GPHY 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Silk Road, Boundaries Between The Continents Of Earth, A New England
22 Feb 2016
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Approximately 60 million internal and external refugees in the world. Most have been displaced from violence (one of the most influential factors for migration in world history) Everything we talk about is a social construction as human life. These 5 concepts define human geo and refer to the social construction of human life. Migration needs to be understood as a movement evoking the 5 concepts, the movement of people, things, ideas all involving these organizing concepts. Migration alters places, spatiality, territory, distribution and situation in a recursive relationship. The range of adjacent possible becomes more and more complex. People moved because they were traitors, soldiers, etc. Many took slaves with them, and most were adult men who migrated. Some were exiled for reasons of politics and religion. But there are no archeological remains, so we don"t have many answers about historical migration. Migration on a larger scale and in a more organized manner.
