Migration

From the BBC: What is migration?

Map assignment - Europe: Countries of the European Union

Reasons for migration:

In French: "Les Migrations Internationales" and "Rechauffement climatique et migration de population"

Click on either map to see them more clearly.

 

UPDATED: population, migration and current events

For Monday, October 22, period 1:
Homework assignment:
Booklet: Migration: A Global Phenomenon
Why is migration increasing on a global level?
Questions #1-8 (textbook, pp. 68-73) - correcting for a mark...
Book #5 is still missing in action. Check lockers before class Monday morning.
Read two of the current events articles below.

October 15:
EU imposes sanctions on Iran

Thanks Alexander and Curtis for this video about how we'd life our life, if money wasn't an object...

Read about current events:
-the XL Beef industry;
-tensions between Turkey and Syria;
-Syrian plane carrying illegal cargo;
-refugee camps in Jordan;
-Chavez's fourth victory in Venezuela;
-11-year old girl killed by Taliban.

Slightly outdated (2004-2005) but contemporary:
-NY Times, "The Earth is Full;"
-Migration: A World on the Move;
-The "Migrant Boom."

Video:

Narayanan Krishnan was a bright, young, award-winning chef with a five-star hotel group, short-listed for an elite job in Switzerland. But a quick family visit home before heading to Europe changed everything. “I saw a very old man eating his own human waste for food,” Krishnan said. “It really hurt me so much. I was literally shocked for a second. After that, I started feeding that man and decided this is what I should do the rest of my lifetime.” Krishnan now brings hot meals and dignity to India’s homeless and destitute 365 days per year. Since 2002 his nonprofit Akshaya Trust has served more than 1.2 million meals. This two-minute video is worth watching.

I spent one year of university studying the genocide in East Timor... Here's the country's profile.

I'm posting this Ubisoft video: Heroes Wanted. 

Population and Current Events

Class 1 and 2: Introduction to Population and Migration
--working on it...

Now that we've finished our introduction to this course, we have begun our first unit, Population and Migration. You have a basis for the concepts you will see: North-South Axis (hemispheres), the world map, general characteristics of developed and developing nations, democracy and dictatorship, a simple understanding of the left-right political spectrum and the notion of globalization.

In this first unit,...

(Anti)-globalisation quotations: 

"I'm convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin to shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, militarism, and economic exploitation are incapable of being conquered. A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. It will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West invest in huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the countries, and say 'this is not just'."

- Martin Luther King, jr.

"The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment."

- Ralph Nader

"We must ensure that the global market is embedded in broadly shared values that practices that reflect global social needs, and that all the world's people share the benefits of globalization."
- Kofi Annan

Source: Better World

Currents:

• Iran's 9-step plan to end the nuclear crisis, rejected by the US
• The 50th anniversary of James Bond empire, starting with Dr. No
• The 1984 commercial, introducing the Macintosh computer