Word: exoduses
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...earnest. What had been an insignificant trickle of immigrants in the early '40s, only dozens a year, increased 10 or 20 times during the middle of the decade, and then, with the Gold Rush, by more than another order of magnitude in 1849 alone. And just as the Western exodus reached full speed, American cities became true modern metropolises. In 1800, New York had only 60,000 people, but by the middle of the century, the population had grown to half a million. Filling the cities was the first tsunami of immigrants--in particular the Irish, driven...
...Iraq has driven nearly 4 million people from their homes. As many as 2 million have fled the country, in what Refugees International calls the fastest-growing crisis in the world. As detailed in the stories that follow, the burden of coping with this exodus has fallen most heavily on Iraq's neighbors, such as Syria, Jordan and Iran, who have absorbed the vast majority of exiles. But the war's reverberations are being felt beyond the Middle East, in places as seemingly distant and incongruous as Sweden, which has taken in more than 11,000 Iraqis since...
...shatter a model for other Arab states to follow and dash the Bush Administration's only realistic hope for a Middle East success story. Victory for Iran, Syria and its allies, on the other hand, would probably doom the country to future conflicts with Israel and trigger a new exodus of educated Lebanese...
...work is beautifully done, the way she sets up the data and thinks of counterarguments,” Hochschild says. After examining voting patterns in congressional districts, Gay is now shrinking her field of focus. Her latest work identifies demographic movement and neighborhood interactions, such as the exodus of African Americans out of poor neighborhoods. “Getting access to better neighborhoods erodes the salience of race for African Americans,” Gay says. She thinks this will present a challenge to politicians accustomed to appealing to a single black voting block. But Gay isn?...
...computer in his small apartment, spends hours a day looking at digital photographs of his small son playing on his bed back in Iraq. Alaa hopes to get his Swedish residence papers sometime this year, allowing his wife and 1-year-old boy to join him from Baghdad. The exodus from Iraq is far from over...