Over Land and Sea: Migration from Antiquity to the Present Day Livi-Bacci Massimo
Human history has always been marked by the movement of people and populations, from the earliest movement of human beings out of Africa to the flows of migrants and refugees today. While mobility is…
Specifikacia Over Land and Sea: Migration from Antiquity to the Present Day Livi-Bacci Massimo
Human history has always been marked by the movement of people and populations, from the earliest movement of human beings out of Africa to the flows of migrants and refugees today. While mobility is intrinsic to human nature, migration is not always voluntary: it can be the result of free choice, but it can also be forced in varying ways and to varying degrees.In this book, Massimo Livi-Bacci examines migrations past and present with reference to the degree of free choice behind them. The degree can be minimal, as when migration is compelled by war, natural disaster or the actions of a tyrant, but in other cases the decision to migrate can be fully voluntary and deliberate, as when individuals and groups weigh up their options and decide whether to move. Between these two poles there is a continuum of different situations, with gradually increasing or decreasing degrees of
From the Sea to the Land Beyond