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Human migration and the refugee crisis : origins and global impact / Eliot Dickinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dickinson, Eliot, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Emigration and immigration.
- Refugees.
- World politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 233 pages) : color illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, [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
- 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
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 08, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9781440858451
- 1440858454
- 9798216171843
- Publisher Number:
- 99995917406
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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