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Record high global migration may give new meaning to 'diaspora'

  • Written by Jualynne Dodson, Professor of Sociology and African American & African Studies, Michigan State University

Groups of human beings have always moved or migrated from one geographic location to another. This phenomenon continues in the 21st century and is driven by national and international wars, globalization of local and regional communities, changes in climate and other such events.

Within the first decades of the 21st century, millions of women, men...

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