Global Climate Change, Population Displacement, and Public Health
This timely text examines the causes and consequences of population displacement related to climate change in the recent past, the present, and the near future. First and foremost, this book includes an examination of patterns of population displacem
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Global Climate Change, Population Displacement, and Public Health The Next Wave of Migration
Global Climate Change, Population Displacement, and Public Health
Lawrence A. Palinkas
Global Climate Change, Population Displacement, and Public Health The Next Wave of Migration
Lawrence A. Palinkas Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA, USA
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To my children and grandchildren, partners in the struggle to give hope to future generations.
Preface
The history of the United States usually acknowledges four major waves of migration. This timeline ignores the fact that the first immigrants to the North American continent arrived from Asia. The first wave occurred during the seventeenth century when colonists arrived from England and northern Europe beginning in 1609, and slaves arrived from Africa beginning in 1619. This wave lasted into the eighteenth century, peaking shortly before the American Revolution. The second wave lasted about 50 years, through the mid-nineteenth century, and brought mostly Irish and Germans to the United States. The third wave began in the late nineteenth century and lasted about 40 years, bringing in millions of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and Asia. The fourth wave began after US immigration law abolished quotas based on nationalities in 1965 and continued into the first decade of the twenty-first century. It has been the largest immigration wave in US history. The majority of immigrants in this wave came from Latin
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