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Elia, Anna, and Valentina Fedele. "‘Islam is a Place Inside Myself’: Material and Immaterial Re-Positioning of Religion in the Living Experience of Unaccompanied Muslim Minors in Italy." International Journal of Islamic Architecture 10, no. 2 (July 1, 2021): 441–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ijia_00051_1.
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European sociological studies on refugees who are hosted by national protection systems primarily focus on intervention practice and are particularly attentive to the regulatory and social conditions that produce refugees’ precariousness. Studies that consider refugee subjectivity through migratory experiences are rare. In the case of unaccompanied minors, a protection/control dynamic is widespread, as the vulnerability of young refugees is often used as a pretext for setting up institutions to contain their aspirations and their life plans. This article argues that analysis of the role of religion, i.e., the place of the religious in the experiences of unaccompanied minors, is a way to focus on the subjectivities of young refugees, thereby building an understanding of the essential issues surrounding the migration experience. The article is based on research conducted in Calabria, in southern Italy, involving unaccompanied Muslim minors hosted in reception centres. With the aim to understand the religiosity of individuals, this empirical investigation presents the migratory experience of each minor, taking into account trajectories, family ties, and ways of transitioning into adulthood. Considering how these three areas are interconnected by the young refugees’ ‘musulmanity’ (their sense of being Muslim) has made it possible to be attentive to their agency, to the meaning these minors give to their actions, and to their migratory experiences.
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Minza, Wenty Marina. "Parental Expectations and Young People’s Migratory Experiences in Indonesia." Jurnal Psikologi 44, no. 1 (August 9, 2017): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.22146/jpsi.26898.
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Based on a one year qualitative study, this paper examines the migratory aspirations and experiences of non-Chinese young people in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is based on two main questions of migration in the context of young people’s education to work transition: 1) How do young people in provincial cities perceive processes of migration? 2) What is the role of intergenerational relations in realizing these aspirations? Living in a provincial city in Indonesia, many of these youth aspire to migrate to larger cities on the Java Island for tertiary education. It is found that apart from the idea that universities in Java are of better quality and diplomas from education institutions in Java provide leverage in the labour market, migrating to Java is also about growing up. Migrating is often linked to ideal notions of adulthood, indicated by independence. Yet, in reality, these aspirations often have to compete with parental expectations of family care and of building interdependent relationships with the family (rather than becoming independent). Thus young people are often constrained by their families in realizing their dreams to seek education in Java and even when they obtain permission to leave, they are expected to come back to Pontianak. This paper will describe the various strategies young people employ to realize their dreams of obtaining education in Java, the decisions made by those who fail to do so, and the choices made by migrants after finishing their education in Java. It will contribute to a body of knowledge on young people’s education to work transitions and how inter-generational dynamics play out in that process.
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Pinto da Costa, M., E. Biskup, A. Giurgiuca, J. Kaaja, Ö. Kilic, T. Mogren, M. Stoyanova, V. Banjac, and S. Tomori. "Should I stay or should I go? Mobility and migration among psychiatric trainees in Europe – EFPT Brain Drain Survey." European Psychiatry 33, S1 (March 2016): S176. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.375.
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IntroductionWorkforce migration of mental health professionals seems to have a significant impact on mental health services, both in the donor and host countries. Nevertheless, information on migration in junior doctors within Europe is very limited. Therefore, the European Federation of Psychiatric Trainees (EFPT) has conducted the Brain Drain Survey.ObjectivesTo identify, in junior doctors training in psychiatry, the impact of international short-term mobility experiences, towards a future workforce migration across countries, exploring its patterns and reasons.MethodsIn this cross-sectional international study, data were collected from 2281 psychiatric trainees in 33 countries. All participants answered to the EFPT Brain Drain Survey reporting their attitudes and experiences on mobility and migration.ResultsOnly one-third of the trainees had a short-mobility experience in their lifetime, being education the main purpose for these experiences. Interestingly, the main predictors for future migratory tendency were not only the having a income and being dissatisfied with this income, but having a short-mobility experience. In fact, people that had short-mobility experiences were two times more likely to express a migratory tendency. Trainees that went abroad were predominantly satisfied with their experiences, reporting that these influenced their attitudes towards migration, positively.ConclusionsThese findings show that short-term mobility has a positive impact into future long-term migration, increasing its probability.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.
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Ponce-Blandón, José Antonio, Rocío Romero-Castillo, Nerea Jiménez-Picón, Juan Carlos Palomo-Lara, Aurora Castro-Méndez, and Manuel Pabón-Carrasco. "Lived Experiences of African Migrants Crossing the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Healthcare from a Qualitative Methodology." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 17 (September 6, 2021): 9379. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18179379.
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Background: The migratory flow from the African continent to Europe is intense and the European countries should apply a humanitarian, health and social response to this emerging problem. Migrants coming from Africa to Europe are a very vulnerable population. Healthcare professionals should be prepared for answering their needs from a transcultural approach, which requires a better understanding of this phenomenon. Thus, the aim of this study was to improve nursing and healthcare professionals’ awareness and better understanding of migrant life experiences during the migration journey. An exploratory descriptive qualitative research was conducted. In-depth interviews were conducted involving four key informants and content analysis were performed with the transcriptions. Results: Three themes merged: life situations in their countries of origin; motivations that led them to undertake the migratory journey; and experiences they lived during the migratory journey. The results described the dramatic experience and motivations for crossing the strait of Gibraltar from Africa to Europe, including feelings, fears, hopes and lived experiences. The determination of immigrants to fight for a better life opportunity and the physical damage and psychological consequences they suffer were revealed. Conclusions: This study would help healthcare professionals to better understand this complex reality and deliver culturally adapted care. Knowledge of the starting reality of these populations can help health professionals to incorporate a cross-cultural approach that improves the relational, ethical and affective competences to provide quality care to the migrant population, as well as the development of health measures to fight against inequalities suffered by these population groups.
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Titili, Denisa. "The Impact of Financial and Social Remittances in Perpetuating Migration (Albanian Migration Context)." European Journal of Multidisciplinary Studies 1, no. 3 (April 30, 2016): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.26417/ejms.v1i3.p82-86.
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Since 1990 Albania has experienced massive external and international migration due to political, economical and social changes occurred in Albanian society. Albanian migration represents a variety of migratory experiences and a combination of different forms of migration (internal, external, temporary, permanent, etc) and destinations. Albania’s contemporaneous mass emigration and internal migration over the short span of time since 1990 provides an excellent laboratory to study the inter links of these types of migration (King R, Skeldon R, - Vullnetari J, 2008: 33). Migration and remittances have changed the social face of Albanian society. Based on the theoretical framework of De Haas (2010) that social remittances can further strengthen migration aspiration, the aim of this paper is to highlight the impact of financial and social remittances from emigrants to Greece in encouraging internal (rural to urban) and external ongoing migration. Data collection will be provided by in-depth interviews. This paper will base on case-histories of Albanian families with different migratory experience to show off how emigration to Greece has lead to a subsequent internal migration within Albania.
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DREBY, JOANNA, SARAH GALLO, FLORENCIA SILVEIRA, and MELISSA ADAMS-CORRAL. "Nací Allá: Meanings of US Citizenship for Young Children of Return Migrants to Mexico." Harvard Educational Review 90, no. 4 (December 1, 2020): 573–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-90.4.573.
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In this essay, Joanna Dreby, Sarah Gallo, Florencia Silveira, and Melissa Adams-Corral use a transnational frame to explore the meanings of US citizenship for binational children and its importance to experiences of belonging. Drawing on interviews with children ages six to fourteen living with their Mexican-born parents in rural Puebla, their analysis shows that children view US citizenship as signaling their social location in a historically based migratory system and that the meaning of this social location on children’s daily lives differs given their transnational experiences, specifically the extent of US schooling they received. Migration thus engenders understanding of power and privilege among young children and influences how they negotiate among their peers. The authors argue that young children may exhibit “critical postures” arising from their migratory experiences. They conclude that schools on both sides of the border can view migrant children’s experiences and critical perspectives as assets that may provide more flexible spaces for learning and belonging.
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Tapia, Silvia Alejandra, and Pablo Francisco Di Leo. "Mobilities, Individuation, and Agencies: An Analysis Based on Young Migrants’ Biographical Narratives in Buenos Aires, Argentina." Qualitative Sociology Review 17, no. 3 (July 31, 2021): 108–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.17.3.06.
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Social studies point out the unequal conditions for moving or staying, internally or internationally, that young people from different social sectors face in their biographies. In this article, we analyze the migratory experiences of young people from popular sectors of the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina. To do that, we put into dialogue recent studies on migration and proposals of the sociology of individuation and the new mobility paradigm. We approach the individuation processes of these young people through the qualitative analysis of their biographical narratives in which their migration experiences emerged as turning points in their lives. The article argues that young migrants from popular sectors draft their agencies and shape themselves as individuals by mobilizing material and symbolic supports and accessing different social shock-absorbers that allow them to cope with three major social challenges in their migratory processes: the socio-labor trial; the family trial, and the identity trial. By identifying the discontinuities and the common evidence present in the migratory experiences of these young people and their families, the paper ends highlighting the articulations among coercions, elasticities, and strategies that these youth migrant mobilize, individually and collectively, around themselves and others, through border-links to create shelters and deal with such challenges.
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Azevedo, Desirée, and Liliana Sanjurjo. "Between dictatorships and revolutions: narratives of Argentine and Brazilian exiles." Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology 10, no. 2 (December 2013): 305–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1809-43412013000200010.
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This article analyzes transnational migrations triggered by the dictatorships in Argentina (1976-1983) and Brazil (1964-1985), with attention to the representations associated to exile in these countries and in the Latin American context of the second half of the 20th century. The empirical data used are the memories narrated by Argentines who took exile in Brazil and by Brazilians exiled in Mozambique. By exploring the plurality of meanings that these authors attribute to their migratory experiences, we seek to understand how different political conjunctures in the countries of origin and destination implied varied forms of living and understanding exile. In a comparative perspective, the case studies also explore how the experience of exile was forged not only in relation to specific national and migratory contexts but also in relation to transnational social fields.
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Gómez, Sandra María. "Migratory experiences of university students. Qualitative study at the National University of Córdoba." Praxis Educativa 23, no. 1 (January 31, 2019): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.19137/praxiseducativa-2019-230108.
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Larkin, Joseph M., Bruce A. Leauby, and Kenneth M. Hiltebeitel. "Early Employment Experiences Of Accountants: Initial Placement, Job Satisfaction, And Migratory Patterns." Review of Business Information Systems (RBIS) 3, no. 3 (July 1, 1999): 63–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.19030/rbis.v3i3.5435.
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Issues Statement No. 4 from the Accounting Education Change Commission (AECC) addresses the early employment work experiences of accountants. The AECC recommends a number of actions supervisors can employ to improve the job satisfaction of entry-level accountants. The current study examines the correlation between supervisory actions and job satisfaction of accountants employed by the Big-5 and accountants employed in non-Big-5 positions, private industry, governmental positions and not-for-profit organizations. Initial job placement and migratory patterns are also examined from a sample of 532 recent graduates from three universities.
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Khanlou, Nazilla, and Charmaine Crawford. "Post-Migratory Experiences of Newcomer Female Youth: Self-Esteem and Identity Development." Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 8, no. 1 (January 2006): 45–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10903-006-6341-x.
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González, Betsabé Román, Eduardo Carrillo Cantú, and Rubén Hernández-León. "Moving to the ‘Homeland’." Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 32, no. 2 (2016): 252–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/mex.2016.32.2.252.
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A growing number of minors have become part of the return migratory flow from the United States to Mexico. Based on a longitudinal study started in 2012, this article uses life-history narratives to analyze the return experiences of three children who arrived in the state of Morelos, Mexico, between 2010 and 2012. The findings presented here focus on a specific segment of the children’s migratory journey: leaving the United States, crossing the border and arriving in Morelos. The article contributes to the scholarship on children’s narratives of migration, which has been under-emphasized in traditional studies of United States-Mexico migration. Un número creciente de menores de edad forma parte del flujo migratorio de retorno de Estados Unidos a México. Con base en un estudio longitudinal iniciado en el 2012, este artículo hace uso de las historias de vida para analizar las experiencias de retorno de tres niños que llegaron al estado de Morelos, México, entre el 2010 y el 2012. Los resultados que se presentan están centrados en un segmento específico del recorrido migratorio de estos niños: partir de los Estados Unidos, cruzar la frontera y llegar a Morelos. Este artículo contribuye a los estudios migratorios centrados en la narrativa de los niños, la cual ha sido poco valorada en los estudios de migración entre Estados Unidos y México.
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Mangual Figueroa, Ariana. "Speech or Silence: Undocumented Students’ Decisions to Disclose or Disguise Their Citizenship Status in School." American Educational Research Journal 54, no. 3 (February 1, 2017): 485–523. http://dx.doi.org/10.3102/0002831217693937.
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This article provides ethnographic evidence of the ways in which undocumented students make decisions about when to share or withhold their migratory status during conversations with peers and teachers in one elementary school. It argues that an analytic focus on how and when elementary-aged students talk about migratory status during everyday school activities can deepen our understanding of the educational experiences of a population that often remains invisible to teachers and educational researchers. The findings suggest ways in which public school and university educators can foster educational equity and inclusion for undocumented students.
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NAKAJIMA, TATSUO, and HIROYUKI AIZU. "MIDDLEWARE FOR BUILDING ADAPTIVE MIGRATORY CONTINUOUS MEDIA APPLICATIONS." International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 11, no. 01 (February 2001): 83–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218194001000438.
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In this paper, we propose a middleware system for building adaptive migratory continuous media applications. In future computing environments, a variety of objects at home and in offices will embed computers, and various applications will be moved among these computers according to the user's locations. For example, a computer that executes an application may be changed to another computer according to the location of the application's user for monitoring his behavior. However, since the computers may have dramatically different hardware and software configurations, the application cannot be moved without taking into account the configurations of the computers that the application is migrated. Therefore, migratory applications should be aware of environments where they are executed. The paper focuses on middleware for building adaptive migratory continuous media applications that are one of the most important classes of migratory applications. Our middleware consists of three components. The first component is an environment server that monitors computing environments that applications run, and it notifies the changes of the environments to the applications. The second component is a continuous media toolkit that enables us to build adaptive migratory continuous media applications easily. The toolkit enables us to build continuous media applications in a highly configurable way. This makes applications to be adapted to every computing environment by changing their configurations. The third component is a migration manager that makes applications migratory. We also show an example of a migratory application, and describe some experiences with building the application.
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Chétima, Melchisedek. "“Vernacularising Modernity?” Rural–Urban Migration and Cultural Transformation in the Northern Mandara Mountains." Africa Spectrum 53, no. 1 (April 2018): 61–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/000203971805300104.
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This article explores the different ways in which new houses built by migrants from the Mandara Mountains to bigger cities in Cameroon function as an important site for studying their relations within the cities and within their communities of origin. I argue that these new houses constitute both a powerful resource for addressing migrants’ stories about their migratory experiences and a constituent element of these experiences. In many circumstances, the migrants interviewed were unable to speak separately of their migratory experiences and their homes. Thus, the impact of their mobility to cities goes far beyond the mere ownership of the houses; they also manage to change their perceptions of themselves, to restructure their models of social interaction with other migrants, and to change the balance of their relations with the village. The article ends by proposing to connect the two sides of the village/city duality to find out how the local is a product of the global and how the local has reappropriated the global, giving it a meaning.
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Gordano Peile, Cecilia. "Feminist birds of passage: Feminist and migrant becomings of Latin American women in Spain." European Journal of Women's Studies 25, no. 2 (November 15, 2017): 198–213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1350506817741324.
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This article focuses on the articulations of migration and gender, from the vantage point of women whose feminist experiences have been both enriched and challenged by migration and vice versa. It presents the results of a qualitative research study of five Latin American women who migrated to Barcelona and felt close to feminisms. The author draws on feminist and postcolonial approaches to migration studies that highlight the active role women play in migratory processes as well as how intersectional variables of ethnic origin, socioeconomic class, education and family contexts are articulated, configuring different power relations and resources in specific sociohistorical contexts. The results challenge widespread stereotypes about migrant women by revealing a rich diversity of profiles, motivations and migratory pathways, as well as how informants’ experiences of social activism across national borders have transformed their subject formation processes and re-positioned them as active subjects of political action.
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Guarch-Rubio, Marta, Steven Byrne, and Antonio L. Manzanero. "Violence and torture against migrants and refugees attempting to reach the European Union through Western Balkans." Torture Journal 30, no. 3 (February 10, 2021): 67–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/torture.v30i3.120232.
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Introduction: This paper presents a study of traumatic experiences, including torture, among refugees and migrants at the border between Croatia and Bosnia. The number of people being forcefully displaced is increasing and militarized border enforcement efforts have made migration a dangerous endeavour. The European Union is externalizing its borders, but migrants and refugees have not ceased arriving in Western societies despite facing violence and torture both throughout their journey, and at the gates of Europe. Method: 54 participants were assessed, 51 males and 3 females, 26 were self-declared economic migrants and 28 stated that they fled due to political or religious persecution. The Iraqi version of the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) was adapted to collect traumatic and torture stressors experienced by the migrants/refugees during their stay in Western Bosnia, and more specifically during their detention and refoulement (push-backs) when attempting to cross the border between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Results: 98.14% reported experiencing multiple forms of torture, 81.5% reported having their property looted, and 70.4% stated that they had been physically harmed on the mentioned border during migratory transit. Torture experiences were associated with the migratory and confinement phases such as exposure to the rain and cold (92.6%) or lack of food, water and medical care (66.7%). Finally, 50% of participants fulfilled the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) due to the cumulative effect of traumatic experiences. Differences were found only in the amount of traumatic experiences between economic migrants and refugees who fled for political or religious reasons. No differences were found in torture experiences and PTSD diagnosis. Conclusions: Violence perpetrated by security forces against migrants is crystallized at the border-zones. Migrants are held in conditions that would amount by themselves to torture. Traumatic experiences have an effect on migrants/refugees’ mental health and can trigger the development of post-traumatic stress disorder. Guaranteeing human rights for migrants/refugees throughout their journey is needed.
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Pizarro, J. Cristobal, and Brendon M. H. Larson. "Feathered Roots and Migratory Routes: Immigrants and Birds in the Anthropocene." Nature and Culture 12, no. 3 (December 1, 2017): 189–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/nc.2017.120301.
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Human mobility necessitates that people adapt not only to a new society but also to a new natural environment and biodiversity. We use birds as biodiversity proxies to explore the place experiences of 26 Latin Americans adapting to Canada and the United States. Using interviews with open-ended questions, we prompted participants to identify birds that were linked to remarkable experiences in both places of origin and immigration, which we coded respectively as “roots” and “routes.” Participants reported foundational keystone species linked to their cultural heritage and conspicuous key species they associated with self-realization in the new place. Linking species, involving connections between roots and routes, triggered a process of place recalibration in association with key and keystone birds that worked as points of reference. We suggest that biodiversity offers critical social functions that need to be addressed by social integration programs promoting conviviality between humans and nature in the Anthropocene.
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Bendrups, Dan, Sebastian Diaz-Gasca, Gabriela Constanza Martinez Ortiz, Perla Guarneros Sanchez, and Elisa Mena-Maldonado. "Australia as a destination for Latin American doctoral candidates: Four personal reflections." Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 4, no. 1 (March 1, 2020): 69–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/tjtm_00013_1.
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Universities are important drivers for transnational migration to Australia, especially for students who are economically mobile, or who might be seeking to convert a transitory study experience into a more permanent migratory one. The economic growth experienced in a number of Latin American countries in the twenty-first century introduced new cohorts of Latin American students into Australian tertiary education institutions, including some from countries that may have had minimal prior presence in Australia. This includes students working towards research degrees. This article presents the autoethnographic accounts of four doctoral candidates from Latin America studying in Australia. It considers their motivations for undertaking graduate research, and the factors that brought them to choose Australia as a study destination, and the benefits and challenges they have experienced in coming here. While the candidates are all from different research fields, their experiences reveal commonalities around three key themes: opportunity, safe exploration and the role of family in enabling decisions about transnational doctoral education.
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Elmore, Kim. "The migratory experiences of people with HIV/AIDS (PWHA) in Wilmington, North Carolina." Health & Place 12, no. 4 (December 2006): 570–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2005.08.009.
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Hertrich, Véronique, and Marie Lesclingand. "Adolescent Migration in Rural Africa as a Challenge to Gender and Intergenerational Relationships." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 648, no. 1 (May 24, 2013): 175–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716213485356.
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Labor migration has become common for adolescents in many African populations, where it is a key event in the transition into adulthood for both genders. This article examines the experiences of, expectations of, and perceptions about adolescent migration from different perspectives, taking into account their gender and generation. It is based on qualitative data, collected from a rural population in Mali, where labor migration is experienced by most adolescents (70–90 percent). Despite a convergence of migratory practices between genders, the subjective experience and the social construction around youth migration appear to be in contrast for girls and boys. Male migration is part of family economics, and adolescent boys use migration to strengthen their family status. Female migration is a personal project and includes strong expectations about learning and obtaining life skills. Social judgment of female migration is negative, but new lines of solidarity are emerging between female generations.
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Chatterji, Tuli. "Teaching The Penguin Book of Migration Literature." Radical Teacher 120 (August 18, 2021): 85–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/rt.2021.892.
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The innovative four-point structure—Arrivals, Departures, Generations, and Return—of The Penguin Book of Migration Literature expands the purview established by previous anthologies of immigrant literature by mobilizing a classroom conversation where students’ own lived experiences of migratory crossings combine with the anthology’s narratives to both analyze texts and critique present national and global political climate.
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Andrighetti, Graziela Hoerbe, Cristina Becker Lopes Perna, and Martha Machado Porto. "Português como língua de acolhimento na Lomba do Pinheiro: relatos de práticas pedagógicas." BELT - Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal 8, no. 2 (December 31, 2017): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/2178-3640.2017.2.29876.
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The current international migratory flows bring a new reality to many Brazilian cities and point to the need for actions that allow the integration of the migratory population in our society. Understanding the offer of courses aimed at teaching the Portuguese language as an instrument of reception policy for immigrants and refugees, and aware of the demands for specific didactic materials aimed at teaching Portuguese as an Additional Language (hereinafter PAL) that meet this new reality in Brazil, we share in this article our classroom experiences with the teaching of Portuguese to a group of 30 Haitians, seeking to contribute to reflections about the teaching of Portuguese in this specific context. To do so, we describe the decisions taken along the course regarding the classes and didactic materials used, taking into account the profile of the students and the context in which they were inserted. Based on our reports, we hope to collaborate with teachers who are involved in the teaching of Portuguese for Immigrants and Refugeesin Brazilian contexts in which the migratory flow is a reality.
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Graef-Calliess, I. T. "Working with Traumatized Immigrants with a ptsd Diagnosis." European Psychiatry 41, S1 (April 2017): S17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2017.01.105.
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Graef-Calliess Iris (Germany).Germany has always been an important host country for asylum seekers. Although recently an increasing number of investigations about mental health of specific migrant groups have been published in Germany, there is a paucity of research concerning mental health of traumatized asylum seekers. The aim of the presentation is to present study results which describe socio-demographics, types and frequency of traumatic experiences, psychiatric diagnoses, suicidality and time to access to mental health care in traumatized asylum seekers who applied to an outpatient department of a clinical center with high expertise in transcultural psychiatry and psychotherapy in Hannover, Germany. The study shows that most of the traumatized asylum seekers had experienced multiple pre-migratory traumatic events, had unfavorable post-migratory conditions, had PTSD and depressive disorders as diagnoses, and had high suicidality and late access to mental health care. This is indicative of the mental health situation of asylum seekers in Germany in general. Ways of dealing with this challenge for the mental health care system and options for clinical management will be presented.Disclosure of interestThe author has not supplied his declaration of competing interest.
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Hussain, Yasmin. "‘I was professor in India and here I am a taxi driver’: Middle class Indian migrants to New Zealand." Migration Studies 7, no. 4 (July 16, 2018): 496–512. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/migration/mny025.
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AbstractThis paper examines the experiences of middle class Indian migrants to New Zealand. Using qualitative data from interviews with this under-researched group the paper analyses their migratory strategies, labour market experiences and reasons for choosing New Zealand over other potential destinations. In the New Zealand labour market they experience an under valuation of their Indian qualifications, and interviewees reported taking low level service employment, and only sometimes progressing to middle class forms of employment. In addition, data from the interviews suggests that there is evidence of a ‘brain drain’ from India to New Zealand rather than a circulation of talent that has been the focus of recent theories. Unlike other studies of migration of highly qualified Indian labour this study finds that they are attracted by the environment and family friendly lifestyle of New Zealand as marketed by the New Zealand government to potential immigrants. Contrary to many previous studies, the findings suggest that migration is a family rather than an individual strategy.
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Coelho, Rui Gomes. "An archaeology of decolonization: Imperial intimacies in contemporary Lisbon." Journal of Social Archaeology 19, no. 2 (May 30, 2019): 181–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469605319845971.
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The fall of the European empires over the course of the 20th century forced massive migratory flows from the former colonies to the old metropolis and between colonized regions. The experiences that came with the loss of colonies were traumatic for the erstwhile colonials, who carried their imperial nostalgia to the old metropolises. The social and political consequences of these longings are still unfolding in former colonizing societies. This article critically engages the materialization of lusotropical sensibilities, focusing on contemporary Portuguese decolonization as it is experienced in Lisbon’s urban landscape. I argue that cafés, restaurants, and pastry shops frequented by retornados are not only places of memory but spaces where imperial longings are ingested and internalized.
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Ariza, Marina. "Continuidades y discontinuidades en la experiencia laboral de mexicanas y dominicanas en Estados Unidos / Continuities and discontinuities in the work experience of Mexican and Dominican women in the United States." Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos 31, no. 2 (May 1, 2016): 263. http://dx.doi.org/10.24201/edu.v31i2.1589.
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En este artículo se contrastan las experiencias laborales de dos grupos de inmigrantes latinoamericanas (mexicanas y dominicanas) en dos subsectores de los servicios reproductivos en el hogar (servicio doméstico y de cuidado). Al hacerlo se destacan los factores socioinstitucionales y sociodemográficos que enmarcan la experiencia laboral. La precariedad en las condiciones de trabajo –sancionada en la institucionalidad del régimen laboral– y la especificidad del espacio doméstico como ámbito laboral son los factores que mayor continuidad otorgan a las vivencias de las inmigrantes. Las disimilitudes provienen de la interrelación entre el estatus migratorio y el régimen laboral en virtud del distinto papel que juegan estos dos flujos migratorios en el contexto de la migración latinoamericana a Estados Unidos, de ciertos rasgos sociodemográficos de las sociedades de origen, y del sentido que subjetivamente atribuyen a la actividad.AbstractThis paper contrasts the work experiences of two groups of Latin American immigrant women (Mexicans and Dominicans) in two subsectors of reproductive services in the home (domestic work and care). It highlights the socio-institutional and socio-demographic factors framing the experience. Precarious working conditions, sanctioned by the institutionality of the labor-regime and the domestic sphere as a workplace, are the factors that lend the greatest continuity to these experiences. The dissimilarities are derived from the interplay between immigration status and labor regime due to the different roles played by these two migratory flows in the context of Latin American migration to the United States, certain socio-demographic traits of the societies of origin, and the differential subjective meaning attributed to such activities.
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Pourette, Dolorès. "Migratory Paths, Experiences of HIV/AIDS, and Sexuality: African Women Living withHIV/AIDS in France." Feminist Economics 14, no. 4 (October 2008): 149–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13545700802262949.
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Sohee, Bae. "Anxiety, insecurity and complexity of transnational educational migration among Korean middle class families." Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 24, no. 2 (December 22, 2014): 152–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/japc.24.2.01hee.
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Language is one of the most crucial factors which influence social experiences and relations of transnational migrants. Moreover, crossing borders becomes an important strategy for acquiring valuable linguistic resources in the globalized neoliberal economy. For instance, through jogi yuhak (Early Study Abroad), the transnational educational migration of Korean middle class families, parents aim to provide their children with the opportunities to acquire multilingual competence as important skills for them to become competitive neoliberal workers in the global economy. However, anxiety and insecurity are inherent in transnational movement in the sense that relocation necessarily implies adjustment to new conditions of life. This paper investigates the anxieties and insecurities which Korean jogi yuhak families experience during their transnational educational migration. Based on an ethnographic study on Korean educational migrant families in Singapore, it explores how uncertainty and tension serve as an unavoidable aspect of strategic migratory choices and how the fierce pursuit of neoliberal subjectivity through global mobility works to increase the anxieties of the families. Korean jogi yuhak families’ constant negotiation between conflicting expectations and options across multiple scales of Time and Space in their migratory trajectories leads to awareness of the complex relationship between language and space, resulting in increasing anxiety and insecurity.
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Davanture, Adèle, and Daniel Derivois. "Self-cartography within migrants and refugees: a tool for resilience?" Mental Health and Social Inclusion 24, no. 4 (August 14, 2020): 229–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/mhsi-04-2020-0026.
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Purpose Meta-analyses indicate that migrants and refugees develop more mental health problems than the general population as a result of their exposure to armed conflict, violence and torture together with their experiences prior to, during and after resettlement. The purpose of this paper is to experience a tool that allows analysing how migrants and refugees represent the world and how they self-represent in the world. Design/methodology/approach The aim is to design a projective tool called “Self Cartography” to facilitate the production of migration stories, based on narratives. Findings The self-cartography tool revealed the psychological suffering generated by the brutality and violence of exile. The narratives about the pre-migratory phase appear to be more complex and more painful than the migratory and post-migratory phases. Research limitations/implications The preliminary interviews in the exploratory phase have raised certain methodological biases, such as the size of the map, which is currently in A2 format. It was described by some participants as being too large and a source of anxiety. Practical implications The purpose of this work is to conceptualise a standardised projective tool that can be used by researchers and professionals responsible for making therapeutic assessments and supporting individuals in migration situations. Social implications This tool aims to facilitate better social integration for migrants and refugees. Originality/value The self-cartography tool opens up the boundaries of narrativity in a geo-temporal space shared with the clinician. Using the world as a means to self-narrate can be thought of as an attempt to rewrite the collective and individual traumatic histories of our humanity.
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Granados Alcántar, José Aurelio. "Las corrientes migratorias en las ciudades contiguas a la Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México: el caso de la aglomeración urbana de Pachuca / Migratory Trends in Cities Adjacent to the Mexico City Metropolitan Area. The Case of Urban Agglomeration i." Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos 22, no. 3 (September 1, 2007): 619. http://dx.doi.org/10.24201/edu.v22i3.1273.
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En los últimos veinte años la ciudad de Pachuca ha sufrido grandes transformaciones en su territorio; el ritmo de crecimiento poblacional ha provocado que la ciudad se expanda físicamente como no lo había hecho en sus casi quinientos años de existencia. Una parte de este crecimiento poblacional se debe a los procesos inmigratorios que han ocurrido en los últimos años. Tomando en cuenta las tendencias y las experiencias de otras ciudades contiguas a la Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México, pensamos que el actual flujo migratorio se consolidará e intensificará en los próximos años. De ahí que el objetivo del presente trabajo sea realizar un estudio sobre las corrientes migratorias en el espacio urbano de Pachuca, describiendo el perfil del migrante según los flujos establecidos. Nos interesa prever los cambios económicos y sociales en la ciudad, el desarrollo de su influencia regional y su nuevo papel en el sistema de ciudades y en la megalópolis de la Ciudad de México. AbstractOver the past twenty years, the city of Pachuca has undergone enormous transformations in its territory while the rate of population growth has meant that the city has expanded more than ever before in its nearly 500 years of existence. Part of this population growth is due to the migratory processes that have taken place in recent years. Given the trends and experiences of other cities adjacent to the Mexico City Metropolitan Zone, the authors believe that the current migratory flow will be consolidated and intensified over the next few years. The aim of this study is to therefore to undertake a study of migratory trends in the urban space of Pachuca, by describing migrants’ profiles according to the established flows. The authors are interested in predicting the economic and social changes in the city, the development of its regional influence and its new role in the system of cities and the Mexico City megalopolis.
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Montoya Zavala, Erika Cecilia, Martha Cecilia Herrera García, and Anna Ochoa O'Leary. "Foto-voz como Técnica de Investigación en Jóvenes Migrantes de Retorno. Trayectorias migratorias, identidad y educación." Empiria. Revista de metodología de ciencias sociales, no. 45 (January 15, 2020): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5944/empiria.45.2020.26303.
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El objetivo de este artículo es describir de manera general la técnica de investigación Foto-voz y valorar si ampliar los alcances de esta técnica, al tema de migración de retorno, nos ayuda a comprender el rol que juegan las trayectorias migratorias, el lenguaje, el estigma y la identidad en las aspiraciones educacionales de los jóvenes de retorno en la Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa (UAS). Asimismo, es nuestro objetivo presentar los principales hallazgos en las tres categorías de análisis propuestas: las trayectorias migratorias, el estigma- identidad, y las aspiraciones educativas de los jóvenes retornados. Utilizamos el instrumento de la Foto-Voz, la cual es una técnica de investigación cualitativa, de muestreo intencional y de acción participante. Participaron jóvenes de retorno, jóvenes sin experiencia migratoria y profesores y profesoras de la Facultad de Estudios Internacionales y Políticas Públicas de la UAS en Culiacán, Sinaloa, en un taller de fotografía donde expresan sus experiencias migratorias, su identidad y sus aspiraciones educativas por medio de fotos y pequeñas narrativas. Se reclutaron 15 participantes, por medio de invitación directa, difusión de información del taller de fotografía y por medio de bola de nieve. Dentro de los resultados podemos destacar que ampliar el alcance de Foto-voz al tema de migración de retorno de jóvenes, tiene utilidad al proporcionar a los y las recién llegadas herramientas para expresar su identidad (todavía incomprensible para ellos) con representaciones simbólicas a través de fotografías. Sus testimonios reflejan una introspección y un esfuerzo de autoconocimiento sobre sus sentimientos y perspectivas. Con esta técnica identificamos y priorizamos situaciones de exclusión e inclusión en las trayectorias migratorias y en el proceso de inmersión en la universidad de los jóvenes retornados.The objective of this article is to describe in a general way the Photo-voice research tecnique and assess whether extending the scope of this tecnique to the issue of return migration helps us to understand the role played by migratory trajectories, language, stigma and identity in the educational aspirations of returning youth at the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS). Likewise, it is our objective to present the main findings in three categories of analysis: migratory trajectories, stigma-identity, and the educational aspirations of young returnees. Methodology: Foto-Voz is a technique of qualitative research, non-representative sampling and participatory action. Participated in a photography workshop: young people of returned, young people without migratory experience and professors from the Faculty of International Studies and Public Policies of the UAS in Culiacán, Sinaloa, where they express their migratory experiences and their educational aspirations through photos and small narratives. 15 participants were recruited, through direct invitation, dissemination of information from the photography workshop and by a snowball. Findings: Extending the scope of the Fotovoz to the issue of return migration of young people, is useful in providing newcomers with tools to express their identity (still incomprehensible to them) with symbolic representations through photographs. Their testimonies reflect an introspection and an effort of self-knowledge about their feelings and perspectives. Under this methodology we identify and prioritize situations of exclusion and inclusion in migratory trajectories and in the process of immersion in the university of the young returned.
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Luck, Caseem, and Michele Santamaria. "From a "Limited Space" to a Much Wider Future." International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion (IJIDI) 4, no. 2 (July 2, 2020): 87–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.33137/ijidi.v4i2.33635.
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This article analyzes the diverse migratory experiences that inform the narratives of refugee women from Nepal, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Iraq while these women navigate higher education as refugees in a small city in the U.S. It is important to contextualize that these women’s experiences take place in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, especially given Lancaster’s unique relationship to refugees. While refugee numbers have lagged more recently due to restrictions placed by the Trump administration, the longstanding commitment on the part of organizations like Church World Services and Bethany Christian Services to provide support to refugees signifies, to a certain degree, that Lancaster is different than the rest of the U.S. when it comes to welcoming refugees (Lancaster Online Staff Writer, 2019). To analyze our informants’ migratory experiences which resulted in their pursuit of higher education in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the article explores informant participation in a wide range of meaning-making practices. In doing so, the article analyzes our informants’ varying levels of struggle with imposed narratives. These imposed narratives have to do with refugees as they resettle in the U.S. The perception of refugees as victimized, impoverished, and destitute informs some of these refugee women’s sense of being pitied in their new social structure. Grappling with these perceptions also challenges the informants’ ability to construct their own narratives. The powerful yet nuanced influence of imagery on social discourses is pivotal in terms of shaping the narratives of refugees. In turn, this imposed imagery and imposed narratives render authentic narratives all the more necessary.
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Tošić, Jelena, and Annika Lems. "Introduction." Migration and Society 2, no. 1 (June 1, 2019): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/arms.2019.020102.
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Th is contribution introduces the collection of texts in this special section of Migration and Society exploring contemporary patterns of im/mobility between Africa and Europe. It proposes an ontological-epistemological framework for investigating present-day movements via three core dimensions: (1) a focus on im/mobility explores the intertwinement of mobility and stasis in the context of biographical and migratory pathways and thus goes beyond a binary approach to migration; (2) an existential and dialogical-ethnographic approach zooms in on individual experiences of im/mobility and shows that the personal-experiential is not apolitical, but represents a realm of everyday struggles and quests for a good life; and (3) a genealogical-historical dimension explores present-day migratory quests through their embeddedness within legacies of (post)colonial power relations and interconnections and thus counteracts the hegemonic image of immigration from Africa as having no history and legitimacy.
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Taylor-Neumann, L. V. Nayano, and Mohana Raj Balasingam. "Migratory Patterns and Settlement Experiences of African Australians of Refugee Background in Murray Bridge, South Australia." Australian Geographer 44, no. 2 (June 2013): 161–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2013.789590.
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Persaud Cheddie, Abigail. "Migratory Realities: The Interplay of Landscapes in the Guyanese Emigrant’s Reality in Jan Lowe Shinebourne’s The Godmother and Other Stories." Humanities 8, no. 1 (January 12, 2019): 10. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h8010010.
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Guyana’s high rate of migration has resulted in a sizeable Guyanese diaspora that continues to negotiate the connection with its homeland. Jan Lowe Shinebourne’s The Godmother and Other Stories opens avenues of understanding the experiences of emigrated Guyanese through the lens of transnational migration. Four protagonists, one each from the stories “The Godmother,” “Hopscotch,” “London and New York” and “Rebirth” act as literary case studies in the mechanisms involved in a Guyanese transnational migrant’s experience. Through a structuralist analysis, I show how the use of literary devices such as titles, layers and paradigms facilitate the presentation of the interplay of landscapes in the transnational migrant’s experience. The significance of the story titles is briefly analysed. Then, how memories of the homeland are layered on the landscape of residence and how this interplay stabilises the migrant are examined. Thirdly, how ambivalence can set in after elements from the homeland come into physical contact with the migrant on the landscape of residence, thereby shifting the nostalgic paradigm into an unstable structure, is highlighted. Finally, it is observed that as a result of the paradigm shift, the migrant must then operate on a shifted interplay that can be confounding. Altogether, the text offers an opportunity to explore migratory realities in the Guyanese emigrant’s experience.
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Ferenc, Tomasz. "Coercion, Compulsion, Forced Emigrations. Experiences of Polish Artists during the Martial Law in Poland." Studia Migracyjne – Przegląd Polonijny 46, no. 3 (177) (2020): 33–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/25444972smpp.20.029.12593.
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A sociological look at artists’ biographies makes one reflect on their increased mobility. Purposes and reasons of the artists’ migratory journeys are various, they have a different character and their effects also vary. The article based on the narratives of the Polish artists shows three variants of making decisions to emigrate from Poland following the imposition of the martial law in December of 1981. The purpose of the article is also an attempt to modify the dominant definitions of forced emigration by extending it to the aspect of internal coercion generating a strong push impulse. This internal factor seems to be very important in the cases analysed in the article. The biographical interview method allows to indicate that, apart from external coercion, various entanglements of circumstances and trajectories are revealed, which in some cases lead to the decision to leave the home country.
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Constable, Nicole. "Migrant Motherhood, ‘Failed Migration’, and the Gendered Risks of Precarious Labour." TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia 3, no. 1 (October 10, 2014): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/trn.2014.13.
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AbstractThis article offers an ethnographically-based counterpoint to recent optimistic macro-approaches to the “migration-development nexus” that view international labour migrants as “agents of change,” depict migration as a win-win for the sending and receiving states, and associate migration with positive changes in the sending community, including the influx of monetary remittances and the entry of new ideas, such as gender equity and human rights (Faist 2008). Based on over sixteen months of ethnographic field research among Indonesian and Filipino migrant workers who became mothers in Hong Kong, I argue that it is important to consider examples of so-called ‘failed migration’ (not only migratory successes) in order to fully understand the costs of migration, including the gendered risks and gendered inequalities. Cases of migrant mothers vividly reveal how migratory ‘failures’ are often blamed on women's individual gendered moral shortcomings, but as I argue, their experiences, and those of all migrant workers, must be understood within specific contexts of precarious labour migration and Asian neoliberal policies of exception in Asia.
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Handelsman, Michael. "Ecuador and the ebb and flow of migration: A retrospective reading1." Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture 11, no. 1 (April 1, 2020): 91–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cjmc_00018_1.
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The theme of migration is not new for Ecuadorians. In the visual arts and literature, artists have traditionally found the theme of migration to be useful when interpreting the personal and existential experiences of individuals living outside of Ecuador. Initially, the topic was not understood as a collective phenomenon capable of putting at risk an elusive national identity. Over time, however, the personal drama became a collective tragedy, which defines and conditions in no small measure the cultural, psychological and geographic boundaries of a pluri-national Ecuador struggling to re-signify the new cartographies that place and displace a nation in constant migratory movement, both internally and externally. This complex social, migratory and cartographic process of becoming is found in works of literature and the visual arts, which often oscillate between testimonial representations and representational testimonies. My analysis focuses on five works and highlights some of the identity transformations that Ecuador, a country located at the centre of the world, continues experiencing while seemingly adrift, yet fully engaged in re-inventing its multiple moving borders.
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Drønen, Tomas Sundnes. "Christian Migrant Communities." Method & Theory in the Study of Religion 30, no. 3 (July 24, 2018): 227–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15700682-12341412.
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AbstractThe growing literature on religion and migration offers a wide range of terminologies in order to describe different aspects of the migratory trajectory. The article analyses how the three terms “transnational”, “transcultural”, and “translocal” are applied by different scholars in order to describe how religion influences and frames the experiences of those who leave their homes behind. It is further argued that discourse analysis can be a helpful methodological and analytical approach towards the field under study in order to engage with the rich variety of sources which might help us develop a yet more finely tuned analysis of the new religious communities. With the object of exemplifying how discourse analysis can be applied in future studies, the article gives examples from three different contexts where religious practices face change due to the migratory situation. The first example proposes studies of the “simultaneity aspect” in transnational studies among Nigerian migrants in Europe. The second example highlights how translocal aspects influence the study of ethnicity among migrants to cities in northern Cameroon, and the third example focuses on transcultural aspects of historical conversion narratives.
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Pao, Angela. "What Are You Reading?" Theatre Survey 47, no. 1 (April 13, 2006): 107–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557406000081.
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In one way or another, most of my recent readings have focused on diasporic and ethnic-minority literatures, experiences, and performances. From the late spring through midsummer, the readings I did in the context of a migratory experience in Europe produced new perspectives on questions of displacement, marginalization, and cross-cultural connections. I was invited to teach a graduate course on a departmental exchange with the Comparative Literature program of the University of Lisbon, and I designed a course called “Crossing Continents: Multiethnic Literatures of Europe and North America.” The course, taught in spring 2005, focused on understanding ways in which the critical paradigms used by literary and cultural critics in the United States might be extended profitably to the examination of immigrant and racial-minority cultures in Western Europe, and how diasporic and postcolonial models of migration developed by European scholars could expand the dimensions of U.S. ethnic studies.
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Narriman Guémar, Latefa. "The Feminization of Forced Migration during Conflict: The Complex Experiences of Algerian Women Who Fled in the ‘Black Decade’." Journal of Refugee Studies 32, no. 3 (September 6, 2018): 482–501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/fey045.
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Abstract The rise of fundamentalism and terrorism, and the violent acts committed against women, during the Algerian conflict of the 1990s (the ‘Black Decade’, also referred to as the Algerian ‘Dark Decade’) undoubtedly had a catalytic effect on the mass feminization of Algerian migration. However, they arguably served to amplify an existing migratory movement of women. This article argues that, during times of war or internal conflict, violence and a climate of fear may be the main reason why women flee, but it is not the only one. Women’s forced migration is complex and is often related to specific, gender-based oppression, which is exacerbated by conflict. This research, conducted amongst highly skilled women who left Algeria during and after the Black Decade, reveals that their decisions to leave were also greatly influenced by their position as women: the violence specifically targeted at educated or high-profile women, women’s legal situation and the oppression they experienced in family and society. Yet, despite the UNHCR’s gender guidelines, the complex experiences of women fleeing gender-based violence often remain unacknowledged by national asylum regimes.
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Piscitelli, Adriana. "Revisiting notions of sex trafficking and victims." Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology 9, no. 1 (June 2012): 274–310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1809-43412012000100010.
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This article examines the migratory processes and work experiences of Brazilian female sex workers active in Spain. It is based on ethnographic research conducted over eleven months, at different moments between November 2004 and January 2012, in Barcelona, Madrid, Bilbao and Granada. The principal argument is that the notions of prostitution and international human trafficking held by Brazilian sex workers clash with those found in the current public debate of these issues. Brazilian migrant sex workers' acts and beliefs defy political and cultural protocols on the national and international level, and fly in the face of the 'destiny' that Brazilian society laid out for these individuals.
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Dangmann, Cecilie R., Øivind Solberg, Anne K. M. Steffenak, Sevald Høye, and Per N. Andersen. "Health-related quality of life in young Syrian refugees recently resettled in Norway." Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 48, no. 7 (July 2, 2020): 688–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1403494820929833.
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Aims: Millions have fled from the civil unrest in Syria, and half of these are children and youth. Although they are a population with an elevated risk of health problems due to adverse pre-migratory and post-migratory experiences, few studies have explored their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This is considered a fundamental construct in public health and might provide complementary descriptions of their health and well-being after resettling in a new country. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study of 160 Syrian youth aged 13–24 years. Using KIDSCREEN-27, the results for five dimensions of HRQoL was compared to population norm data. Demographic factors and war-related adverse events were used to predict HRQoL in hierarchical regression. Results: For most participants, the overall HRQoL was good, but it was lower in the dimensions for friends, physical well-being and psychological well-being compared to population norms. Scores in the dimensions for autonomy/parental relation and the school environment were high and were the main contributors to a positive HRQoL. Age and number of reported stressful events (SE) had the greatest impact on HRQoL, but the final regression model only accounted for 21% of the total variance. Conclusions: HRQoL is a relevant and non-invasive measure for refugee youth. Contributors to lower scores in physical and psychological well-being should be explored further and indicate the potential for future interventions focussing on general psychological well-being and networks, regardless of the SE that have been experienced. These interventions could potentially be based in schools or in families in order to benefit from these being seemingly safe environments for the majority of the group.
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Cannon, Clare, Sarah Fouts, and Miranda Stramel. "Informed Gatekeepers and Transnational Violence: Using Perceptions of Safety of Latino/a Youth in Determining Legal Cases." Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences 40, no. 2 (March 14, 2018): 134–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739986318762459.
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From 2013 to 2017, thousands of unaccompanied children (UCs) arrived in Louisiana from Latin America. This research aims to increase understanding of experiences of Latino/a youth who came to New Orleans during that migratory peak. This study offers additional background information on the violent circumstances that forced youth to migrate and insight into youth perceptions of public safety for stakeholders in law and public policy. By triangulating secondary data on crime in Mexico, Central America, and New Orleans with primary survey data ( N = 52), this study found that the majority of surveyed youth (79.2 %) consider New Orleans safer than their country of origin. This finding, among other significant findings related to violence and perceived effectiveness of law enforcement, can be used to advise stakeholders when considering legal options for youth. Moreover, this study generates applied research that contextualizes immigrant youth experiences and their perceptions of safety, offering a methodology for future scholarship.
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Chi, Nguyen Hong. "Theorizing the relationality of skilled migrants’ transnational mobilities." SOCIAL SCIENCES 8, no. 1 (December 20, 2018): 68–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.46223/hcmcoujs.soci.en.8.2.288.2018.
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The issue of transnational mobilities of skilled migrants has been studied from multidisciplinary dynamics. They are built on various theoretical frameworks and methodological tools and at the same time, propose innovative approaches to understanding internationalism. Aiming to add further nuance to the field of transnational migration, this article outlines a theoretical perspective attending to inter-relational aspects in skilled migrants’ transnational mobilities which are reflective of their embeddedness in the world. This perspective is based on a critical review of literature on skilled migration and transnationalism which primarily argues that migrants follow their life pursuits and make sense of their migratory experiences under influences of socio-economic, political and cultural regularities that shape their subjectivities in transnational mobilities. By extending the conventional perception of these influences, it is argued in this paper that transnational mobilities are shaped and re-shaped through at least 5 interrelated aspects of migrants’ lived experience, from the initiation of migration to relocating to the destination country and making professional and personal plans. Therefore, the relationality of transnational mobilities can be theorised through skilled migrants’ entwinement with the world in multiple spaces and temporalities. This article has the potential to contribute a unifying framework to migration research methodologies which currently tend to examine each or some of migrants’ aspects of experiences separately.
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Sugg, Katherine. "Migratory Sexualities, Diasporic Histories, and Memory in Queer Cuban-American Cultural Production." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 21, no. 4 (August 2003): 461–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/d366.
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Interrogations of diasporic relations between place, subjectivity, and sexuality have transformed representational practices and paradigms of both Cuban and Cuban-American identity on multiple fronts. Through a consideration of two texts representing the Cuban diaspora-Achy Obejas's 1996 novel Memory Mambo and Carmelita Tropicana's performance piece “Milk of amnesia/Leche de amnesia”, first developed in 1994–I explore the centrality of sexuality in constructions of self, community, and nation. These works effectively ‘queer’ notions of immigrant belonging and Cuban diasporic consciousness, particularly in the sense of exploring the spatial imaginary of diaspora to expose and question the heteropatriarchal, and hence nationalist, underpinnings of more dominant models of diaspora. In their work, Obejas and Tropicana indicate the spatial dimensions of cultural memory and the imbrication of diasporic politics and sexualities. Attending to differences in genre, each work mines a crucial interplay between diasporic and sexual histories. In Tropicana's performance piece she uses a parodic sensibility and the broad humor enabled by the stage to engage, in a new register, with the politics of memory and the uses of place and sexuality, both in relation to Cuba and to the United States. Obejas works through and against the conventions of the contemporary novel (both immigrant and lesbian coming-of-age stories, in particular) to undo many of the assumptions regarding memory, sexuality, and cultural nostalgia as they are represented in her narrative. Both Obejas and Tropicana assert an imbrication of histories of colonialism, migration, and national attachment with experiences and practices of sexuality and gender in ways that underscore the importance of space and place in the constitution of collective memories.
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Talijan, Emilija. "Sonic sociabilities and stranger relations in Arnaud des Pallières’ Adieu (2004)." Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 18 (December 1, 2019): 24–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/alpha.18.03.
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This article addresses the way noise has been deployed within the sonic practice of French filmmaker Arnaud des Pallières in his film Adieu (2004). According to des Pallières, the politics of his filmmaking resides in the way his films reflect on experiences of which he has no lived experience. With Adieu, des Pallières considers the experience of migration purposefully obliquely. The article examines how this indirect approach is achieved through noise that is harnessed to a political agenda, one that implicates spectators through the film’s own indirect address to listening in spectatorship. Through asynchronicity, the film tunes us to noises that continually arrive from an elsewhere, annoying our sense of place and integrating us within a world of strangers. Through a close reading of this film’s use of migratory noise, feedback and soundscaping, I show how des Pallières’ rigorous and singular approach to noise in Adieu is uniquely placed to open up questions about how we relate to sound and cinema’s address to listening in spectatorship. This consideration offers wider possibilities for understanding how cinema instigates more distant and radical forms of encounter through noise.
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LØnning, Moa Nyamwathi. "Layered journeys: Experiences of fragmented journeys among young Afghans in Greece and Norway." Journal of Refugee Studies 33, no. 2 (June 1, 2020): 316–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrs/feaa032.
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Abstract This article focuses on the fragmented journeys towards and within Europe among a group of young people originating from a country marked by war and conflict. It explores how the journey towards Europe may be part of a complex migration history that leads to layered journeys. I use the term ‘layered journeys’ to refer to multidimensional and multi-experiential journeys in which past, present and future experiences of mobility are intertwined. They may include multiple stages and various statuses. The article is based on ethnographic fieldwork, creative methods and life-history interviews. It focuses on a case study of a group of young Afghan males who arrived in Greece and Norway between 2008 and 2015, looking at their journeys in the context of mobility, undocumentedness and return. Young Afghans have represented the largest group of unaccompanied minor asylum seekers arriving in Europe between 2008 and 2018. While the last decade saw a considerable increase in the number of young Afghans arriving in Europe, migration itself is not a new phenomenon in the Afghan context. Afghanistan has a long history of migratory movements as part of livelihood and survival strategies, of which the past four decades of war and conflict in Afghanistan and its resulting millions of refugees are part.
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Slack, Jeremy, and Daniel E. Martínez. "What Makes a Good Human Smuggler? The Differences between Satisfaction with and Recommendation of Coyotes on the U.S.-Mexico Border." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 676, no. 1 (February 21, 2018): 152–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716217750562.
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This article draws on a unique dataset of more than eleven hundred postdeportation surveys to examine migrants’ experiences with coyotes (human smugglers) along the U.S.-Mexico border. Our focus is on migrants’ satisfaction with the services provided by their most recent smuggler and whether they would be willing to put family or friends in contact with that person. We find a distinct difference between people’s expectations for their own migratory experience compared to what they would be willing to subject loved ones to. Expectations of comfort and safety are decidedly low for oneself; but for loved ones, a more expressive, qualitative assessment shapes their willingness to recommend a coyote: qualities such as trustworthiness, honesty, comportment, and treatment come to the fore. News coverage focusing on the deaths of smuggled migrants often portrays coyotes as nefarious and exploitative, but the migrant-smuggler relationship is much more complex than suggested by these media accounts. We provide empirical insight into the factors associated with successful, satisfactory, and safe relationships between migrants and their guides.