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Orrù, Enrico. "Student mobility policies in the European Union : the case of the Master and Back programme : private returns, job matching and determinants of return migration." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2014. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/942/.
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Student mobility policies have become a high priority of the European Union since they are expected to result in private and social returns. However, at the same time these policies risk leading to unwanted geographical consequences, particularly brain drain from lagging to core regions, as formerly mobile students may not return on completion of their studies. Accordingly, this thesis focuses on both the private returns to student mobility and the determinants of return migration. It is important to note that, currently, the literature about the mobility of students is scarce and provides mixed evidence regarding both these issues. We contribute to the current academic debate in this field by doing a case study on the Master and Back programme, which was implemented since 2005 by the Italian lagging region of Sardinia. The programme is co-financed by the European Social Fund and consists of providing talented Sardinian students with generous scholarships to pursue Master's and Doctoral degrees in the world's best universities. Concerning the private returns to migration, we evaluate the impact of this scheme on the odds of employment and net monthly income of the recipients. Moreover, we assess whether the scheme has been able to improve their job matching. To perform this analysis we access unique administrative data on the recipients and a suitable control group, complemented by a purpose-designed web survey. In addition, we enquire into the determinants of return migration and the underlying decision-making process by using a mixed-methods approach, which is particularly well-suited for very complex phenomena like the one at hand.
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Prindiville, N. J. B. "The return of the Ingrian Finns : ethnicity, identity and reforms in Finland's Return Immigration Policy 1990-2010." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2015. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1463740/.
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This thesis investigates the construction of Finnish identity by Finnish policymakers when discussing the Right to Return Policy for Ingrian Finns. This policy, which existed from 1990 to 2010, granted Finnish residency to citizens of the Soviet Union, and subsequently Russia and Estonia, who descended from seventeenth century Finnish émigrés to the region around St Petersburg. The thesis critically analyses the discursive constructions of Finnish identity presented in the language of lawmakers on this policy, and argues that lawmakers established an ideology of Finnishness initially predicated on ideas of language, religion, ancestry, and historical relations to Finland’s neighbours Sweden and Russia. I further argue that lawmakers’ calls for an end of the policy in the late 1990s and 2000s used some of the same discursive constructions of Finnishness initially employed to justify Ingrian inclusion to now exclude Ingrians from their idea of Finnishness. To a large extent, the history of the Ingrian Return policy therefore presents a renegotiation of Ingrian, but not Finnish, identity by Finnish lawmakers. The thesis contributes to the study of identity construction on two levels. Firstly the policy presents the tension between constructions of Finnishness as an ethnic identity and as a community of Finnish citizens, and shows the relative resilience of ethnicity-based identity constructions in Finnish immigration policy at this time. Secondly, the Ingrian Finnish Return policy provides a case study of how essentialising discursive constructions of identity can be strategically used in political discussions. Analysis of this policy contributes to the broader study of identity theorisations as an example of establishing identity norms through public policy, using essentialising identity constructions that ignore alternative views of the nation as a diverse community, particularly in a period of increasing migration.
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Cena, Elida. "Return migration during economic crisis : experiences of Albanian return migrants and their children in the quest to belong." Thesis, Edge Hill University, 2017. http://repository.edgehill.ac.uk/10032/.
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Following the social and political turmoil in many countries after the recent economic crisis, many Albanian migrants regarded a return to their ‘homeland’ as the best solution during a time of uncertainty. Adding to the literature on return migration, this research investigates a group of migrants, not previously studied extensively, whose return to their country of origin was triggered by the lingering economic crisis in Europe, particularly in Greece. The research explores the experiences of return migrants and their children in Albania by focusing on their (re)settlement issues, the ways they (re)construct a sense of belonging, and how their identity is impacted by these changes. Return migrants (aged 30-50 years) and their children (aged 7-18 years) participated in this research (n=51). Qualitative data were collected through in-depth interviews with respondents aged 13 years and above, augmented by focus groups and family case studies. This research was conducted in two waves and several participants were followed up to document changes. Findings show that the economic and socio-structural constraints in the origin country and uncertainties about the future experienced by adults create barriers to their overall ability to adjust and construct a sense of belonging in Albania. The research documents further that children of return migrants experience exclusion and nonbelonging, instigating feelings of being foreigners for a second time. While children showed improvement in their socio-spatial worlds overtime; in Wave 2 adults continued to grapple with employment instability and future uncertainties. Entangled in between these experiences and a simultaneous quest to belong, the research contributes to a better understanding of return migration in times of economic crisis.
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Nguyen, Chi Hong. "To stay or to return? : brain drain or brain gain? /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18731.pdf.
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Sajons, Jörg Christoph. "Essays in immigration economics and political economy." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/79175.
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This thesis revolves around two themes. The first is whether granting citizenship to immigrant children at birth affects their parents’ return migration decisions and integration into the host-country society. Evaluating the introduction of birthright citizenship in Germany in 2000, I show in chapter 1 that migrant families are less likely to return to their home countries if their children automatically obtain the German citizenship. Chapter 2 continues the analysis of the same reform and finds that it has different effects across integration dimensions. Finally, chapter 3 is dedicated to the second theme. It examines whether stating the profession of candidates in open-list elections influences voter satisfaction and voting behavior. The results of a field experiment conducted in Barcelona indicate that voters are more satisfied if they know the profession of the candidates and that candidates working in high-skill occupations enjoy an electoral advantage.Esta tesis estudia dos temas. El primero es si otorgar la nacionalidad a los hijos de inmigrantes afecta las decisiones de sus padres de retornar a su país y la integración en el país de destino. En el primer capítulo muestro que las familias migrantes tienen menos probabilidad de volver a sus países de origen si sus hijos automáticamente obtienen la nacionalidad alemana. El capítulo dos sigue analizando la misma reforma y encuentra que sus efectos varían entre diferentes dimensiones de integración. Finalmente, el capítulo tres se dedica al segundo tema, el efecto de incluir la profesión de los candidatos en elecciones con listas abiertas. Los resultados de un experimento de campo en Barcelona indican que los votantes están más satisfechos si conocen la profesión de los candidatos y que los candidatos que trabajan en ocupaciones cualificadas disfrutan de una ventaja electoral.
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Nzima, Divane. "The 'failure-success' dichotomy in migration discourse and practice : revisiting reverse migration deterrents for South Africa based Zimbabwean skilled migrants." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/5434.
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The study was conceptualised against the background that leading migration theories explain return migration based on failure and success alone. The neo-classical economics theory of migration perceives return migration as a by-product of a failed migration experience while the new economics of labour migration perceives return as occurring after successful achievement of migration objectives. This study questions these theoretical positions through an exploration of the factors that deter South Africa-based Zimbabwean skilled migrants from returning home permanently notwithstanding a successful or failed migration experience. Furtive economic factors in Zimbabwe and South Africa that dissuade skilled migrants from returning home permanently are explored. Social factors in Zimbabwe and in South Africa that influence return migration decision making are also examined. Furthermore, the study analysed whether and how Zimbabwean skilled migrants are forced into a permanent settlement in South Africa as a result of what this study calls the ‘diaspora trap’. This ‘diaspora trap’ framework argues that Zimbabwean skilled migrants in South Africa do not return following their experiences of failure and success in South Africa. Central to the absence of return is the social construction of migrants as successful in Zimbabwe. Skilled migrants are deterred from returning due to their failure to meet family and communal expectations of success. In addition, return migration is deferred as a means to hide poverty in South Africa. Moreover, new diaspora family ties weaken attachments with Zimbabwe and contribute to deferred return migration. Skilled migrants are thus entrapped in South Africa by their failure to live up to the success social construct and the inability to mitigate adversities in the host country.
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Quesnel, Meléndez Carlos. "The Right to return and repatriation in international law, with a special reference to refugees and displaced persons in Mexico and Central America /." Genève : Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales, 1990. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36207049k.
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Karageozian, Nanor. "Long-term diasporic return migration in post-Soviet Armenia : balancing mobility and sedentarism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:25ff00d2-816b-4fdd-b8fb-ec5eeb4ceead.
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This thesis examines the immigration to and long-term settlement in post-Soviet Armenia of Armenians from well-established diasporic communities - mostly from Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Canada, and the United States. It argues that diverse levels and combinations of anchoring and floating co-exist in the diasporan returnees' return motivations, post-return integration experiences, and identity and belonging (re)conceptualization processes. They are manifested in the returnees' habitual dispositions, imaginative aspirations, and practical considerations, which develop within a particular sociohistorical environment. The study also considers the changes that occur over time in the structural context and in the ways returnees engage with it. It demonstrates that the inclination of returnees toward more rooted or more mobile directions depends, to a large extent, on their diasporic community background, the generation they belong to, and more immediate factors related to their life-cycle stages. Throughout the analysis, the important role of emotions in the return visions and experiences is highlighted. The thesis makes an empirical contribution by studying the largely uncharted case of Armenian diasporic return in the post-Soviet era. At a more theoretical level, it promotes a balanced approach that goes beyond the overemphasis on mobility and the relative neglect of sedentarism that have characterized many works in the fields of diaspora and migration studies over the past few decades. Underlying this balanced path is the goal of recognizing the equal importance of and complex inter-relationship between human agency and objective structures. To this end, the thesis relies on a theoretical framework based primarily on some of Pierre Bourdieu's key conceptual tools, with certain modifications. Thus, the study frames the topic of long-term diasporic return migration within broader social theory. This way, not only does it link diasporic return to paradigms in migration and diaspora studies, but it also views it from a wider angle of social action.
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Liu, Guofu. "The right to leave and return and Chinese migration law." Electronic version, 2005. http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/handle/2100/341.
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Teerling, Janine C. J. "The 'return' of British-born Cypriots to Cyprus : a narrative ethnography." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2011. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/6343/.
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My thesis is the product of an in-depth qualitative study of the ‘return' of British-born Cypriots to Cyprus. By specifically focusing on the second generation, my thesis seeks to rectify the lacuna in research on the second generation's connections to the ethnic homeland, capitalising on these migrants' positionalities with respect to questions of home and belonging. The thesis consists of eight chapters: Chapter 1 introduces the context in which the research was conducted; Chapter 2 provides the historical and geographical background for the Cypriot migration experience; Chapter 3 presents the methodological and ethical context in which my research was conducted; Chapters, 4, 5, 6 are the main empirical chapters, discussing the British-born Greek-Cypriot returnees' experiences, motives and viewpoints, from childhood memories to today's adult experiences; Chapter 7 provides an additional comparative angle through the inclusion of a subsample of British-born Turkish Cypriots; and finally, Chapter 8, my concluding chapter, revisits the research questions, draws comparisons with other empirical studies on second-generation return, and re-evaluates my methodological framework. Through the voices and life-narratives of second-generation British-Cypriot ‘return' migrants – following a biographical timeline – the multifaceted perspectives in which notions of ‘return', ‘home' and ‘belonging' can be viewed and experienced in a migratory context are revealed. My study shows the complexities and ambivalences involved when exploring ideas of ‘identity' and ‘return', views of ‘home', and feelings of ‘belonging' in the ancestral homeland – demonstrating how boundaries of such notions are blurred, eroded and re-established by a new generation of migrants, reflecting their time, experiences, choices and ideologies. My findings deconstruct the meaning of ‘return', move beyond the primordial cultural confines of notions of ‘belonging', and challenge the simple dichotomy of ‘home' versus ‘away', revealing new similarities (and differences) beyond such predefined labels and categories, which form the building blocks for new, contemporary, ways and spaces of belonging.
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Frutuoso, Suzane Caroline Gil. "Brasileiros que retornam: o impacto de recomeçar em São Paulo." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2014. http://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/2489.
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The 2008 global financial crisis has shaken rich countries financial health, once immune to topics like unemployment, underpayment and welfare state precariousness. Because of their strength and stability, these nations also attracted immigrants for years, including Brazilians. Mainly, as of the decade of 1980, they thought that the only way of being successful in times of hyperinflation and unfavorable social and economic perspectives was by leaving Brazil. Such logic changed with the global financial crisis that hit European countries, The United States and Japan in the late 2000s as Brazil was going through, for the very first time in years, employment rate, better incomes and purchasing power on the increase. A great deal of people decided to come back. According to Foreign and Commonwealth Office of Brazil data, around four hundred thousand Brazilians arrived in their home country between 2008 and 2012. It is a significant and previously unseen number. Never have so many emigrants returned at the same time. But the ones who came back with some qualification, such as college and post-graduation degrees, experiencing solid career or building it abroad, despite local opportunities, had to face inevitable culture shock along with the feeling of no longer totally fitting in the place where they came from. The purpose of this paper is to discuss and analyze the return of Brazilian citizens after years of living abroad and the impact of moving back to São Paulo City, with its advantages and disadvantages from social, economic, urban and emotional points of view. Traveling from place to place is considered to be multicausal, which in its turn, leads to reflections about identities in reconstruction. On the other hand, the balance between expectations and achievements end up revealing urban questions of a global city, with its contradictions. The interviewees are college graduates and have left the countries where they had been living for years or intended to stay longer due to the effects of the global financial crisis. They do not belong to the group of immigrants who had to be manual laborers (except for one of the interviewees who did it in order to complement her income to pay tourism travels). They sounded optimistic about their returning. Most of them, however, feel disappointed when it comes to situations that seem to never improve such as security, transportation, education, corruption. The interviewees were also dissatisfied with the quick decline of the so-called constant growth. Soon after their return, around 2012, they realized that economy had slowed down, the cost of living in São Paulo had become too high by comparison with other metropolis in the world, and the salaries were not that good anymore. Many of them consider to immigrate again. This is a qualitative research. Its data was collected through semi-structured interviews, which were all recorded. Institutional and governmental data complement our paper, which portrays a new face of traveling from place to place, migrations and human mobility in the twenty-first century, in the midst of a globalized scenario with an urban means (São Paulo City) that directly affects the identity in society as well as the way people behave or deal towards one another
A crise econômica internacional de 2008 abalou a saúde financeira de países ricos que antes pareciam imunes a questões como desemprego, baixas remunerações e precariedade. Bem como no Estado de bem-estar social. Por sua pujança e estabilidade, essas nações também atraíram durante anos imigrantes, inclusive brasileiros. Principalmente a partir da década de 1980, eles viram na saída do Brasil a única chance de ascensão numa época de hiperinflação e perspectivas socioeconômicas desfavoráveis. Tal lógica se inverteu com a crise que atingiu no final dos anos 2000 países europeus, os Estados Unidos e o Japão, enquanto o Brasil experimentava, pela primeira vez em muito tempo, taxas de pleno emprego, melhora na renda e crescimento da capacidade de consumo. Um contingente grande de pessoas resolveu voltar. Segundo dados do Ministério das Relações Exteriores, cerca de 400 mil brasileiros desembarcaram na terra de origem entre 2008 e 2012. O número é expressivo e inédito. Nunca tantos emigrados regressaram em um mesmo período. Mas para os retornados qualificados, graduados, pós-graduados, com carreira construída ou em construção lá fora, apesar das oportunidades aqui, o choque cultural foi inevitável, assim como a sensação de não mais pertencer totalmente ao local de onde partiram. O objetivo do trabalho é discutir e analisar o retorno de brasileiros depois de anos no exterior e o impacto de voltar a viver na cidade de São Paulo, com suas vantagens e desvantagens do ponto de vista social, econômico, urbano e emocional. Os deslocamentos são vistos como multicausais e provocam, por sua vez, reflexões sobre identidade em reconstrução. Por outro lado, o balanço entre expectativas e conquistas acaba por revelar as questões urbanas de uma cidade global, com suas contradições. Os entrevistados têm nível superior e deixaram os países em que viviam há anos ou pensavam passar mais tempo devido aos reflexos da crise internacional. Não são parte do contingente de imigrantes que se submeteram a qualquer trabalho braçal (apenas uma entrevistada realizou esse tipo de função para obter renda complementar enquanto estudava e, assim, poder fazer turismo). Estavam esperançosos quanto ao retorno. A maior parte, porém, demonstrou decepção com situações que parecem nunca mudar, como segurança, transporte, educação, corrupção. Pesou também na insatisfação dos entrevistados o declínio rápido do que era anunciado como um crescimento constante. Pouco depois do retorno, por volta de 2012, perceberam que a economia desacelerou, o custo de vida em São Paulo se tornou elevado demais na comparação com outras metrópoles do mundo e os salários já não eram tão vantajosos. Muitos deles consideram imigrar novamente. A pesquisa é qualitativa. Os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, todas gravadas. Dados institucionais e governamentais complementam nosso trabalho, retrato de uma nova face dos deslocamentos, das migrações e da mobilidade humana no século XXI num cenário globalizado e com um ambiente urbano (cidade de São Paulo) que afeta diretamente a identidade na sociedade e a maneira de se relacionar
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Osman, Samira Adel. "Entre o Líbano e o Brasil: dinâmica migratória e história oral de vida." Universidade de São Paulo, 2007. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-05112007-133744/.
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Essa pesquisa tem como tema central a História Oral de Vida de imigrantes libaneses e seus descendentes nascidos no Brasil, bem como de brasileiras não-descendentes, que empreenderam o retorno ao Líbano, cujo fluxo foi verificado com maior intensidade ao final da década de 1980. A problemática geral dessa pesquisa é verificar e analisar a concretização do retorno, a partir da análise dos fenômenos de readaptação e adaptação, reinserção e inserção, destacando-se as dificuldades, os dilemas e os conflitos decorrentes desse ato. Mais do que a ocupação de um espaço geográfico, devemos considerar que o retorno e restabelecimento nos vilarejos de origem significam uma apropriação (ou criação) cultural do lugar (aqui entendido em sua dimensão subjetiva), construindo-se sentimentos de identidade, de pertencimento ao grupo que, por meio de suas ações, controlam e influenciam pessoas, estabelecem relações, determinam valores e normas a serem seguidas. Considerando identidade e cultura como processos dinâmicos, em constante elaboração e reelaboração, há que se verificar que a reinserção e inserção ao país implicarão renúncias, escolhas e seleções, que serão negociadas pelo migrante em relação ao grupo de origem.This research has as central subject the Oral History of Lebanese immigrants and their descendants borned in Brazil, as well as of Brazilians not-descendants, who had undertaken the return to the Lebanon, whose flow was verified with more intensity to the end of 1980\'s. The general problematic of this research is to verify the achievement of the return, from the analysis of the phenomena of readjustment and adaptation, (re) insertion and insertion, in order to distinguish the difficulties, the dilemmas and the decurrent conflicts of this act. More than the occupation of a geographic space, we must consider that the return and reestablishment in the villages of origin mean a cultural appropriation (or creation) of the place (understood here in its subjective dimension), constructing identity feelings, belonging to the group that, by of its action, controls and influences people, establishes relations, determines values and norms to be followed. Considering identity and culture as dynamic processes, in constant elaboration and rework, it is important to verify that the (re) insertion and insertion to the country will imply resignations, choices and elections, that will be negotiated by the migrant in relation to the group of origin.
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Giannica, Davide. "Psychologie et psychopathologie de la migration de retour, du non-retour et de l’entre-deux migratoire." Thesis, Paris 13, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA131017.
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À partir des réalités croisées entre la France et l’Italie et des voyages exploratoires au Sénégal, le chercheur investigue l’enjeu fondamental du phénomène migratoire : le retour. Quel est son impact psychologique sur les individus et les populations concernés ? Comment le retour affecte les dynamiques intrapsychiques et intersubjectives ? L’étude a été effectuée à partir d’une enquête menée auprès de la population migrante sénégalaise déplacée en Europe. Trois terrains de recherche ont été menés au Sénégal entre 2014 et 2018. La recherche inclut les entretiens de 20 « migrants de retour » et de 11 informateurs privilégiés. La thèse est structurée en cinq parties. Le premier chapitre est dédié à l’analyse qualitative du matériel. Le chercheur recourt à la méthodologie inspirée par la Grounded Theory. Le second chapitre est consacré à revue de la littérature. Sa constitution a nécessité un effort majeur, car les études antérieures abordent les phénomènes sociaux et cliniques liés au « désir de retour » à partir de perspectives très hétérogènes. La présente recherche doctorale vise à une composition théorique apte à définir un tout nouveau champ d’investigations. Ceci est l’objet de la troisième partie de la thèse où le chercheur articule les notions émergentes de son analyse de cas à la littérature existante afin de proposer deux nouvelles notions théoriques qui s’avèrent nécessaires à la compréhension de la psychologie et la psychopathologie du retour : l’entre-deux migratoire et le non-retour. Ce squelette ternaire (retour, non-retour, entre-deux migratoire), en tant que modèle, permet de comprendre l’expérience migratoire et de proposer une psychopathologie de la migration de retour. Dans la quatrième partie de ce travail le chercheur présente et discute les cas à partir desquels il développe d’une manière détaillée les notions de migration rituelle, objet de la migration, itinéraire de retour, billets de retour, droit de retour et code du retour. Le cinquième chapitre est consacré à la discussion généraleThrough diverse realities of France and Italy and exploratory trips to Senegal the researcher investigates the fundamental aspect of the migratory phenomenon: the return. What psychological impact does the return have on individuals and populations involved? How does the return affect intrapsychic and intersubjective dynamics? The study is based on the survey of the Senegalese migrant population displaced in Europe. Three fields studies were conducted in Senegal between 2014 and 2018. The research includes the interviews with 20 "return migrants" and 11 key informants. The thesis is composed of five parts. The first part of the thesis is empirical part which is dedicated to data analysis. The researcher uses the methodology inspired by the Grounded Theory. The second part consists of the literature review. Given the previous studies that considered the social and clinical phenomena linked to the “desire to return” from very different perspectives, making the theoretical overview demanded great efforts. The aim of this doctoral research is to produce a theory defining a completely new field of investigations. Therefore, in the third part of the thesis the researcher analyses case studies against the existing literature in order to propose two new theoretical notions indispensable for the understanding of psychology and the psychopathology of return: “migratory in-between” and “non-return”. The ternary model (return, “non-return”, “migratory in-between”) enables our understanding of the migratory experience and allows to define the psychopathology of the return migration. In the fourth part of this work the researcher presents and discusses the cases from which he develops and describes the notions of ritual migration, the object of migration, the return itinerary, the return tickets, the rights of return and the code of return. The fifth part is dedicated to the general discussion
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Murray, Stephen. "Nineteenth-century trade union sponsored migration to and from North America, c.1850-1885, with special reference to the activities of the Amalgamated Society of Engineers, a selection of other 'new model' trade unions, emigration schemes and return migration." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3179/.
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The thesis examines labourers’ assisted migration to and from North America during 1850-1885, the dates of societies’ emigration schemes. The dissertation focuses on ‘New Model’ unions: the Engineers, Carpenters, Steam Engine Makers and Iron Founders. Three of these unions had overseas branches; one did not. The dissertation explores the significance of the introduction, development, use and eventual termination of these schemes for labour history. Emigration scheme research is limited, with little recent work published since 1955. The dissertation offers solutions to conflicting views on the exact duration of the Founders’ scheme and supplies evidence that the Engineers continued to fund members even after their scheme officially ended. Furthermore, it argues that scheme-termination was led more by external factors (notably via Contract Labor Acts) than internal factors, and that the duration of the Founders’ scheme related more to overseas branch absence than to fund shortage or ethos. Additionally, the view is challenged that schemes purely supported labour supply regulation and/or escape avenues for agitators and black listed unionists. Unions had different motives, different periods defined those motives, and executives operated in members’ best interests. The research provides new and supporting evidence of inter-society and government emigration co-operation. It focuses on the under-studied topic of return migration, specifically union-funded return, with empirical evidence provided of union funded and non-funded emigrants and returnees. It adopts a range of socio-economic variables. Finally, adding to scant knowledge of internal migration or emigration alternatives, empirical evidence is provided of preemigration and post-return movement of unionists. Correspondence, particularly between overseas branches and union executives, is used throughout. Finally, a major component involves a project at Fall River, which explores the extent that emigrants’ descendants have assimilated in probably the most important receiving area for nineteenth-century skilled Lancastrian workmen.
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Néya, Sihé. ""Burkina Faso - Côte d'Ivoire, c'est chambre-salon" : retour au pays d'origine et reconfiguration d'un espace migratoire transnational." Thesis, Paris 1, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020PA01H009.
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L'émigration des Burkinabè du Burkina Faso vers la Côte d'Ivoire, vieille de plus d'un demi-siècle, a entraîné des circulations migratoires importantes entre ces deux pays. Les Burkinabè et leurs descendants installés en Côte d'Ivoire entretiennent des liens multiformes avec leur pays d'origine, le Burkina Faso. Certes, les liens transnationaux, orientés de la Côte d'Ivoire vers le Burkina Faso, ont largement été documentés. Mais ceux-ci méritent d’être réinterrogés avec l'avènement des migrations de retour et d'installation des migrants et leurs familles au Burkina Faso, qui se sont accentuées en raison des crises ivoiriennes des deux dernières décennies. La thèse interroge la manière dont les migrations internationales de retour au Burkina Faso participent à la réorganisation des espaces de vie transnationaux dans l’espace migratoire ivoiro-burkinabè (Burkina Faso-Côte d’Ivoire) produit par l’immigration burkinabè en Côte d’Ivoire. Dans cet espace, à la fois en soi et pour soi, ce sont les acteurs et les lieux en jeu qui sont questionnés. Les migrants de retour restent aussi des acteurs transnationaux dont la mobilité sociale et les pratiques transnationales amènent à repenser le pays d’origine et la ressource au sein d’un espace migratoire transnational. Autrement dit, dans l’espace migratoire transnational ivoiro-burkinabè, la ressource est localisée dans le pays d’accueil et le pays d’origine. Le Burkina Faso devient une ressource pour générer une relation d’interdépendance plutôt qu’une relation de dépendance entre les deux pays. Les migrants et leur famille font de la dispersion spatiale un capitalThe emigration of Burkinabè from Burkina Faso to Côte d'Ivoire, for over half a century, has led to significant migratory flows between the two countries. Burkinabè and their descendants living in Côte d'Ivoire have multifaceted ties with their country of origin, Burkina Faso. Of course, the transnational links oriented from Côte d'Ivoire to Burkina Faso have been widely documented. But these links deserve to be re-examined with the advent of return and settlement migrations of migrants and their families in Burkina Faso, which have intensified due to the Ivorian crises of the past two decades. This thesis interrogates the ways in which international return migrations to Burkina Faso are participating in the reorganization of transnational living spaces in the ivoiro-burkinabe migratory space (Burkina Faso-Côte d’Ivoire) produced by Burkinabè immigration in Côte d'Ivoire. In this space, it is the actors and the places involved that are questioned. Return migrants also remain transnational actors whose social mobility and transnational practices lead one to rethink the country of origin and the resource within a transnational migratory space. In other words, in the ivoiro-burkinabè transnational migratory space, the resource is localized in the host country and in the country of origin. Burkina Faso becomes a resource that generates an interdependent rather than a dependent relationship between the two countries. The migrants and their families create capital out of spatial dispersion
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Alaili, Anas. "La thématique du retour dans la littérature arabe : le cas palestinien." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO20135.
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Ce travail tente d’une part, d’étudier les origines de la thématique du retour d’exil et ses différentes formes dans la littérature arabe : la forme de retour chez les écrivains arabes contemporains et celle des poètes du Mahğar. Puis, la forme du retour dans la poésie classique, notamment chez les poètes qui sont rentrés chez eux après une longue absence. Enfin, la forme de retour chez les poètes préislamiques, telle qu’elle se manifeste dans « al-Muqaddimaẗ al-ṭalaliyyaẗ » (l’introduction des ruines). D’autre part, notre étude tente d’explorer la thématique de retour dans la littérature palestinienne contemporaine et de montrer la particularité de ce phénomène chez les auteurs palestiniens revenus en Palestine après les Accords d’Oslo en 1993. En effet, plusieurs d’entre eux abordent la thématique du retour dans des œuvres littéraires variées. Ils y expriment souvent l’échec et la déception face à la réalité retrouvée. En outre, cette étude s’intéresse à la complexité du retour dans la littérature palestinienne. En effet, deux problématiques principales émergent : la première est liée au phénomène du retour d’exil et la deuxième est liée au contexte socio-politique particulier de la Palestine. Ces deux problématiques font du cas du retour palestinien un phénomène à part dans la littérature arabe contemporaineThis research attempts on one hand, to study the origins of the theme of return and its various forms in Arabic literature : as perceived by contemporary arab writers versus by poets of Mahğar. Then, the shape of the return in classical poetry, especially among poets who have returned back home after a long absence. Eventually, the shape it adopted among pre-Islamic poets, as illustrated in « al-muqaddimaẗ ṭalaliyyaẗ » (the introduction of the ruins). On the other hand, our study intents to explore the theme of return in contemporary Palestinian literature and to demonstrate the peculiarity of this phenomenon among Palestinian returnee authors after Oslo agreements in 1993. Indeed, many of them oftently expressed the failure and disappointment facing the newfound reality. Furthermore, this research addresses the return’s complexity in Palestinian literature. Indeed, two main issues were raised : the first one is related to the phenomenon of return from exile and the second one, to the specific political context of Palestine. These two issues render unique the Palestinian return, a phenomenon in contemporary Arabic literature
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Chappart, Pascaline. "Retours volontaires, retours forcés hors d’Europe. Une socio-anthropologie de l’éloignement des étrangers. Le cas de la France." Thesis, Poitiers, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015POIT5001/document.
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A partir du cas de la politique d'aide au retour volontaire en France, cette recherche propose une interprétation des politiques d'éloignement des étrangers en situation irrégulière, telles qu'elles sont formulées à l'échelle de l'Union européenne sous l'angle du « retour ». Le principe d'expulsion est maintenant transposé dans le champ de l'action sociale, sous la forme de divers dispositifs d'assistance humanitaire qui masquent la dimension de contrainte contenue dans l'objectif final de faire sortir les étrangers du territoire. Ce brouillage amène à s'intéresser aux ressorts matériels et symboliques de la domination qui s'exerce sur les « retournés » par le biais de cette assistance, où s'observe un retournement du rapport des expulsables à leur départ, rebaptisé « volontaire ». En tenant bout à bout l'étude des processus de renvoi et des expériences d'après-retour, il s'agit de mettre en perspective les mythologies et les réalités du phénomène. Pour ce faire, on examine, à travers les mécanismes de relégation, l'ensemble des acteurs et des institutions participant à l'aménagement d'un espace transnational de prise en charge sociale reliant les pays de renvoi aux pays d'où venaient les émigrés, particulièrement dans les effets sociopolitiques et anthropologiques que leurs opérations produisentStarting from the issue of assisted voluntary return in France, this research offers an interpretation of removal policies for undocumented foreigners, labeled as "return policy" in the European Union. The principle of deportation has now been transposed to the field of social policy. Therefore, various humanitarian assistance programmes have hidden the notion of obligation which underlies the final goal of having foreigners leave the country. This confusion leads to the study of material and symbolic patterns of domination applied to "returnees”. In fact, this assistance involves a twist in the relation to the departure: undocumented migrants are no longer deportable people but foreigners asking for voluntary departure. Considering the whole process of removal and post deportation experiences, this research is to outline the myths and realities of return. Thus, trough relegation mechanisms, both social actors and institutions have been investigated. Their involvement and its consequences in the set up of a transnational space bonding the "deporting countries" and the countries of origin have been thoroughly analysed from a sociopolitical and an anthropological point of view
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Seaux, Julien. "Migration and innovation : an analysis based on patent data." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BORD0318.
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Cette thèse a pour but d’analyser la migration des inventeurs en étudiant leur contribution à l’innovation de leur pays de destination ainsi que leur pays d’origine, en contrôlant par leurs caractéristiques individuelles telles que leur genre, éducation, expérience, mobilité interentreprise et d’autres. De plus, nous décomposons les flux de migrants par canaux d’entrer dans le pays de destination, tel que le canal de l’éducation, multinational ou si l’inventeur change d’entreprise, et analysons la sélection des migrants et le gap de productivité entre les natifs et les migrants. Aussi, dans cette analyse, nous décomposons les cohortes d’entrées dans le pays de destination en comparant la productivité entre les migrants eux-mêmes. Finalement, nous étudions si les migrants de retour sont plus productifs que leurs collègues non migrants dans leur pays d’origine en fonction de leur expérience acquise à l’étrangerThis thesis investigates the migration of inventors by studying their contribution to the innovation at both destination and in their home country, after controlling for individual characteristics such as gender, education, experience, company mobility and others. In addition, we decompose the flows of migrants by entry channel in the destination country, such as the education channel, the multinational channel or when the inventors change of company and investigate the selection of migrants and the productivity gap between natives and migrants. Also, in the analysis, we decompose the cohort of entry in the destination country to compare the productivity differences among migrants themselves. Finally, we study whether return migrants are more productive than their non-migrants’ colleagues in origin countries, as a function of their experiences abroad
L'obiettivo principale di questa tesi è lo studio della migrazione degli inventori e il loro contributo all’innovazione nei Paesi di destinazione ed origine, controllando per una serie di caratteristiche individuali, come ad esempio genere, livello di educazione, esperienza e mobilità. Inoltre, differenziamo il flusso migratorio secondo lo specifico canale di entrata nel Paese di destinazione, come ad esempio educazione, riallocazione di sede all’interno di imprese multinazionali, o mobilità tra imprese, per analizzare la selezione e il gap di produttività tra migranti e non-migranti. Per comparare la produttività tra migranti, la nostra analisi distingue i differenti periodi di entrata nel Paese di destinazione. Infine, analizziamo se gli inventori che tornano nel loro Paese di origine siano più produttivi dei loro colleghi non-migranti in funzione delle esperienze acquisite nel Paese di destinazione
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Da, Cruz Michaël. "« Back to Tenochtitlan » : Migration de retour et nouvelles maquiladoras de la communication : Le cas des jeunes migrants employés dans les centres d’appel bilingues de la ville de Mexico." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014AIXM3025/document.
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Si les centres d'appel constituent une porte d'entrée sur le marché du travail pour de plus en plus de jeunes issus du système universitaire mexicain, ils jouent le même rôle pour un autre type de population : les jeunes migrants de retour en provenance des États-Unis et du Canada. Parmi eux, on retrouve un nombre important de jeunes Mexicains qui appartiennent à cette catégorie intermédiaire que les spécialistes de la migration ont défini comme génération 1.5. Véritables symboles du tournant sécuritaire de la politique migratoire américaine après 1986, ils font partie de ces 2.1 millions de mineurs Mexicains qui n'ont jamais eu accès à un statut légal depuis qu'ils sont arrivés dans leur «pays d'accueil». À partir d'entretiens biographiques et d'une étude ethnographique prolongée auprès de ce groupe, nous avons cherché à comprendre les raisons qui expliquaient leur retour vers le Mexique. Si certains d'entre eux n'ont pas eu le choix dans cette décision, d'autres intègrent cette catégorie de retours dits «volontaires». Plus qu'un véritable choix, cette bifurcation dans leur trajectoire biographique est une réponse à la situation d'enfermement social, économique et physique à laquelle se retrouvent confrontés les immigrants illégaux aux États-Unis. De retour au Mexique, ils intègrent en nombre les centres d'appel bilingues offshore où leur expérience migratoire leur permet de palier le manque de diplômes qui les caractérisent presque tous. Si le fait que ce secteur soit à la recherche constante de main d’œuvre leur offre une sécurité sur le marché de l'emploi, on constate qu'il est aussi souvent l'unique secteur rentable auquel ces jeunes migrants de retour ont accèsNot only are call centres a gateway into the labour market for young Mexican university students, but they are also becoming more and more significant for young Mexican return migrants from the USA and Canada. The latter are largely represented by young Mexican migrants referred to by migration scholars as belonging to the 1.5 generation. A symbol of the securitarian turn of American immigrant policies after 1986, they are a portion of the total of 2.1 million Mexicans who, arrived as minors, have not yet been able to acquire legal status in their "host country".Drawing from life histories interviews and from ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico City the thesis investigates the reasons that explain why they have returned to Mexico. For some the choice has not been of their making, yet others have willingly decided to return. More than a choice, this turning point in their lives is a response to the awareness of the social, economic and physical limitations they encounter as illegal immigrants in the USA. Once having returned to Mexico, most of them are employed in offshore bilingual call centres where their migration experience gives them a linguistic and cultural advantage compensating their lack of institutionally recognized educational degrees. While having a preferential position in this expanding sector, constantly recruiting new workers, nonetheless it is the only sector which offers good job opportunities for them
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Gassama, El hadj. "La Dette originelle : analyse des ressorts de la solidarité des immigrés Sénégalais en France avec leur pays à travers le don, l'engagement et l'entreprenariat." Thesis, Normandie, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018NORMC047.
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Cette thèse analyse les ressorts de la solidarité entre la diaspora sénégalaise en France et le Sénégal à travers la question d’une dette fondatrice. Les transferts d’argent sont devenus un sujet incontournable pour divers acteurs et éclairent un peu plus l’importance des immigrés dans leur pays. Ce prisme économique, de l’immigré œconomicus & donator, au risque de déformer la totalité de ce qui circule, de restreindre le spectre des échanges, de minorer la part de l’inévaluable, reste pourtant dominant dans les lectures institutionnelles. Cette étude inverse la perspective en révélant le primat du sens, en questionnant in fine, celui de la migration, qu’elle réinstitue au cœur de la problématique. Elle analyse la recomposition d’une géographie humaine, avec l’analyse des temporalités et discours, à l’aune de l’Histoire, des structures, des rationalités, des conjonctures et des valeurs socio-culturelles, et ce, à travers la solidarité entre deux cultures. A partir des transferts d’argent, jusqu’à l’entreprenariat des immigrés en passant par leur engagement associatif, et à travers une démarche qualitative, il semble exister une dette originelle, souple et plurielle, au fondement du geste solidaire. Donner à son pays c’est ainsi lui rendre. Cette dette inscrit l’immigré dans une forme d’urgence permanente, qu’il réinvestit tout de même de sa souveraineté et que son don, son engagement, son envie de rentrer, d’entreprendre et de « faire », pour son pays, tentent d’acquitter. C’est ce fil de l’immigration et cette permanence du lien que cette thèse explore, de la violence symbolique du départ comme agent de la dette éprouvée, au retour, dans ses différentes expressions, physique ou symbolique, comme quête d’un ré-enracinementThis thesis analyses the mechanisms of solidarity existing between the Senegalese diaspora in France and Senegal. Through the question of the founding debt, it seeks to explore how important migrants’ money transfers are in their home country. Though in many institutional reports, the economic approach still prevails, with the figure of the oeconomicus & donator migrant, this study offers a different perspective in the sense that it privileges the meaning of the donation. In doing so, it also questions the phenomenon of immigration and examines the remaking of human geography and the series of discourse it implies. From its analysis of money transfers to the one of migrants’ entrepreneurship, passing by their commitment to social activities, using a qualitative method, this work unveils the existence of an original debt at the source of this solidary gesture. To give to one’s home country is then to simply pay back. This debt, which the migrant is expected to solve, explains his donation, his commitment, his entrepreneurship, and his desire to return. It’s the genealogy of this immigration, its social and cultural fundaments that this thesis intends to establish starting from the symbolic violence of the departure to the return of the migrant while highlighting its various expressions
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Kaufman, Emma M. "Foreign bodies : the prison's place in a global world." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b6f8b663-eec5-43f6-a330-007e93bfbb5f.
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This thesis examines the treatment and experiences of foreign national prisoners in England and Wales. It contains two main arguments. First, I contend that dominant prison theories rely on an outmoded understanding of the nation-state, and as a result, tend to ignore the effects of globalisation. Second, I argue that current prison practices reaffirm the boundaries of the British nation-state and promote an exclusionary notion of British citizenship. I conclude that research attuned to the affective, embodied dimensions of incarceration can help criminologists to develop a more ‘global’ perspective on state power. This argument begins and builds from ethnographic research. As a whole, the thesis is based on more than 200 interviews conducted over the course of a year in and around five men’s prisons in the north, southwest, and center of England. Structurally, it proceeds from a theoretical critique of prison studies, to an ethnographic account of prison life, to a conclusion about the purpose of prison scholarship. Thematically, it focuses on the relationship between identity and imprisonment, and in particular, on the ways in which normative beliefs about race, gender, sexuality, and class get infused in incarceration practices.
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Hernández, Cabreja Jorge. "Inmigración dominicana a Barcelona ciudad: Historia, evolución y desarrollo, 1980-2008." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/461530.
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Esta investigación tiene como objetivo estudiar las características y las causas producentes de la inmigración dominicana asentada en Barcelona, con especial énfasis en el envío de remesas y su impacto en la economía familiar de quienes las reciben. La metodología empleada para realizar este estudio ha sido de tipo mixta, por una parte se recopilaron datos cuantitativos de la población objeto de estudio a través de cuestionarios (encuestas), y por otra parte se realizaron entrevistas de profundidad a las personas migradas residentes en Barcelona y a los familiares de los/as inmigrantes.
Por otra parte, se han estudiado aspectos asociativos del colectivo dominicano que se ha asentado en Barcelona y en Hospitalet de Llobregat. Ëste ha formado asociaciones con la finalidad de desarrollar espacios de integración e intercambio. Muchas de esas entidades han estado haciendo los esfuerzos para integrar a los/as dominicanos/as y para que participen en las actividades que éstas llevan a cabo; es un trabajo difícil y complejo, puesto que es mucho el esfuerzo de lograr la integración y la participación de los agentes de este colectivo. En los hallazgos, también se encontró que un reducido segmento del colectivo inmigrado ha logrado a base de su propio esfuerzo y con la prestación de ayudas cambiar de trabajadores/as asalariados/as a convertirse en propietarios/as de pequeños y medianos negocios. Se reporta el impacto de las remeses y las relaciones familiares de las persones participantes.
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Mabrouk, Fatma. "Les enjeux économiques de la migration internationale sur le développement des pays d'origine." Thesis, Bordeaux 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012BOR40025/document.
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Dans le présent travail de recherche, nous proposons, à travers quelques essais empiriques, un nouveau regard sur les enjeux économiques de la migration internationale et le développement des pays d’origine. Tout d’abord, nous commençons par étudier le lien entre la migration internationale et le commerce extérieur en nous appuyant sur des données bilatérales d’un groupe de 27 pays, choisis selon des critères bien particuliers. Les résultats mettent en exergue un lien de complémentarité entre le commerce et la migration. Par la suite, nous étudions l’impact de la migration à travers d’autres canaux de transmissions tels que le capital humain et l’investissement. Il s’agit de retracer l’impact des transferts de fonds des migrants sur la croissance économique des pays d’origine de court et long terme. L’impact est ambigu dans l’espace et le temps. Enfin nous avons choisi de mener une étude complémentaire, à caractère micro-économique, et qui se focalise sur la migration de retour au pays du Maghreb et en particulier en Tunisie. Elle explique comment le migrant de retour contribue au développement de son pays d’origine à travers le canal investissement. Les résultats attestent un biais régional en défaveur de la région du Sud tunisienThe present research proposes an attempt at explicitly analyzing the interrelationship between the economic effects of international migration and development in origin countries. By relying on bilateral data of a group of 27 countries selected according to very specific criteria, we start by studying the link between international migration and foreign trade, and show a complementary relationship between trade and migration. Then, we investigate the impact of migration through other transmission channels, such as human capital and investment, in order to trace the impact of migrants' remittances on economic growth of origin countries in the medium and long term. The impact is found ambiguous in space and time. Finally, we perform an additional study, at micro-economic level, which focuses on return migration to the Maghreb countries, with a particular attention to Tunisia. It aims at explaining how return migrants might contribute to the development of origin countries through the investment channel. The results show a regional bias to the detriment of the region of southern of Tunisia
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Xu, Hui. "Essays on the interaction between migration and sending communities : evidence from China and Vietnam." Phd thesis, Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00808693.
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This dissertation is comprised of three chapters on the interaction between migrants and their source regions applied to China and Vietnam. The first chapter examines whether remittances are related to receivers' trust and trustworthiness in Vietnam. Using a combination of a field experiment conducted in 2010 and the "2002 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey", the chapter finds that while internal remittances have no significant relationship to trusting behavior, international remittances demonstrate a significantly positive connection. On the other hand, international remittances are negatively related to trustworthiness, while internal remittances are positively associated. Besides, this study finds that the level of trustworthiness is higher in the south than in the north. The second chapter explores the role of children by age and by gender as a motive for return migration in China by using a rural household survey conducted in Wuwei County (Anhui province) in 2008. Resorting to a discrete time proportional hazard model and a binary Probit model to estimate respectively the determinants of migration duration for both on-going migrants and return migrants, and the return intentions of on-going migrants, the chapter finds consistent results regarding the role of left-behind children as a significant motive for return. The last chapter examines the impact of the migration experience on individuals' choice of being self-employed upon their return to their home villages. By using the same data of Wuwei survey, the chapter finds that return migrants are more likely to be self-employed than non-migrants, and that both return savings and the frequency of job changes during migration increase the likelihood for return migrants to become self-employed.
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Wang, Lurong. "Immigration, Literacy, and Mobility: A Critical Ethnographic Study of Well-educated Chinese Immigrants’ Trajectories in Canada." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/27608.
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This dissertation interrogates the deficit assumptions about English proficiency of skilled immigrants who were recruited by Canadian governments between the late 1990s and early 2000s. Through the lens of literacy as social practice, the eighteen-month ethnographic qualitative research explores the sequential experiences of settlement and economic integration of seven well-educated Chinese immigrant professionals. The analytical framework is built on sociocultural approaches to literacy and learning, as well as the theories of discourses and language reproduction. Using multiple data sources (observations, conversational interviews, journal and diary entries, photographs, documents, and artifacts collected in everyday lives), I document many different ways that well-educated Chinese immigrants take advantage of their language and literacy skills in English across several social domains of home, school, job market, and workplace.
Examining the trans-contextual patterning of the participants’ language and literacy activities reveals that immigrant professionals use literacy as assistance in seeking, negotiating, and taking hold of resources and opportunities within certain social settings. However, my data show that their language and literacy engagements might not always generate positive consequences for social networks, job opportunities, and upward economic mobility. Close analyses of processes and outcomes of the participants’ engagements across these discursive discourses make it very clear that the monolithic assumptions of the dominant language shape and reinforce structural barriers by constraining their social participation, decision making, and learning practice, and thereby make literacy’s consequences unpredictable. The deficit model of language proficiency serves the grounds for linguistic stereotypes and economic marginalization, which produces profoundly consequential effects on immigrants’ pathways as they strive for having access to resources and opportunities in the new society.
My analyses illuminate the ways that language and literacy create the complex web of discursive spaces wherein institutional agendas and personal desires are intertwined and collide in complex ways that constitute conditions and processes of social and economic mobility of immigrant populations. Based on these analyses, I argue that immigrants’ successful integration into a host country is not about the mastery of the technical skills in the dominant language. Rather, it is largely about the recognition and acceptance of the value of their language use and literacy practice as they attempt to partake in the globalized new economy.
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Chlebek, Claudia Maria. "A Holistic analysis of polish return migration programs." Master's thesis, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-298913.
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In this dissertation, the effectiveness of three Polish return migration programs will be analysed against a combination of return migration theories and economic channels. It will examine the motivations behind their conception, and the services, grants or initiatives implemented with the aim of addressing the needs of new and existing migrants, improving communication channels, and most importantly, developing the environment, means and incentives that will attract migrants to return to their homeland. Any failures to properly identify and address the needs, desires and aspirations of migrants with the structure of the return migration programs greatly delimit the success of the respective program through lesser participation and diminished societal impact.
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"The right to leave and return and Chinese Migration Law." University of Technology, Sydney. Faculty of Law, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2100/341.
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The Right to leave and return (RLR) has been affirmed as a fundamental human right in several international instruments. While being a fundamental human right, each State has the sovereign right to regulate RLR in accordance with its own laws. The regulation of RLR, however, is not only an attribute of sovereignty but an issue with important political, economic and security implications for the State. Given its significance, it is understandable and desirable that States regulate RLR. The regulation must however take account of both the interests of the State and the human rights dimension of the right. This is an issue of balance. In the case of China, the country's communist political system has significantly affected the development of RLR and the country's approach to it. As a rule China's approach is restrictive. As part of its reform and 'opening up' policies, China has embarked on a range of reforms to liberalise RLR, but the reforms lack cohesion and focus, and remain restrictive. Given its peculiar past and complex social and economic conditions, China may have some justifications for its approach, but on balance, has more to gain from adopting a more liberal approach. The issue of RLR in China is crucial both for the future of China, and for development of RLR in the world. China's current policy's on RLR still reflects a closed culture. A more open policy is not only consistent with international human rights norms, but also a useful infrastructure for the country's place in the global economy. Great achievements over the last 25 years and encouraging developmental trends demand acceleration of reforms to protect RLR in China. A careful and well-coordinated migration strategy with a well-defined RLR focus could enhance China's economic progress as well as its international human rights image. When designing the reform strategy, the balance of the Western experience and Chinese realities needs to be finely kept. This thesis will explore the Chinese regulatory regime governing RLR to determine its consistency with international standards. The thesis is divided into 15 chapters. It investigates RLR in international migration law and practice; analyses RLR in the context of China, and identifies its driving factors; investigates the conditions and practical concerns relevant to the protection of RLR; and concludes with recommendations on how the Chinese regulatory regime governing RLR can be improved.
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"The contemporary wave of emigration from Hong Kong: in anticipation of 97." 2000. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5890333.
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by Chun Wai (May) Chan.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves [147-149]).
Abstracts in English and Chinese.
Introduction --- p.1-3
The Historical Event
Intersection of History and Biography
Contemporary Emigration
Literature Review --- p.4-15
Conceptual and Theoretical Issues
"Types of Contemporary HK Emigrants, Emigration Strategies, & Emigration Adjustments"
"Rationales for Emigration, Return Emigration, and Settlement"
Politically Driven vs. Economically Driven Emigration
Middle Class Emigration vs. Working Class Emigration
The Meaning of the Contemporary Wave of Emigration
Research Method --- p.16-20
Research Aim
Framework of Analysis
Subject of Study
Research Design
Conducting the Interview
Data Analysis
Chapter Organization --- p.21-21
Chapter 1- The Setting
Chapter 2- The Search
Chapter 3- The Transition
Chapter 4- The Split
Chapter 5- The Scale
Chapter 6- The Meaning of the Contemporary Wave of Emigration from Hong Kong
Chapter Chapter 1- --- The Setting --- p.22-26
Chapter 1.1 --- History of Emigration
Chapter 1.2 --- The Contemporary Period
Chapter 1.2A --- Transformations in Hong Kong
Chapter 1.2B --- Immigration Policies of Overseas Destination Countries
Chapter 1.3 --- The Timeframe
Chapter Chapter 2- --- The Search --- p.27-48
Chapter 2.1 --- Forward
Chapter 2.2 --- Motivations for Emigration
Chapter 2.2A --- Overseas Educational Opportunities
Chapter 2.2B --- Overseas Living Environment
Chapter 2.2C --- Political Transition (97)
Chapter 2.3 --- 1997: Divergent Focus
Chapter 2.3A --- Shadow Past
Chapter 2.3B --- Ambiguous Future
Chapter 2.4 --- Non-Conventional Cases
Chapter 2.5 --- Recapitulation
Chapter Chapter 3- --- The Transition --- p.49-74
Chapter 3.1 --- Forward
Chapter 3.2 --- Economic and Social Transitions
Chapter 3.2A --- Economic
Chapter 3.2A. 1 --- Employment/ Career Adjustments
Chapter 3.2A. 1. a --- Experience and Education Route
Chapter 3.2A. 1 .b --- Experience Route
Chapter 3.2A. 1. c --- Further Education Route
Chapter 3.2A. 2 --- Economic Insecurity
Chapter 3.2.B --- Social
Chapter 3.2B.1 --- Expanded Living Environment
Chapter 3.2B.2 --- Detracted Sense of Belonging
Chapter 3.3 --- Recapitulation
Chapter Chapter 4- --- The Split --- p.75-107
Chapter 4.1 --- Forward
Chapter 4.2 --- Motivations for Return Emigration
Chapter 4.2A --- Lack of Extended Family Support & Contact Overseas
Chapter 4.2B --- Preference of Living in Hong Kong
Chapter 4.2C --- Economic/Career Opportunities in Hong Kong
Chapter 4.3 --- Conditional Return
Chapter 4.4 --- Tendency to Return to Destination Country
Chapter 4.5 --- Return Emigration Experiences
Chapter 4.6 --- Motivations for Settlement
Chapter 4.6A --- Overseas Living Environment/Lifestyle
Chapter 4.6B --- Opportunities for the Next Generation
Chapter 4.6C --- Timing/Inability to Overcome Barriers to Return Emigrate
Chapter 4.7 --- Perception of Passport
Chapter 4.8 --- Recapitulation
Chapter Chapter 5 --- The Scale --- p.108-118
Chapter 5.1 --- Forward
Chapter 5.2 --- The Losses
Chapter 5.3 --- The Gains
Chapter 5.4 --- The Balance
Chapter 5.5 --- Recapitulation
Chapter Chapter 6- --- The Meaning of the Contemporary Wave of Emigration from Hong Kong --- p.119-131
Appendix
Table I: Motivations for Emigration
Table II: Motivations for Return Emigration
Table III: Motivations for Settlement
Table IV: Occupation and Education Level
Table V: No. of Children
"Table VI: Current Age, Age at Time of Emigration, and Year of Emigration/ Return Emigration/Settlement"
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Ciências Jurídico-Forenses apresentada à Faculdade de DireitoA crescente atenção em torno do direito migratório, nos últimos vinte anos, em função da complexidade da gestão de uma política migratória eficaz pelos EM, num espaço europeu sem fronteiras internas e com uma fronteira externa comum, teve como consequência a transferência da competência sobre vários domínios da imigração para a União Europeia. As exigências de funcionamento de um mercado interno comum e o estabelecimento de um direito à livre circulação, dos cidadãos europeus e dos cidadãos do espaço Schengen, ditou a necessidade, estipulada pelo Tratado de Lisboa, de criar uma política de imigração comum. Foi, pois, com base nas atribuições que decorrem da execução dessa política, que foi aprovada pelo Parlamento Europeu e pelo Conselho a Diretiva 2008/115/UE, de 16 de dezembro de 2018.A referida Diretiva, conhecida como “Diretiva Retorno”, é o objeto do presente estudo.A crescente atenção em torno do direito migratório, nos últimos vinte anos, em função da complexidade da gestão de uma política migratória eficaz pelos EM, num espaço europeu sem fronteiras internas e com uma fronteira externa comum, teve como consequência a transferência da competência sobre vários domínios da imigração para a União Europeia. As exigências de funcionamento de um mercado interno comum e o estabelecimento de um direito à livre circulação, dos cidadãos europeus e dos cidadãos do espaço Schengen, ditou a necessidade, estipulada pelo Tratado de Lisboa, de criar uma política de imigração comum. Foi, pois, com base nas atribuições que decorrem da execução dessa política, que foi aprovada pelo Parlamento Europeu e pelo Conselho a Diretiva 2008/115/UE, de 16 de dezembro de 2018.A referida Diretiva, conhecida como “Diretiva Retorno”, é o objeto do presente estudo.
The growing focus on migration law, over the last twenty years, because of the complexity of managing an effective migration policy by MS, in a European area without internal borders and with a common external border, has resulted in the transfer of competence over a number of areas of immigration to the European Union.The exigencies or demands for an operative common internal market and the establishment of a right to freedom of movement, for European citizens and for the citizens of the Schengen area, have dictated the need for a common immigration policy, laid down in the Treaty of Lisbon. It was therefore on the basis of the powers resulting from the implementation of this policy that Directive 2008/115 / EU of 16 December 2018 was approved by the European Parliament and the Council.This Directive, known as the "Return Directive", is the subject of the present study.The growing focus on migration law, over the last twenty years, because of the complexity of managing an effective migration policy by MS, in a European area without internal borders and with a common external border, has resulted in the transfer of competence over a number of areas of immigration to the European Union.The exigencies or demands for an operative common internal market and the establishment of a right to freedom of movement, for European citizens and for the citizens of the Schengen area, have dictated the need for a common immigration policy, laid down in the Treaty of Lisbon. It was therefore on the basis of the powers resulting from the implementation of this policy that Directive 2008/115 / EU of 16 December 2018 was approved by the European Parliament and the Council.This Directive, known as the "Return Directive", is the subject of the present study.
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Text in English with appendices in Afaan Oromoo (Oromo language)Despite the imperative of reintegration assistance for returnees of illegal migration, which will enable them to become independent and productive members of the community, the reintegration needs and experiences of returned illegal migrants are neglected in academic studies. The objectives of the study were to explore the socio-contextual factors that gave rise to the illegal migration of the study participants; their illegal migration abuse and exploitation experiences; the reintegration needs they sought after return; and the responses of relevant stakeholders to meet the reintegration needs of the returnees and help them reintegrate into the community. To this end, I conducted a qualitative study in Omo Nada district in 2017. I collected the data by means of indepth interviews, key informant interviews and focus group discussions. I used thematic analysis to analyze the findings. The study revealed that the decision to migrate ‘illegally’ was the result of numerous drivers: poverty, unemployment, political discrimination, family pressure, and absence of legal means, the influence of brokers and smugglers, and socio-cultural and religious factors. The returned migrants experienced various types of abuse and exploitation, including physical abuse, economic, labour and sexual exploitation both on the migration journey and at the place of destination. The long periods of isolation some experienced also resulted in the disintegration of their families. Participants identified the need for support in the form of health services, counselling, housing, employment, skills training, finances, loans and social support from relevant stakeholders such as family, the community, the government and non-governmental organizations. Despite the many needs identified, the relevant bodies provided very little reintegration support. Due to this, the returnees were not able to reintegrate into their communities. Returning to the premigration conditions which drove them to migrate ‘illegally' in the first place, with no hope of any reintegration assistance, led some returnees to re-migrate illegally. Reintegration is a key aspect for return migration. Therefore, to be sustainable and for the reintegration process to be successful it must be widely supported. The consequences of illegal migration and reintegration support must be taken seriously and supported by the government in all its aspects. Government agencies such as the Labour and Social Affairs Office must be capacitated to provide the necessary assistance and supports to effect sustainable integration.
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Blais, Pierre. "Aller-retour : l’incidence des pratiques et rituels de socialité sur le parcours migratoire des immigrants français au Québec." Thèse, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/18426.
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Le phénomène du retour des immigrants dans leur pays d’origine est relativement peu étudié. Le plus souvent, les causes de ce phénomène sont ramenées à des facteurs économiques. Dans cette perspective, les immi- grants qui éprouvent le plus de difficultés à se trouver un emploi ou qui occupent un emploi de mauvaise qualité seraient les plus enclins à retourner dans leur pays d’origine. Cette explication ne semble toutefois pas s’appliquer au cas des immigrants français installés au Québec. Ces derniers dis- posent d’une bonne qualité de vie et sont généralement très bien intégrés au marché de l’emploi local. Étrangement, ils sont aussi parmi les immigrants les plus nombreux à quitter cette province canadienne. On peut déduire des témoignages laissés sur les médias sociaux que ces immigrants quitteraient la Belle Province des suites d’un sentiment de frustration et d’un profond mécontentement à l’égard de la culture locale. Pourtant, les immigrants français toujours présents au Québec disent en apprécier la culture d’ouverture et de liberté. Cet apparent paradoxe s’expliquerait selon moi par des variations dans les pratiques et les rituels de socialité entre les deux sociétés. La démarcation entre le public et le privé serait plus floue au Québec. On n’y trouverait pas de système aussi bien organisé et compartimenté qu’en France et, que ce soit en public ou en privé, les mêmes formes de socialité seraient indistinctement utilisées. Mes données laissent entendre que cette socialité indifférenciée et floue poserait de nombreuses difficultés sur le plan personnel aux immigrants français. La plus importante de ces difficultés concerne la rapidité avec laquelle certains comportements considérés comme privés et marqueurs d’intimité en France sont exhibés au Québec. Sans être foncièrement incompatible avec le système français, cette variation viendrait donner l’impression aux immigrants français qu’ils ont quitté un mode de socialité où les liens interpersonnels sont établis graduellement et en respectant des façons de faire bien déterminées pour intégrer un système extrêmement ouvert où l’intimité apparait se nouer dès les premiers moments de la relation. Bien qu’en apparence mineure, cette différence serait lourde de conséquences. Mes résultats ont montré que cette « familiarité » laisserait de nombreux immigrants français incertains quant à la consistance de leurs relations avec des Québécois. Plus précisément, cette familiarité les amènerait à présumer d’une certaine « solidité » dans leurs rap- ports avec leur contrepartie québécoise. Seule l’expérience leur permettrait de constater la « liquidité » de ces liens. Cette prise de conscience se ferait souvent dans la douleur, engendrant une forme de malaise qui pourrait déboucher sur un profond ressentiment à l’égard des Québécois, de la culture québécoise et du Québec en général. C’est ce malaise et non des facteurs économiques qui — selon moi — initierait chez ces immigrants le désir de quitter le Québec et de retourner en France.The phenomenon of the return of immigrants to their country of origin has been little studied. Most often, the causes of this phenomenon are reduced to economic factors. In this perspective, unemployed immigrants or immi-grants who occupy poor quality jobs are the most likely to return to their country of origin. This explanation does not appear to apply in the case of French immigrants settled in Quebec. These immigrants have a good quality of life and are generally well integrated into the local employment market. Strangely, they figure also amongst the first groups of immigrants to leave the province. The testimonies left on social media suggest that these immi-grants leave the Belle Province due to frustration and a deep dissatisfaction with the local culture. Yet the French immigrants still present in Quebec say that they appreciate its culture of openness and freedom. This apparent paradox could be explained by variations in the practices and rituals of so-ciality of those two societies. The line between public and private would be blurrier in Quebec. It would not have a system as well organized and, whether in public or private, the same forms of sociality would be use indis-criminately. My data suggest that this undifferentiated sociality poses many difficulties on a personal level to those immigrants. The most important of these challenges concerns how quickly conducts that are considered to be markers of privacy and intimacy in France are exhibited in Quebec. Without being fundamentally incompatible with the French system, this variation would give the impression to French immigrants that they left a form of so-ciality where interpersonal relationships are established through time and incorporated an extremely open system where privacy appears to be estab-lish through the first moments of the encounter. Although seemingly minor, that difference would have serious consequences. My results have shown that this "intimacy" would leave many French immigrants incertain of the consistency of their relations with Quebecers. Specifically, this familiarity would lead them to assume a certain "solidity" in their relations with their Quebec’s counterpart. Only experience will enable them to see the "liquidity" of those links. This recognition would often occur in pain, causing discomfort that could lead to a deep resentment against Quebecers, Quebec’s culture and Quebec in general. It is this discomfort rather than economic factors — in my opinion — that would initiate among these immigrants the desire to leave Quebec and return to France.