Migration and Cultural Change

Cultural Landscape and Migration

This paper focus on the way Nepalese migrants in Myanmar use features of the natural environment in their homeland in metaphoric constructions of a cultural landscape expressing ethnic identity. It is through such "symbolic work" that perceptions of "ethnoscapes" are shaped and indoctrinated. Although the appeal is to symbols that can serve to foster the importance of Nepaliness as a basis for ...

Migration, cultural bereavement and cultural identity.

Migration has contributed to the richness in diversity of cultures, ethnicities and races in developed countries. Individuals who migrate experience multiple stresses that can impact their mental well being, including the loss of cultural norms, religious customs, and social support systems, adjustment to a new culture and changes in identity and concept of self. Indeed, the rates of mental ill...

Darwinism and cultural change.

Evolutionary models of cultural change have acquired an important role in attempts to explain the course of human evolution, especially our specialization in knowledge-gathering and intelligent control of environments. In both biological and cultural change, different patterns of explanation become relevant at different 'grains' of analysis and in contexts associated with different explanatory ...

Migration and Cultural Change: A Role for Gender and Social Networks?

Migration and environmental change

In recent years, there has been considerable speculation about the possible effects of climate change on migration, especially in developing countries. Stern (2006) noted that 200 million people worldwide live in at-risk coastal flood plains, which would be threatened by changes in sea-level. Moreover climate change may lead to resource scarcity, drought, floods, and other environmental changes...