- African odysseys turn to the south
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Fewer than 5% of African migrants now want to reach Europe or America. They’re looking instead to neighbouring countries, or the continent’s dreamland, South Africa. It’s a long, hard way there, and they may be no better off if they reach it.
- 'Being treated like slaves': Why migrant exploitation exists
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A look at the labour market in modern capitalist society, and how it leads to the exploitation of migrant workers who are sometimes treated as slaves.
- The bird that travels 29,000km a year
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The Rufa red knot's epic annual migration from Tierra del Fuego to the Canadian Arctic risks being grounded by climate change.
- Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Climate justice and migration in the media
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A climate justice narrative is needed to communicate and enhance public understanding of migration induced by climate change. Key components must include human rights protection, greater equity in burdens sharing, and participation in decision-making processes.
- Climate Migrants Lead Mass Migration to India's Cities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
South Asia will be severely impacted by climate change and cause challenges that the government must resolve.
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Drought
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
As a result of the persistent drought, an entire community prepares for an inevitable exodus from their homeland in northern Mexico.
- Ethiopian workers 'beaten and robbed' by Saudi police
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A group of undocumented Ethiopians told The Associated Press news agency that after being captured by Saudi police officers they were subject to serious abuses, including beatings and filthy prison conditions as well as witnessing shootings during roundups.
- FOCAL to launch new Mapping Migration from the Americas website
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), in partnership with the International Migration Research Centre (IMRC), has developed interactive, web-based maps to display information about the flow of temporary foreign workers from Latin America
- Immigration Is Good, Immigration Is Bad, Migration Is (a Fact)
A Human Drama in Three Acts and a Few Ideas
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Immigration is bad – that is what the propagandists of populist politics are blazoning, in unison with their primitive media set on singing the same tune. Immigration is good, say the left, the greens and NGOs. I share the human-rights concerns and the socio-economic analysis of the second position, but would like to add a third and more fundamental one: immigration IS happening. Immigration is what is human, because only through migration could humankind spread from its places of origin in Eastern Africa to the entire globe. Only if we remember this can we tackle the phenomenon of migration adequately and develop an immigration policy suitable for human beings.
- Migrants' billions put aid in the shade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Money transfers from workers abroad to family back home have tripled in a decade and are three times larger than global aid budgets.
- Migration
Changing the World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
The author discusses the increasing trend of migration in the modern world, its causes and effects, and peoples and governments responses.
- Migration and Morality
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Paul Collier's book Exodus has been welcomed as a humane and rational intervention in an often toxic debate. It seems to tell us more about the character of the contemporary immigration debate than it does about the merits of Collier’s arguments.
- The Monkey's Voyage
How Improbable Journeys Shaped the History of Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
In The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz describes a radical new view of how fragmented distributions came into being, arguing that different species were not simply constrained by continental fate but were rather the makers of their own geographic destiny.
- New maps of land destruction show why caravans flee Central America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A new map developed at the University of Cincinnati illustrates the extent of worldwide land degradation, including the deforestation that is now forcing migrants to leave Guatemala and Honduras.
- The North-South Institute
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 30, 2014
Refugees
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
Topic of the week is Refugees. Featured articles look at migration, counter-surveillance resources, farmers in Ghana fighting to retain the freedom to save their own seeds, and rebuilding communities faced with mining companies in Ecuador. The website of the week is Mediamatters. From the archives we've got Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement.
- A Policy without a Conscience
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The tragedy and the horror of Lampedusa did not come out of the blue. Much of the responsibility lies with the policies pursued by European nations. The only policy that could prevent more tragedies like that is that no European politician will countenance: the liberalization of border controls, and the dismantling of Fortress Europe.
- Reframing Migration: A Conversation With Historian Sunil Amrith
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The 2017 MacArthur Genius Fellowship recipient's interdisciplinary work on the Bay of Bengal teaches us that movement and migration are central forces in the making of Asian -- and global -- history.
- Rising in the West
The True Story of an 'Okie' Family From the Great Depression Through the Reagan Years
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Scattered Sand
The Story of China's Rural Migrants
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce — “scattered sand,” in Chinese parlance — and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.
- Socialist Register 2003
Volume 39: Fighting Identities
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2003
- Sources welcomes Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Third AAWH Congress: Migration in Global History: Peoples, Plants, Plagues, and Ports - Call for Papers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Third AAWH Congress: Migration in Global History: Peoples, Plants, Plagues, and Ports. Call for papers, deadline 1 October 2014
- Time to Unfence our view of Migration
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Instead of pretending that fence-building will solve anything, it is high time that we 'unfence' our views of migration. On the one hand, this means seeking other, more humane responses to human movement, including orderly refugee resettlement. On the other, it means not seeing migration as a self-contained 'problem' in need of a security response - but rather as an intrinsic part of a world inexorably on the move.
- Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered
New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
This collection of essays underscores the interlocking relationship between prostitution, migration and trafficking. They reveal a deep seated anxiety about borders, economic resources and the fragility of the nation-state. Far from from helping women and children become free from explotaiton, the obession with women sex workers has led to the detriment of all by excluding the questions of human rights, freedon of movement, basics such as food and shelter and a living wage. The book is a call for all those involved -- governments, aid workers and trafickees -- to go beyond a paternalistic and colonial view of these issues and deal with them in a spirit of cooperation.
- Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Our findings reveal that western Eurasian genetic signatures in modern-day Native Americans derive not only from post-Columbian admixture, as commonly thought, but also from a mixed ancestry of the First Americans.
- The Warmth of Other Suns
The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
Wilkerson chronicles the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of the United States.
- Women in Development
A Resource Guide for Organization and Action
Resource Type: Book
This guide offers an exploration of the relationship between women and multinationals, rural development, health, education, migration, etc. It presents concrete tools for activists and directs readers to those groups and programs that are making a difference.
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