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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"impacts of migration"”.
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Three Essays in Development Economics
In spite of tremendous progress in income generation, school enrollment, and agricultural production, developing economies face significant challenges to enhance welfare for their populaces. Although international migration has increased income, there are unknown effects of migration that may have …
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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
This thesis deals with the perceptions of migrants facing vulnerability about the changes in their lives after migrating to a developing context, especially in terms of their agency, fundamental rights and cultural liberty. It emphasises the need to focus more on the impacts of migration on the …
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Agricultural change and farmworker living standards in post-apartheid South Africa
… This dissertation focusses on some of the interactions of these changes with the prospects of low-income farmworkers and farm dwellers through exploring two interlinked questions. The first of these asks whether consolidation in the industry has extended to growing firm size and …
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Population growth in a high amenity area: migration and socio-economic change in Cornwall
The thesis provides a deeper understanding of migration flows to high amenity areas using the example of migration to and from Cornwall. Cornwall is a remote, non-metropolitan county which has been experiencing very strong population growth since the 1970s almost solely due to in-migration. There …
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The longer-term labour market and community impacts of deindustrialisation: a comparison of the Northumberland coalfield and the Monongahela Valley mill towns
The research focuses on the longer-term impacts of past regional deindustrialisation and, more specifically, the ways in which individual and household decisions have interacted with the local public welfare and cultural context to produce profound long-term community changes, critically affecting …
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The impacts of rural-to-urban labor migration on the rural environment in Chongqing municipality, southwest China: Mediating roles of rural household livelihoods and community development
… research focus toward the more dynamic factor of population processes – migration. The mediating factor approach to population and environment provides a basic theoretical model for understanding the complex relationship between migration and the environment. Thus far, few studies have been …
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Migration and Housing Markets - Evidence from Sweden
International migration flows to Sweden have been significant in scale over the past few decades, but the nature of the flows has changed in recent years. Strong migration flows have occurred from a number of different regions, with arrivals ranging from refugees from other continents, to labour …
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Migration of African-trained physicians abroad : a case study of Saskatchewan, Canada
Several factors inform health professionals’ decisions to migrate from developing to developed countries to practice their profession. This study explores the “Push” and “Pull” factors that informed African-trained physicians’ decisions to migrate to the province of Saskatchewan, how well they …