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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"economic migrants"”.
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Selectivity, Transferability of Skills and Labor Market Outcomes of Recent Immigrants in the United States
This dissertation analyzes how immigrants' individual and home country characteristics affect and determine their labor market participation, returns to education and wages in both their country of origin (before migration occurs) and in the United States. The dissertation also estimates the extent …
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Incorporating local participation and GIS in assessing flood vulnerability in informal settlements : Masiphumelele case study
… its inception 20 years ago, and large numbers of economic migrants largely from the Eastern Cape have swelled the population and over-whelmed the local infrastructure. The settlement is now expanding northwards in a largely uncontrolled fashion into an ecologically important wetland.
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‘A Class Apart’?: South Asian Immigrants and the White Working Class Left, Yorkshire 1960-1981
During the 1960s many thousands of South Asian immigrants arrived in the United Kingdom. At first they were, by and large, economic migrants looking to fill British labour shortages and send remittances back home. Through the 1960s and into the 1970s, however, the arrival of wives and dependents, …
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Skirtingų migrantų tipų įrėminimas Lietuvos Seimo narių diskurse 2020 - 2023 m /
… in 2020. The second, is the crisis of illegal migrants that started in Lithuania in 2021. And the third event is the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began on February 24, 2022. These events and the number of foreign migrants related to them were included in the agendas of the members of the …
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Between generations: the construction of mother-daughter relationships in the work of black women playwrights in Britain
… and cultural life of Britain. The presence of immigrants from Britain's former colonies and the subsequent arrival of economic migrants and asylum seekers have triggered discussion of many issues, not least those surrounding difference, assimilation, diversity and identity (Gilroy 1993). It is …
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An exploratory study of the role that identity documents play in the integration of refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa: reflections from Cape Town
… seekers, and what distinguishes them from other migrants such as economic migrants. Thereafter the study looked at theoretical frameworks surrounding migration and integration, especially as pertains to the refugee and asylum seeker context. In particular, the study sought to present the …
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‘Pilgrim through this barren land’ Maintaining Welsh Connections and Culture in Vancouver, B.C., Canada
… beyond the reach of the earliest waves of Welsh emigrants seeking freedom from poverty or religious oppression. Instead, explorers, gold-miners and entrepreneurs paved the way for economic migrants who continue to seek better opportunities in Vancouver where the diaspora, represented by the …
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Optimization of Soil-Lime and Cement Mixes for Compressed Earth Stabilized Blocks for Low-Cost Housing in East Africa (Kenya)
… exacerbated the situation. Furthermore, these economic migrants are poor and look to the governments for assistance in housing. The lack of adaptation of new construction techniques and use of locally available low-cost building materials has made housing to be scarce. Cement is two to three …
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Limited Relief: Cause Lawyering on Behalf of Unacccompanied Chinese Youth
… themselves and their families socially and economically, not all are immediately successful: a number are apprehended and placed in removal proceedings. Here, immigration cause lawyers are tasked with presenting clients who might otherwise be termed "economic migrants" as uniquely vulnerable …
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Examining the Receptivity of Foreign Guests: A Study of Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Students in Higher Educational Institutions in Accra, Ghana
… region, receives many foreign guests including economic migrants, students, tourists, and refugees. Ghana is also emerging as a regional hub for educational migrants. How are these foreign guests received, integrated, and ultimately trained as global citizens? More specifically, this research …
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The Impact of Refugee Camps on the Process of Migration Towards Europe: An Assessment
… 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 measures. The EU is as divided as never before in its …
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“What is racism in the new EU anyway?” Examining and comparing the perceptions of British ‘minority ethnic’ and Eastern European ‘immigrant’ youth in Buckinghamshire
… accession to the European Union (EU), legal economic migrants (and their families) have the right to live and work in European member states. Economic migrants who are European citizens of member states now assume immigrant status and co-exist in countries with pre-existing immigrant …
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"Ma vie est vraiment différente de ce que je pensais": A life-story analysis of geographies and gendered subjectivities of Francophone mothers in Kingston
… schools). Most Francophones in Kingston are economic migrants and their family members, including military families, from Québec, elsewhere in Canada or abroad. I conducted life-story interviews with thirty-two Francophone mothers living in Kingston in 2016. I also interviewed fifteen women …
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Mobility Within Constraints: Gender, Migration, and New Spaces For Palestinian Women
… and the demands of work and the social and economic obligations in Ramallah.</p> <p> This population of internal economic migrants demonstrates a distinctive gendered pattern migration reflecting and impacting the new and ever-changing Palestinian economic geography in which they navigate. …
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Writing Home: Depictions of Forced Displacement in Romantic Era and Contemporary Poetry
… the subsequent divide between asylum seekers and economic migrants that haunts current policy and debates. By focusing on how British writers responded to forced displacement in an earlier era of increased mobility, I hope to think beyond and outside these categories to show how people were …
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Perceptions and Practices of Nurses with Respect to Asylum-Seekers and Refugees Accessing Health Care Services In Musina, Limpopo, South Africa
… classifying asylum-seekers and refugees as economic migrants. Most nurses were of the view that the majority of their patients were migrants, including asylum-seekers and refugees. Nurses said that they apply the law in their practices as expected. Nurses believe in work documents and the …
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Migrating Later in Life: Older Polish Migrants in the UK
… behaviours and experiences of older working age migrants. This thesis focuses on Polish migrants aged 45 – 65, who have arrived in the UK since 2004 looking for work and better opportunities. The purpose of the study is to explore links between age and migration by investigating older migrants …