The word pogrom literally means "riot" in Russian. Commonly, the term describes the semi-official persecution of Jews in the Russian Empire that began in the early 1880s. With their situation in ...

The crofters couldn’t turn to working on kelp or fishing due to their decline. For many Highlanders emigration was the only solution. Living conditions were poor in the slums of the industrial ...

Many Scots saw emigration as an escape from unemployment and poverty in the Highlands, and from the depressed industrial areas of central Scotland. Scots moving abroad made up 60 per cent of the ...

(CNN) — Israel’s security cabinet has approved a controversial proposal to facilitate Palestinian emigration from Gaza, a move critics warn could amount to ethnic cleansing. Israeli Finance ...