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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Migration Networks"”.
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Domestic migration networks in the United States
… driver of regional economic growth. Domestic migration patterns have the potential to illuminate the social and economic connections among cities, while also highlighting economically significant flows of human capital. In this thesis I examine the US city system through the lens of gross …
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Germany - Morocco : an ethnography about migration, networks, and experienced discrimination
… to assumptions on the interrelatedness of emigration and immigration, the detailed insights into personal embededness through social network analysis and the impacts of unfulfilled needs and experienced discriminations. Resulting in the fact that the struggles of migration, the character of …
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Internal Migration, Networks and Gender Roles among Domestic Workers in Vietnam
This thesis examines social networks and gender roles among domestic workers who are rural-to-urban female migrants in Vietnam. Using qualitative data collected from 10 in-depth interviews and one focus group with 17 domestic workers and one interview with a NGO staff member, I argue that networks …
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Internal Migration and House Prices in the UK
… investigates the causal effect of internal migration on house prices in the UK. Historical migration networks are leveraged to identify exogenous variation in internal migration flows, to enable a Card-type shift-share instrumental variable (IV) research design. Contrasting previous studies, …
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Post-Cold War migration from Latin America to Latin Europe: a network theoretical analysis of an international migration system
Latin America (LA) was once a region of net immigration, receiving millions of migrants from Europe, particularly Latin Europe (Italy, Portugal and Spain), between the years 1850 and 1950. But in the mid-1990s, this historical migration pattern reversed, and millions of Latin American migrants …
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Migration decision-making under environmental change: Place utility, mobility and ecosystem services in highland Peru
Migration is often conceptualised as a failure to adapt to environmental risks and change, while new research suggests migration is an effective front-line response to environmental degradation. This thesis investigates the social and environmental mechanisms that lead to individuals adopting …
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Essays on aviation, regional economic development, and migration
… The third essay focuses on the phenomenon of migration and remittances during the post-Soviet era in Tajikistan, a country in Central Asia. Motivated by reverse causality issue between airport development and regional economic growth, in Chapter 1, titled as "Air Transportation and Regional …
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Family, Work, and Migration: Transborder Networking among Tlapanecs from La Montaña
… Mexico have increasingly participated in network migration between La Montaña and the United States for job opportunities. Social networking and family-based social capital are highly important for Tlapanecs in Guerrero. For non-English speaking Tlapanecs who migrate to the US, networking among …
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Kichwa-Bogotá : Indígenas extranjeros en el marco del multiculturalismo colombiano
Los Kichwa Otavalo son una comunidad indígena ecuatoriana que durante las últimas décadas se ha caracterizado por su migración transnacional. Colombia fue uno de los primeros destinos de esta población y Bogotá se ha convertido en uno de los nodos migratorios más importantes tanto a nivel nacional …