... or involuntarily. They include monks or nuns, the elderly, prisoners, boarding school or college students, and soldiers. Student institutional migrants often face a lot of trouble adapting to their new environment. They are at greater risk of adjustment stress than are local students. Soldiers are often sent on long distance assignments for length periods. Their destination may have detrimental physical and ... mental health effects on them in addition to the fact that they may have to face combat. During the Birtish and French colonial expansion, thousands of soldiers were assigned to ...

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... of Afro-European descent. Slave vessels remained on the coast of Africa usually from four to six months, depending on the trading location, availability of slaves and provisions, and the health of slaves and crew. Some provisions for the coastal stay and Middle Passage were loaded in Europe, but often captains purchased rice, beans, fish, and yams on the coast of ... , tars, and turpentines. By any measurement, mortality rates of both slaves and crew were extraordinarily high on the Atlantic crossing. The crowded, unsanitary conditions below deck were an ideal disease environment for out...

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