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Governing Migrants in the European Union: A Critical Approach to Interrogating Migrants' Journey Narratives
Is it possible to conceive of migrants as active stakeholders of migration and asylum policies rather than passive objects of political and humanitarian intervention? In the public discourse on migration, migrants' voices are largely ignored and their political future in the reception country is …
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The Amenity Migrants of Cotacachi
… analysis, this paper examines why amenity migrants chose Cotacachi, Ecuador, how they perceive the town and how they perceive themselves in relation to the town. It also explores how Ecuadorians perceive their new neighbors and the effects the migrants have had on the local community. …
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Transnational Political Participation Among Diasporic Migrants
<p>Contemporary migrants participate in a variety of dual social, political, and economic processes. Sending and receiving states overtly encourage transnational practices when they allow migrants to maintain homeland citizenship regardless of their citizenship status in their receiving …
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Agricultural Migrants and Their Educational Problems
In this paper an attempt has been made to study the agricultural migrant in his natural setting and to determine the effect of his mobile way of life upon the educational possibilities for his children.
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Building personal lives as informal migrants in South Africa : narratives of poor African informal migrants in Johannesburg
This study explores why poor African migrants remain in Johannesburg, South Africa’s harsh migration context, to build their lives, and how, in pursuit of a better future, they engage with the various forms of socioeconomic and political constraints that they experience. Popular as a destination …
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International migration and social inclusion of migrants in South Africa: the case of Cameroonian Migrants in the Western Cape
… my research is on the experience of Cameroonian migrants, and their relationship with the City of Cape Town. This work focuses on agency on the part of the migrant in understanding the mechanisms/strategies they use in their integration process within their host communities. This thesis argues …
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Strategies of survival among illegal migrants in Montreal
… migration and employment strategies of illegal migrants in the labour market in Montreal. The migratory flows discussed are permanent in nature. The thesis also examines the role of networks in initiating the migration process and in securing employment in Montreal. It includes an examination of …
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Migrants Reading Māori Television: mā rātou, mā mātou
… cultural resources for relatively recent migrants to understand a Māori world and navigate issues of identity and national belonging. I have used a combination of both qualitative and quantitative methods, including surveys, focus group discussions and interviews with different …
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Cultural adaptation and mental health among male internal migrants
… Migration can impact the mental health of migrants due to the adversities migrants endure or support they enjoy as they acclimatise to the new environment. The focus of this research project is on understudied migration category, namely, internal migration. The way internal migrants …
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The lives of young Polish migrants residing in Northamptonshire
… thesis investigates the lives of young Polish migrants living in Northamptonshire, who migrated to the UK following Poland’s accession to the European Union in May 2004. Over 1.1 million Worker Registration Scheme (WRS) applications were made in the UK between May 2004 and December 2010, of …
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Christian faith and practice amongst migrants in Athens, Greece
… explores the faith, beliefs, and practices of migrants and refugees as well as the Christian organizations serving them between 2014–2018 in Athens, Greece. The study is located within the fields of diaspora missiology, ethnography, and underpinned by theological critical realism epistemology. …
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Identity and mothering: the second generation of Ghanaian migrants
Despite the vast literature in existence concerning the topic of ‘motherhood’, limited studies have been attempted to explore the mothering experiences of British ethnic minority mothers living in the United Kingdom. This study was undertaken with the aim of exploring, clarifying and describing the …
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Migrants becoming mathematics teachers : personal resources and professional capitals
This study traces the professional learning of student teachers who have lived and studied outside the UK, and successfully applied to follow a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) course in London to become teachers of mathematics in English schools. It draws upon Bourdieu’s theory of …
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Internal migrants and everyday Islam in the Turkish context
… and religion. Specifically, it examines internal migrants’ reconfiguration of boundaries and spaces of belonging, as well as the impact that migration has on the religious lives of migrants and those who are left behind. These topics are investigated in relation to the historical and political …
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Missing migrants: legal obligations and psychosocial implications for families.
… and obligations of states towards missing migrants and their surviving families from a legal, policy and psychosocial perspective in the context of the Europe migrant crisis. Governed by the UK migration policies in relation to missing migrants and employing multi-theoretical premises drawn …
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The Trip Takes Us: Chicano Migrants on the Prairie
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T05:35:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7524435.pdf: 11883056 bytes, checksum: d24881cb3323513ff959fd8a712aaba8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Religious communities and political participation among Chinese migrants in Australia
… immigrant political participation because immigrants tend to lack the resources and civic skills needed for political participation. Church involvement also connects immigrants to other organisations and individuals and the wider society and polity through the social capital embedded in 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 …
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The acquisition of Manchester dialect variants by adolescent Roma migrants
… English dialect features by adolescent Roma migrants attending a Manchester high school. As one of the first studies of Romanian Roma acquisition of English, this work speaks to ongoing discussions about migration, integration, and social factors impacting upon language acquisition. I also …
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