Departure of a Dignitary from Middelburg, by Adriaen van de Venne, 1615. Rijksmuseum, D. Franken bequest, Le Vésinet.

Migration

Volume XIV, Number 3 | April / May 2022

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The Right to Leave

By Stephanie DeGooyer

Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of open migration. But who qualified as a refugee?

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Doctors Without Borders

By Deirdre Mask

On the Black doctors who received their medical degrees and a new sort of freedom in Europe.

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World in Motion

Stories we tell about migrating animals.

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Miscellany

“To bring rain or warm weather,” Micmac storyteller Pierrot Clemeau told an American ethnologist in 1897, “talk of whales or relate a legend describing the migration of the birds and the alternation of the seasons.”

c. 1300 BC | Egypt

Parting Words

Moses takes his people with him.More

1836 | Washington, DC

Against Our Will

John Ross fights for his sacred inheritance.More

c. 1890 | Missouri

Night Shift

Jack Black catches the midnight train.More

Charts & Graphs

Mobile Homes

Nomad residences past and present.

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Man wearing a brown hat, black glasses, and a yellow corduroy jacket over a denim shirt

Painted portrait of German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt.

American singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie.

Portrait of West African writer and former slave Olaudah Equiano.

Home is wherever I go.

—Indira Gandhi, 1955

Seated man with a large white beard wearing a dark suit

Black and white photograph of a dark-haired man in a white shirt holding a newspaper

Karl Marx & Cesar Chavez

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