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Showing 1 to 20 of 5999 for “"migration"”.
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Determinants Of Migration: Inter-european Migration, 1950-1989
… regulations determine the flow of international migration streams. Time-series techniques are used to analyze the migration flows to Belgium from France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands in the post-war period 1950-1989 in order to estimate the impact that the migration policy change in 1968 …
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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 directly …
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Governing Global Migration
… study explores the global regulative function of migration politics. Its main aim is to rethink migration politics through an engagement with the Foucauldian governmentality perspective, which focuses on the relation between government and thought. A secondary aim is to use this perspective to …
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Essays on migration
Migration is one of the main forces shaping our society as we know it. Focusing on the determinants of migration and its influence on local communities, this dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction to the thesis, covering the motivation for the research, the …
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The fourth migration.
Thesis. 1976. B.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Internal Migration in Indonesia: Three Essays on Recent Migration, 1980-1985
A better understanding of an internal migration process in a country is a necessary step toward improving economic development policies in the country. An important key of understanding this process is to know the determinants influencing the peoples' decision to migrate. Because of this, the …
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Social relations and migration : a study of post-war migration with particular reference to migration from Bangladesh to Britain
… thesis is to study the phenomenon of postwar migration both theoretically and empirically with a view to establishing relationships between social relations and migration. Migration is studied here within a conceptual framework of mode of production, relations of production, hegemony, and cash …
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Rural Development and Migration - Effects of Rural Development Projects on Internal Migration and Migration Aspirations of Rural Dwellers in Hungary
… how rural development programmes influence emigration. Hungary, as the EU member with one of the highest social gap between rural-urban population as well as one of the highest ratio of non-urban dwellers, has in its rural development policies the central objective of reinforcing ‘population …
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Higher education and migration
… behavior of high school graduates, and internal migration patterns of young educated adults in the U.S. (high school graduates and college graduates). This dissertation should be of great interest to higher education and migration scholars since it contributes to the literature on the …
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Architecture After Forced Migration
… design of spaces after three causes of forced migration: natural disaster, conflict and urban development. The methodology is based on literature review which served as theoretical background to work in three design competitions related to shelter after natural disasters, refugee camps and …
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Essays in international migration
… essays examining the effects of high-skilled immigration on various economic outcomes within the receiving country. In the first essay, I study how skilled immigrants affect wages and employment in US industries during 1995-2007, using novel microdata on approved H-1B visas. These data show that …
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Migration & Economy in Cornwall
… recipient of some of the highest levels of in-migration. The result of this has seen Cornwall experience some of fastest rates of population growth. This has taken place in the context of counterurbanisation, a process that has been argued to be economically beneficial. Cornwall therefore seems …
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Bluesman, Guitar, And Migration
… project examines how the bluesman, guitar, and migration have interacted with each other and brought about transformations to American popular music, based upon scholarly works, magazine articles, and the sound recordings of the prewar blues performers. In popular theory, the blues sprang out of …
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Algorithms for Data Migration
… the problem of computing an efficient data migration plan that converts an initial layout to a target layout. We define the data migration problem as follows: for each item, there are a set of disks that have the item (sources) and a set of disks that want to receive the item (destinations). …
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Determinants of international migration
Migrations have occurred throughout human history. Today, people inhabit virtually every corner of the world. In fact, given the upsurge in the last few decades, more people are on the move today than at any other point in time. In order to get an understanding of the driving forces shaping …
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Pragmatics of File Migration
File migration is the movement of files from secondary storage devices, such as magnetic disks, to tertiary or mass storage devices, such as automated tape libraries. It provides a service analogous to demand paging in virtual memory systems.
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Labor Migration in China
… what is the intergenerational impact of parental migration on children's risk preferences. In the first chapter, we briefly introduce the motivation and contribution, and then we provide the methods and detailed findings in the following chapters. Chapter 2 examines the impact of the endogeneity …
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Circular migration in Thailand
Circular migration is a temporary form of movement and has emerged as a subset in the field of migration and has gained importance since it is the major factor affecting population movements within the countries. This study documents the role of socio-demographic and other characteristics in …
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Sociology of planned migration: A study of planned migration process to new towns
Sociology of Planned Migration, the subject of this thesis, is the product of a research into the movement of firms and workers from the inner areas of London to new towns. It is mainly a contribution to the sociology of planning, although its broader aims and objectives are: (a) To develop the …
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Latino In-migration and Anglo Out-migration in the Texas Panhandle Plains, 1980-2004
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