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Matthews, Maureen Anne. "Repatriating agency : Animacy, personhood and agency in the repatriation of Ojibwe Artefacts." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522767.
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Gerver, Mollie. "Refugee repatriation and consent." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2016. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3374/.
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Over the past decade, NGOs and government agencies have helped millions of refugees repatriate to their countries of origin, providing them free flights, travel documentation, and modest stipends. This thesis considers when such repatriation assistance is morally permissible. Drawing on original data from East Africa, I distinguish between six sets of cases, which require six distinct policies. In the first set, refugees choose to return because they are unjustly detained by the government. In such cases, NGOs should avoid helping with return if their actions causally contribute to the government’s detention policy. In the second set of cases, refugees are not detained, but return to a country they know little about. In such cases, both NGOs and government agencies have duties to inform refugees of the risks of returning. If they fail to inform refugees of the risks, they are engaging in a form of wrongful immigration control. In the third set of cases, refugees regret returning and, based on this, NGOs and government agencies can predict that future refugees will likely also regret returning. I develop a novel theory of when future regret is a reason to deny a service, and apply this theory to the case of repatriation. In a fourth set of cases, refugees are paid a great deal of money to repatriate, and would not have returned had they not been paid to leave. I argue that paying refugees to repatriate is only permissible when conditions are safe in countries of origin. In a fifth set of cases, parents repatriate to high-risk countries with their children. I argue that parents, in general, do not have a right to live in a country unsafe for their children, and NGOs and government agencies should refuse to help with such returns. In a final set of cases, refugees of a minority ethnicity are provided generous assistance to leave, while refugees of the majority ethnicity are not. I argue that such discriminatory assistance is permissible only when third parties remain unharmed.
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Molina, Paola Andrea. "Gendered Repatriation: The Role of Gender and the Family on Further Migration Intentions following Repatriation." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/203436.
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Every day, thousands of unauthorized migrants are repatriated from the United States to Mexican cities along the U.S.-Mexico border. Suspended at the border, unauthorized migrants must make a quick decision: attempt another clandestine border crossing, return to their hometown in Mexico, or choose some other alternative such as stay in the city where they have been repatriated. In this research, I seek to better understand the decision-making process behind these intentions to further migrate following repatriation. I ask several interrelated questions: What are the factors that lead some repatriated migrants to state that they will attempt another crossing of the U.S.-Mexico border? Others to state that they will return to their hometowns in Mexico? And still others to state that they do not know what they will do? As gender is a constitutive aspect of migration and social reality more generally, I also pay special attention to how gender and family constraints help shape the decision-making process behind further migration intentions. For one year, I conducted 70 in-depth semi-structured qualitative interviews with repatriated migrants at a migrant shelter in Nogales, Sonora (Mexico), interviewing roughly equal shares of women and men (37 women, 33 men). When I was not interviewing, I also engaged in direct and participant observation at the shelter that I documented as field notes. I asked respondents to share their experiences with me from their clandestine crossing of the Arizona-Sonora border, to their apprehension experience with the Border Patrol or other U.S. authorities, and finally to their experiences following repatriation to Nogales, Sonora. Through this research, I found that both gender and the family played central roles in migration- and repatriation-related activities in different and complex ways. Gender intrinsically shaped respondents' experiences in their journey in the semi-arid Arizona-Sonora desert, their interactions with Border Patrol agents and other U.S. authorities, and the decision-making process following repatriation. Further, family constraints, such as dependent children in the U.S., critically affected further migration intentions in gendered ways. As part of my work, I provide several policy recommendations regarding the repatriation of unauthorized migrants to border cities such as Nogales, Sonora.
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Forner, Martin, and David Larsson. "Repatriation in an ever changing world : How expats perceive that repatriation processes can be improved." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-387394.
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In an increasingly more globalized world the international competition is fierce. Today, working across borders is a new normality. It calls for greater demand to send employees abroad on international assignments. Therefore, employers need to address implications that come along with this increasing demand. One of the main implications is the issue to retain employers after return from international assignments since many of them tend to resign. Research about this issue has been conducted. However, this research has primarily taken an employer standpoint and thereby employees have been overlooked. This thesis presents both (1) an employee point of view of the repatriation process as well as (2) a more updated and comprehensive take on the entire repatriation process as a three step process beginning already prior departure. The paper concludes that high turnover rate after return remains a major problem among expats. Lastly,a final model is suggested to facilitate the transition and decrease this high turnover rate. By applying this approach on the repatriation process, companies could hopefully benefit in terms of decreased turnover cost as well as more satisfied employees.
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Fitch, Michelle L. "Native American Empowerment Through Digital Repatriation." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2291.
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Following the Enlightenment, Western adherence to positivist theory influenced practices of Western research and documentation. Prior to the introduction of positivism into Western scholarship, innovations in printing technology, literary advancements, and the development of capitalism encouraged the passing of copyright statutes by nation-states in fifteenth century Europe. The evolution of copyright and positivism in Europe influenced United States copyright and its protection of the author, as well as the practice of archiving and its role in interpreting history. Because Native American cultures practiced orality, they suffered the loss of their traditional knowledge and cultural expressions not protected by copyright. By incorporating postmodern perspectives on archiving and poststructuralist views on the formation of knowledge, this thesis argues that Native American tribes now use Western forms of digital technology to create archives, record their histories, and reclaim control of their traditional cultural expressions.
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Krmpotich, Cara A. "Repatriation and the production of kinship and memory : anthropological perspectives on the repatriation of Haida ancestral remains." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:59a8ea73-7bf5-4dfe-af88-cb9d7727035e.
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An ethnographic approach is used to produce a nuanced investigation of the efforts of the Haida First Nation in British Columbia, Canada, to repatriate the human remains of their ancestors from collections around the world. The result is a contextualisation of Haida repatriation within values and structures of kinship—a position that stands in contrast to the frequent use of political or legalistic frameworks to understand repatriation issues. Incorporating Haida sensibilities toward kinship relations is necessary as analyses based in colonial or post-colonial encounters fail to account for the full range of motivating factors, which include the Haida value of yahgudangang (‘to pay respect’ and ‘to be fit for respect’) and the agency of ancestors after death. Furthermore, it is argued that kinship is the predominant structure through which Haidas experience identity, history and memory. Repatriation is therefore approached as a collective space in which kinship and memories are created, as well as a collective space in which remembering occurs. In order to understand how the individual elements comprising the repatriation process reflect and foster the construction of kinship, the expectations and obligations that exist within matrilineages and between moieties are traced, as is their material manifestation in objects, as well as tangible and ephemeral property. The sharing of embodied experiences between generations as a consequence of Haidas’ participation in the process of repatriation is shown to augment collective memory and family histories. The ways in which repatriation is incorporated within individual and collective narratives are explored as a further means of understanding the dynamic between the production of kinship, memory and identity. Avenues for expanding the current findings on repatriation, the connections between memory and kinship, and Northwest Coast scholarship more generally are presented.
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Farhana, Saraj, and Nedda Al-ammar. "Repatriation-returning home and adjusting : A qualitative study of the repatriation process in three Swedish multinational corporations." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-388363.
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In order to stay competitive in the market, multinational corporations (MNC) need to expand their businesses in the international market. Sending employees to work abroad is a great way of expanding. However, having employees working abroad, brings a lot of advantages for the corporation, but it can also be a disadvantage for the corporation if the final step of international assignments, which is the repatriation process, has not been handled correctly. This thesis investigates how the managers of IKEA, Electrolux and SEB handle the repatriation process and how the repatriates experienced the process, during their pre-return period and post-return period. Our findings show that the repatriates experienced that the repatriation process was poorly conducted by the corporations due to lack of engagement from their side. On the other hand, managers of the companies felt that they handled the repatriation process very well. Therefore, it is essential that corporations prepare the employees well, before they start the international assignments, as well as help them to readjusting back in the home country. Working with practical expectations may lead to a smooth adjustment, which in turn, leads to a well-functioning repatriation process.
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Johansson, Patrik. "Peace by repatriation : Concepts, cases, and conditions." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-37633.
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The focus of this study is the assumption that the return of refugees is a necessary condition for the establishment of sustainable peace after armed conflict. This assumption is often made in the peacebuilding literature as well as by policy makers, but it has rarely been the object of systematic analysis. The purpose of the study, therefore, is to test this assumption, which I label the “peace-by-repatriation thesis.” I adopt a two-step approach to analyzing the peace-by-repatriation thesis. The first step is to formulate an analytical framework. The second step is to use the framework to test the peace-by-repatriation thesis on a medium number of cases. The formulation of the analytical framework starts with an examination of previous research. I trace the theoretical foundations of the peace-by-repatriation thesis in research on peacebuilding, forced migration, and partition. The analytical framework is further informed by case studies of Bosnia-Herzegovina and Nagorno-Karabakh, two cases that represent opposing perceptions of repatriation as a condition for peace. I adopt a set-theoretic approach to test the peace-by-repatriation thesis. I describe in some detail how the key concepts of the analytical framework are operationalized. I select and code forty-three cases—terminated conflicts that caused large-scale displacement—and use fuzzy-set analysis to test the peace-by-repatriation thesis. The analysis shows that repatriation is not a necessary condition for sustainable peace. Instead, ending displacement—irrespective of how this is done—turns out to be an important condition for peace. This result is consistent across tests of different combinations of cases and tests using alternative operationalizations of key concepts. Taken together, the fuzzy-set analysis and the case studies suggest that the relationship between repatriation and peace will vary from case to case and that pre-war interethnic relations is one of the circumstances that affect that relationship.
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Ables, Michael Jason. "Conflicts and misconceptions of the repatriation process." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/5370.
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The National Museum of American Indians Act of 1989 (NMAI) and the Native American Grave Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) are two viable pieces of legislation that give tribal communities an opportunity to reclaim objects of ancestral heritage. However, the repatriation process uses academic and governmental mandates that support the colonialist perspective. The case study of the Logan Museum of Anthropology is one particular example of the conflicts and misconceptions about repatriation. This case study specifically focuses on the Potawatomi Nation and their interaction with present day NAGPRA legislation.
The case study of the Logan Museum of Anthropology raises questions about ownership and the types of evidence used to support a repatriation claim. The role of academia in the context of the NMAI Act and NAGPRA is focused through a variety of disciplinary fields such as anthropology, history, and art history.
With the current amendment to NAGPRA, “the CUHR ruling,” the process of repatriation is further convoluted. However, tribal nations are exploring methods of repatriation that entail collaborating with other tribal communities for a common goal. However, because these two pieces of legislation are unclear and lead to personal interpretation, the federal legislation must continue to amend and / or create new legislation to adjust the current mandates.Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Program of Liberal Studies
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Figueroa, Juan A. Jr. "Immigrant Views of Hospice and Posthumous Repatriation." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2014. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/29.
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The focus of this study is to explore and examine the views and feelings of United States documented and undocumented immigrants on their final resting place after death, posthumous repatriation, whether there is a need for repatriation, and if a lack of such need is preventing immigrant groups from remaining in the United States and benefiting from end-of-life services such as hospice. A quantitative research method was utilized. The use of a quantitative research method allowed for an expansive look into the use of posthumous repatriation and its effect on hospice use by immigrants. Data were obtained from multiple locations that serve and cater to specific ethnic groups within the region of the Inland Empire in Southern California. Sixty-three immigrants who identified themselves as persons born in a country outside the United States are the sample. This study produced evidence that family plays a major role in end-of-life decisions and argues the need of repatriation by immigrant groups as a potential reason for the underutilization of hospice services. The guarantee of return to their country of origin after death produced greater inclination to use hospice.
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Al, Shimai Abdulrahman Mohammad A. "Measurement, antecedents and outcomes of repatriation adjustment: Empirical evidence from Saudi repatriates." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/116288/1/Abdulrahman%20Mohammad%20A_Al%20Shimai_Thesis.pdf.
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In this thesis is an investigation of the process of relocating overseas assignees back home following the completion of their international assignments, which is known as repatriation adjustment. A valid and reliable measure of repatriation adjustment is developed to explore repatriation adjustment profiles and their antecedents and impact on assignee outcomes. Guidance is offered for human resource practitioners in designing more effective repatriation programs.
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Bennett, Nicole Mazzo. "The Repatriation Experiences of American Third Culture Kids." Chapman University Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/ces_dissertations/12.
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American families moving abroad are often informed of the initial difficulties they will encounter as residents in a new culture; however, they may not recognize the possible subsequent effects on their children, when returning home to their native cultures during the repatriation process. The children who experience the effect of living in a new culture and eventually repatriating are known as Third Culture Kids (TCK). As globalization and expatriate populations increase, it is important that society becomes aware of the Third Culture community. This qualitative research study focused on analyzing the repatriation transition process of four Adult Third Culture Kids (ATCK) and explored the relationship between their emotional intelligence and their third culture and repatriating experiences. This dissertation provides a profile for what type of citizen a TCK may become upon repatriation. Framed within a narrative inquiry approach this study utilized the Listening Guide method of analysis in order to capture the participants’ final narrative portraits. Storied themes emerged from the final narratives providing evidence for this research study’s five main conclusions: (a) home is not defined by one physical location, (b) assimilation and repatriation do not equate, (c) emotional intelligence may be a factor in repatriation success, (d) Third Culture experiences influence civic engagement, and (e) there is one incident that is perceived as signifying the completion of repatriation. These findings offer a new perspective of the repatriating experience and provide insight for families entering the expatriate culture and returning home.
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Breske, Ashleigh M. L. "Politics of Repatriation: Formalizing Indigenous Cultural Property Rights." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96766.
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This project will be an empirical study into repatriation as a political practice. This theoretically-oriented project investigates how institutions and cultural values mediate changes in the governance of repatriation policy, specifically its formalization and rescaling in the United States. I propose a critical approach to understanding repatriation; specifically, I will draw together issues surrounding museums, repatriation claims, and indigenous communities throughout the development of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) in 1990 and current repatriation policy. The interdisciplinary academic narrative I build will explore practices of repatriation and how it relates to the subject of indigenous cultural rights.
Using the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, PA and the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, IL as models for the repatriation process, I will show the historic political tensions and later attempts to repatriate culturally significant objects and human remains in the United States. By examining entrenched discourses prior to NAGPRA and what changed to allow a new dominant discourse in the debates over repatriation claims, I will show that culturally-structured views on repatriation and narratives surrounding indigenous cultural property were transformed.
By examining ownership paradigms and analyzing discourses and institutional power structures, it is possible to understand the ramifications of formalizing repatriation. The current binary of cultural property nationalism/cultural property internationalism in relation to cultural property ownership claims does not represent the full scope of the conflict for indigenous people. Inclusion of a cultural property indigenism component into the established ownership paradigm will more fully represent indigenous concerns for cultural property. Looking at the rules, norms and strategies of national and international laws and museum institutions, I will also argue that there are consequences to repatriation claims that go beyond possession of property and a formalized process (or a semi- formalized international approach) can aid in addressing indigenous rights.
I will also ask the question, does this change in discourse develop in other countries with similar settler colonial pasts and indigenous communities, i.e. in Canada, New Zealand, Australia? My work will demonstrate that it does. Essentially, the repatriation conversation does not immediately change in one country and then domino to others. Instead, it is a change that is happening concurrently, comparative to other civil rights movements and national dialogues. The cultural and institutional shifts demanding change appear to have some universal momentum. The literatures to which this research will contribute include: museum studies, institutional practices, material cultural and public humanities, and indigenous right.PHD
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Jack, Patricia Elizabeth. "The Case of the Elgin Marbles: Repatriation Solutions?" Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/323630.
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Ames, Todd Trowbridge. "Factors affecting the repatriation of the Afghan refugees." PDXScholar, 1992. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4274.
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Pickard, Juana. "Repatriation : factors related to individuals' expectations of international assignments." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1999. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/5766.
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This thesis is
concerned with understanding the expectations that corporate
employees form
about the work- and career-related outcomes of an
international assignment.
Such
expectations are
frequently
cited as
being "unreasonable"
and a major
source of problems
in the repatriation and reintegration of
international
returnees.
There is, however,
a
lack of research evidence to indicate when
these expectations form, how they change with time, or what
factors influence
their formation.
The research takes a
UK
perspective in
view of the comparatively low levels
of
research into British international assignees
in
general and their motivations
and expectations in
particular.
The
author
believes this to be the first
study devoted
exclusively to the
expectations of
international assignees.
The
main stage of this research comprised of a postal survey to collect
information about
international assignees, about their work-related and career-
related expectations, and about a number of
factors
which might prove to be
precursors or predictors of expectations.
Data
were captured
from
a
comparatively
homogeneous
population comprising
British employees of
profit-making companies.
The
main contribution of this thesis is
an
increase in
our understanding of the
work-related and career-related expectations that corporate employees
form
when assigned overseas.
In
particular, the thesis increases our
knowledge
of
when these expectations
form; how they vary with time; and what personal
characteristics, actions taken by the employing organisation, and
characteristics of the assignment
itself
affect those expectations
during the
course of an
international assignment.
A secondary contribution of this thesis is to identify
a number of classes or
categories of assignment that appear to be intrinsically associated with
different types and degrees
of expectation.
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Farinas, Patricia Maria. "Gateway and boundary : a repatriation center in Havana, Cuba." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23735.
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Begley, Annette J. "The self-initiated repatriation experience of the Irish odysseus." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.421740.
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Long, Catherine. "The politics of refugee repatriation in the twentieth century." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.611783.
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Howe-Walsh, Liza. "The road to repatriation : implications for HR policy and practice." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2010. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-road-to-repatriation(d9da6443-bc8f-4331-933d-168ee200571b).html.
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This thesis addresses an existing gap in the academic and practitioner knowledge of the repatriation process of international assignees. The study highlights the disparity between intended HR policy and implemented HR practices within the banking sector across Europe, USA and Asia. Repatriates are defined as an employee who has returned home after spending more than six months abroad (Linehan & Scullion, 2002: 650). The major contribution of this research is developing existing theory; previous research has focused upon readjustment and knowledge transfer of repatriates (Black et al, 1991; Bossard & Peterson, 2005; Brewster & Suutari, 2003; Sanchez Vidal et al, 2007). This study contributes to academic knowledge through an enhanced understanding and identification of how the repatriation process works and is perceived by the various stakeholders including repatriates, Human Resource Business Partners, International Human Resources and line managers. The methods utilised generated data via in-depth semi-structured interviews in order to gain insights into how the repatriates perceived the process as well as interviews with HRBPs, IHR function and line managers. The data was then analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). The findings highlight that the objectives for an assignment are not evaluated. Thus currently there is no provision to define success from the organisation‟s point of view. Additionally, the research indicates that there are numerous lost opportunities to gather information about the newly acquired skills and knowledge of the repatriate. The poor repatriation process and implementation of policy clearly impact upon the perception from each of the stakeholders‟ view of whether an assignment has been successful. Consequently the research strives to present a more inclusive look at the effect of the company‟s HR policy and practices and how this impacts upon the repatriation process. The results of the study highlight the opportunity for HR to add transformational practices to facilitate an improved repatriation experience for not only the repatriates but also in identifying the additional stakeholders‟ experience. The contribution to existing knowledge provides additional opportunities for further research to investigate variables beyond the traditional organisation and repatriate perspective highlighting further areas for future research into multiple stakeholders.
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Hennessy, Kate. "Repatriation, digital technology, and culture in a northern Athapaskan community." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/27055.
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Many Canadian First Nations and Aboriginal organizations are using digital media to revitalize their languages and assert control over the representation of their cultures. At the same time, museums and academic institutions are digitizing their ethnographic collections to make them accessible to originating communities. As the use of digital media becomes standard practice both in the production of ethnographic objects and the “virtual repatriation” of cultural heritage, new questions are being raised regarding copyright, intellectual property, ownership, and control of documentation in digital form. In this dissertation, based on collaborative ethnographic multimedia production work with the Doig River First Nation (Dane-ẕaa) in northeastern British Columbia, I follow the transformation of intangible cultural expression into digital cultural heritage, and its return in the form of a digital archive to Dane-ẕaa communities. I explore how new access to digitized ethnographic documentation has facilitated local media production, and argue that these productions are acts of remediation of digital cultural heritage that resignify the products of ethnographic research in Dane-ẕaa communities. Through the lens of the collaborative production of the Virtual Museum of Canada exhibit Dane Wajich–Dane-ẕaa Stories and Songs: Dreamers and the Land, I show how local control over efforts to safeguard intangible heritage resulted in the implementation of a documentary methodology that modeled the appropriate transmission of culture in Dane-ẕaa social practice. The participatory production process of the virtual exhibit also facilitated expressions of Dane-ẕaa intellectual property rights to cultural heritage. Using the example of the digitization of photographs of early twentieth-century Dane-ẕaa nááchę (dreamers’) drums, and the community’s subsequent decision to remove them from the virtual museum exhibit, I explore how new articulations of Dane-ẕaa rights to control the circulation and representation of their digital cultural heritage are guided by knowledge of Dane-ẕaa nááchę, traditional protocols for the handling and care of material culture, and by contemporary political concerns and subjectivities.
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Zalkalns, Lilita. "Back to the Motherland : Repatriation and Latvian Émigrés 1955-1958." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för baltiska språk, finska och tyska, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-107674.
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This thesis is about a remarkable experience lived through by Latvian émigrés in the mid-1950s. They were the targets of a Soviet repatriation campaign, operated by the KGB, which not only envisioned their repatriation to the Soviet Latvian homeland, but also anticipated the destruction of their émigré society as they knew it. The purpose of this thesis is to portray and analyze this repatriation campaign and the émigré Latvian reactions to it. By looking at the activities of the Committee For Return to the Motherland in East Berlin, the contents of the Latvian language repatriation newspaper Par atgriešanos Dzimtenē (For Return to the Motherland), and the reactions to the campaign in contemporary émigré press, this study shows how highly developed strategies and tactics were implemented in order to elicit certain behaviors from émigrés, and how émigrés advanced their own counter-strategies to offset the effects of the campaign. More specifically, this study examines the standardized narratives in Par atgriešanos Dzimtenē that were meant for émigré self-identification and emulation. This thesis proposes that the repatriation campaign was a highly complex Soviet propaganda effort. The publicly announced goal of repatriation included several parallel goals, aims, and purposes and encompassed many types of activities. Above all, deception was used to cover the actions undertaken against émigrés and to mislead host country governments and agencies. This thesis concludes that notwithstanding the Soviet superiority in organization and resources, a small, unprotected, and internally divided community could withstand the concerted efforts of Soviet propaganda if the group’s sense of mission was sufficiently strong and firm.Denna avhandling behandlar de lettiska flyktingarna från andra världskriget och deras erfarenheter av ofrivilliga kontakter med Sovjetlettland vid mitten av 1950-talet, då flyktingarna blev måltavla för en sovjetisk repatrieringskampanj. Målet för denna kampanj var repatriering, dvs att få flyktingarna att återvända till hemlandet, det av Sovjet ockuperade Lettland. Ett annat mål var att splittra flyktingarnas sammanhållning. Avhandlingen beskriver och analyserar den sovjetiska repatrieringskampanjen och de lettiska flyktingarnas reaktioner. Studien bygger på källmaterial från kampanjverkamheten Committee For Return to the Motherland, som hade sin bas i Östberlin, samt från artiklar i den lettiskspråkiga tidskriften Par atgriešanos Dzimtenē (For Return to the Motherland) som riktade sig till de lettiska flyktingarna. Flyktingarnas reaktioner studeras genom en rad lettiska tidningar som utgavs i Väst. Min avhandling visar hur väl utvecklade strategier användes i syfte att framkalla önskade reaktioner från flyktingarna, samt vilka motåtgärder flyktingar själva utvecklade mot repatrieringskampanjen. Mer specifikt analyseras standardberättelser i Par atgriešanos Dzimtenē som var avsedda för flyktingarnas självidentifiering och igenkännande. Avhandlingen pekar på att den sovjetiska repatrieringskampanjen var en mycket komplex propagandaverksamhet. Utöver det offentligt tillkännagivna kampanjmålet fanns flera parallella målsättningar och avsikter som omfattade en stor mängd skiftande aktiviteter. En strategi som användes aktivt var vilseledning, bl a för att dölja verksamheter riktade mot flyktingarna, och för att förvilla statsledningar och myndigheter i de nationer där flyktingarna vistades. Avhandlingens slutsats är att trots den sovjetiska överlägsenheten i organisation och resurser kunde en liten oförsvarad och inom sig splittrad lettisk gemenskap motstå de samordnade ansträngningar från den sovjetiska propagandan.
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Aldossari, Maryam. "Repatriation and the psychological contract : a Saudi Arabian comparative study." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2014. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/8904.
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Studies related to psychological contracts have made significant contributions to our understanding of the exchange relationship between employees and employers. However, the influence of national/organisational culture on the psychological contract has largely been neglected. The thesis examines the influence of national and organisational culture on the way in which psychological contracts are constituted, and how they may change following international assignments and repatriation. The research examines differences in the nature, and consequences of, psychological contract fulfilment or breach across two Saudi organisations in the petroleum and petrochemicals sectors. A qualitative case study approach was adopted. The data were gathered using multiple methods, including interviews, non-participant observations and analyses of organisational documents. The findings reported in the thesis draw upon 60 semi-structured interviews with employees who had been repatriated within the previous 12 months, and 14 interviews with Human Resource (HR) managers in the two organisations, triangulated with extensive documentary analysis and observations. The research findings demonstrate the influence of strong national cultural values shaping organisational culture and HR practices in both organisations, which, in turn, influence the content of the psychological contract (i.e. expectations and obligations) at an individual level, both pre- and post-international assignment. Differences were identified between the two organisations in terms of the influence of different national cultural values on organisational culture and practices; these differences influenced individuals’ perceptions of whether their psychological contract had been fulfilled or breached post-international assignment. The implications of this research are also considered.
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Koser, Khalid Ali. "Information and repatriation : the case of Mozambican refugees in Malawi." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1994. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10038285/.
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Repatriation is the end of the refugee cycle. In the context of a growing global refugee crisis, it is often the most favourable durable solution. However, the concept of repatriation is not properly understood. Although there are an increasing number of empirical studies on repatriation, there is a dearth of theoretical reflection. The overall aim of this thesis is to design a model to explain when the refugee cycle comes to an end for different refugees, and thereby to provide a device through which similarities between repatriation movements in a global context can be critically examined. The intellectual thrust of the thesis is that potential repatriates arrive at a decision whether to repatriate or not by comparing conditions in exile with conditions at home. It follows that the receipt and evaluation of information about conditions at home is central to the decision-making process. A refugee cycle is conceived, in which the country of origin and the country of exile are linked by flows of information. Characteristics of these flows of information are articulated in a 'model of a repatriation information system', which was tested amongst Mozambican refugees in Malawi. In this system, information is conveyed between a transmitter in the country of origin and the refugee in exile by an agent. The flows of information have quantitative and qualitative characteristics, and are subjectively evaluated by the individual in arriving at an assessment of conditions at home. This thesis contributes towards the body of literature concerning African refugees generally and more specifically concerning Mozambican refugees, as well as contributing to the incorporation of refugee studies in the discipline of geography. It also has applications beyond these by providing a more generally applicable model of repatriation. The nature of certain findings also pitch the thesis into key debates in the evolving global migration system, including the extent to which there is a distinction between refugees and other sorts of migrants.
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Amberger, Harald, Kevin S. Markle, and David M. P. Samuel. "Repatriation Taxes, Internal Agency Conflicts, and Subsidiary-level Investment Efficiency." WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Universität Wien, 2019. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6198/1/SSRN%2Did3138823.pdf.
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Using a global sample of multinational corporations (MNCs) and their foreign subsidiaries, we find that repatriation taxes impair subsidiary-level investment efficiency. Consistent with internal agency conflicts between the central management of the MNC and the manager of the foreign subsidiary being the driver, we find that this effect is prevalent in subsidiaries with high information asymmetry, in subsidiaries that are weakly monitored, and subsidiaries of cash-rich MNCs. Natural experiments in the UK and Japan establish a causal relationship for our findings and suggest that a repeal of repatriation taxes increases subsidiary-level investment efficiency while reducing the level of investment. Our paper provides timely empirical evidence to inform expectations for the effects of a recent change to the U.S. international tax law which eliminated repatriation taxes from most of the future foreign earnings of U.S. MNCs.Series: WU International Taxation Research Paper Series
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Kelsey, Kathleen. "Repatriation and Recovery: The French Literary Response to the Holocaust." Miami University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2003. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=muhonors1111082213.
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Dismukes, Donna E. "The forced repatriation of Soviet citizens : a study in military obedience /." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1996. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA327149.
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Thesis (M.A. in National Security Affairs) Naval Postgraduate School, December 1996.Thesis advisor(s): Roman A. Laba. "December 1996." Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-138). Also available online.
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Andersson, Jennie, and Shabnam Heidaripour. "Effective Repatriation : A case study of Volvo Construction Equipment in Eskilstuna." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, EMM (Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Management), 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-625.
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Background: Going abroad for a number of years to live and work in a different country and culture is a major change for most people. To make this easier and minimize the risks of facing adjustment difficulties for these people going abroad, companies’ Human resource departments, in particular, have great responsibilities. It is also mainly their responsibility to ensure a smooth re-adjustment for employees returning to home country after a completed international assignment. Today many companies not only underestimate the problems related to an unsuccessful repatriation process, but also do not acknowledge the difficulties that the expatriates face upon return. Moreover, there is evidence showing that only a minority of companies invest substantial resources in the task of creating an Effective Repatriation process, even though researchers have confirmed repatriation to be more challenging than expatriation.
Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to find out how companies can improve and facilitate the repatriation of their employees. This will be done by examining factors affecting how an expatriate perceives the repatriation process and by identifying the most critical actions in achieving an effective repatriation process.
Method: In order to fulfill the purpose of this thesis a qualitative method was chosen. A case study was conducted over Volvo Construction Equipment in Eskilstuna, based upon personal interviews with expatriates as well as representatives of the Volvo International Assignment Management (VIAM) and Human Resource department of Volvo Construction Equipment in Eskilstuna. Further, the case study included a preliminary study based on a question and answer format, answered by 20 expatriates at Volvo CE in Eskilstuna. With support from information gathered through the preliminary study, later 10 personal interviews were carried out with expatriates at Volvo CE.
Conclusion: The findings of this thesis propose 10 main factors, which influence how an expatriate perceives the repatriation process. These are; (1) the Purpose for why an expatriate is sent abroad, (2) the Picture of the repatriation process and responsibility areas communicated by the home company, (3) the perceived Communication and support, (4) the utilization of Mentorship, (5) Reverse culture shock issues, (6) Career issues, (7) Organizational issues, (8) Practical issues, (9) Family issues and finally,(10) the existence of an Evaluation. Further, the result of this thesis suggest that there are four critical actions in achieving an effective repatriation process; preplanning, communicating and providing support, proactive repositioning process and finally, applying an evaluation.
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Hill, T. J. W. "Historicity, repatriation and the intellectual in Palestinian national discourse after Oslo." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604057.
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This dissertation sets out to analyze the role of historical understanding in the Palestinian national discourse on repatriation – the unifying national goal since the nakba (catastrophe) of depatriation in 1948. Broadly, it explores the persistent presence of history in Palestinian discourse, surmounting constant pressures to marginalize it. It argues that Palestinian understandings of history are particularly usefully traced through representations of the role and social function of the intellectual, as figure and notion. It examines how figures of the intellectual have been defined in relation to distinctive Palestinian notions of the political, the national and, primarily, the historical – and how representations of repatriation have underscored these relations. The analysis aims to understand the challenge posed to these notions by the Oslo accords of 1993. It argues that the accords recast the framework for relations between the political, the national, the intellectual and the historical in Palestinian discourse in ways understood by many of those discussed as unparalleled since the early years of the PLO that had previously provided the clearest framework for these relations. Oslo prompted a complex reconfiguration of notions of historicity in Palestinian discourse – and, therefore, of which narrative modes and national actors seemed best able to provide it. The distinctive ways in which Palestinian intellectuals have portrayed the value of their understanding of history have, I suggest, been particularly important in defining Palestinian national identity more broadly. This study thus seeks to complement existing approaches to the study of Palestinian national identity and nationalism. It uses Palestinian context as an especially pertinent case study for the recent wave of literature on the relations between collective memory, nationalism and national identity, and imaginative literature. The analysis draws largely on Palestinian public discourse, historiography and literature in the various languages in which this has been conducted, as well as original interviews with Palestinian intellectuals.
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Shunmugan, Natalia Ann. "The politics of repatriation and reburial in post-apartheid South Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496651.
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Voutira, Eftihia. "Pontic Greeks of the Former Soviet Union diaspora and affinal repatriation." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612750.
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Wright, Joanne Louise. "Return to Country: genomics and the repatriation of ancient Aboriginal Australians." Thesis, Griffith University, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/380071.
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Since European settlement of Australia in 1788, Aboriginal Australian remains have been deposited in museums worldwide. For the past fifty years Aboriginal Australians have campaigned for their ‘return to Country’. However, for many remains there are no details of their geographic origins, tribal affiliations or language groups, and as a result they cannot be repatriated. This research, undertaken in collaboration with Aboriginal Australian Traditional Owners and communities across Australia, tests whether it is possible to determine the origins of ancient individuals using DNA-based methods. Thirty mitogenomes and 10 nuclear genomes from ancient pre-European Aboriginal Australians of known provenance (up to 1,600 yr BP) were recovered and used as proxies for unprovenanced remains. These ancient genomic sequences were compared against assembled reference datasets of contemporary Aboriginal Australian mitochondrial (n=112) and nuclear genomes (n=100). A number of analytical methods were used to test this potential tool for repatriation including mitochondrial phylogenetics, and nuclear PCA, f3- and f4 outgroup statistics, and chromosome painting symmetry statistics. These analyses showed substantial population structure across Australia. While a distinct east versus west population divide had been observed previously in contemporary Aboriginal Australians, the mitochondrial and nuclear analyses reported here show that this population structure occurs even at a regional level. Mitochondrial phylogenetic analyses revealed the majority of mitochondrial haplotypes observed were region-specific, with novel haplotypes being identified in both contemporary and ancient Aboriginal Australians. However, there were also haplotypes which were widespread being observed in a number of Australian states, in addition to rare haplotypes for which there were no contemporary matches. For these ancient remains it was not possible to determine their origin using mitochondrial DNA alone. The origin of 58.1% of ancient Aboriginal Australians included in this research could be successfully determined using mitochondrial DNA. However, this success was weakened by results obtained for two ancient individuals, with their respective contemporary matches living on the opposite side of Cape York Peninsula in northern Australia. This is problematic as the return of ancestral remains to an incorrect Country is a major concern of many Aboriginal Australian communities. Therefore, given these erroneous results, only detected because their provenance had previously been established, the reliability of using mitochondrial DNA for repatriation is significantly undermined and must be questioned. The most accurate results obtained was using nuclear DNA, working in 100% of cases and to precise geographic locations. These results were supported by a number of different analytical methods, each of which independently showed both population structure and local continuity between both the ancient and contemporary populations in each geographic location. However, when combined, these analyses provide strong evidence that nuclear DNA, as a tool for repatriation, is very effective and if applied to unprovenanced ancestral remains will greatly assist with their repatriation. It is important to note that there are obstacles that need to be overcome before this proposed repatriation method can be put into practice. The first is the cost of completing this type of work. Ancient DNA research is expensive, especially if nuclear DNA is the target of interest, and many museums worldwide will find funding for this sort of research well outside their reach. More significantly though, this DNA –based repatriation tool poses a catch 22 in that the work cannot be undertaken without permission from the appropriate Aboriginal Australian communities, and until the provenance of remains is determined these communities cannot be identified. A proposed way forward would be national level discussions between the Australian Government, Aboriginal Australians, and museums. These discussions would allow all parties to decide how best to move forward and how the tools presented in this research should be utilised. But ultimately, this is a decision only Aboriginal Australians can make. This research provides the means to move forward in the repatriation debate, a debate that has caused many Aboriginal Australians considerable sadness and frustration for decades. If agreement can be reached regarding how it should be implemented, it has the potential to assist in bringing closure to a painful chapter of history for many Aboriginal Australians. While it cannot, and will not correct the mistakes of the past, it may provide healing through the eventual return to Country of many lost ancestors.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
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Evans, Pamela Mae. "Access to Repatriation: The Value of Refugee's Previous Education and Livelihoods." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/579012.
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and even the host countries, foster policies and conditions in refugee camps that restrict refugee use of previous education or livelihoods with which they could provide for their needs in exile. Would policies, which provide access to and use of previous education and livelihoods enhance refugee camp services? Would such policies improve options for and reduce time to repatriation? Typically the majority of refugees currently spend five or more years in exile, without an option to repatriate to their previous home country and location within it. If policies improved access to use of their education and livelihoods, would this alter refugee services' expectations that refugees will adapt and acculturate to host countries, rather than eventually return to their countries of origin? This thesis will argue that by anticipating repatriation, UNHCR and host countries policies would improve refugee services by fostering programs that assist refugees in using previous education and livelihoods, and thereby, reduce time between initial exile and repatriation. The same improved programs would also aid refugees in taking care of themselves outside of camps during exile in host countries. Another benefit, I argue, is that the ability to use previous education and livelihood would allow refugees to make better decisions about where to settle in their home country when repatriating. The assumption to this is a limit of the thesis to refugees who are adults when the exile began.
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Chan, Yee-shan. "Japanese from China the zanryu-hojin and their lives in two countries /." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B37828642.
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Sundqvist, Johanna. "Forced repatriation of unaccompanied asylum-seeking refugee children : towards an interagency model." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Epidemiologi och global hälsa, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-140166.
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Introduction Not all children seeking asylum without parents or other relatives are entitled to residence permits. In the last few years, more than one in four unaccompanied asylum-seeking refugee children have been forced to repatriate, either to their home country or to a transit country. Mostly the children refuse to leave the country voluntarily, and it becomes a forced repatriation. Five actors collaborate in the Swedish child forced repatriation process: social workers, staff at care homes, police officers, Swedish Migration Board officers and legal guardians. When a child is forced to repatriate, the Swedish workers involved must consider two different demands. The first demand requires dignified repatriation, which is incorporated from the European Union’s (EU’s) Return Directive into Swedish Aliens Act. The second demand requires that the repatriation process be conducted efficiently, which means that a higher number of repatriation cases must be processed. The fact that the same professionals have different and seemingly contradictory requirements places high demands on the involved collaborators. Two professionals have a legal responsibility for the children until the last minute before they leave Sweden: social workers and police officers. That makes them key actors in forced repatriation, as they carry most of the responsibility in the process. Further, they often work with children who are afraid what will happen when they return to their home country and often express their fear through powerful emotions. Being responsible and obliged to carry out the government’s decision, despite forcing children to leave a safe country, may evoke negative emotional and mental stress for the professionals involved in forced repatriation. Aim The overall aim of this study is to explore and analyse forced repatriation workers’ collaboration and perceived mental health, with special focus on social workers and police officers in the Swedish context. Materials and methods The study combines a qualitative and quantitative research design in order to shed light at both a deep and general level on forced repatriation. In qualitative substudy I, a qualitative case study methodology was used in one municipality in a middle-sized city in Sweden. The municipality had a contract regarding the reception of unaccompanied asylum-seeking refugee children iv with the Swedish Migration Board. The municipality in focus has a population of more than 100,000 inhabitants. The city in which the data were collected has developed a refugee reception system where unaccompanied asylumseeking refugee children are resettled and await a final decision regarding their permit applications. This situation made it possible to recruit participants who had worked with unaccompanied refugee children without a permit. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with a total of 20 social workers, staff at care homes, police officers, Swedish Migration Board officers and legal guardians. A thematic approach was used to analyse the data. In quantitative substudies II, III and IV, a national survey of social workers (n = 380) and police officers (n = 714), with and without experience of forced repatriation, was conducted. The questionnaires included sociodemographic characteristics, the Swedish Demand-Control Questionnaire, Interview Schedule for Social Interaction, Ways of Coping Questionnaire and the 12- item General Mental Health Questionnaire. Factor analysis, correlational analysis, and univariate and multivariable regression models were used to analyse the data. Results The qualitative results in substudy I showed low levels of collaboration among the actors (social workers, staff at care homes, police officers, Swedish Migration Board officers and legal guardians) and the use of different strategies to manage their work tasks. Some of them used a teamwork pattern, showing an understanding of the different roles in forced repatriation, and were willing to compromise for the sake of collaboration. Others tended to isolate themselves from interaction and acted on the basis of personal preference, and some tended to behave sensitively, withdraw and become passive observers rather than active partners in the forced repatriation. The quantitative results in substudy II showed that poorer mental health was associated with working with unaccompanied asylum-seeking refugee children among social workers but not among police officers. Psychological job demand was a significant predictor for mental health among social workers, while psychological job demand, decision latitude and marital status were predictors among police officers. Substudy III showed that both social workers and police officers reported relatively high access to social support. Furthermore, police officers working in forced repatriation with low levels of satisfaction with social interaction and close emotional support increased the odds of psychological disturbances. In substudy IV, social workers used more escape avoidance, distancing and positive-reappraisal coping, whereas police officers used more planful problem solving and self-controlling coping. Additionally, social workers with experience in forced repatriation used more planful problem solving than those without experience. Conclusions In order to create the most dignified forced repatriation, based on human dignity, for unaccompanied asylum-seeking refugee children and with healthy actors, a forced repatriation system needs: overall statutory national guidance, interagency collaboration, actors working within a teamworking pattern, forced repatriation workers with reasonable job demands and decision latitude, with a high level of social support and adaptive coping strategies. The point of departure for an interagency model is that it is impossible to change the circumstances of the asylum process, but it is possible to make the system more functional and better adapted to both the children’s needs and those of the professionals who are set to handle the children. A centre for unaccompanied asylum-seeking refugee children, consisting of all actors involved in the children’s asylum process sitting under the same roof, at the governmental level (Swedish Migration Board, the police authority) and municipality level (social services, board of legal guardians), can meet all requirements.
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Jessiman, Stacey Rae. "Understanding and resolving cultural heritage repatriation disputes between indigenous peoples and museums." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/51635.
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Disputes between Indigenous peoples and Western museums over repatriation of cultural heritage involve numerous complex issues -- legal, ethical, historical, cultural, spiritual, political and economic, among others – that necessitate a particularly thoughtful approach to resolving such disputes. Resolution of such disputes by negotiation or other alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) processes should not involve simply finding quick, theoretically “win-win” solutions such as replicas or loans. Because these disputes often involve complex issues such as traumatic colonial injustices and profound differences in cultural values and dispute resolution paradigms, the dispute resolution process must involve a period of exploration and acknowledgement of such issues and differences by the parties, which I term “Relationship Building”, as a necessary precursor to any stage of problem-solving. By analysing the negotiations between various Western museums and the Kwakwaka’wakw and Haisla First Nations of British Columbia, Canada over the repatriation of cultural objects removed from their traditional territories by colonial forces in the early 20th century, this thesis seeks to demonstrate how engaging in a stage of Relationship Building early in the negotiation process is key to ensuring the parties understand their dispute holistically and experience a constructive, not destructive, process and outcome.Law, Faculty of
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Budreau, Lisa M. "Repatriation, remembrance and return : the politics of commemoration in post-war America." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432109.
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Jarrār, Nājiḥ. "Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank : attitudes towards repatriation and integration." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387961.
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López, Zarzosa Helia. "Chilean voluntary repatriation, 1978-2002 : how voluntary, how gendered and how classed?" Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2011. https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/8e646a2d-0142-46a0-8684-886d794b870a/2/.
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This evidence-based study is about Chilean voluntary repatriation as a political process rooted in the political history of Chile and in the wider context of the end of the Cold War. It considers the two main socio-political scenarios of the Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) and transitional democracy (1990-) but also brings the interim years of 1988-1990 to the fore. It focuses on the voluntary, class and gender dimensions of voluntary repatriation, arguing that decisions to return are not the product of individual choices or factors as argued in most of the literature, but influenced by a complex interplay of structures operating at the macro and micro levels. Chilean hegemonic institutions such as political parties, the Catholic Church and the family as well as patriotism along with class and gender shaped these decisions. Return discourses such as El Derecho a vivir en 10 patria, later replaced by Chile Somos Todos, were rooted in such matrix. In explaining voluntary repatriation, this study introduces a new concept to the field: the notion of returnism as a political narrative of nationhood and return-control mechanism that succesfully interwove both micro and macro levels in the exilio-retorno compression. A key finding is that the very hegemonic structures that were in place before and during exile were not only reproduced and strengthened during the dictatorship but were also used against it and termed here the like with like argument. Through the socio-political developments that took place both in Chile and exile, this study analyses the experiences of returnees. For this purpose, secondary concepts are introduced. The analysis explains why some returnees 'succeeded' and others 'failed' to find a place in Chilean society and shows paradoxically that voluntary repatriation was more sustainable under dictatorship. Overall, class and gender positioning are determinant in the 'end of the refugee cycle'.
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Nicks, Lydia Eileen. "Expatriate Retention: A Challenging Goal for Global Corporations." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1978.
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Towers Watson Media stated that multinational organizations will grow by 45% in 2014 increasing expatriate assignments; however, global organizations lose billions of dollars yearly financing expatriate assignments due to unsuccessful retention efforts during the repatriation process. Fifty percent of expatriates consider leaving the organization within the first year of returning to their home country. The aim of this single descriptive case study was to explore the retention strategies organizational leaders need to retain expatriates employees during repatriation. Two managers from the compensation benefits department of a multinational organization in Tennessee participated in the study. Career self-management theory framed the study. Data collection consisted of semistructured interviews and a focus group interview, and member checking supported the validity and creditability of the findings. The 3 themes that emerged as key to strategies for expatriate employee retention were having career development opportunities, having a point leader, and implementing a program policy. The findings of this study may affect social change by encouraging expatriates to remain employed with the organization where they are valued, continue to develop career paths, and encourage other employees to accept foreign assignments for development. The data from this study may contribute to the prosperity of expatriates, their families, communities, and the local economy.
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Lemoine, April J. Williams Stephen L. "Repatriation of cultural property in museums a balance of values and national agendas /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5073.
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Connor, Stephen Bernard. "British policy and the repatriation of Japanese forces from southeast Asia, 1945-47." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602728.
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Following the surrender of Japan in August 1945 Britain accepted responsibility for the repatriation of over 750,000 Japanese military personnel and tens of thousands of Japanese civilians in Southeast Asia. This process did not proceed smoothly, nor was Britain's policy towards the Japanese without controversy. Short of manpower and resources in the colonies of Burma and Malaya, and in its French and Dutch Allies' contested territories of Indonesia and Vietnam, Britain found it expedient to side-step established international standards relating to prisoners of war (PW). The Geneva Convention was effectively suspended and repatriation deliberately delayed, even though this obligation had been formally undertaken at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945. Instead of being classified as PW the vast majority were declared 'Japanese Surrendered Personnel' (JSP), a status outside the PW Convention. Subsequently Britain used Japanese forces in military operations against Asian nationalists and detained over 100,000 Japanese for labour without pay. These extreme measures-and frequent pleas for cheap American repatriation shipping-underlined Britain's lack of military capability and starkly limited strategic and economic options in immediate post-war Asia. The resultant administrative failings, supervisory lapses, questionable opportunism and deliberate deceits over the JSP issue reveal how Britain's Government struggled to reconcile broader policy issues, Great Power status and diplomatic priorities. As a consequence of its unilateral policy, Britain found itself facing criticism from the United States, the International Committee for the Red Cross, General MacAlihur's General Headquarters in Japan (GHQ SCAP), the Japanese Government and even the Vatican, none of which were sympathetic or swayed by Britain's pleading of special circumstances. Despite increasing administrative complications, diplomatic embarrassment and potentially spiralling costs it was only with great reluctance and for the sake of closer Anglo-American relations that Britain finally fulfilled its obligations towards the captive Japanese in late 1947.
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Tattersall, Alexis Marc. "The cultural transition cycle and repatriation of Taiwanese academic sojourners in the UK." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495793.
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Killion, Cindy L. "Eurocentric influences on news coverage of Native American repatriation issues : a discourse analysis /." view abstract or download file of text, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3136429.
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Chetty, Maushami. "The repatriation process: does South Africa live up to its human rights obligations?" Diss., University of Pretoria, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/1074.
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"The Aliens Control Act (ACA) was racially biased towards immigrants who were easy to assimilate into the white population. It thus did not accord with the principles of the new regime based on equality and reflected an exclusionist apartheid ideology. Not only was the act itself repugnant, but the practice of the enforcement bodies in arrest, detention and deportation procedures was maligned as well. There were allegations of violence, arbitrary arrest, harassment, exploitation, unfit detention facilities and lack of procedural fairness. This precipitated the drafting of the Green and White Papers on International Migration, the much contested Immigration Bill and the Immigration Act (IA) itself. The well researched Green Paper's recommendations about the shift in focus from control to management of migration were not taken cognisance of. The government, in consultation with US immigration specialists, focused on control to prevent an influx from the rest of Africa into South Africa's newly 'opened' borders. The only concession granted was the amnesties for long-time residents (usually mineworkers and refugees) from SADC countries, but this was not well responeded to. The South African government seemed to be intent on keeping the exclusionist mindset, with a shift from race to nationality. The IA has to be examined to see whether the contents of the legislation which inform the repatriation process meet constitutional and international law muster. This should be done with the background and criticisms of the ACA in mind. The actual practice of the enforcement agencies that effect the arrest, detention and deportation must be measured against South Africa's accepted human rights norms. A consideration of the past harsh and unconstitutional immigration control mechanisms must take place as well to track South Africa's progress towards a human rights based repatriation program." -- Introduction.Thesis (LLM (Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa)) -- University of Pretoria, 2004.
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Thorel, Philippe. "Transition psychosociale de repatriation : la dynamique identitaire et capacitaire au retour d’expatriation professionnelle." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100134.
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Le retour d’expatriation professionnelle (repatriation) est une transition psychosociale qui fait l’objet de peu de recherches dans le champ de la psychologie de la carrière. Les données disponibles indiquent que le rapport à l’emploi occupé au retour reste problématique pour nombre de repatriés. L’épreuve du retour semble témoigner d’un « choc identitaire » plus complexe que le seul « choc culturel » décrit couramment dans la littérature : comment expliquer que la majorité des repatriés évoquent des difficultés d’adaptation professionnelle plus grandes au retour d’expatriation qu’à l’aller, alors que pour la plupart d’entre eux, ils retrouvent à la fois leur pays, leur culture, leur langue maternelle, leur famille, leurs amis voire leurs collègues? La recherche de Thèse vise à mieux appréhender des processus et dimensions psychologiques associés à la transition psychosociale du retour d’expatriation professionnelle et en particulier à éclairer la dynamique identitaire et capacitaire en jeu chez les repatriés lors de leur réintégration au travail dans le pays d’origine. Trois études, utilisant des méthodes d’analyse quantitatives et qualitatives, ont été conduites auprès de cadres repatriés après des expériences d’expatriation professionnelle réussie. Ces études soulignent l’importance d’envisager la transition psychosociale de repatriation en prenant en compte des construits psychologiques clés référant à l’ensemble du parcours d’expatriation-repatriation comme les motivations à s’expatrier, le sentiment d’adaptation en expatriation ainsi que les conditions perçues, le sentiment d’efficacité professionnelle, les retentissements identitaires et la tonalité affective au retour. Cette perspective a notamment montré que les motivations professionnelles pour l’expatriation étaient en lien avec un développement capacitaire souhaité par le sujet, qu’il cherche à valoriser à son retour. En conséquence, les tensions identitaires ressenties sont d’autant plus criantes que l’individu perçoit un décalage important avec l’environnement du retour, alors que son projet d’expatriation visait au contraire un meilleur ajustement. Les résultats de la recherche dégagent aussi quelques pistes d’application en conseil de carrière pour accompagner les personnes en mobilité internationale, tout au long de leur parcours d’expatriation-repatriationProfessional repatriation is a psychosocial transition that has been little studied in the field of career psychology. The data available indicate that after being repatriated, the relationship to the job remains problematic for many people. Upon their return, the stress seems more like a ‘shock of identity’ than a simple ‘cultural shock’ usually described by the literature. How to explain that most repatriates mention greater difficulties for professional adaptation when they return to their country, their culture, their native language, their family, and friends or colleagues that they did when leaving? The present research thesis seeks to enhance our understanding of the psychological processes and the psychosocial dimensions of the professional repatriation transition, focusing in particular on identity and capability dynamics at play among repatriates when they return home. Three studies using quantitative and qualitative methods were conducted with repatriated executives after successful professional expatriation experiences. These studies highlight the importance of the psychosocial transitions of repatriation by taking into account key psychological constructs involved in the entire expatriation-repatriation process, such as the motivations for expatriation, the sentiment of adaptation during expatriation, as well as the perceived conditions, professional self-efficacy, and the repercussions on identity and emotional tone after the return. The approach adopted here found that the professional motivations for expatriation were often based on a desire to learn a new skill or capacity, which the subject tried to showcase upon his/her return. Thus, the identity tensions experienced were greater the more the individual perceived a significant difference with his/her return environment, while they had expected the contrary that expatriation would provide a better fit. The research results provide some suggestions for career counselling to support people in international mobility throughout their experience of expatriation-repatriation
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Clouse, Abigail Elizabeth. "The Social History of a National Collection: Anthropology, Repatriation and the Politics of Identity." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/195523.
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In this dissertation I analyze the social history of an anthropological collection at the Smithsonian Institution. Combining archival and historical research with interviews, I trace the Army Medical Museum (AMM) collection from its origin in the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The Smithsonian's AMM collection is the product of mid- to late-nineteenth century government science. Assembled in the midst of westward expansion and colonization, this collection is the result of numerous government-sanctioned collecting efforts. Accordingly, the objects and human remains that comprise this collection were taken from scores of Native American tribes from all parts of the United States. Amassed during some of the darkest moments in the history of the United States - marked by warfare, death and the displacement of countless Native Americans - the AMM collection represents the Smithsonian's earliest collecting efforts. The social history of this collection spans from the earliest days of the SI to the present, marked by concerns regarding cultural property rights. And what the present moment demonstrates is the continued relevance of this colonial past, especially in the context of repatriation. I analyze critical contemporary issues of repatriation in terms of the historical legacy of collecting in the U.S. and demonstrate the role that collections play in negotiating identities. For that purpose, I begin with the supposition that objects shape as well as materialize identity, and that disciplines define themselves by virtue of what they collect. I examine recent shifts in what is deemed ethically appropriate for collection and how this affects the various ways museum anthropologists define the discipline. Ultimately, this dissertation advances a critical historical analysis of the AMM collection, providing a more dynamic understanding of the role that repatriation plays in redefining the roles of anthropologists within museums.
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Chowdhory, Nasreen. "Belonging in exile and "home" : the politics of repatriation in South Asia." Thesis, McGill University, 2007. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=103193.
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My dissertation discusses refugee rights and post-repatriation integration in South Asia in the context of debates over "citizenship." Postcolonial state-formation processes in South Asia have profoundly shaped questions of belonging and membership. As a result, official citizenship has become an important marker of group inclusion and exclusion in South Asian states. Using the literature on citizenship, I discuss the "belonging" claims of non-citizens (refugees) and argue that in practice this "belonging" extends beyond the state-centric "citizenship" view of membership. In doing so, I address two sets of interrelated questions: what factors determine whether or not refugees will be repatriated in South Asia, and why do some repatriated groups re-integrate more successfully than others in "post-peace" South Asian states? I answer these questions through a study of refugees from Sri Lanka and Bangladesh who sought asylum in India and were later repatriated to their countries of origin. The politics of postcolonial state-formation and subsequent discriminatory policies on language in Sri Lanka and non-recognition of the Jumma people in Bangladesh encouraged many citizens to flee to India as refugees. I argue, first, that India's state-centric politics of non-recognition of the two refugee groups contributed to their later repatriation. In the absence of rights and status in exile, refugees turned to "home" as a place to belong. I then analyze the post-repatriation variations in accommodation in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh as most refugees attempted to reclaim the lost identity and "citizenship" at "home" through the process of repatriation. However these countries pursued strategies of limited accommodation, which led to the minimal or partial re-integration of the two returnee-refugee groups.
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Hood, Alistair Alban. "From repatriation to revival : continuity and change in the English Benedictine Congregation, 1795-1850." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.433769.
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Fforde, Cressida. "Controlling the dead : an analysis of the collecting and repatriation of aboriginal human remains." Thesis, University of Southampton, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244998.
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