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Showing 1 to 20 of 103 for “"Migration Studies"”.
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An African feminist analysis on the experiences of black African immigrant men in Cape Town, South Africa
… study provides a gendered perspective on migration studies that postulate the embedded impact of gender ideologies within migrant households, and communities, impacting men as 'gendered' and ‘sexual identities'. This research study argues against the homogenizing and essentialist notions …
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Visualising Human Migrations in Cape Town The story of three ships through ‘time’, ‘space’ and ‘memory’
… capitalist imaginaries within the field of migration studies. Focusing on the theme of contemporary and historical migrations at Cape Town through research conducted on three ships between 2013 and 2017, it uses the themes of ‘time’, ‘space’ and ‘memory’ to visualise migrations. The PhD …
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The Impact of Refugee Camps on the Process of Migration Towards Europe: An Assessment
In recent years, migration studies focused very much on forced displacement, especially after the influx of migrants to Europe in 2015. Some European countries accept immigrants from non-EU regions. Others blame migrants for taking advantage of Europe’s social systems and follow restrictive policy …
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A Feminist Approach to the Study of Norm Implementation in the Global Refugee Regime
The field of refugee and forced migration studies has recently paid increased attention to questions of power, agency and refugee participation. At the same time, the literature focusing on norms and their implementation, primarily among constructivist international relations scholars, remains …
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Refugees and public health in the Cape Town area : treating the Other
… the main sociological streams developed in migration studies (Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, Robert Ezra Park) and it is focused on the analysis of the more recent pattern of multiculturalism and citizenship (Loren Landau, Alessandro Dal Lago, Francesco Remotti, Jonathan …
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English Learners In NYC
… is a Digital Humanities project that intersects Migration Studies and Foreign Language Learning Studies by presenting a podcast series about the learning experience of international students in English as a Second Language (ESL) programs at English schools in New York City. The project aims to …
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Hybrids, mimics, colonies and collections : a cross-disciplinary art practice research process
… These are critically engaged with: animal/numan studies in contemporary art practice; historical narratives of colonial human migration; studies of evolutionary and non-evolutionary animal behaviour; and the consequent paradigms of practice (historic and contemporary) that permeate cultural …
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What does home mean in displacement? A case study of refugee women in the South of England.
… and meaning of home in contexts of forced migration, on the other. This study explores these tensions and contributes to existing debates at the intersection of migration and gender studies, specifically those which explore refugee women’s experiences and practices of home-making. Based on …
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A comparative study on the social support systems of Somali and Ethiopian migrant traders in Cape Town
In the burgeoning field of migration studies, most research focusses primarily on the livelihoods of migrants, subsequently not much research is done on the social support systems and development of migrants in South Africa. Refugees and asylum seekers alike settle and integrate into their host …
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Human rights for whom? : sexual refugee applications in the 'gay capital' of Africa
… critical race theory, postcolonial feminism, and migration studies I start from a macro perspective by analysing the evolution of refugee studies and the emergence of the 'sexual refugee' within the human rights system, going on to explore the implications of such emergence for sexual minorities …
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The Talking of Objects: Migratory Experiences and Subjectivities of British Chinese Women in Contemporary Britain
… Drawing on the emergent "material turn” in migration studies, this study situated the subjectivities of British Chinese women as migrants and settlers through their personal objects. Through this approach, women from different backgrounds and generations were invited to articulate their …
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The Politics of Exhaustion and Migrant Subjectivities: Researching border struggles in northern France in 2016-2019
Situated within critical border and migration studies, this thesis is a detailed ethnographic account of the ‘border struggles’ associated with the UK-France borderzone in northern France, where human mobilities meet state endeavours to control and regain a hold over migratory movement. Through an …
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Humanizing the Migration Experience: The Stories and Struggles of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children from the Northern
<p>This research paper explores the migration journey of unaccompanied immigrant children (UICs) from the Northern Triangle countries of Central America to the United States, focusing on the reasons why children leave their home countries, the challenges they face during their journey, and the …
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Homeward Bound: The Influence of Emigration and Return on Aezkoa Valley and its Surrounding Rural Communities in Northern Navarre at the turn of the 19th Century
… is to provide a study on Basque transnational migration from the perspective of the homeland. The goal is to see to what extent this transnational migration influenced and impacted local communities in the rural Basque area, concretely in Aezkoa Valley and other villages that surround it at the …
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Moving to the West: Media, Cultural Transnationalism and Identity. Cultural Dynamics of Korean Women in Diaspora
… in the context of circulation and transnational migration. The primary objective is to discern how social values and interactions, whether mediated or direct, contribute to the cultural transmission within Korean female diasporic groups and shape specific meanings associated with transnational …
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The pursuit of a good life in a developing place: a human-centred study among vulnerable migrants in São Paulo-Brazil
… the need to focus more on the impacts of migration on the individuals migrating, and not simply on the impacts on the economies of their places of origin and destination. To further explore this human-centred dimension of migration, the thesis’ theoretical framework is grounded in Amartya …
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Soviet Bodies in Canadian Dancesport: Cultural Identities, Embodied Politics, and Performances of Resistance in Three Canadian Ballroom Dance Studios
… original information to the fields of dance studies and pedagogy, migration studies, and cultural studies. The results of this study can act as a guide in the development of arts management, education, and cultural integration policies in Canada, fostering a creative dialogue between dancers, …
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When Wives Migrate and Leave Husbands Behind: A Jamaican Marriage Pattern
… immigrant women are documented in Caribbean migration studies, but the marriages of Jamaican legally-married immigrant wives and their husbands left behind in Jamaica are so far unstudied. The main research question of this study is what maintains these transnational marriages over time, …
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Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails
Framed within the fields of Border and Migration Studies and the Environmental Humanities, Border Biomes: Coexistence and Interference on American Migration Trails, examines how 21st -century Mexican, Mexican American, and Chicanx literature and art depict dynamic, unstable geographies that defy …
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The Tunisian Diaspora in Britain: The London Case
The rise of a transnational paradigm in migration studies reminds us that contemporary migrants construct homes and identities through complex networks that cut across their homelands and host countries. The intersection between home, identity and networks is at the centre of the multidisciplinary …
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