The Kozlowskii Event extinction in the Prague Basin is not prominent in number of extinct taxa among Ludfordian extinctions, but by its short duration and changes in community structure in both ...nektonic, pelagic and benthic faunas of different depth zones. The number of taxa going extinct is relatively low because some sensitive benthic and nectobenthic organisms (e.g., trilobites, cephalopods, gastropods, brachiopods) disappeared already at the base of the Neocucullograptus kozlowskii Zone contemporaneous with the beginning of a sea level highstand. The Kozlowskii Event includes two phases of extinction coinciding with two erosional sequence boundaries. The event also coincides with climatic changes and alterations of the ocean current regime. Sedimentary facies indicate that the first phase of extinction in the upper N. kozlowskii Zone took place during a sea level highstand situation. A lowstand with associated reduction in current activity occurred during the second phase of extinction in the lowermost Pseudomonoclimacis latilobus Zone. Recovery was completed in the upper P. latilobus Zone. The Kozlowskii Event is in the Prague Basin is accompanied by an abrupt change of benthic and pelagic communities and by immigrations from Baltica, Avalonia and Laurentia. The initial δ
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C excursion correlates in the Prague Basin with the uppermost N. kozlowskii Zone after the last appearance datum of the conodont Polygnathoides siluricus.
In this comprehensive comparative study, Jorge Duany explores how migrants to the United States from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico maintain multiple ties to their countries of ...origin.Chronicling these diasporas from the end of World War II to the present, Duany argues that each sending country's relationship to the United States shapes the transnational experience for each migrant group, from legal status and migratory patterns to work activities and the connections migrants retain with their home countries. Blending extensive ethnographic, archival, and survey research, Duany proposes that contemporary migration challenges the traditional concept of the nation-state. Increasing numbers of immigrants and their descendants lead what Duany calls "bifocal" lives, bridging two or more states, markets, languages, and cultures throughout their lives. Even as nations attempt to draw their boundaries more clearly, the ceaseless movement of transnational migrants, Duany argues, requires the rethinking of conventional equations between birthplace and residence, identity and citizenship, borders and boundaries.
Casualties of care Ticktin, Miriam I
2011., 20110730, 2011, 2011-08-29, 20110101
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This book explores the unintended consequences of compassion in the world of immigration politics. Miriam Ticktin focuses on France and its humanitarian immigration practices to argue that a politics ...based on care and protection can lead the state to view issues of immigration and asylum through a medical lens. Examining two "regimes of care"—humanitarianism and the movement to stop violence against women—Ticktin asks what it means to permit the sick and sexually violated to cross borders while the impoverished cannot? She demonstrates how in an inhospitable immigration climate, unusual pathologies can become the means to residency papers, making conditions like HIV, cancer, and select experiences of sexual violence into distinct advantages for would-be migrants. Ticktin's analysis also indicts the inequalities forged by global capitalism that drive people to migrate, and the state practices that criminalize the majority of undocumented migrants at the expense of care for the exceptional few.
Born out of place Constable, Nicole
2014., 20140404, 2014, 2014-03-14
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Hong Kong is a meeting place for migrant domestic workers, traders, refugees, asylum seekers, tourists, businessmen, and local residents. In Born Out of Place, Nicole Constable looks at the ...experiences of Indonesian and Filipina women in this Asian world city. Giving voice to the stories of these migrant mothers, their South Asian, African, Chinese, and Western expatriate partners, and their Hong Kong–born babies, Constable raises a serious question: Do we regard migrants as people, or just as temporary workers? This accessible ethnography provides insight into global problems of mobility, family, and citizenship and points to the consequences, creative responses, melodramas, and tragedies of labor and migration policies.
In a New Land Foner, Nancy
2005, 2005-08-01, 20050101
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According to the 2000 census, more than 10% of U.S. residents were foreign born; together with their American-born children, this group constitutes one fifth ...of the nation's population. What does this mass immigration mean for America? Leading immigration studies scholar, Nancy Foner, answers this question in her study of comparative immigration. Drawing on the rich history of American immigrants and current statistical and ethnographic data, In a New Land compares today’s new immigrants with the past influxes of Europeans to the United States and across cities and regions within the United States. Foner looks at immigration across nation-states, and over different periods of time, offering a comprehensive assessment and analysis.
This original approach to the study of recent U.S. immigration focuses on race and ethnicity, gender, and transnational connections. Centering her analysis on the groups that have come through and significantly shaped New York City, Foner compares today’s Latin American, Asian, and Caribbean newcomers with eastern and southern European immigrants a century ago and with immigrants in other major U.S. cities. Looking beyond the United States, Foner compares West Indian immigrants in New York with those in London. And, more generally, the book views the process of immigrants' integration in New York against other recent immigrant destinations in Europe.
Drawing on a wealth of historical and contemporary research, and written in a clear and lively style, In a New Land provides fresh insights into the dynamics of immigration today and the implications for where we are headed in the future.
The topic of 'illegal' immigration has been a major aspect of public discourse in the United States and many other immigrant-receiving countries. From the beginning of its modern invocation in the ...early twentieth century, the often ill-defined epithet of human 'illegality' has figured prominently in the media; in vigorous public debates at the national, state, and local levels; and in presidential campaigns. In this collection of essays, contributors from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, law, political science, religious studies, and sociology - examine how immigration law shapes immigrant illegality, how the concept of immigrant illegality is deployed and lived, and how its power is wielded and resisted. The authors conclude that the current concept of immigrant illegality is in need of sustained critique, as careful analysis will aid policy discussions and lead to more just solutions.
What happens to a country when its skilled workers emigrate? The first book to examine the complex economic, social, and political effects of emigration on India, Diaspora, Development, and Democracy ...provides a conceptual framework for understanding the repercussions of international migration on migrants' home countries.
With almost a quarter of the world's migrants, Europe has been attempting to regulate migration and harmonize immigration policy at the European level. The central dilemma exposed is how liberal ...democracies can reconcile the need to control the movement of people with the desire to promote open borders, free markets and liberal standards. Gallya Lahav's book traces ten years of public opinion and elite attitudes toward immigration cross-nationally to show how and why increasing EU integration may not necessarily lead to more open immigration outcomes. Empirical evidence reveals that support from both elite and public opinion has led to the adoption of restrictive immigration policies despite the requirements of open borders. Unique in bringing together original data on European legislators and national elites, longitudinal data on public opinion and institutional and policy analyses, this 2004 study provides an important insight into the processes of European integration, and globalization more broadly.
A través de una serie de entrevistas e investigación de campo, este trabajo examina el fenómeno de la inmigración coreana en Argentina en las últimas décadas, destacando sus aristas culturales, que ...constituyen nuevas formas de desmontar la identidad argentina tradicional entendida como "blanca" o "europea". Se analizan también las distintas actitudes de coreanos y descendientes de coreanos en Argentina, así como las de argentinos, y específicamente porteños, en la construcción mutua de imaginarios colectivos que se muestran más porosos a la alteridad que las identidades originarias (y no menos imaginarias) de las que parten. Through a series of interviews and field investigations, this work examines the phenomenon of Korean immigration in Argentina in the last decades, highlighting the cultural aspects which constitute new ways of dismantling the traditional Argentinean identity as "white" or "European." The paper also analyzes the distinct attitudes of Korean and Korean descendents in Argentina, as well as those of Argentineans—and especially porteños—in the construction of mutual collective imaginarles. These have proven to be more porous to the alterity than the native identities (which are no less imaginary) on which they are based.
Distinguishing population processes by external monitoring Jakeman, E.; Hopcraft, K. I.; Matthews, J. O.
Proceedings of the Royal Society. A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences,
03/2003, Volume:
459, Issue:
2031
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We investigate the statistical and correlation properties of two stochastic population models that give rise to identical first-order probability densities. We assume that the processes are monitored ...indirectly through measurement of the rate at which individuals emigrate from the population. Formulae characterizing the integrated statistics of these counting processes are derived, and it is shown how they may be used to distinguish the population models.
