GC Week 3 Memo s2025 Page

26 January 2025               

What’s Happening Week 3?

This week we meet the happiest people in the world . . . in Finland and Denmark—two SCANDINAVIAN EGALITARIAN CULTURES we’ll see more of next week. And, in a way, we continue the focus on emigration and immigration . . .

• • emigration
    
    
    • leaving one’s home or homeland with the intent to settle elsewhere
      
      
  • immigration
    
    
    • entering into a country or territory not of one’s birth or citizenship for the purpose of taking up permanent residence or to secure temporary employment

As mentioned last week, worldwide questions of emigration and immigration are among key interests for governments and individuals. Opposition to particular immigrant groups, and immigration in general, has become a major issue in both local and world politics today, perhaps second only to the climate change crisis, COVID-19 and "globalization," as a driver of both informed and uninformed discourse, and cognizant and unapprised government policy and debate. And the on-going war in the Ukraine has severely amplified the problem.

Week 3 Overview

GC Wk3 OVERVIEW TO BEGIN MODULE 3

Week 3 Wrap-UP

GC Wk3 WRAP-UP

Questions? / Comments / Suggestions . . .

If you have any questions or comments right now, please do not hesitate to post them on the “Discussions”, or e-mail troufs@d.umn.edu, or ZOOM https://umn.zoom.us/my/troufs Links to an external site.. (E-mail is fastest, and most generally best as quite often URLs need be sent.)

Best Wishes,

Tim Roufs

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