Tony's story - Refugee Council of Australia Actor, writer and director Tony Le Nguyen grew up in Can Tho, a city in southern Vietnam. His mother ran a small grocery store and his father was as a high school English teacher. During the Vietnam War, Tony’s father worked as an interpreter with the South Vietnamese army. I had some idea that my dad was working for the previous government. With his father in prison, Tony’s mother became the sole provider for her seven children. I had to cross a small bamboo bridge to bring the rice to him. When Tony’s father was released from the camp, he decided that his family must leave Vietnam. The boat was designed to carry rice over the river, it wasn’t designed to go into the sea … The sea was very rough and we got hit back into the shore and the boat got smashed against the trees in the jungle. They managed to escape on their second attempt, narrowly evading border police. Tony’s family spent the night resting on the shore. The Nguyen family settled in Broadmeadows, Melbourne.
Mapping Language A small but significant part of Bartholomew’s printed output consisted of thematic mapping. Thematic maps are used to illustrate the distribution of phenomena, as opposed to the more common topographical map, which is an attempt to reproduce a landscape. Bartholomew’s Printing Record includes thematic maps which show average levels of sunshine, average levels of cloudiness, the distribution of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis and even the cost of posting letters throughout the world. This post is devoted to a different type of thematic map, to language, or linguistic maps. According to ‘Cartographical Innovations’ (1987), an informative book edited by Helen Wallis and Arthur Robinson, the first set of linguistic maps that we would recognise as such date from 1741. Bartholomew printed the map of European languages (at the top of the page) on the 28 March, 1931 and the above map, ‘Linguistic Stocks of Indians North of Mexico’, on the 18 August, 1927.
The Marauders Map I was watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban last night and it occurred to me that I still haven't seen a good interactive version of the Marauders Map. I had a couple of hours free this morning so I decided to give it a go. I'm not entirely happy with my Marauders Map but I thought I'd share it any way. I styled OpenStreetMap map tiles using Mapbox Studio. So my Marauders Maps also has building footprints and map labels, colored as close to the original as possible. To animate a marker on the map I used the Leaflet.AnimatedMarker plugin. The map isn't great.
ceriscope Cuatro décadas de la historia de los refugiados, en un gráfico | Planeta Futuro pulsa en la foto En la imagen, una de las visualizaciones gráficas de The Refugee Project. Se suele decir que las cifras siempre son frías. Que los números no restituyen la complejidad de las historias de las personas. Y probablemente decir que en 2012 en el mundo había 16 millones de refugiados –la cifra más alta desde hacía una década– o que Afganistán es el primer país de origen desde hace más de 30 años, no sirve para representar el drama diario de personas que en muchos casos lo han perdido todo. Empezó así una colaboración entre el estudio gráfico de Peraza, Hyperakt, y el de Ekene Ijeoma, un diseñador de origen nigeriano afincado en Brooklyn. “En el mapa queríamos reflejar también que los refugiados son iguales en todo el mundo en el sentido que sufren situaciones parecidas en varios países.
Calling Australia home: refugees share their stories Updated 24 Jun 2012, 2:19amSun 24 Jun 2012, 2:19am Australia has long provided refuge for those who have had to flee their home countries and prides itself on being a cultural mosaic, but for some the word 'refugee' conjures up a negative image. Many rights groups believe misinformation and the political debate on border protection is overshadowing the positive contributions refugees make to society. The Refugee Council of Australia is calling on people to cast out stereotypes and instead put a face, and a personality, to the refugee label. As Refugee Week is marked around the country, a handful of former refugees who now call Australia home share their stories with ABC News Online. A place to call home In 2010 Australia received around 10,900 asylum applications, 1.04 per cent of the global total. As of 2010 there were 10.55 million refugees under the UNHCR's mandate. That year, Australia ranked 46th on the UN's global ladder of nations hosting refugees. Source: Immigration Department, UNHCR
Remittance Flows Worldwide in 2012 U.S. top sending country; India top receiving country Please select a country on the map in remittances were sent from to other countries in 2012 in remittances were sent to from other countries in 2012 Patterns of global migration have shifted in recent decades and those changes, along with the ups-and-downs of the economy, have also resulted in changes in the flow of remittances —the money that many migrants send back to families in their countries of origin. International migrants sent $529 billion in remittances back to their home countries in 2012, according to the World Bank. Tracking remittances worldwide is difficult because many countries do not track funds that are sent or received. No Data Available There was no data provided for the selected field. "Remittances" are funds or other assets sent to their home countries by migrants, either themselves or in the form of compensation for border, short-term and seasonal employees (World Bank, 2013).
Interactive: When Do Americans Leave For Work? JavaScript required for interaction.<br /><img src=" In a continued dig into commute data from the American Community Survey (We already saw mode of transportation.), the map above shows when people leave home for work. The rates are for people who have jobs and are 16 years or older. The data does not include people who work from home. Do we get anything interesting even though it's just one facet of the commute to work? As you'd expect, many commuters leave home between 7:00am and 8:00am. This surprised me. In contrast, commuters are more spread out between 7:00am and 8:30am in other areas. Still, fairly normal. Look at commuting rates during the late night and early morning hours. LaGrange county in Indiana, known for its large Amish population, also has many leave for work during the midnight to 4:59am time slot.
DécryptaGéo, l'information géographique La brújula de los inmigrantes ya no mira solo hacia el norte | Planeta Futuro España debate si las cuchillas de la valla de Melilla son o no un “método de disuasión” aceptable contra la inmigración; Grecia levanta un muro en la frontera con Turquía; Bulgaria diseña otro para frenar la llegada de refugiados sirios... Y mientras los Estados intentan protegerse con armaduras varias, el epicentro de los movimientos migratorios se está desplazando poco a poco. Los países ricos del Norte siguen siendo destino prioritario para muchos ciudadanos que buscan un futuro mejor. Es evidente que los países tradicionalmente receptores de inmigrantes aún piensan que todo sigue igual. En el futuro tanta gente se irá hacia el Norte como hacia el Sur", dice una experta Los desplazamientos desde el Sur –desde los países de renta baja y media– hacia el llamado Norte desarrollado ya no predominan en las grandes corrientes migratorias internacionales. Europa puede tener un déficit demográfico que ponga en riesgo su estado de bienestar Varios estudios destacan que el impacto fiscal de
New homes – Flash interactive | National Museum of Australia Interactive New Homes (2.3mb) (requires Flash) Learn about two ‘displaced persons’ who migrated to Australia from Europe after World War II and make a museum exhibition about their stories. Overview Explore the lives of two European women who lived through World War II before immigrating to Australia to start a new life. After investigating the women’s stories, build a museum exhibition about the experience of migration using artefacts and photographs from each woman’s story. Title your exhibition with one of the themes of ‘Leaving home’, ‘Separation from friends and family’, ‘Skills and work’, or your write your own theme, then write captions for each object to describe how it relates to your chosen theme. Objects from the Museum’s collection used in the interactive include the dentist equipment Lilija Brakamis brought from Latvia but was not qualified to use in Australia and a dress and other craftwork made by Petronella Wensing after her arrival in Australia from The Netherlands.
First Americans - Map: Paths to a New World Fresh discoveries are redefining our understanding of when and how humans first migrated into the Americas. Archaeological evidence now firmly suggests human occupation began some 15,500 years ago, not 13,000 years ago, as previously thought. In 2014 advances in DNA analysis enabled the first sequencing of a full Paleo-American genome, at the Anzick site in western Montana—confirmation that the ancestors of modern Native Americans did indeed originate from a population in Asia. Martin Gamache, NGM staff: Amanda Hobbs; Sources: David G. Anderson, University of Tennessee; James Chatters, Applied Paleoscience; E.