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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"transnational migration"”.
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Transnational Migration and Political Exile in Laos
… their impoverishment. Those with experiences of transnational migration have consequently encountered a new time and space, generating unique desires and discontents. Those who remained in Laos have shaped their desires and discontents on the structures, policies, and reforms pursued by the …
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Transnational Migration -Development Nexus and the Capability Approach: Reframing the Linkages
… for applying the capability approach in migration-development research and identifies relevant capability gaps and the fourth chapter summarizes the study and discusses the theoretical implications of its findings.
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Placing transnational migration: The circulation of Indian South African narratives of identity and belonging
… cultural membership have been questioned by the transnational approach to migration. However, transnationalism abstracts migrants' experiences outside of the historical-material circumstances of their production and organizes groups into bound categories without engaging in questions of …
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Transnational Migration: A Study of Ghanaian Immigrant Entrepreneurs’ Socio-economic Activities in the Canadian Prairies
… have changed the contours of international migration and created a situation that enables immigrants to live in more than one country simultaneously. The simultaneous living of immigrants in more than one country takes place in two ways - physical and emotional (where immigrants forge and …
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Agency and emotion in transnational migration stories : life-changing experiences of Polish women in south west England.
… study is about issues of agency and emotion in transnational migration, specifically between Poland and the UK, from the perspective of nine Polish women living in south-west England. By appreciating the emotional dynamics of transnational migration, and the agency enacted by individuals in …
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The Romanian Orthodox Churches in Italy: The Construction of Romanian-Italian Transnational Orthodox Space
Religious institutions as transnational actors play a very important role within the context of transnational migration. Religious transnational space is formed and shaped with the involvement of different actors, particularly through the agency, commitment and religious practices of migrants that …
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Homeward Bound: The Influence of Emigration and Return on Aezkoa Valley and its Surrounding Rural Communities in Northern Navarre at the turn of the 19th Century
… dissertation is to provide a study on Basque transnational migration from the perspective of the homeland. The goal is to see to what extent this transnational migration influenced and impacted local communities in the rural Basque area, concretely in Aezkoa Valley and other villages that …
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Transnational Indigenous Migration: Racialized Geographies and Power in Southern Highland Ecuador
… brought about by increased international migration since the early 2000s. The broader question is whether or not transnational migration has facilitated political and social upward mobility among indigenous communities. More specifically I ask: in what ways does indigenous identity figure …
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Moving to the West: Media, Cultural Transnationalism and Identity. Cultural Dynamics of Korean Women in Diaspora
… into media, diasporic identity, and cultural transnationalism. The analysis draws from six month of intensive fieldwork, including “following” in-depth interviews, participant observation, and digital ethnography. The study aims to investigate the interplay between media, social values, …
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Forced Displacement and Racialization: The Colombian Experience
… and urban geography in relation to forced migration. The objective of this research is to question understandings of race and racism, particularly how space and mobility affect the dynamics of racialization through such diverse experiences of forced displacement. The main argument of this …
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An African feminist analysis on the experiences of black African immigrant men in Cape Town, South Africa
… study provides a gendered perspective on migration studies that postulate the embedded impact of gender ideologies within migrant households, and communities, impacting men as 'gendered' and ‘sexual identities'. This research study argues against the homogenizing and essentialist notions …
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Living with Sugar: Socioeconomic Status and Cultural Beliefs About Type 2 Diabetes Among Afro-Caribbean Women
… their high BMI. Inadequate health insurance and transnational migration prevented women from accessing regular medical care and effectively managing the disease. Afro-Caribbean women face an ongoing struggle to control their glucose levels and BMI to prevent the onset of type 2 diabetes …
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Imagining Un Futuro Digno: Indigenous Youth Striving For Non-Migration In Guatemala
… FUTURO DIGNO: INDIGENOUS YOUTH STRIVING FOR NON-MIGRATION IN GUATEMALA Briana Nichols Deborah Thomas Kathleen Hall Imagining un Futuro Digno: Indigenous youth striving for non-migration in Guatemala analyses youth aspirations for non-migratory futures in contexts of extensive migration. This …
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Missionary to migrant: How serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints impacts migration decisions
… play in driving domestic, international, and transnational migration trends. The Philippines is one of the greatest sending nations of migrants to countries throughout the world, which is immensely driven by individual and household economic strategy as well as national economic infrastructure …
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Finding one's own place in transnational lives: life trajectories, careers, and self-identities of Japanese young people who studied abroad
… young people find their own places in their transnational lives. Based on in-depth interview research, their individual life trajectories are traced to explore how they have been struggling to establish their way of lives, work careers, and self-identities. The interviewees are 12 Japanese …
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Delivering Justice: Food Delivery Cyclists in New York City
… and interlocking systems of global migration and capital flows, intense time pressures by restaurants and customers, precarious tip-based livelihoods, an e-bike ban and broken windows policing, and unsafe streets designed for drivers. I approach this research through participatory …
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Family language policy and practice as parental mediation of habitus, capital and field: an ethnographic case-study of migrant families in England
… is set within a context of increased levels of transnational migration and globalisation (OECD, 2015). The number of migrant families in which parents have different language backgrounds is increasing on a European level (Lanzieri, 2012) and in London one in three families is thought to be …
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Mobile Ethnicity: The Formation of the Korean Chinese Transnational Migrant Class
… Mobile Ethnicity, examines the formation of a transnational ethnic working class and the dynamics of remittance development in the context of Korean Chinese labor migration between China and Korea. I conducted multi-sited field research for over two years, mainly in Seoul, South Korea, and the …
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Politics of the temporary: migrant life in urban Malaysia
… project, I look at an aspect of contemporary migration that has been largely sidelined and marginalized in mainstream debates, policy circles and research work – what happens to ‘host societies’ in the developing South that experience a rapid increase in numbers and diversity of urban …
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Literacy remains: learning and loss in the brain drain of Filipino migrant labor
In economics, migration policy, and literacy studies, literacy education has been positioned as the primary factor in transnational migration. “Brain drain” in particular is traditionally understood as the phenomenon where skilled migrant workers from developing countries use their literacy skills …
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