Global Culture

Prof. Mike Madison has published his Manifesto for a New Pittsburgh, recognizing above all that in an era of hyper-connectivity there are plenty of resources that cities must take advantage of in order to leverage the influence they have on other regions by means of their fellow citizens who have migrated.
In the 21st century, connectivity [...]

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After being offline (no web, email or blogs!) for over a week I’m catching up with my feeds to find the stories that tell the tale of this incredibly diverse world. The first one comes via Michael Parekh about an editorial on Barron’s Online entitled End the Work-Visa Lottery by Thomas G. Donlan:
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In the utmost global citizen, I talked about the value of being a global citizen. Now I would like to address what I consider is the single most important mission of this project: building a community of global citizens. Why? It is clear to me that many of the social [...]

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According to the International Migration report from the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, in 2006 there were an estimated 190,634,000 immigrants around the world. That is close to 3% of the world population. As discussed in the south in the hearth of the north, over 61% are [...]

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If the post a brighter future revealed the possible destinations for the masses of migrants moving around the planet, this image from Natural Resources Conservation Service within the United States Department of Agriculture may tell us where they come from. A global population density map represents the number of people per square kilometer around [...]

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Observing this visualization produced by NASA the phrase “light at the end of the tunnel” acquires a new meaning when we consider that the usual flow of migrants typically goes from darker areas to those were light abounds. Whether the flow is from rural to urbanized areas or from the developing world to [...]

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Yesterday I got a call from Toño, one of many Mexicans that have come to Canada looking for better opportunities. He is young but his voice conveys a very calm attitude, almost zen-like. He has completed engineering studies back home, but the lack of local acreditations have him working as cheap labour. [...]

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