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, 288 pp., (ISBN13: 9780199574414), (paper). Birgit Jentsch and Myriam Simard (eds.), International Migration and Rural … Jacobs, Experience and Representation, Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia, Farnham: Ashgate, 2010, 176 pp …-90-8964-250-9), (cloth). Elisabeth Eide and Kaarina Nikunen, Media in Motion: Cultural Complexity and Migration in the Nordic Region. Farnham …
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This article explores how the conceptualization, management, and measure-ment of time affect the migration … practices are accepted and valued and recalibrating the relationship between migration and development. Our data reveal the need … to pay closer attention to how migration’s impacts shift over time in response to its changing significance, rhythms, and …
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Drawing on anthropological fieldwork conducted in Musina and Cape Town, South Africa in 2010 and 2011, in this paper I present a qualitative analysis of the (largely illegal) means of entry of Zimbabwean research participants into South Africa, and their attempts to seek legal status once in the...
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Canada, like many other developed countries, has implemented a temporary foreign workers' programme, ostensibly to address temporary labour shortages within its domestic labour market. However, there is growing evidence of the programme being used to meet longer-term labour demands, with...
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In response to Giddens' structuration theory, this study attempts to unravel the linkages between migration and local … several years. The case study -24 towns in central Zacatecas, Mexico-concludes that remittances from US migration play an … of expenditures is not so much the migration experience itself, as the socio-economic structure of sending communities …
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Using the Spanish National Immigrant Survey (NIS-2007) we identify the ethnic niches where workers from five main immigrant communities concentrate. We then implement logit models in order to assess how structural factors and human and social capital variables affect the odds of working in these...
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engagements with migration have led people to morally evaluate the suitability of remittances for kinship well-being. Migrant …
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their exposure to diverse ways of living that leads migrants to rethink their family relations, or whether migration just …
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this in mind, this study examines whether such a migration strategy rests on remittance transfers as an alternative source … of income, exploiting the way in which migration is financed as a discriminating factor. Our results show remittance …
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