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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Global Migration"”.
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Governing Global Migration
This study explores the global regulative function of migration politics. Its main aim is to rethink migration politics through an engagement with the Foucauldian governmentality perspective, which focuses on the relation between government and thought. A secondary aim is to use this perspective to …
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Global Migration and the Ethics of Hospitality
… of hospitality to address the contemporary global backlash against immigration and forced migration. This thesis traces the development of an ethical theory of hospitality through the work of three major figures, Edmund Husserl, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. I explore how Husserlian …
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"""When in doubt, deport!"": U.S. deportation and the local policing of global migration during the 1920s"
… hospitals, asylums, and media discourse. As immigration officials and local authorities sought to enforce abstract policies, they ran up against the reality of migrants as embodied individuals and communities, whose national and racial identities, sexuality, mental and physical health did not …
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THE RELEASE OF CONTAMINANTS BY LEACHING FROM BOIL-IN BAG LAMINATES
… laminates for packaging food, relates to the migration of potentially toxic substances from the packaging material into the food. These contaminants can originate from the non-food contact layer and/or from the laminate adhesive. This thesis investigates the nature, quantity and release …
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Assessing the impact of the sustainable development goals (SDGS) on the white paper on citizenship, immigration and refugee protection in South Africa
… (SDGs) on the White Paper on Citizenship, Immigration and Refugee Protection in South Africa. The aim is to understand the influence of global goals on a national immigration policy and to assess the feasibility of the new policy as a tool for realizing sustainable development for immigrants. …
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Geovisualization and Open-Source Web Mapping of Big Origin-Destination Data, a Test Case
<p>Migration plays a key role in determining the health and success of cities, counties, and countries. It also plays a key role in determining the health and wellbeing of the individuals and families that undergo a migration event. This has led many scholars to map and study global migration …
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Bodies across borders : embodiment and experiences of migration for southern African international students at the University of Cape Town
In context of increasing global migration and its correlation to heightened tensions around the meaning of a "foreign" body, this research questions the experiences of bodies crossing borders into the social and historical space of Cape Town, South Africa. Grounded in theories of surveillance, …
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Being dark and foreign: a study of race in New Delhi's African student population
… is placed on the agenda of established global migration policy research. While the broader context of global migration forms an integral part of understanding this phenomenon, the complex construction of racial, cultural and existential difference which emerges from the data, requires a …
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Probabilistic Models for Human Migration Forecasting and Residency Imputation
… enhance the estimation and forecasting of human migration flows and residency. Using a Bayesian hierarchical approach, I first propose a model for forecasting global bilateral migration flows among the 200 most populous countries, producing well-calibrated projections that reduce error rates …
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Global frameworks, local realities: migrant resettlement in the Russian Federation
The thesis explores the 'return' migration and resettlement experience of members of ethnic Russian and Russian speaking migrant populations who over the period 1991-2000 left their homes in the former republics of the Soviet Union to resettle on the territory of the Russian Federation, their …
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Organizational responses to urban migration in Ho Chi Minh City : adapting to the challenges of a highly regulated environment
… the difficulties that arise from Vietnam's urban migration by exploring the challenges facing the migrant community in Ho Chi Minh City. It further analyzes how migrant needs may or may not be addressed by existing social organizations. Given Ho Chi Minh City's unique political environment, how …
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Migration to new destinations: local migrant experiences in a globalised world
This thesis examines modern migration processes to new destinations. Using case studies in Northern Ireland, it analyses the challenges and complexities of integration as a way of framing migrants' settlement in new societies. Despite the scale and pace of global migration patterns and an expanding …
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Dreaming Woman: Argentine Modernity and the Psychoanalytic Diaspora
… by examining the ways in which forced migration has shaped psychoanalytic theories of sexual difference and evolving modes of feminist practice in Latin America. Home to more psychoanalysts per capita than any other country, Argentina emerged as a site of political asylum during WWII …
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Indian physiotherapists' global Mobility: a grounded theory journey of professional identity transformation
… overseas. Published literature investigates the global mobility of doctors and nurses but there is no literature that considers the global migration of physiotherapists from developing countries. The purpose of this study was to understand the motivations and aspirations underpinning the Indian …
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Critical theory, adult learning and‘xenophobia’: a critical perspective on Umoja wa Afrika’s human rights peer education programme
The impact of global migration on local contexts has spawned new issues and a range of social responses. These include the emergence of ‘xenophobia’ in the terrain of discrimination and the subsequent development of popular educational responses to this. As part of popular educational responses, …
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Japan's Asia-Pacific Migrations and the Making of the Japanese Empire, 1868-1945
… the close and dynamic connections Japanese migration to the empire's Asian colonies and to other parts of the world. In particular, it highlights the important yet unexpected ways in which Japanese American migration influenced and transformed Japan's colonial expansion in Asia. Second, the …
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Migrating Children, Households, and the Post-Socialist State: An ethnographic study of migration and non-migration by children and youth in an ethnic Lao village
… the young population that is involved in migration, and a considerable proportion of these young migrants is below the age of 18 and, therefore, technically of child-age. Through the theoretical lens of rural change these young migrants are depicted as actors of social change who through …
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Social justice journalism: valorising and empowering the experiences of ‘the other’
… in the UK, whilst also shifting views on migration within the media: from perceiving the other as being deficient, to valuing their abundance. The discussion centres on an award winning initiative called the Refugee Journalism Project that the author established following the Syrian …
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Deseos de comunidad en el personaje intersticial y marginal: en la novela y el cine de los noventa en México
… chapter examines the diaspora and errancy of the global labor market, of cultures in contact and identities in process of exchange in the novel Los perros de Cook Inlet (Alberto López Fernández, 1998). The novel mirrors and illuminates a part of the reality of global migration. The final chapter …
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Multilingual medical communication: Staff with different language repertoires in an intensive care environment
… Unit (ICU) of a private South African hospital. Global nursing migration and local skill shortages have created a workplace context in which English is the dominant language of a linguistically diverse site. This research explored how registered nurses, whose first languages include Afrikaans, …
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