[BLOG] Some Monday links

[rfmcdonald]

Ocean mining, diasporas, Belarusians in Poland and Ukraine to totalitarians, Libya, and more!

• 80 Beats notes that deep-sea exploration of the Pacific has turned up large amounts of rare earths--rare elements of the periodic table--in the mud of the Pacific. Mining?


• At Acts of Minor Treason, Andrew Barton argues in favour of some sort of Canadian government outreach to the Canadian diaspora.


• Border Thinking's Laura Agustín argues that sociological research on international migration of sex workers needs to be carried out more impartially in the context of globalization and migration.


• Eastern Approaches observes that economic crisis has really hurt the Belarusian traders smuggling goods into their country from Poland.


• Far Outliers has two grim posts on interwar Ukraine, the first on the ways in which Hitler and Stalin saw Ukraine as necessary for the fulfillment of their plans, the second recounting the great famine of the 1930s.


• The Global Sociology Blog reviews a book on the noxious but increasingly common tendency to hire interns instead of workers.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money's Erik Loomis comments on the increasingly common interest of unions in establishing transnational links, i.e. the United States with Canada and Mexico.


• Personal Reflection's Jim Belshaw argues that the recent visit of William and Kate to Canada was made in part with the aim of promoting Canadian national unity and the Canadian-ness of Québec.


• At The Power and the Money, Noel Maurer comments on the war in Libya, noting the non-involvement of Egypt and Tunisia, the role of France in the light of domestic politics, the rebel-Berber alliance, and more.


• Slap Upside the Head celebrates the news that Ontario Roman Catholic schools have to allow GLBT support groups, gay-straight alliances in all but name.