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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"Migrant population"”.
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Improving health outcomes of viral Hepatitis in a migrant population of Australia
Migrants to Australia have higher rates of HBV and HCV infection than people born in Australia. Reflecting this, the morbidity and mortality of HBV- and HCV-related complications is disproportionately higher in the culturally and linguistically diverse population (CALD) when compared to …
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New York State Migrant Education Program and its Impact on Students in the Brockport Tutorial Outreach Project
In spite of their problems the Migrant Education Program still provides effective assistance to the migrant population. It is surprising to note that many educators have no knowledge of the lifestyle and the educational process that the migrant students have to contend, in order to receive an …
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The political and socioeconomic effects of international migration: The German case
… and welfare problems have increased with the migrant population over the last two decades.
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The usefulness of administrative data in the research of migrant health
Increasingly, migrants and health are major international concerns and an important area of study within public health. The recent increase in rates of migration and the vast differences between demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of most migrant groups compared to settled populations are …
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Balancing Flavors, Constructing Identities, and Building a Community: Rethinking Diaspora and Migration Through the Foodways of a Thai Community in Washington, D.C.
… ideology and behavior. My focus on a temporary migrant population of Thais in Washington, DC offers a new way to conceptualize what it means to be part of a diasporic community. Whereas previous work has dichotomized diasporic people and temporary migrants, my research shows that the line …
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Using Matched Craniometric and Genetic Data to Assess the Population Structure of Texas-Mexico Border Migrants
Human population structure studies suggest that craniometric and genetic data demonstrate similar genetic distances within and between populations. However, few studies use craniometric and genetic data from the same individuals to conduct comparative analyses. Therefore, it is necessary to assess …
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Exploring food Insecurity among international migrants in South Africa: a case study of Zimbabweans in Cape Town.
… South Africa is Africa’s biggest recipient of migrants from, and outside of, Africa and is one of the countries that has significantly been affected by the migration and food insecurity issue. Although Zimbabwean migrants form the largest percentage of the international migrant population in …
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Employment spatial structure in metropolitan Lima
… Lima was unprepared for absorbing such a large migrant population. Migrants frequently found themselves unable to find jobs and physically unconnected with the economic center of the city. Strategic reforms and planning by national and metropolitan authorities were developed and, as a result of …
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Exploration of the Link Between Migration and Acculturation Related-Stress, Attachment Style, and Psychological Distress in Arab Immigrants, Refugees, and Asylees
… a higher prevalence of insecure attachment in migrant compared to non-migrant populations. Attachment style may be influenced by sociocultural and sociopolitical forces and the associated prejudice and discrimination experienced by a particular migrant population. The current study was …
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Utopic Déjà Vu: The Power of the Public Hallucination in the UAE
… dream. In fact, the country has the largest migrant population per capita in the world. Much like Disney, Dubai brokers in feeding the imagination, chiefly of immigrant-workers who make up 90% of the population. The promise of tax-free living, year-around sunny skies, and a bespoke lifestyle …
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Waiting for the bus : a strategy for approaching the regulation of public transportation in Kuwait
… has been traditionally aimed at the lower-class migrant population rather than the residents of the country as a whole. Planning and regulating for the existing public transportation is minimal and siloed. Against this background, this thesis evaluates the current state of public transportation …
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Organizational responses to urban migration in Ho Chi Minh City : adapting to the challenges of a highly regulated environment
… challenges facing Ho Chi Minh City's increasing migrant population. After Vietnam introduced sweeping economic reforms in 1986, the country began to experience rapid industrialization and urbanization. Ho Chi Minh City has since emerged as the country's financial hub, and it finds itself at the …
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Dietary intake, lifestyles and risk of nutrition-related non-communicable diseases in a Punjabi south Asian male population in Kent, United Kingdom
… in the United Kingdom compared to the general UK population. Observed differences have been attributed to inter-generational nutritional experiences and pattern of lifestyle changes which affect the risk of adult disease in later life. The aim of this research is to investigate socio-demographic …
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Marital Satisfaction and Intimacy: Gender Role Attitudes and Spousal Support in Botswana
… that is characterized by a fast growing economy, migrant population, urbanization and industrialization. Specifically, this study examined the role of two relational variables, gender role attitudes and spousal support and two demographic variables, age and gender in predicting the variance in …
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Collective urban block
… detached from the city. Currently, Beijing has a migrant population of 8 million, who called themselves "Bei Piao", literally translated as "floating in Beijing". The exclusive policy to cap population and exorbitant housing price further exclude migrants to live in the city. As Beijing continued …
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Migrant Families in Ireland: Understanding the Culture Landscapes of Transnational Family Life
Being ‗migrant‘ in Ireland is often presented in the popular media and academic studies as being somewhat problematic. While this study acknowledges some of the difficulties facing Ireland‘s migrant population, I attend in particular to some of the more everyday and ordinary things done as part of …
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The Growth of an Urban Sporting Culture – Middlesbrough, c.1870-1914
… of sporting organisations. In light of a population dominated by working class men, the thesis contextualises the growth of recreational football into the town’s most popular sport. Through a detailed examination of local newspapers and archival sources, this thesis reveals the depth and …
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Redefining the "Ideal Qatari Woman" in the 21st Century: The Role of Qatari Women in Nation Building and Branding
… Qatari rulers’ anxieties surrounding a growing migrant population, the gaze of a Western audience, and regional and domestic pressures, I argue that the Qatari state is constructing and recruiting an educated and socioeconomically privileged class of “ideal Qatari women” to carry out its …
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An evaluation of a summer migrant education program
… between school-related behaviors of migrant students enrolled in a summer program and selected factors in the home and school which may interact with academic performance. The research strategy utilized three components to address the research questions: an ethnographic study of …
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Understandings of integration amongst highly educated Indian women migrants living in the UK
… rarely examines integration as understood by migrants themselves (cf. EAVES 2015). Yet, capturing migrants’ voices is essential to obtain a balanced comprehension (Erdal 2013), especially as integration is frequently conceptualised as a ‘two-way process’ between migrants and host country / …
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