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  Repatriation Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Repatriation Movement occurred during the 1930s, when many Mexican-Americans were forced to go to Mexico.
Women without their husbands and children in orphanages were forced to be repatriated as were the usual targets like the mentally ill.
The Repatriation Movement ended during World War II, as immigration laws were relaxed because greater production was needed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Repatriation_Movement   (187 words)

  
 Repatriation - Arctic Studies Center
Repatriation is a topic of unparalleled importance in the museum world today, particularly as museum personnel struggle to meet deadlines imposed by law.
Embedded within the repatriation movement are a number of fundamental issues that challenge our views of Native American peoples, call into question the "absolute" values of science, and force us to take a critical look at the role of museums in Western society.
Repatriation staff have travelled to the Pacific Northwest, the northem Plains, Oklahoma, the Southeast, the Southwest, and Alaska to meet with leaders of different tribal groups.
www.mnh.si.edu /arctic/html/repattb.html   (3256 words)

  
 Handbook of Texas Online: MEXICAN AMERICANS AND REPATRIATION
By mid-September the repatriation movement became a massive exodus, as the roads leading to the border were congested with lengthy wagontrains of fleeing Mexicans.
Perhaps the most important cause of the repatriation of Mexicans from Texas in the 1930s was the deterioration of the agricultural economy of Texas, since most Texas repatriates had been employed as tenant farmers and agricultural laborers.
Repatriation was accompanied by a federal deportation campaign that began in 1928 and intensified between 1929 and 1931.
www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/MM/pqmyk.html   (2743 words)

  
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By viewing repatriation as a form of migration, the study highlights the contrast between the discourse of external agencies, who perceive repatriation as a return to normality and an end to the refugee problem, and villagers, for whom cross-border migration is a normal part of life and a way to improve their livelihoods.
Movement from one country to another is governed by immigration procedures that either allow temporary residence or a change of nationality but only with the agreement of the state to which a person moves.
At times repatriation is presented as a technical operation of transporting people and giving them the resources to rebuild livelihoods, rather than as a long-term process of rehabilitation of an area and the movement of people that may result in a very different population distribution and social structure from that seen before the conflict started.
www.jha.ac /articles/u015.htm   (13795 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN POW News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
Political Prisoners Repatriation Committee member Michael Holden said "Repatriation for any prisoner to their country of origin is not any longer a concession but a right under European Union Law.
The Repatriation Committee intend to step up the campaign for repatriation by picketing the home of Home Secretary Jack Straw in Blackburn Lancashire, the Irish 26 County Embassy in London, and the offices of the Irish Tourist Board (Bord Fáilte) in New Bond Street.
All three are entitled under EU law to be repatriated to a prison in their home country where they can have access to visits from their families.
irelandsown.net /pownews2.html   (3023 words)

  
 Reason: Grave Injustice: Federal laws about burial remains put politics before science
Undeterred, she fought on, rallying a grassroots movement that led, in 1982, to the first state law requiring that public agencies return Native American remains to their affiliated tribes.
Today museums across the country are inventorying and repatriating thousands of bones and funeral objects held in their collections.
In the largest repatriation case to date, the Robert S. Peabody Museum at Phillips-Andover in 1999 returned the bones of 2,000 Pecos Indians and over 500 funerary items to the pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico.
www.reason.com /0407/fe.sv.grave.shtml   (3450 words)

  
 Forced Repatriation
The refugee watchers believe that there may be coercion in handling the repatriation but due to restrictions imposed by the local authorities, no outsider could visit the refugees in camps for which the real situation in the campus and the nature of repatriation could not be reported at length.
It may be mentioned here that the repatriation of Rohingya refugees was in turmoil following opposition from the refugees as there was no UNHCR in Arakan and many refugees were put behind bars on allegation that they were terrorists and involved in an “anti-repatriation” movement.
People of the area presumed that the repatriated refugee might have taken away by the Burmese military intelligence unit and was probably shot dead.
www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/HRDU1994-15-forced_repatriation.htm   (2544 words)

  
 SAA Bulletin 17(2): Working Together--Repatriation's Silver Lining
While repatriation illuminates a critical period in recent history, many anthropologists continue to focus on what they perceive to be its deleterious effects on the conduct of science in general, and the loss of anthropological collections specifically.
Repatriation has generated the first systematic catalog of remains and objects in the museum ever provided to the tribes.
While repatriation so far does not appear to have affected the volume of publications, it has led some researchers to be more circumspect in considering research questions and analytical techniques.
www.saa.org /publications/SAAbulletin/17-2/SAA17.html   (2841 words)

  
 NAGPRA.org
Grave Injustice is the powerful story of the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to repatriate the objects and remains of their ancestors that were appropriated, collected, manipulated, sold, and displayed by Europeans and Americans.
She then traces the succession of incidents, laws, and changing public and Native attitudes that have shaped the repatriation movement since the late nineteenth century.
Her discussion and examples make clear that the issue is a complex one, that few clear-cut heroes or villains make up the history of the repatriation movement, and that little consensus about policy or solutions exists within or beyond academic and Native communities.
www.nagpra.org   (1355 words)

  
 AfricaSpeaks.com - The term Repatriation to Africans is no Semantics
The Repatriation movement is not about just Ethiopia or one tiny portion of Africa to which you tried to narrow the focus of this discussion.
Repatriation in general is for the whole Continent.
The issue is “Whites and Repatriation” on this thread, and you already voiced your disagreement with some of our positions, and I personally STRONGLY disagree with your views.
www.rastafarispeaks.com /articles/2004/2104.html   (2314 words)

  
 American Ethnologist - Online Book Reviews
Passage in 1990 of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) by the United States Congress will be recognized by Native Americans and anthropologists as a key event in the last half of the 20th century and beyond.
In part 1, she focuses on the “Historical and Legal Contexts of the Repatriation Movement.” She notes that the object collecting and museum building associated with colonial expansion have not been strictly phenomena of the United States but were carried out by many European powers.
What I find particularly compelling both in part 2 and in the entire book is that Fine-Dare manages to convey the incredible burden and responsibility placed on Native tribes to retrieve, manage, and protect what clearly belongs to them, particularly as that process involves the presentation of their cultural history to outsiders.
www.aaanet.org /aes/bkreviews/result_details.cfm?bk_id=3136   (1109 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences, Volume 1 (2001)
She then established the American Indian Ritual Object Repatriation Foundation to assist native groups in retrieving important cultural objects from private individuals and organizations.
During the 1980s, the Pan-Indian Repatriation Movement began to experience some success through the passage of federal and state laws not only calling for the repatriation of human remains and objects to descendants, but also preventing the further disenfranchisement of remains and objects.
Not only has the success of the repatriation movement revitalized Native America by providing new-found self-esteem, the task of actually repatriating human remains and cultural objects has also revitalized communities by bringing members together in the struggle as well as reaffirming important knowledge about many cultural and sacred objects.
www.nap.edu /books/030906838X/html/159.html   (819 words)

  
 TAKE YOUR CHOICE
When it was contended that aid by the Federal Government for this movement would be a violation of the rights of the sovereign states, the state of Ohio came forward to propose a program of repatriation known as the Ohio Plan.
This plan, which provided for the continuation of slavery while repatriation was being carried out, deemed slaves who would not volunteer to return to their fatherland to establish a country of their own to be unworthy of freedom.
The most significant thing about the achievements of Garvey is that notwithstanding the collapse of his colonization movement at the height of its popularity, notwithstanding his conviction, imprisonment and deportation, the movement he had originated did not die with the passing of the founder.
www.churchoftrueisrael.com /tyc/tyc-15.html   (8894 words)

  
 WHO | 1996 - Rwanda repatriation movement
In view of the potential risks associated with such a massive population movement, this figure can be considered a success.
The public health indicators are surprisingly good considering the massive repatriation taking place in a short time.
However, further steps need to be taken to strengthen preparedness in case of future massive population movements.
www.who.int /csr/don/1996_11_28c/en   (766 words)

  
 AfricaSpeaks.com - Rastafari and its African context
So your reply is not surprising as there are many that don't have the courage to deal with their own complicity in the global system of white supremacy.
It is quite common for whites to tone and negate any Black expression and this has been going on for centuries, but as people are now able to access mediums of communication, bit by bit, the illusions and institutions of white dominance are being exposed.
To do this is to misuse the intention of such a movement, especially at a time when most Black Africans still suffer the effects of White Privileges and White (mostly male) Arrogance.
www.rastafarispeaks.com /articles/2004/2204.html   (843 words)

  
 Christine Graham
The underlying principle of repatriation is that Blacks have faith and hope in overcoming centuries of oppression by reconnecting to their roots and a time of prosperity.
Repatriation is not only a religious belief for Rastafarians but it also has served as a worldwide theme of Black Nationalism and unification.
In an effort to unify the Rastifarian movement in March of 1958, the Rastafarian "Universal Convention" occurred in Kingston under the leadership of Prince Edward Emanuel.
debate.uvm.edu /dreadlibrary/graham.html   (3110 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and NAGPRA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
This is the powerful story of the ongoing struggle of Native Americans to repatriate the objects and remains of their ancestors that were appropriated, collected, manipulated, sold, and displayed by Europeans and Americans.
Anthropologist Kathleen Fine-Dare focuses on the history and culture of both the impetus to collect and the movement to repatriate Native American remains.
Her discussion and examples make clear that the issue is a complex one, that few clear-cut heroes or villains make up the history of the repatriation movement, and that little consensus about policy or solutions exists within or without academic and Native communities.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0803269080   (488 words)

  
 Hmong in Thailand appeal for end to forced repatriation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
The purpose of this letter is to report to you regarding the true situations and problems of forced repatriation of Hmong and Lao refugees in the Napho Refugee Camp, Thailand to Laos.
Evidence from returnees and victims of forced repatriation in Laos and eyewitnesses in Thailand reported that more than 14,000 Hmong and Lao refugees in Thailand were forced to return to Laos since 1991.
Vue Wa Li, his family, and a few others, including Vue Ma, begged to be excluded from the repatriation movement, stating again their fear for their safety in Laos.
www.laohumrights.org /99octoga.html   (2649 words)

  
 THE RASTAFARI COLLECTIVE-----FEBRUARY ARCHIVES
Many say that the visions of repatriation are mere pipe-dreams but we know that we are not alone and from the very first slaveship to the present day many of my people have had a desire to repatriate and return home without passports or any form of payment for passage.
For all Rastafari Brethren repatriation is a must and His Excellency Prince Emmanuel I Charles Edwards, praised be his blessed name, is shepherd of Black Redemption through Repatriation.
They were not the ones who had to "sit at the back of the bus" and they were not the ones who were affected by the "Jim Crow" laws that European-Americans had instilled against their fl brothers and sisters, but they still participated in the cause.
www.inithebabeandsuckling.com /febarch2.html   (4388 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and Nagpra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
Amazon.ca: Books: Grave Injustice: The American Indian Repatriation Movement and Nagpra
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www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0803220189   (181 words)

  
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May 11: The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reports that "The repatriation movement has ground to a halt in recent weeks, with only several hundred returning overland across the border since Easter...
June 8: The Governor of Indonesian West Timor, Piet Tallo, visiting East Timor calls for the repatriation of all remaining East Timorese refugees, saying the economic burden was too much to bear.
The previous Friday, an ex-militia member bearing a machete climbed aboard a truck repatriating refugees from the town of Betun and intimidated one refugee.
www.etan.org /news/2000b/refchron.htm   (1101 words)

  
 Searching For Jazz City - The Case for a Jazz Repatriation Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
A “jazz repatriation” movement consisting of concerned jazz proponents is needed to prove that our jazz culture is strong.
This repatriation movement would grow to consist of all jazz lovers and those who see the importance of saving this great American heritage and helping it to thrive in the future.
Its mission would be to revive America’s jazz culture through a campaign to locate a town or a city in America that is willing to become the new center of a profitable American jazz business community.
www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article.php?id=73   (2441 words)

  
 Chapter 5: Race and Reason
The following are President Lincoln's words at a repatriation ceremony in Washington, D.C. I have urged the colonization of the negroes, and I shall continue.
Many Black leaders also supported the repatriation movement, including the much-venerated Black leader of the 1920s and 1930s, Marcus Garvey.
Given an opportunity in our ancestral Africa, the knowledge of farming and of simple farm machinery and implements, which we have acquired here would enable us to carve a frugal but decent livelihood out of the Virgin soil and favorable climate of Liberia.
www.davidduke.com /awakening/chapter05_04.html   (668 words)

  
 Repatriation of Liberian refugees picking up pace — UN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
Tomorrow, a ship chartered by the International Organization for Migration is scheduled to repatriate 350 Liberians from Ghana.
Further south, in Angola, another war-wracked country where the peace process has been underway for more than two years, UNHCR is winding down its second season of bringing home refugees and looking ahead to possibly completing its voluntary repatriation programme for camp-based Angolans next year.
Despite a devastated infrastructure, including destroyed roads and bridges and the ever-present danger of landmines, more than 281,000 Angolans, out of an estimated 441,000, have returned home since peace accords between the Government and rebels were signed in April 2002.
www.un.org /apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=12802&Cr=liberia&Cr1=   (549 words)

  
 American Indian Nations
Native American repatriation efforts often focus upon the return of ceremonial materials.
By extending the chronology of the narrative, it places removal in the larger context of Indian migrations, and argues that these movements often involved native agency and pre-existing networks to a greater extent than many realize.
Despite James Mooney’s belief that the movement had reached these groups, most scholars dismissed this, believing instead that these cultures were either uninterested or unaffected due primarily to generations of white assimilation and cultural decay.
americanindian.ucr.edu /events/abstracts.html   (10630 words)

  
 Polish Committee in Paris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
During its meeting of March 23, 1848, the Temporary Commission - a Polish emigrant organization - assumed as its principal task the establishment of the Emigration Committee, a Polish government in exile.
On March 28, 1848, the new committee issued a proclamation in which it acknowledged the repatriation movement and promised to support it.
Financial difficulties made it impossible for the committee to issue a journal, but the committee made up by assiduously supplying the French and German press with news bulletins, excerpts from correspondents' reports, and brochures.
cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ip/polcomm.htm   (1058 words)

  
 Penn Museum | NAGPRA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-04)
The Future of the Past: Archaeologists, Native Americans and Repatriation.
Reckoning with the Dead: The Larsen Bay Repatriation and the Smithsonian Institution.
The Dead and their Possessions: Repatriation in Principle, Policy and Practice.
www.museum.upenn.edu /new/exhibits/nagpra/links.shtml   (97 words)

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