The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises


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The objective of The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises is to deconstruct, question, and redefine through a critical lens what is commonly understood as "migration crises." The volume covers a wide range of historical, economic, social, political, and environmental conditions that generate migration crises around the globe. At the same time, it illuminates how the media and public officials play a major role in framing migratory flows as crises. The volume brings together an exceptional group of scholars from around the world to critically examine migration crises and to revisit the notion of crisis through the context in which permanent and non-permanent migration flows occur. The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises offers an understanding of individuals in societies, socio-economic structures, and group processes. Focusing on migrants' departures and arrivals in all continents, this comprehensive handbook explores the social dynamics of migration crises, with an emphasis on factors that propel these flows as well as the actors that play a role in classifying them and in addressing them. The volume is organized into nine sections. The first section provides a historical overview of the link between migration and crises. The second looks at how migration crises are constructed, while the third section contextualizes the causes and effects of protracted conflicts in producing crises. The fourth focuses on the role of climate and the environment in generating migration crises, while the fifth section examines these migratory flows in migration corridors and transit countries. The sixth section looks at policy responses to migratory flows, The last three sections look at the role media and visual culture, gender, and immigrant incorporation play in migration crises.




Island at the End of the World


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On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a fascinating chronicle of adversity, triumph, and the enduring monumentality of the island's stone guards. A small canoe with Polynesians brought the first humans to Easter Island in 700 CE, and when boat travel in the South Pacific drastically decreased around 1500, the Easter Islanders were forced to adapt in order to survive their isolation. Adaptation, Fischer asserts, was a continuous thread in the life of Easter Island: the first European visitors, who viewed the awe-inspiring monolithic busts in 1722, set off hundreds of years of violent warfare, trade, and disease—from the smallpox, wars, and Great Death that decimated the island to the late nineteenth-century Catholic missionaries who tried to "save" it to a despotic Frenchman who declared sole claim of the island and was soon killed by the remaining 111 islanders. The rituals, leaders, and religions of the Easter Islanders evolved with all of these events, and Fischer is just as attentive to the island's cultural developments as he is to its foreign invasions. Bringing his history into the modern era, Fischer examines the colonization and annexation of Easter Island by Chile, including the Rapanui people's push for civil rights in 1964 and 1965, by which they gained full citizenship and freedom of movement on the island. As travel to and interest in the island rapidly expand, Island at the End of the World is an essential history of this mysterious site.







Diccionario de Seguridad Aeronáutica (DICSEGAER)


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Cuando hablamos de medios de transportes, sean terrestres, marítimos o aéreos, incorporando los sistemas de comunicación, y sumando a ellos su respectiva interacción, es porque la sociedad ha realizado esfuerzos para concretar objetivos que se resumen en desarrollo y progreso. Dejando en carpeta los dos primeros, nos centramos sólo a uno de ellos: El medio aéreo y su interacción, pero sobre ellos, sin lugar a duda alguna, un vocabulario que, como glosario habitual es vital para su entendimiento y proyección. Por tanto, para concretar sus tareas, protocolos, procedimientos y acciones que conllevan lo profesional y técnico de esta maravillosa actividad, que, siendo natural, el hombre ha sabido enfrentar y asumir con total hidalguía y plenitud. Así conocemos hoy la AERONÁUTICA, que, dividida en dos escenarios: Civil y Militar, cada una con sus propias realidades y desarrollos, posee vocabulario, glosario, diccionario, que permite el trabajo diario. Desde sus inicios recordando a un travieso Ícaro que emulando aves (gaviones) imitó “artificialmente” sus conductas, claro que con desastrosos resultados, pero dejó ejemplos e ideas, como muchos. Ustedes que a diario ejercen tareas profesionales, técnicas, administrativas, auxiliares, u otras, como empresarios, administradores, pilotos, controladores de tránsito aéreo, tripulación, apoyo técnico, soporte externo, alumnos, usuarios, etc., visualizamos a este rubro como un medio totalmente “seguro” que nos permite proyectarnos en el tiempo y en el espacio. Pero, dar forma y sentido a esta actividad de gran prestigio, no ha sido fácil, de manera que relacionarnos ha permitido un metalenguaje único y exclusivo: “palabras, términos, acrónimos, siglas, fraseología, etc.” sui generis en su desarrollo, conceptos y definiciones; producto de la experiencia, permitiendo lograr los resultados preestablecidos. Ahora bien, tener puntos de vista diferentes es bueno, pero siempre será mejor consensuar cada idea, cada tarea, cada procedimiento, permitiendo lograr lo deseado: “VOLAR” a través de esa masa de aire que posee corporeidad, cuando a grandes velocidades nos desplazamos por ella. Les invito a conocer cómo hoy en día, la actividad Aeronáutica, bajo premisas de SEGURIDAD, y mejor aún su “GLOSARIO UNIFICADO” nos permite acuerdos para conocer, disfrutar y buscar la felicidad, con este medio de transporte que es y seguirá siendo el más seguro de los tres, y continúa en desarrollo.




Glosario de aviación civil


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