Article ID: CBB915286515

The Metabolism of Modern Migration (December 2018)

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This thought piece reflects on the workings of modern migration through the prism of metabolism. It contends that the metabolic idiom productively underscores how migration as a process is enabled and evoked by particular flows of materials and energy and how the movement of migrants engenders social and environmental transformations.

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Authors & Contributors
Hosna J. Shewly
Bradley, Ben
Gordon Mathews
Daggett, Cara New
Taylor, Jack
Cajetan Nwabueze Iheka
Concepts
Mobility
Migration
Fossil fuels
Energy resources and technologies
Transportation
Social change
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
Africa
United States
Guangzhou (China)
Bangladesh
Southern states (U.S.)
Paraguay
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