Search results for "Emigration"
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Persecution and Patronage: Oscar Buneman’s years in Britain
2016
The German student Oscar Bunemann, in trouble with the Nazi authorities in the mid-1930s, chose to emigrate to Britain and pursue a PhD there. After emigration, his surname appears as Buneman. On the verge of completing his degree in 1940, he was detained as an enemy alien and spent almost a year in internment. Upon release, he found work as an atomic scientist in England, and went on to lead a post-war career as a pioneering plasma physicist in the USA.We study forced migration of European scientists before and during the Second World War, and scientific patronage in the host countries. Buneman’s case is interesting from several points of view. Being a non-Jewish, non-communist, anti-Nazi …
Ruralidad y políticas locales de integración: Estudio comparativo sobre las provincias de Alicante y Valencia
2013
Pese al asentamiento de un número significativo y creciente de migrantes inter a n cio nales en los municipios rurales de los países de rentas altas, existen pocos estudios sobre las políticas de sus autoridades locales en materia de diversidad cultural. Este trabajo pretende abrir el camino examinando algunos motivos teóricos y em píricos para pensar que los ayuntamientos rurales se diferencian de los urbanos en su pro sión a acomodar las prácticas culturales de los inmigrantes, así como en sus pen principales áreas de intervención. El análisis comparativo de 12 municipios de las provincias españolas de Alicante y Valencia sugiere que las políticas de integr…
Kulisy niedoszłego procesu sądowego Stowarzyszenia Polskich Kombatantów w Wielkiej Brytanii z "Tygodnikiem Polskim" w latach 1948-1949
2013
In 1948 members of the Polish Ex-Combatants Association charged the editor of Tygodnik Polski published by the Polish People’s Republic Embassy in London with slander. Eventually, there was no trial, and the dispute ended in 1949 with an settlement. Instead the embassy in London had to pay a large sum as compensation.
"Oszukańcze wybory". Środowiska polskiej emigracji politycznej wobec wyborów do Sejmu Ustawodawczego w 1947 roku
2017
The article presents the attitude of Polish political emigration towards first parliamentary election held in Poland after World War II. The election caused discussions in emigration press. The Polish government in exile did not hoped for any change of political situation in country after elections conducted under communist rule. Most of the political parties in exile took similar position. In the opinion of the emigrants a truly free election could be conducted under international supervision and after the withdrawal of Soviet troops and removal from power dominated by communists Provisional Government of National Unity.
Reglamentowana odwilż. Obóz „zamkowy” na emigracji wobec wydarzeń w Polsce i bloku komunistycznym w 1956 roku
2016
The article presents the position of “the Castle” on emigration (the President, government and the Council of the Republic of Poland) towards the events in Poland and the Eastern Bloc in 1956. The politicians and publicists of “the Castle”, observing some changes in the country, did not expect that they would lead to basic changes. The opinion prevailed that Poland was not an independent state and that the Soviet occupation still persisted. Propagating maximum demands (independence, restoration of the pre-war border in the east), they did not have much hope in an evolutionary course of changes. They opted for a deposition, and not a liberalisation of the communist system in Poland and the r…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Debating Immigration in a Country of Emigration
2018
Szukając wolności: Sprawa kapitana m/s "Batory" Jana Ćwiklińskiego
2014
After WWII the Polish ocean liner “Batory” operated on the route Gdynia–New York, and from 1951 to India. The captain of the ship was Jan Ćwikliński. The Ministry for Public Security accused him of having a hostile attitude towards the People’s Republic of Poland and insisted on him being removed from his position as Batory captain. In the spring of 1953 the ship underwent a technical check-up at a shipyard in Great Britain. In the mean-time it was rumoured that the captain was to be arrested upon his return to Poland on suspicion of espionage. When the renovation works were about to be completed, Ćwikliński decided to escape and left his ship for good. The captain was given political asylu…
Depopulation in the Baltic states
2011
Šiame straispnyje nagrinėjami pagrindiniai Baltijos šalyse vykstančių demografinių procesų bruožai. Atkūrus nepriklausomybę Estijoje, Latvijoje ir Lietuvoje išryškėjo gyventojų skaičiaus mažėjimo tendencija, kurią nulėmė neigiama natūrali gyventojų kaita ir neigiama neto tarptautinė migracija (išvykusiųjų skaičius viršija atvykusiųjų skaičių). Kartų kaitos neužtikrinantis gimstamumo lygis, santykinai aukštas mirtingumo lygis (ypač vyrų), intensyvi emigracija ir gyventojų senėjimas stebimi visose Baltijos šalyse. Šios nepalankios tendencijos ypač pasireiškė šalims įstojus į Europos Sąjungą 2004 m. Nuo 1990 m. Latvija ir Lietuva pasižymi vienais iš didžiausių depopuliacijos tempų Europoje. De…
First Data on the Molecular Phylogeography of Scincid Lizards of the Genus Mabuya
2000
A 487-bp fragment of the mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene was sequenced in 26 species of the circumtropical lizard genus Mabuya and used to analyze phylogenetic relationships within the genus. The species from Africa and Madagascar formed a monophyletic group relative to the included Asian and South American taxa. The Malagasy species included (M. elegans, M. cf. dumasi, and M. comorensis) did not appear as a monophylum. Combined and separate analysis of the 16S data and additional sequences of the mitochondrial 12S rRNA, ND4, and cytochrome b genes (a total of 2255 bp) in one Asian, two Malagasy, and two African species also did not result consistently in a monophyletic grouping of the Malagasy…