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  Migration - MSN Encarta
Migration, movement of people, especially of whole groups, from one place, region, or country to another, particularly with the intention of making permanent settlement in a new location.
Humans have migrated since they evolved in East Africa 6 to 2 million years ago.
Even in the Stone Age, however, this isolation was not complete, for migrations resulted in a complicated pattern of blood relationships through widely separated groups.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569913/Migration.html   (703 words)

  
 Migration of Birds
Throughout human experience, migratory birds have been important as a source of food after a lean winter and as the harbinger of a change in seasons.
The essential ingredient in studying migration by this method is to have an adequate series of specimens taken during the breeding season so differences in appearance between geographically separated breeding populations of the same species can be discerned.
Although not suffering the metabolic demands and hazards of migration, the energetic demands for survival and reproduction in an environment with a greater annual range of climactic variation, and the need to adapt to the seasonal changes in the availability and kinds of foods, are comparable.
www.shawcreekbirdsupply.com /migration_1.htm   (4496 words)

  
 TPWD: Bird Migration Frequently Asked Questions
Migration is the cyclic or periodic travel of an animal as it returns eventually to its original place of departure.
Migration is often annual and is closely linked with the cyclic pattern of the seasons.
Migrations appear to be the consequences of invasions or emigrations during which animals settle in new regions during part of the annual cycle, then return to the original region to complete the cycle.
www.tpwd.state.tx.us /huntwild/wild/birding/migration/faq   (3693 words)

  
 Seasonal human migration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seasonal human migration is very common in agricultural cycles.
Human labor often moves with fruit harvest, or to other crops that require manual picking.
Later, the wealthy in the growing country maintained several seasonal residences and shifted residence with the seasons to avail themselves of the best time to be at each location, naming the time to "be" there, "the season".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seasonal_human_migration   (401 words)

  
 migration - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Migration (geography), the permanent or semi-permanent change in the residence of an individual person or group of people.
Migration (history), movement of people, especially of whole groups, from one place, region, or country to another, particularly with the intention...
Animal Migration, seasonal or periodic mass movement of animals away from and back to their natural breeding areas.
uk.encarta.msn.com /migration.html   (147 words)

  
 Report by Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh, Human Development Report Office, UNDP
The Commission on Human Security (CHS) held a regional consultation co-hosted by the Turkmen Institute of Democracy and Human Rights and the UNDP Regional Bureau for Europe and the CIS for the five countries of Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Human security is a relevant approach to the unfinished dual agenda in Central Asia: Transition to a democratic political system and to an efficient and fair market economy, without further impoverishment of people or depriving them of equality and access to quality education, healthcare and participation in political processes.
Migration and displacement of people are indicators of human insecurity in the country of origin and create risks to the human security of the host country.
www.humansecurity-chs.org /activities/outreach/ashgabat_report.html   (4264 words)

  
 Migration and Orientation in Animals - Muhammed Hasenoğlu
Not surprisingly, experiments addressing this issue revealed that migration is unrelated to any seasonal changes and it is merely a component of the established ecological equilibrium of the earth.
That is because birds which are unequipped with such a system cannot migrate and, even if they attempted to migrate, being unable to find their direction and facing severe weather conditions, they would lose their lives and become extinct in a short while.
Migration starts in autumn and the generation that migrates, lives much longer than the other generations that lived in the same year.
www.muhammedhasenoglu.com /migration.htm   (3313 words)

  
 Issihk.com - Migration and Related !   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A migration of great importance to Western civilization occurred from the 15th to the 10th century BC, when the tribes of the Hebrew confederacy, which developed the ideas on which the Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religions are founded, occupied Canaan (Palestine).
Major migrations in historical times have included the 5th- and 6th-century expansion of Scandinavian tribes, the 7th- and early-8th-century spread of Islam, the 11th-century migration of the Seljuk Turks, the 13th-century military campaigns of the Mongol tribes, and the 14th- and 15th-century growth of the Ottoman Empire.
The best-known examples of migration are annual bird movements, in which swarms of birds native to the Temperate and Arctic zones seek warmer regions late in the summer and in the autumn and return to their original nesting sites in the spring.
www.issicn.com /migration   (1220 words)

  
 NJAS: What is migration?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The annual migrations of songbirds are a high stakes, life and death drama that has been played out for thousands of years and for countless millions of birds.
The very existence of migration drives scientists to study it as surely as it inspires artists to render it and poets to capture its essence in words.
Migration exhibits predictable movement of an animal from one location and climate to another location and climate.
www.njaudubon.org /Education/Oases/Migration.html   (1029 words)

  
 Migration
Animals may also migrate to a certain location to breed, as is the case with some fish.
The longest known migration of a bird is that of the Arctic Tern, which migrates from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year.
Human migrations also happen on a large scale, in history and in modern times.
www.kopete.org /Migration.html   (238 words)

  
 Animal Migration - Patterns - Themepark
Migration is the periodic movement of an animal from the place where it has been living to a new area and its subsequent return journey to the original home.
These seasonal movements of animals are one of the most incredible elements of nature.
Some animals' patterns of migration are linked to weather patterns---their movements are dependent on rainfall and the availability of green vegetation.
www.uen.org /themepark/patterns/animalmigration.shtml   (1002 words)

  
 Animal Migration - MSN Encarta
For example, many one-way migrations, such as the overland run of lemmings or the swarming of bees, are initiated by pheromones—chemical signals released by an animal that affect the behavior of other animals of the same species.
Elk who customarily migrate to lower elevations of mountain ranges in the winter in search of food become quarry for hunters who anticipate their movements.
Determining how animals migrate is challenging for researchers because migrating animals are on the move, not sitting quietly in laboratory cages.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557464_2/Animal_Migration.html   (1758 words)

  
 Washington State Migration | OFM
Migration is difficult to measure and migration is a difficult concept to understand.
Migration between 1995 and 2000 for the State and Counties by Residence in 1995 from Census 2000.
Migration is further cross-tabulated by source of in-migrants and destination of out-migrants.
www.ofm.wa.gov /pop/migration/default.asp   (674 words)

  
 International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families, G.A. ...
Bearing in mind that the human problems involved in migration are even more serious in the case of irregular migration and convinced therefore that appropriate action should be encouraged in order to prevent and eliminate clandestine movements and trafficking in migrant workers, while at the same time assuring the protection of their fundamental human rights,
The present Convention shall apply during the entire migration process of migrant workers and members of their families, which comprises preparation for migration, departure, transit and the entire period of stay and remunerated activity in the State of employment as well as return to the State of origin or the State of habitual residence.
During any period of imprisonment in pursuance of a sentence imposed by a court of law, the essential aim of the treatment of a migrant worker or a member of his or her family shall be his or her reformation and social rehabilitation.
www.umn.edu /humanrts/instree/n8icprmw.htm   (11312 words)

  
 Human migration Summary
Because industrial capitalism did not develop in a systematic, uniform way, areas of labor shortages and labor surplus resulted in regional migration to address the imbalances, and the exigencies of wartime exacerbated migration adjustments for native populations and newcomers.
Regional migration in the twentieth century altered the landscape and the people in numerous and long-lasting ways, scattering as it did regional peoples across an increasingly homogenized country.
Since the 14th century, the Serbs started leaving the areas of their medieval Kingdom and Empire that was overrun by the Turks and migrated to the north, to the lands of today's Vojvodina (northern Serbia), which was ruled by the Kingdom of Hungary in that time.
www.bookrags.com /Human_migration   (3669 words)

  
 Lecture 7 . Great Migrations . UWW Skidmore College . Spring 2006   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Migration behavior is particularly prevalent among biphasic amphibians.
For example, southern species of salamanders (e.g., the Mole salamander – Ambystoma talpoideum) tend to migrate during fall and winter and the onset of travel is actually associated with decreased temperatures.
Studies have shown that the wood frog, Rana sylvatica, is 100% faithful to its breeding grounds despite the presence of suitable habitat in near proximity.
www.skidmore.edu /uww/courses/migration/lecture7.html   (1224 words)

  
 ASU Research E-Magazine: Circle of Migration
In many respects, these couples are typical of elderly seasonal migrants who circulate between summer residences in the north and winter homes in the Sun Belt regions of the United States.
McHugh and Mings find that the seeds to seasonal migration and place attachment in aging are sown in earlier stages of life.
Their migration from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt was spurred by the decline of Northeast and Midwest industry,” he explains.
researchmag.asu.edu /stories/circle.html   (1734 words)

  
 Handprint : Ancestral Lines
But scavenging is a migratory life, tied to the hunting patterns of predators and the herds of game they prey on, to fluctuations in water supplies, to seasonal shifts in the requirements for shelter and plants.
We tend to think of early humans as hillside "cave dwellers" and in inland areas they often were; but they were also early voyagers and harvesters on the waves.
Unfortunately it is very difficult to assess the importance of the oceans to human migration.
www.handprint.com /LS/ANC/disp.html   (984 words)

  
 the mystery of bird migration: why and how?
While many birds migrate from northern breeding areas in the summer, to southern wintering grounds (mainly because there is more land near the northern pole than the southern), there are many other migration patterns.
Migrating birds are also distracted and killed by lit-up skyscrapers, lighthouses and other unnatural man-made formations that mislead them.
BirdWatch Ireland: Migration-changing with the seasons: excellent explanation of migration with maps of migration in Europe and Africa; and excellent illustrations of how birds migrate plus details of experiments to highlight their talents; the effects of man on bird migration.
www.naturia.per.sg /buloh/birds/migration.htm   (931 words)

  
 Category:Human migration - ArticleWorld
Human migration refers to any movement of group of people from one location to another, usually over long distances.
The people who migrate are called migrants, settlers, or emigrants.
Human migration or movement of population include could be seen in different forms such as seasonal migration related to agriculture and natural resources, permanent migration for long-term stays, local or regional migration, international migration, and even involuntary migration like trafficking in human beings and ethnic cleansing.
www.articleworld.org /index.php/Category:Human_migration   (103 words)

  
 Human migration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Humans are known to have migrated extensively throughout history and prehistory.
Sometime in the second millennium BC, perhaps triggered by the drying of the Sahara and pressure from the migration of people from the Sahara into the region, they were forced to expand into the rainforests of central Africa (phase I).
After the Nazis brought the Holocaust upon Jewish people in the 1940s, there was increased migration to the British Mandate of Palestine, which became the modern day state of Israel as a result of the 1947 UN Partition Plan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_migration   (3458 words)

  
 Migration Information Source - Australia Mulls Seasonal Migrant Labor Scheme
An Australian Senate committee is proposing that agricultural workers from the Pacific Islands be granted special seasonal access to Australia, in hopes that short-term economic gains for all sides will boost long-term regional stability and security.
The committee's solution, as set forth in their report, is a "Pacific Economic and Political Community" intended to address the economic and security problems of the region.
However, overt criticism has not extended to the proposals for greater labor mobility within the region, or to the proposal for seasonal migration to Australia.
www.migrationinformation.org /Feature/display.cfm?id=161   (578 words)

  
 WKU News & Events
The team focused on the fossil-rich sediments of the Solo Basin in central Java, and the nature of the physical environment at the time of human arrival, estimated to be about 1.5 million years ago.
Wulff worked with investigators from the University of Iowa and Indonesian researchers from the Institute of Technology and the Geological Research and Development Centre in Bandung, Indonesia, to apply new geological, paleoecological, and paleoanthropological research techniques to the earliest fossils of Homo erectus in the Solo basin of central Java.
Investigators also are focusing on ways to determine ambient climatic conditions and seasonal variations during the period of Homo erectus occupation.
www.wku.edu /news/releases03/august/migration.html   (366 words)

  
 Kelly J. Knudson, Ph.D.
The Archaeological Chemistry Laboratory, affiliated with the Center for Bioarchaeological Research in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at ASU, focuses on chemical analyses of archaeological materials, particularly bone and soils.
I utilize a combination of archaeological chemistry and bioarchaeology, particularly stable isotope analyses of archaeological human and modern faunal tooth enamel and bone.
In addition, I am currently utilizing chemical analyses of soils at modern and archaeological seasonal subsistence camps in western Alaska in order to determine the soil signatures of archaeological activity areas.
www.kjknudson.com /index.html   (1040 words)

  
 HUMAN SYSTEMS
Identify the causes and effects of migration streams (e.g., the movement of the Mongols across Asia and into Europe in the thirteenth century, Chinese workers to western North America in the second half of the nineteenth century)
Use maps and pictures from different periods to illustrate changes in a place due to migration (e.g., New Delhi before and after the partition of the Indian subcontinent in the 1940s and the massive realignment of the Hindu and Muslim populations; Boston before and after the large-scale influx of Irish immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century)
Identify the ways in which human migration patterns are currently evident in urban service industries in the United States (e.g., the prevalence of immigrants among the ranks of taxi drivers, tailors, music teachers, restaurant workers)
www.hawaii.edu /hga/Standard/geostand5-8human.html   (2649 words)

  
 Journey North Teacher's Manual
In order to track migrations and other signs of spring, students should know how to use latitude and longitude with ease.
As students gather and review migration data, they calculate the speed and distance a migration travels and ponder what influences its progression.
Rather than track each individual migration, you may choose to follow the wave of spring itself.
www.learner.org /jnorth/tm/LessonsOriginal.html   (767 words)

  
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