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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Visas"”.
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Transnational Labour Migration: Experiences of Mid-to-Highly Skilled African Migrant Workers in Doha, Qatar
… workers and those on so-called free visas. Based on data gathered from 12 Skype and WhatsApp interviews, findings revealed how the sponsorship system gives employers power over employees, often preventing workers from switching jobs—particularly in the case of organization-sponsored …
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Examining Past, Present, and Future of Agricultural Labor: From the Bracero Program to the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
… workers into the United States on temporary work visas from 1942-1964. The CIW is an organization of Mexican workers that was founded in 1992 as a response to the horrible working conditions that Mexican tomato pickers faced in Immokalee, Florida. In this thesis, I show that by putting these …
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Essays in international migration
… using novel microdata on approved H-1B visas. These data show that most H-1B employers specialize in the production of high-skilled services used as inputs by other businesses. In light of this, I consider the downstream effects of skilled immigrants on industry labor market outcomes: …
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Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… people who work and live in the US on work visas such as H-1B, and compares them to natives. In this chapter I examine whether or not there exists any wage premium for or against college graduate immigrants who are on work visa compared to college graduate natives. I also check for any …
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Investigating strategies in training swine caretakers for psychological well-being and Mexican swine caretakers’ attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions toward euthanasia
… Our data indicates that Mexican caretakers on TN visas are confident and knowledgeable in diagnosing sick or compromised pigs and piglets, deciding to euthanize pigs and piglets, and subsequently performing euthanasia on both pigs and piglets. Additionally, differences between caretakers’ …
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Bureaucratic uncertainty and migrant temporality: a study of skilled Congolese migrants in Cape Town, South Africa
… Furthermore, obstacles in receiving visas and permits and securing employment have also hindered migrant integration in South Africa, creating uncertainty of the future and a protracted mode of waiting. Referred to as migrant temporality, in this study this concept focuses on how the …
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Obtaining Legal Status in the United States: Undocumented Latinas Near Chicago and the Strategic Use of Mental Health
… use of mental health by applicants for U-Visas related to domestic violence cases by investigating the complex intersection between immigration law and a humanitarian clause that creates a path towards legal status and eventual citizenship.|This research is based on participant …
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Utopic Déjà Vu: The Power of the Public Hallucination in the UAE
… Arab Emirates processes millions of resident visas for those who chase the Dubai 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. …
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20,000 Fewer: The Wagner-Rogers Bill and the Jewish Refugee Crisis
… from revising the quota limit set on obtainable visas established by the 1924 Immigration Act and allow outsiders into the United States. These few actors who supported the Wagner-Rogers Bill reflect a hidden minority of the American public and political body that fought to help Jewish refugees …
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Policy, occupation and transnationalism: New Zealanders living in Australia
… Zealand stream and the other permanent residency visas available. This structural exclusion has affected the political integration of respondents as being ineligible for these visas leaves them feeling disenfranchised as they cannot secure their status in Australia. Security of status has become …
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Chasing papers and documenting mobile subjects in colonial Central Asia, 1865-1916
… in the shape of documents. From passports and visas to petitions and permit certificates, these aimed to replicate the travellers’ biometric data in the form of physical descriptors. By focusing on the carriers of said papers, I expand beyond the notion of the documentary regime as a mere …
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Ireland's geospatial distribution of border controls: a macro study of Ireland's migration system
… developed virtual bordering processes such as visas (external process), Irish Residence Permit cards(internal process) and passports (at the ports of entry) add to the level of control the state can exert on a migrant. Through these bordering processes, a hierarchical system of rights develops …
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Analysis Of International Student Enrollments At A Florida Public University
… in the U.S. regulations for issuing student visas. In general, the literature supported a decline in the number of overseas students coming to the U.S. to study. While the USF enrollments seemed to be consistent with the literature, no conclusive evidence indicated this decline was a result …
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A critical examination of the humanitarian visa as a complementary pathway in ameliorating the plight of “climate displaced persons” in Eastern Africa.
… In particular, the thesis proposes humanitarian visas as a practical complementary pathway and legally sound approach to addressing protection gaps, offering a structured pathway for displaced persons facing climate-related threats.
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Living Language Policy Through Stratified Space: A Linguistic Ethnography in the United Arab Emirates
… foreign residents (noncitizens with fixed-term visas) who live in Ras Al Khaimah, a small city in the United Arab Emirates. The primary set of participants are staff and students recruited from a private language school in the city but the project expands well beyond the school premises, …
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Immigration, inequality, and the state : three essays on the employment of foreign nationals in the United States
… of approved and denied H- 1B temporary work visas over a five year period. I find that immigrant workers from sending countries with lower levels of economic development are less likely to receive approvals for initial and continuing employment requests, all else equal. In support of social …
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Motivations and Constraints of Chinese Outbound tourists: A Case Study
… Time constraints, difficulties in getting travel visas, long distances, security, and monetary concerns (including the consumption level at the destination and disposable income) were structural constraints that deterred Chinese outbound travelers from visiting the U.S. Most of the constraints …
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For the Family, By the Family: Migration and “Betterment” in Rural Pakistan
… Malaysia, men marry local women to get spousal visas and business licenses to open small businesses like convenience stores. They leave their Pukhtun wives and children to live in a joint family with their parents, brothers and their wives and children. Through this transnational division of …
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Psychological impacts of COVID-19 on Indian immigrants working in the retail industry of Auckland, New Zealand, and their job performance
… of COVID-19 on Indian immigrants with temporary visas working in the retail industry, on their job performance, and on those who previously worked in the retail industry but are now studying again in order to upskill. Mixed-method research was adopted, which allows the researchers to explore the …
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An examination of the impact of foreign and local managers on firm resources: A case of micro and small serviced apartments in Riyadh - Saudi Arabia
… the tourism sector (e.g. introducing electronic visas). Accommodation is a vital element in the tourism sector, and it is very important to a destination’s image and competitiveness. As a part of the Saudisation policy, the Government has decided to localise the managers of hotels and serviced …
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