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Migration, Diasporas & Refugees
Push‑pull forces, remittances, border regimes, and transnational identities.
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McNear: Danish immigrant finds 'the promise land' in 1836
10+ hour, 48+ min ago (175+ words) McNear: Danish immigrant finds ‘the promise land’ in 1836 Local News Matters Born in Denmark on February 3, 1836, Thomas H. Petersen arrived in San Francisco when he was 21. He came penniless to what he called the “promise land,” but excited for the…...
Mexico Welcomes Its Heritage Home While France Clings to the Absurd Notion It Owns Latin America’s Past
15+ hour, 47+ min ago (1260+ words) The Azcatitlan Codex has returned to Mexico on loan after 186 years abroad. Its temporary exhibition raises questions about ownership, Indigenous memory, and whether a celebration of friendship with France can resolve the manuscript’s long, unfinished history of changing hands. Acamapichtli…...
Swedish Migration Reshaped Medieval Finland???s Genetic Landscape, Study Finds
1+ day, 48+ min ago (544+ words) A new ancient DNA study reveals that coastal and inland communities in southwestern Finland were genetically similar during the early Middle Ages, before migration from Sweden transformed the coastal population. The research also shows that medieval Finland was deeply connected…...
Australia set for 39 million people by mid-2060s – but slower population growth
11+ hour, 50+ min ago (439+ words) The Intergenerational Report projects population growth slowing from an average of 1.4% a year over the last 40 years to 0.9% a year over the coming four decades....
How Do Archaeologists Know a Wall Was a Border? — Curiosmos
1+ day, 13+ hour ago (649+ words) A wall can look like a border from above, but archaeologists test the idea through gates, roads, visibility, construction layers and excavation context. A line of stones can look decisive from the air. It may curve around a mound, cut…...
Un análisis desmiente varios mitos sobre los caminos romanos y aporta nueva información sobre el mundo antiguo
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (860+ words) Por Jacopo Prisco, CNN Un nuevo análisis de la red de calzadas del Imperio Romano ha desmentido el persistente mito de que “todos los caminos llevan a Roma”, demostrando en cambio que otras ciudades importantes —como Constantinopla, la actual Estambul…...
The 'forgotten' model village where 19th-Century workers escaped overcrowded slums
1+ day, 22+ hour ago (1245+ words) Tour guide Mike Christiansen said Bromborough Pool, which includes this Grade II-listed village hall built in 1858, was a "forgotten village" in contrast with nearby Port Sunlight While Port Sunlight on the Wirral is a well-known example of an industrial model…...
Catherine Connolly meets the Donegal diaspora in Scotland - including Packie Bonner
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (488+ words) Winnie McHugh’s brief conversation with President Catherine Connolly came some 75 years after she left Co Donegal for Scotland in search of work, but the 92-year-old’s command of the Irish language has never waned in the interim. You never forget the…...
Strong words: America’s ‘greatest diarist’ whose many dislikes included the Irish
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (815+ words) Professionally, he was a lawyer and he helped run a relief agency for sick and wounded soldiers during the American Civil War. But insofar as George Templeton Strong (1820–1875) is remembered today, it is as a diarist: “the greatest diarist”, as…...