Return Migration News Today

>> anthony: some time ago something crawled, or slithered, or grew like a fungus. something that started small, got bigger, lurched like a swamp thing out of the mud and moist earth and humid nights of the delta. then, it took over the world. so next time some smart ass foreigner, horrified by our latest ham-fisted foreign policy blunder wonders out loud, "what good is america?" well, you can always pipe up that the blues, rock n roll, r&b, and soul all came out of this place -- one st...

Secretary-General António Guterres praised Iraq for repatriating its citizens from camps in northeast Syria holding people suspected of having ties to ISIL extremists, urging other governments to “significantly step up their efforts.” UNAMI

>> john t. edge: you know, i moved here from georgia, and the thing that struck me when i moved here driving through the delta the first time was just how empty it was. like, you know, its like everybody left. >> anthony: the great migration. three factors. automation -- the invention of mechanical means to pick cotton. the call of better-paying jobs in the industries of the north. and, of course, freedom. >> john t. edge: you know, people think about the blues as a lament. a lot of blues songs ...

A steady stream of spontaneous returnees has been making their way home as a local peace initiative in Western Equatoria State’s Tambura area, supported by the UN Mission in South Sudan, has resulted in relative calm and security. UNMISS

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A populist Swedish politician was branded "racist" for joking that a photo of a train in his party's colours was a "repatriation train".

President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has announced Turkey is looking to return at least a million Syrians back to their country. 

This paper profiles the return migration and reintegration of returning overseas workers into the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and discusses policy considerations.

Housing and Development Newsletter Fabio Rambelli, professor of religious studies, interim chair of EALCS and International Shinto Foundation Chair in Shinto Studies, said the award was a well-deserved acknowledgment of Ikeuchi’s first-rate scholarship. “The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies is enormously proud of this accomplishment by one of its faculty members; it is a very meaningful prize, one of the most important in the field of anthropology of East Asia,” he ...

>> john t. edge: this is exactly what you expect in mississippi though, right? >> anthony: yeah, its supposed to look like this. >> john t. edge: you know, i moved here from georgia, and the thing that struck me when i moved here driving through the delta the first time was just how empty it was. like, you know, its like everybody left. >> anthony: the great migration. three factors. automation -- the invention of mechanical means to pick cotton. the call of better-paying jobs in the industries ...