Migratory patterns : stories

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Oates
Keyword(s):  
Migratory Patterns

“Talk in Tamil!” – Does Sri Lankan Tamil onward migration from Europe influence Tamil language maintenance in the UK?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (269) ◽  
pp. 123-149
Author(s):  
Lavanya Sankaran
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Language ◽  
Language Maintenance ◽  
Recent Change ◽  
Sri Lankan ◽  
Mobility Patterns ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Onward Migration ◽  
Migratory Patterns ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This article uses the “communicative repertoire” conceptual framework to investigate the evolving linguistic practices in the Sri Lankan Tamil (SLT) diaspora, looking specifically at how changing mobility patterns have had an influence on heritage language use. Drawing on fieldwork undertaken with 42 participants of diverse migration trajectories in London, the study finds that onward migration has important implications for Tamil language maintenance and use in the UK, and for the introduction of European languages into the community. It argues that Tamil practices can only be fully understood if we consider them within the context of participants' communicative repertoires. Further, the definition of Tamil needs to be expanded to include different varieties, registers and styles that have been shaped by onward migration. As the trend of multiple migrations is becoming increasingly common in globalization processes, studying the recent change in SLT migratory patterns is also crucial to gaining insight into the diversities and transnational links that exist within and across diaspora communities respectively.

Demography and Migratory Patterns of the Eastern Long-Toed Salamander, Ambystoma macrodactylum columbianum

Copeia ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 1986 (2) ◽  
pp. 398 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Beneski ◽  
Edward J. Zalisko ◽  
John H. Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Ambystoma Macrodactylum ◽  
Migratory Patterns

scholarly journals Fluctuations in Blood Marginal Zone B-Cell Frequencies May Reflect Migratory Patterns Associated with HIV-1 Disease Progression Status

PLoS ONE ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. e0155868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Gauvin ◽  
Josiane Chagnon-Choquet ◽  
Johanne Poudrier ◽  
Michel Roger ◽  
Keyword(s):  
B Cell ◽  
Disease Progression ◽  
Marginal Zone ◽  
Migratory Patterns ◽  
Hiv 1

scholarly journals CENTRAL AMERICAN MIGRATION: TRUSTING THE MOBILE PHONE TO CROSS BORDERS

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Francis Ferris-Dobles
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Central American ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Migratory Patterns ◽  
Traditional Patterns

Mobile phones have become ubiquitous tools for hundreds of thousands of Central American migrants in their transit from their home countries towards the United States (U.S). These communication technologies are not only changing traditional patterns of migration, they are also enabling and inducing migration by providing feelings of trust, closeness, and safety (Barros, 2017). By applying the methods of historical qualitative research and using a media archeological approach, I employ Durham Peters (2009) theory of _infrastructuralism_ to investigate, which are the major infrastructural transitions that have allowed contemporary Central American migrants to use the same mobile phone and plan and to have Internet coverage across multiple national borders during their journey? How have these shifts enabled, induced, changed, and determined new ways and patterns of migration? I conclude that these infrastructural shifts have not only allowed mobile phones to change the traditional migratory patterns, but they are also creating a profitable business for a few private transnational telecommunications corporations. My conclusion presents a central paradox which is, that at the same time that the global capital promotes and enables a “borderless” world through the use of communication technologies which in turn promote emotions of trust, safety, and closeness, the nation-state borders are becoming more harsh, surveilled, and rigid for the migrants who are constantly harassed, detained, and persecuted.

scholarly journals Spatial modulation of individual behaviors enables collective decision-making during bacterial group migration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yang Bai ◽  
Caiyun He ◽  
Junjiajia Long ◽  
Xuefei Li ◽  
Xiongfei Fu
Keyword(s):  
Group Performance ◽  
Spatial Modulation ◽  
Microbial Populations ◽  
Collective Behaviors ◽  
Dynamic Stimuli ◽  
Consistent Group ◽  
Run And Tumble ◽  
Migratory Patterns ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Group Migration

AbstractCoordination of individuals with diversity often requires sophisticated communications and high-order computational abilities. Microbial populations can exhibit diverse individualistic behaviors and yet can engage in collective migratory patterns with a spatially sorted arrangement of phenotypes following a self-generated attractant gradient. However, it’s unclear how individual bacteria without complex computational abilities can achieve the consistent group performance and determine their positions in the group while facing spatiotemporally dynamic stimuli. Here, we investigate the statistics of bacterial run-and-tumble trajectories during group migration. We discover that, despite of the constant migrating speed as a group, the individual drift velocity exhibits a spatially dependent structure that decreases from the back to the front of the group. The spatial modulation of individual stochastic behaviors constrains cells in the group, ensuring the coherent population movement with ordered patterns of phenotypes. These results reveal a simple computational principle for emergent collective behaviors from heterogeneous individuals.

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