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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Migration literature"”.
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The migrant network effect : an empirical analysis of rural-to-urban migration in South Africa
Recent empirical migration literature in South Africa suggests that access to physical and human capital, in the way of finance and education respectively, are key factors in increasing one’s probability of migrating. This paper attempts to extend this literature by directly measuring the extent to …
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Temporary Sojourns in the Periphery.
… affected by the growth in international student migration. The experiences of these voluntary, temporary, mostly highly skilled migrants differ from accounts of other mobile people and have so far been largely ignored in the literature. This is a lack that this thesis fills. Drawing on diverse …
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Explaining Churn: Mass Society, Social Capital, & Community Churn
… day communities, it has been overlooked in the migration literature, which is mostly dominated by individual-level research on the causes and effects of migration, particularly the pecuniary benefits to movers. Using county-level data and multivariate analyses, this research seeks to fill this …
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A study of household determinants of migration
… part been culminated, the process of internal migration is a factor which continues to influence economic growth, development and change of most economic systems. It represents a dynamic adjustment process of individuals and populations to economic and social alternatives and within each system …
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The gender implications of the European Community Free Movement of Persons provisions
… in particular the Labour Force Survey and a literature review of migration studies and issues concerning women and citizenship. The investigation also involves an analysis of primary, secondary and case law relating to the Free Movement of Persons provisions. The main empirical element of …
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Neither Here nor There: Exploring the Transnational Identity of West African Migrants living in South Africa
… as a theory has explained the causal nature of migration over time, against the backdrop of an ever-changing globalised world. The movement of people and their motivating factors have been deeply researched within migration literature and other surrounding fields. However, the intricacies of …
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Why do African migrants with a tertiary education do menial jobs in Cape Town?
… jobs in Cape Town. Until recently, mainstream migration literature on South Africa has tended to universalise xenophobia and to treat migrants as innocent people for their situation. To what extent does xenophobia explain the position of skilled migrants in menial work in Cape Town bearing in …
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Determinants Of Migration: Inter-european Migration, 1950-1989
… regulations determine the flow of international migration streams. Time-series techniques are used to analyze the migration flows to Belgium from France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands in the post-war period 1950-1989 in order to estimate the impact that the migration policy change in 1968 …
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Time as Transition: Experiences of Time, Culture and Immigration amongst Syrian Women in the UK
This study contributes to the current literature on time, gender, migration, culture and identity by bringing insights into how time is perceived and experienced by Syrian women who are settled and working in the UK. It is a topic that is little known in the extant literature, and that differs in …
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An investigation of the vulnerability of Young Zimbabwean female immigrants in Johannesburg, South Africa
… and better living conditions. Historically, migration of women has not been given much attention by scholars; international migration literature has always been dominated by data on male migration. However, almost half of the immigrants coming into South Africa are women. Young female …
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Single Mother, Migrant Domestic Workers: Exploring the coping experience of low-income Zimbabwean women raising their children in South Africa
… as shown in international and Southern African migration literature on DWs. Due to financial troubles and social isolation associated with migrancy, single motherhood, and domestic work, their ability to cope with the burden of care is limited. This study is rooted in the theory that mothering …
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Equality and Cultural Capital for Migrant Farm Workers
… with keys themes and concepts in contemporary migration literature that greatly contribute to the equality claims from cultural capital. I address claims of resources and possessions such as language, knowledge, experiences, skills, understanding, abilities, values, customs, talents, …
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Diaspora of Disaffection: Gender role reproduction among trailing wives of Indian skilled professional migrants and its impact on their mental health and wellbeing
… has resulted in large-scale high-skilled migration from India over the last few decades. Conradson and Latham (2005) defined the term ‘middling migrants’ as a diverse category of mobile migrants who can be categorised as skilled immigrants in a higher-income category. The gendered …
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Determinants of international migration
Migrations have occurred throughout human history. Today, people inhabit virtually every corner of the world. In fact, given the upsurge in the last few decades, more people are on the move today than at any other point in time. In order to get an understanding of the driving forces shaping …
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Gender analysis: Sub-Saharan African nurses' migration experiences - a systematic review
… as key players in the shortage crisis and migration is one of these factors. Nurses' migration from Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) increases the nurse shortage in the region and further constraints the already struggling health systems. Migration literature has dominantly focused on macro …
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Las políticas de representación del género en la escritura de la migración latinoamericana. Un análisis comparativo de El camino a Ítaca, de C. Liscano; Árbol de luna, de J. C. Méndez Guédez; y The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, de J. Díaz.
… à la question de la littérature de la migration latino-américaine à partir d’une perspective de genre. On étudie ici les politiques de représentation de ces corps et de ces subjectivités migrantes dans trois œuvres de fiction de la fin du vingtième et du début du vingt et unième siècle …
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The study of independent African migrant women in KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) : their lives and work experiences
African migration to South Africa is not a recent phenomenon bu in recent history, dates back to about one hundred and fifty years when African men migrated from some southern African countries to work in the South African mines. During this period however, the apartheid regime restricted African …
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Von der Gastarbeit zur Identitätsarbeit
Migrationstexte werden meist unter dem Gesichtspunkt der Identität behandelt. Sollte nicht aber vielmehr der Aspekt der Integrität im Vordergrund stehen? Denn bestimmte Teilidentitäten treten dominant hervor, wenn Menschen aufgrund dieser Anerkennung verwehrt wird. Wenn Individuen zu Opfern von …