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“There are an estimated 258 million migrants around the world, and many of us are migrating to countries that previously colonized and imperialized us. We have a human right to move, and governments should serve that right, not limit it. The unprecedented movement of people - what some call a "global migration crisis" - is, in reality, a natural progression of history. Yes, we are here because we believe in the promise of the American Dream - the search for a better life, the challenge of dreaming big. But we are also here because you were there - the cost of American imperialism and globalization, the impact of economic policies and political decisions.”
― Jose Antonio Vargas, Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen

“But do you know this idea of the imaginary homeland? Once you set out from shore on your little boat, once you embark, you'll never truly be at home again. What you've left behind exists only in memory, and your ideal place becomes some strange imaginary concoction of all you've left behind at every stop.”
― Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs

“Look,â€� said the man. “It don’t make no sense. This fella wants eight hunderd men. So he prints up five thousand of them things anâ€� maybe twenty thousanâ€� people sees ’em. Anâ€� maybe two-three thousanâ€� folks gets movinâ€� account a this here han’bill. Folks that’s crazy with worry.â€� “But it don’t make no sense!â€� Pa cried. “Not till you see the fella that put out this here bill. You’ll see him, or somebody that’s workinâ€� for him. You’ll be a-campinâ€� by a ditch, you an’fifty other famblies. Anâ€� he’ll look in your tent anâ€� see if you got anything lefâ€� to eat. Anâ€� if you got nothinâ€�, he says, ‘Wanna job?â€� Anâ€� you’ll say, ‘I sure do, mister. I’ll sure thank you for a chance to do some work.â€� Anâ€� he’ll say, ‘I can use you.â€� Anâ€� you’ll say, ‘When do I start?â€� Anâ€� he’ll tell you where to go, anâ€� what time, anâ€� then he’ll go on. Maybe he needs two hundred men, so he talks to five hundred, anâ€� they tell other folks, anâ€� when you get to the place, they’s a thousandâ€�, men. This here fella says, ‘I’m payinâ€� twenty cents an hour.â€� Anâ€� maybe half the men walk off. But they’s still five hundred that’s so goddamn hungry they’ll work for nothinâ€� but biscuits. Well, this here fella’s got a contract to pick them peaches or—chop that cotton. You see now? The more fellas he can get, anâ€� the hungrier, less he’s gonna pay. Anâ€� he’ll get a fella with kids if he can, ’cause—hell, I says I wasn’t gonna fret ya.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

“All sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it.

We are all migrants through time.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“Nevertheless, the idea that Europeans have simply stopped having enough children and must as a result ensure that the next generation is comprised of immigrants is a disastrous fallacy for several reasons. The first is because of the mistaken assumption that a country’s population should always remain the same or indeed continue rising. The nation states of Europe include some of the most densely populated countries on the planet. It is not at all obvious that the quality of life in these countries will improve if the population continues growing. What is more, when migrants arrive in these countries they move to the big cities, not to the remaining sparsely populated areas. So although among European states Britain, along with Belgium and the Netherlands, is one of the most densely populated countries, England taken on its own would be the second most densely populated country in Europe. Migrants tend not to head to the Highlands of Scotland or the wilds of Dartmoor. And so a constantly increasing population causes population problems in areas that are already suffering housing supply problems and where infrastructure like public transport struggles to keep up with swiftly expanding populations.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“But if the views of some migrant communities on homosexuality were only a couple of generations out of date, the views of portions of those communities on the subject of women were shown to be out of date by many centuries, at least.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“Shearwater chicks have to head out on their own the first time they jump but then their parents meet them after replenishing themselves on Antarctic krill and they all migrate together.”
― Clare Strahan, The Learning Curves of Vanessa Partridge

“Moving to another city is to change the accent of your affections.”
― Gabriela Wiener, Sexographies

“We're going home. Forget this country, the gold is too expensive.”
― Ana-Maurine Lara, Erzulie's Skirt

“If someone skilled at studying moons, planets, stars and other celestial bodies such as galaxies, comets, asteroids and gamma-ray bursts were to analyse the Romani migration and settlement patterns, as they wandered India and Persia 1500 years ago, passing through Armenia in the early 9th century, trading spices, incense, rugs, fabrics, colouring agents and jewellery along the Great Silk Road, and then beginning to establish themselves in Europe, arriving in Transylvania in the 13th century, and then onto Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France and England in the 14th century they may very well discover that their routes mirrored that of the stars”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“(...) and all sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it.
We are all migrants through time.”
― Mohsin Hamid, Exit West

“Charles Martel’s victory at the Battle of Tours in 732 is recognised for having prevented the spread of Islam throughout Europe.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“Only because of the strength of a coalition of European armies at the battle of Vienna in 1683 did Europe avoid Ottoman rule.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“Algerian President Houari Boumedienne who in 1974 told the General Assembly of the United Nations, ‘One day millions of men will leave the southern hemisphere of this planet to burst into the northern one. But not as friends. Because they will burst in to conquer, and they will conquer by populating it with their children. Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“The notion that where one is from can be understood using what remains of that place opens up a highly sensitive and rich terrain that can help unpack belonging, especially if that place has now been rendered inaccessible by national borders.”
― Aanchal Malhotra, Remnants of a Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory

“j’ai contribué à endiguer la migration
teutonne connue sous le nom de Grande Guerre. Je
pris tant de plaisir à cette contre-offensive que j’en
revins fort excité.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby le magnifique

“Even if you agreed that longevity is a curse for a society, there are many things you might do before deciding to import the next generation from another continent.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“As Dr Tino Sanandaji has pointed out, it costs more for 3,000 migrants to be housed in temporary accommodation tents in Sweden than it does to fund outright the largest refugee camp in Jordan (housing around 100,000 Syrian refugees).”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“At the height of the 2015 crisis the single offer the Saudis did make was to build 200 new mosques in Germany for the benefit of the country’s new arrivals.”
― Douglas Murray, The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam

“Topography defines place and the human situation therein.”
― Lloyd Wedes

“The dream is a migration of thoughts and spirit towards the reality or illusion; one achieves the success, and one bears the failure.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“The brick walls that appear are not there as obstacles, they are simply there for you to prove how much you want to stay”
― Alba Kunadu Sumprim, A place of beautiful nonsense

“The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don't move and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you're born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you've lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable. Almost everything has changed. So even people who stay in the same place undergo a kind of migration through time. And in the novel, what I'm trying to explore is how everyone is a migrant.”
― Mohsin Hamid

“After years in America it was sometimes difficult to fit in back home. Emigration had turned them into what sociologists would call 'marginal men', people suspended between two ways of life, belonging wholly to neither.”
― Maldwyn A. Jones , Destination America

“She was just as fascinated by that glittering, mythical country as the rest of her family, but completely relocating to the society as unlike her own was terrifying. Maybe she did not always like the way hers worked, but she knew it. It was comfortable. It was safe. Kind of.”
― Richelle Mead, Gameboard of the Gods

“She was just as fascinated by that glittering, mythical country as the rest of her family, but completely relocating to a society so unlike her own was terrifying. Maybe she didn’t always like the way hers worked, but she knew it. It was comfortable. It was safe. Kind of.”
― Richelle Mead, Gameboard of the Gods

“If California is the future of the United States, Los Angeles may offer a lesson. In 1960, it was 72 percent white, but in just ten years that figure dropped to 59 percent, and by 2000 the city was only 33 percent white. During the 1980s, while every other racial group was gaining in numbers, Los Angeles County lost 330,000 whites, and a startling 570,000 during the 1990s. Where did they go?
Beginning in the 1980s, California saw a major shift of whites from southern, immigrant-heavy regions to the white north. Many moved to Nevada County, which Mel Mouser, the police chief of the town of Grass Valley, called 'the largest concentration of Caucasians in the state of California.' In the 15 years ending in 1995, the county's population grew by no less than 65 percent and remained 93 percent white. The newcomers were looking for the kind of homogeneity they grew up with but had lost to immigrants. As Chief Mouser explained, the newcomers 'bring with them the common strain of thought: Don't let it be like where I came from.'
Although Americans have learned to give non-racial reasons like 'crime' or 'bad schools' for leaving cities, many ex-Los Angelenos were candid about what drove them away. As one 1990s transplant explained, 'People come here for a timeout, to go some place where racial problems don't exist. [...] And when they find it here, they're pathetically grateful. They want to protect it.' Another explained: 'I'd look at my daughter's classroom and see two blondes. [...] It seemed like there was more of everything else but whites.”
― Jared Taylor, White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century

“The French state insists that once someone becomes French by citizenship, his ancestors become, metaphorically speaking, the Gauls, and he is therefore not to be distinguished from any other Frenchman, in statistics or anywhere else. It would take considerable conceptional subtlety as well as empirical knowledge to disentangle the truth and lies of all this.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism

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― Jonathan