Gabriele Rizzi
Are we living in another migration period?
Pandemics, migrations and the environmental link
2022, 204 pp.
Paperback, 17 x 24 cm
ISBN: 9788891325112
Pandemics, migration and climate change: a synthesis of 2020, one might say. Nonetheless, the same historical events and processes occurred during the Migration period , and today more and more studies are shedding new light on their interconnections, providing us with new keys to interpreting the present. However, in the face of accelerated globalisation, the coexistence of these phenomena calls for a faster response to today's global challenges: what are therefore the best policies to adopt and how can a better knowledge of our past help us?
Prefazione – Preface
15 Introduction
19 I. The Migration Period
19 1.1. The ‘Justinian plague’ and the first plague pandemic
23 1.1.1 Mortality and demographic effects
26 1.1.2 The first plague pandemic across Europe
35 1.1.3 What about Northern Europe?
38 1.1.4 The socio-economic effects of the Justinian plague
45 1.1.5 The mystery of the end and of the origin of the Justinian plague
50 1.2 Migrants at the turn of the Middle Ages: The Barbarian invasions
51 1.2.1 The migratory movements
52 1.2.1.1 The Gothic Crisis: Italy, Gaul and the Iberian Peninsula
54 1.2.1.2 From Gaul to France: The Franks, the Huns and the Franks
again
56 1.2.1.3 Britannia: the Anglo-Saxons’ arrival and the flee of the Roman
59 1.2.1.4 From the Ostrogoths to the Lombards: the end of the
Migration Period?
62 1.2.1.5 Ending an era: The Avars’ and the Slavs’ migrations
63 1.2.2 Explaining people’s movements: what caused the Migration Period?
66 1.3 The Environmental link
66 1.3.1 The Roman Climate Optimum and its end
76 1.3.2 The 546 CE event and the LALIA/DACP
83 Conclusions
85 II. The Contemporary Era
85 2.1 The 21st century pandemics and epidemics
86 EVD or Ebolavirus Disease epidemic
87 The AIDS/HIV pandemic
88 The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic
88 The “swine flu” pandemic
89 The MERS epidemic
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90 The Zika epidemic
90 The Covid-19 pandemic
92 2.1.2 Pandemics ’effects on 21st century Europe’ society
102 2.2 Europe’s 21st century’s Migration Period
102 2.2.1 The European routes
102 The Eastern Borders route
102 The Albanian circular route
103 The Eastern Mediterranean route
105 The Balkan route or the Balkan corridor
107 The Atlantic route
108 The Western Mediterranean route
109 The Central Mediterranean route
112 2.2.2 Destination Europe: the migratory routes across Asia and Africa
112 The African-Mediterranean routes
114 The Asian routes
115 2.2.3 Why Europe? Migrants’ main reasons to leave
116 West Africa
118 East Africa
120 Middle East and Asia
122 The impact of Covid-19
123 2.3 “Climigrants” and ecodemics?
123 2.3.1 Climate changes’ effects
124 Effects on the seas
126 Extreme events
127 Europe’s first “climigrants?”
129 2.3.2 Facing the effects of climate change from outside
130 West Africa
132 East Africa
134 Middle East and Asia
138 2.3.3 Are we dealing with “ecodemics”?
139 Conclusions
143 III. Are we living in another Migration Period?
143 1.1 Past, Present, Future
143 3.1.1 Two pandemics, one common trend?
150 3.1.2 Across, into, and again across Europe?
156 3.1.3 Are we living in another Migration Period? Problematic issues
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161 3.2 Are we living in another Migration Period? Possible solutions
163 Mitigation strategies: a short review
164 3.2.1 A possible long-term solution: The European Green Deal
166 3.2.2 Short and middle-term policies
166 Broadening the refugee status
167 Avoiding deaths in the Mediterranean: the humanitarian corridors
167 Integrating migrants into the labour market
169 Boosting the Third World (green) economy
170 Urbanization planning in developing countries
171 3.2.3 Preventing the next pandemic
173 3.3 Avoiding another Migration period
174 Conclusions
177 Bibliography
191 Sitography
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