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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Return migration"”.
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Brazilian Return Migration: Debt, Freedom and Melancholia
Migration policy has been dominated by ideas of ‘rootedness’ which ascribe people to territorial borders, and renders migrants as ‘uprooted’. However, increasingly, migrants reject the world map of fixed borders and maintain lives here and there, without necessarily ‘rooting’ themselves anywhere. …
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Return migration: socioeconomic determinants for state in- migration
… of this study is to determine the role of return migration in the changing economic and noneconomic determinants of state in-migration. It was hypothesized that the transition from primarily economic to noneconomic determinants of in-migration in the United States in the last decade was …
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Brain drain to brain gain? : return migration of Indian information technology professionals
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2003.
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Irish return migration from America at the turn of the nineteenth century: 1890-1920
… Irish- American John Fitzgerald Kennedy made a return visit to his great-grandfather’s home in Dunganstown, New Ross, County Wexford in July 1963. As an Irish- American experiencing my own return in 2000, I was asked ‘How long have ye been gone?’, 120 years since great-grandfather Tommy Dunnigan …
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After work or study abroad: Chinese return migration and Kunming’s ‘Jia Xiang Bao’ - hometown babies.
The process of migration has long been framed as a unidirectional process comprised of arrival, settlement, citizenship and assimilation motivated by economic necessities. This dissertation moves beyond these limited views and utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to explore the process of return …
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New lives in the ancestral homeland: return migration from South America to mainland Japan and Okinawa
… America. In a cross-generational sense, they are return migrants.The ethnographic study, based on field research conducted in two sites on the mainland and in Okinawa, compares Nikkeijin experience and attitudes as they interact with native Japanese. Because of their Japanese background, Nikkeijin …
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Gozo in the world and the world in Gozo : the cultural impact of migration and return migration on an island community
… thesis explores the meaning and significance of migration and return migration between the Maltese island of Gozo and the Australian city of Melbourne. The exploration begins in the Introduction with 'Lina', a Gozitan return migrant from Melboume whose situation captures the dilemma of cultural …
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Sri Lankan diaspora returning 'home' : transnational ways of belonging and being
Return migration is often assumed to be a return to ‘home’ and to be the end of a migration cycle rather than another turn in that cycle. This research examines the links between return migration, transnationalism and (re)integration, among Sri Lankan-born migrants who returned to Sri Lanka. I …
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Post-Migration Living Difficulties of Returned Women in Kyrgyzstan
Migration has long been a defining feature of life in Kyrgyzstan, especially since its independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Over the past three decades, economic hardship, political instability, and limited employment opportunities have driven hundreds of thousands of …
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There and Back Again: Post-return experiences of Highly-skilled Belarusian professionals
… two large social research areas—highly skilled migration and return migration—and aims to provide a contribution to the studies of sending countries by focusing on post-return experiences of highly skilled professionals in the Belarusian context. Thus, I explore public attitudes toward migration …
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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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Social networks and institutions in transnational labor markets : the circular migration of Chinese and Indian engineers and professionals
… examines the mechanisms of the circular migration of Chinese and Indian engineers and technology entrepreneurs. The study is based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative data - including a survey of alumni from one of the Indian Institutes of Technology, a survey of Chinese …
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African American Mortality: A Biocultural Study of Missouri Cemetery Records
… Scholars have also documented a post-1980 “return migration” of urban African Americans returning to rural regions (Stack 1996, Falk et al. 2004). The purpose of this research was: 1) to determine if the high urban mortality from 1900 to 1979 is related to the mass migration of rural African …
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Migration, development and social change in a 21st century North Indian hill village
… and movements now take place in the form of migration for work to the plains of India, both in the private sector and in government services. The dissertation is based on an ethnographic village study and explores all contemporary forms of movement visible in the village: out-migration; …
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Essays on Regional Economic Growth in China
… Chapter 4 models the temporary rural-urban migration in China using a continuous OLG model with heterogeneous agents. An agent determines his migration duration optimally based on his ability, urban/rural wage gap, and urban/rural services price differential. The model features the role of …
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The migration of Africa's intellectual capital: an explorative research on the career trajectories of academics from other African countries to the University of Cape Town, South Africa
… in Africa and points to the phenomenon of migration of African academics to destinations overseas and more recently to South Africa. The research interest derives from South Africa's unique position on the continent to attract academics from overseas including African academics who left …
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Global frameworks, local realities: migrant resettlement in the Russian Federation
The thesis explores the 'return' migration and resettlement experience of members of ethnic Russian and Russian speaking migrant populations who over the period 1991-2000 left their homes in the former republics of the Soviet Union to resettle on the territory of the Russian Federation, their …
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The deported: how the forcibly removed are treated in their country of origin – evidence from Ghana
… of deportation has gained prominence in immigration policies, forming a crucial part of the immigration control armoury of many European and industrialised states. Some politicians across the political spectrum in these states often stoke xenophobic sentiments among sections of their …
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The work-family balance experiences of production couples operating Chinese Cut, Make and Trim factories in Newcastle, South Africa
… relationship plays an important role in their return migration intention. Using a phenomenological research design, eight in depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with women in a production couple. Though the study set out to explore both the male and female partners, all the male …
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