Life in transit
Posted on April 16th, 2009 by G Cameron
Baha'i House of Worship, India
Lita and I are currently in the process of packing up our place in Oxford and preparing to move to Vietnam for about six weeks, before touring around Southeast Asia and heading back to Canada at the beginning of July. Needless to say, our to do lists are getting longer by the minute. Be warned that blogging may be a bit erratic for the next two weeks or so.
In the meantime, does anyone have an idea for a book about the past, present and future of international migration? I’m looking for something that evokes future, reform, movement, dynamism. There’s an official acknowledgment in it for you if your idea comes out on top. Ideas can percolate in the comments section. Gracias!
This bit of a Tyler Cowen – Peter Singer conversation on Bloggingheads is interesting: http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/18424?in=02:30&out=04:09
I’d say I agree with Cowen on this.
Hope you have an amazing trip! Take lots of photos.
How about:(with subtitle – the story of human migration)
“On the Move”
“Push or Pull?”
“Greener Grass/Pastures”
“A Place For My Children”
“Humanity’s Search for Security”
“Leaving Home”
Munir — Thanks for the bloggingheads tip. Fascinating debate. You can tell that Singer hadn’t even considered liberalizing migration as a policy response to global poverty, and I’d say that characterizes most of the debate. The purpose of aid is to take care of poverty and make sure it stays ‘over there’. So while I agree with the general point that Cowen made, Singer could have replied (correctly) that the poorest generally don’t migrate at the rates that middle-income families do.
I ended up sticking around bloggingheads.tv for awhile and found it pretty nifty that I can subscribe to the discussions in iTunes as audio podcasts. Also interesting that it was created by Robert Wright — who is astonishingly smart, witty and insightful, and the author of Nonzero. Incidentally, he has another website called themeaningoflife.tv, hosted at Slate, which deals with a lot of the juicy secular/religious debates that get some play on this blog.
Dad — Thanks a lot for suggestions. Two of my running favourites are similar: “Moving On: …” and “Made Better By Migrants: …”.