. Delete the scoop?
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The capital New Delhi, home to 17 million people, is a symbol of India's rapid economic growth. This growth has attracted at least half a million Indians fro... Delete the scoop?
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Hundreds of immigrants are captured at the port of Patras trying to enter Greece, and as the BBC's Mark Lowen writes, it is becoming a flashpoint. Delete the scoop?
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For years, the focus of the integration debate in Germany has been on the assimilation of the Turkish migrant population into German society. Delete the scoop?
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Long persecuted in their native land, the stateless Rohingya have sought sanctuary across the globe. Delete the scoop?
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We sometimes for get how America truly is a nation of immigrants. This interactive map allows us to view the changes and development of U.S. immigration.
See how foreign-born groups settled in your area and across the United States from 1880 to 2000. Delete the scoop?
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