MIGRANTS

This project explores the gaps and overlaps between tourists and migrant workers in Tulum,Mexico, through the objects of mobility and visuality. The figure of the also-mobileethnographer triangulates and precipitates these "encounters." First, mapping is presented as amethod tha…

La presente investigación doctoral busca identificar el rol de las iglesias católicas y pentecostales en la inserción social de la población migrante. Qué rol desempeñan tanto en las dimensiones sociales y espirituales para los inmigrantes que acuden a ellas. Esta investigación …

There is symbiosis between theatre and belonging. This thesis examines the ways in which a sense of belonging can be more effectively facilitated for adult refugees, asylum seekers, migrants and their families through drama practices rooted in a relational ethic of care. Finding…

The overall aim of this thesis is to provide an holistic assessment of the financial practices of migrants in advanced Western economies using the analytical lens of risk. More specifically, this research argues that a geographical approach to risk, informed by concerns about ti…

Current literature has indicated a concern about standards of maternity care experienced by pregnant asylum seeking women. As the next generation of midwives, it would appear essential that students are educated in a way that prepares them to effectively care for pregnant asylum…

While servant leadership has become a widely adopted leadership style by many greatleaders throughout history, there is limited empirical evidence to support the trueorganizational relationship between servant leader factors and cultural intelligence. Theresearch was conducted u…

In my dissertation, I focus on the concept of the migrant flâneuse in the works of immigrant women writers in Germany to add to an understanding of transnational relations and globalization. I argue that in spite of a wide variety of theoretical practice, the discourse of flaner…

Background: Many studies have shown that risky sexual behavior leads to increased rates of HIV infection among labor migrants. However, little is known about the role of social support in risky sexual behavior among labor migrants in Kazakhstan. This study explores the potential…

This dissertation is an ethnographic analysis of Russian-speaking migrants in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in the context of European Union incorporation of Eastern European states, internal E.U. integration, and increasing surveillance of the E.U. outer borders. I investigate how…

This dissertation examines the relationship between identity construction and cultural retention, transformation and transmission among women in the South Asian diaspora. It specifically looks at how the migration experience alters South Asian women's identification with their h…

The Philippine state, as a labor broker produces, distributes and regulates Filipino migrants, as citizen-workers, globally. As a labor brokering state the Philippine government produces and distributes workers for various types of capital and their attendant flexible labor regi…

Background. The effect of labor migration on HIV risk is well documented. Many studies show that domestic and international labor migration increases sexual risk behavior. However, little is known about the role of gender on HIV risk among labor migrants. This study examines and…

This dissertation is a study of ethics in motion for German-Turkish return migrants. I argue that migration and return prompt ethical reflection, ethical change, and ethical work. Drawing from 25 months of ethnographic fieldwork, I examine the ethical dilemmas migrants confront …

This dissertation focuses on three aspects of the economic life of migrants' relatives who remained in the source country. In the second chapter, we argue that migration increases the job dissatisfaction of migrants’ relatives who work in the source country. The family’s migrati…

This study investigated the factors that influenced the adaptation of migrants to the country of Brazil. The review of the literature, as well as a qualitative study conducted by the author in the country of Brazil, indicated that education, gender, age at migration, length of t…

Since the early twentieth century, Mexican migrants and immigrants have been an integral segment of the agricultural laborer force. As part of the traditional agrarian class model, Mexican farm laborers were physically, socially, and politically apart from rural communities. Mor…

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The study tests the hypothesis that migrants offer insurance against illness. The analysis uses panel data on about 732 households spanning 44 villages over 3 provinces in rural Pakistan over three years with a 20-year series of district level rainfall data. The probability of s…

In looking at rural-urban linkages, this thesis addresses the extent to which social research may be generalized within development policy. Studies of Yoruba migrants in south-western Nigeria demonstrate that the ties between migrants and their hometowns can have a positive impa…

It is well documented that migrants maintain economic ties with their communities of origin. This dissertation investigates migrants' housing investments in their communities of origin, a previously unexplored subject. Nearly half of a Nigerian emigrant sample (N = 112) has init…