scholarly journals Of Bridges and Borders: An APSA Congressional Fellow's North American Tale

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (02) ◽  
pp. 431-433
Author(s):  
Matthew K. Asada
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Border Region ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
American Continent ◽  
Detroit River ◽  
North American Continent ◽  
The North ◽  
Border Towns ◽  
The Us

I had seen once before, halfway around the world, what a new bridge could do to a border region. However, despite having worked in border towns and on border issues for more than a decade, I had never given much thought to the border in my own backyard. I remember crossing the Detroit River to visit the casinos in Windsor, Ontario, before Detroit had her own and seeing the lines of trucks waiting to cross the bridge and being unaware of the border's economic importance to the region and the country. I had studied the economic benefits of European integration, but never thought about how those lessons could be applied to the North American continent. However, last year as a 2011–2012 APSA congressional fellow working with my hometown congressman US Representative Gary Peters I had the opportunity to apply these overseas experiences to a border that mattered to my town, state, and country. The US-Canadian border is not only the world's longest nonmilitarized border, but is also the line separating my hometown Detroit, Michigan, from Windsor, Ontario; and it is the line preventing the region and the two countries from fully realizing their economic potential.

scholarly journals US Migration Policy Towards the States of the North American Continent

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 101-129
Author(s):  
I. P. Tsapenko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
North American ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Continent ◽  
North American Continent ◽  
The North ◽  
The Us ◽  
High Level

The article aims at characterizing the content, problems, and consequences of the US interaction with the countries of the North American continent in the sphere of migration. The objective is to identify the main directions and assess the prospects for the overdue reform of the US regional migration policy. The author examines migration policy in the framework of NAFTA-USMCA and multi-vector initiatives aimed at managing movements within the region.The results show that migration on the continent, primarily from Mexico and Central America to the United States, is characterized by a high level of regionalization. Due to massive spontaneous flows of migrants who lack the required documents for entering, staying, and working in the country of destination, including asylum seekers, the region's countries face serious challenges aggravated by the pandemic. The US cooperates in various forms and directions with the region's countries in the sphere of migration. It includes limited liberalization of specific categories of specialists and business representatives from the three member-states of the NAFTA-USMCA. Nevertheless, such interaction focuses on curbing the inflow of migrants without documents to the United States, which makes these relations asymmetric along the center-periphery axis. Such a policy is inconsistent and leads to acute humanitarian crises on the borders of the region's states. The administration of Joe Biden faces difficulties in reforming migration policy during the pandemic and growing public concern. The issue urges regional cooperation on a fairer and more equitable basis; otherwise, it is impossible to advance towards the promotion of legal migration.

Francisco de Miranda in Russia

1950 ◽  
Vol 6 (04) ◽  
pp. 431-449 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph O. Baylen ◽  
Dorothy Woodward
Keyword(s):  
North American ◽  
American Continent ◽  
Grand Tour ◽  
North American Continent ◽  
The North ◽  
Austrian Minister

On September 26, 1786, Don Francisco de Miranda, adventurer and patriot, secured a passport from the Austrian Minister in Constantinople which enabled him to continue his “grand tour” to Russia. The nature of Miranda’s subsequent visit, and the extent to which his reception at the court of Catherine II influenced Spanish and Russian policy, assumes significance in the light of events on the North American continent immediately preceding and during his stay in Russia.

The genus Crepidotus in Hawaii

1973 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 1251-1254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Ueki ◽  
Clifford W. Smith
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North American ◽  
American Continent ◽  
North American Continent ◽  
The North ◽  
One New Species

Ten species of the genus Crepidotus are described from Hawaii. They are Crepidotus alabamensis, C. amygdalosporus, C. appalachianensis, C. applanatus var. globigera, C. avellaneus, C. citrinus, C. mollis, C. nephrodes, and C. rhizomorphus. One new species, C. bakerae, is proposed. Keys and distinctive characters of each species are provided. It is suggested that most of the species came from the North American continent.

The Vinland Adventure: A North Atlantic Perspective

1982 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 285-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Mc Govern
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
North Atlantic ◽  
North American ◽  
American Continent ◽  
North American Continent ◽  
The North ◽  
Geographical Factors ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
Adaptive Shifts ◽  
Early Phases

During the Viking period, Norse seafarers from Greenland attempted to plant a settlement on the North American continent. This Vinland settlement faltered in its early phases and was not successful. Its failure may be best understood from the broader perspective of the Scandinavian expansion across the North Atlantic islands which began ca. AD 800. Adaptive shifts in the older North Atlantic colonies, geographical factors, and the resistance of Native Americans may have combined to doom this Western-most medieval colony.

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