Migration means the movement of people from one place to another: sometimes the migration involves crossing an international border and sometimes it takes place within a single country. Sometimes the migration is voluntary and sometimes it is involuntary. Involuntary migration is usually an example of human trafficking, which is related to slavery, although it can also happen when the borders themselves change.
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One of the principal themes of the early episodes of Series 1 on Treme concerns control of the means of production. The means of production are those resources or items which are used in work to create goods and services of value – in the case of New Orleans, of course, particularly when it comes to Treme, the means of production tend to be the instruments that musicians use to create the music for which they are paid. In the wake of the devastating hurricane and flooding of the city, many characters lose their instruments or other means of production and their lives are pretty much ruined.
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I’m still unable to post articles from my own computer so I plan to continue to save them up for Tuesdays and Thursdays, when I can use machines here in the Pathum Thani campus.
