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Immigrants, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade

McCully, Brett - 2021

Nearly $2 trillion of illegally trafficked goods flow across international borders every year, generating violence and other social costs along the way. Due to the absence of legal contracts and the challenge of finding trading partners in an illegal market, traffickers may rely on co-ethnic...

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Frequency of contact with foreigners in a homogenous society: perceived consequences of foreigner increases in Japan.

Yamamura, Eiji - 2009

Using individual data of Japan, this paper investigates how frequency of contact with foreigners is associated with the perceived outcomes of foreigner increases. Results showed that frequency of contact has a critical effect on perceptions and that its influence varies according to household...

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Understanding Attitudes Towards Migrants A Broader Perspective

Kleemans, Marieke; Klugman, Jeni - 2009

Migration is a controversial issue. Reading of the popular media in virtually any country, alongside an array of opinion polls suggest that residents see controls on immigration as essential and that people would prefer to see existing rules on entry tightened rather than relaxed. This stands in...

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Frequency of contact with foreigners in a homogenous society: perceived consequences of foreigner increases in Japan

Yamamura, Eiji - 2010

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Negative selectivity of Europe’s guest-worker immigration?

Dronkers, Jaap; Heus, Manon de - 2009

The aim of this paper is to empirically test the negative selectivity hypothesis as an explanation of the lower educational achievements of Turkish immigrant pupils. We do this by comparing educational achievement Turkish immigrant pupils in various European countries with the educational...

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A social proximity explanation of the reluctance to assimilate

Fan, C. Simon; Stark, Oded - 2007

Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to assimilation are high. We show that when interpersonal comparisons affect...

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Frequency of contact with foreigners in a homogeneous society: perceived consequences of foreigner increases

Yamamura, Eiji - 2011

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Three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland: putting into perspective the influence of economic discrimination and of host society culture

Kohler, Pierre - 2012

This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse … causation between these two dimensions of the integration process, and the role of host society culture. Whereas each dimension … dimensions of migrant integration, their interaction as well as the influence of the broader social context. Chapter 1 explores …

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Ethno-Confessional Realities in the Romanian Area: Historical Perspectives (XVIII-XX centuries)

Brie, Mircea; Şipoş, Sorin; Horga, Ioan - 2011

Ethno-Confessional Realities in the Romanian Area: Historical Perspectives (XVII-XX Centuries) This present collective volume, coordinated by Mircea Brie, Sorin Şipoş and Ioan Horga, contains the papers of the international conference Ethnicity, Confession and Intercultural Dialogue at the...

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Ethnicity, Religion and Intercultural Dialogue in the European Border Space

Brie, Mircea - 2011

Ethnicity and religious confession are concepts around which discussion and controversy arise, generating emotions and feelings of extreme intensity. Each of us belongs to such communities. By default, there is a strong pressure on us to be subjective. Intercultural dialogue can be successfully...

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