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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"JV Colonies and colonization. Emigration and immigration. International migration"”.
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Manifestations of identity in burial: evidence from Viking-Age graves in the North Atlantic diaspora
… Middle Ages, when settlers began to leave Scandinavia to find new homes for themselves and their families, they began a process that impacted their lives dramatically. Research on modern population movements has demonstrated that migration-induced stresses change the lives of immigrants, and …
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Essays on Socio-Economic Integration of Migrants in the UK Labour Market: Access (or Lack of Access) to the Professional Class, Gendering of Occupations and Earning Trajectories
… investigates socio-economic integration of men and women immigrants (‘Old’ and ‘New’) relative to United Kingdom (UK) born White in the UK labour market. In order to assess my research hypotheses I use both cross-sectional and panel data based on the world’s largest panel survey: UK Household …
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Essays on the economics of migration and labour: Empirical evidence from the UK
… of current UK economic issues relating to immigration and the labour market. In particular, since the late 1990s, the UK has experienced increasing immigration inflows significantly affecting both the economy and society as a whole. In parallel, over the last two decades the country has …
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On Immigration, Geographic and Labour Market Mobility
… in the UK in terms of their benefits take-up and their labour supply. I provide evidence that when access to benefits is restricted, immigrants compensate for the foregone income by working more. This is particularly true for females. Nevertheless, even in the absence of any restrictions, …
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Representing national identity within urban landscapes: Chinese settler rule, shifting Taiwanese identity, and post-settler Taipei City
… can give rise to shifts in national identity, and how such shifting identity can be represented in the form of the nation’s changing urban landscape. This thesis investigates that topic in the case of Taiwan, a de facto independent country with almost one hundred years’ experience of ‘colonial’ …
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The movement and residence rights of third country national family members of EU citizens: a historical and jurisprudential approach
… Union in deciding cases involving EU citizens and their third country national family members. The Court has been criticized for inconsistent judgments and providing a lack of legal certainty. The object of this thesis is to analyse the intricate jurisprudential scenario of family …
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The Greek-Cypriots' education in Pafos' province from October's revolt to the Independence (1931-1960)
The objective of this study is to assess and analyse the Greek-Cypriots educational policy regarding elementary and secondary education in Pafos' province, and to evaluate its contribution to the development of education in Cyprus during the British administration from October' s revolt (1931) till …
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Sample attrition and physical health of immigrants in the UK
… Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) which started in 2009 and includes an Ethnic Minority Boost sample, providing large enough sample sizes to study the immigrant population in detail. The first paper analyses sample attrition of immigrants at wave 2 of the UKHLS. We find that non-contact of immigrants is …
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British Policy Towards Cultural Relations with South Africa, 1960 to 1994
… attention, this thesis aims to rectify this, and demonstrate that these policies worked alongside more traditional diplomatic and economic links as a means of protecting Britain’s important interests in the country. British policy is analysed through three main themes, educational links, the …
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Doing justice?: towards a new understanding of the lawyer-client relationship
INTRODUCTION STYLES AND ATTITUDES: A DICHOTOMY IN APPROACH This thesis developed from an undergraduate dissertation examining factors affecting different approaches to the interactions between lawyers and their clients. Many of the understandings generated in that endeavour will now be explored in …
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Housing wealth and accumulation: Home ownership experiences of African Caribbean families migrating to Birmingham and London in the period 1950-1970
… this study makes. Links are made with Caribbean migration and social anthropology literatures in developing fresh perspectives on the study of housing wealth among this group. The study avoids treating housing wealth in isolation from other networks within African Caribbean communities. Instead …
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TRICKSTERS OF THE SPECTATORial The decolonial proposals of performance artivism through the encounters with La Pocha Nostra and Freddie Mercado
… of the transnational troupe of La Pocha Nostra and the Puerto Rican persona of Freddie Mercado with their respective spectators, where local-global constructs of coloniality become unveiled, made and unmade spectacle through their re-reproduction of otherness. Side by side with performance …
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Mapping the Dominican-American Experience: Narratives by Julía Alvarez, Junot Díaz, Loida Maritza Pérez and Angie Cruz
Dominican mass-migration to the United States only started in the 1960s but Dominican Americans are now a sizable minority and in 2014 they became the largest Latino group in New York City. This thesis examines fictional works by Dominican American writers who migrated to the United States from the …
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External Language Spread Policies in Mozambique and Guniea-Bissau at the turn of the 21st Century.
… topic I examine the case studies of Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, in the time frame of the 1990s to the present. In both case studies is visible the pervasiveness of international European languages that has been fostered by the history, structure and functioning of the international system. …
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Turkish Media, the Kurdish Question and the Peace Process, 2009–2015
… history, the Kurds revolted many times, demanding their rights; but each time the state managed to suppress them violently. However, the armed wing of the Kurdish movement, the PKK, has fought against the state since 1984 and this conflict has been of great humanitarian and economic cost, …
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Wǝ́xa Sxwuqwálustn: Pulling Together Identity, Community, and Cohesion in the Cowlitz Indian Tribe
… These changes involve the tribe’s sovereignty and have greatly impacted the emic identity of the tribe. Previous identity research with the Cowlitz predates these changes and no longer accurately describe the Cowlitz. The question for this research was how have these changes affected the emic …
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Ambivalence and penetration of boundaries in the worship of Dionysos: Analysing the enacting of psychical conflicts in religious ritual and myth, with reference to societal structure
This thesis draws on Freud to understand the innate human need to create boundaries and argues that ambivalence is an inescapable dilemma in their creation. It argues that a re-reading of Freud’s major thesis in Totem and Taboo via an engagement with the Dionysos myth and cult scholarship allows …