Миграције са Блиског истока, Северне Африке и Азије, односно мигрантска криза доспела је у фокус медијског извештавања у Централној и Југоисточној Европи након пролећа 2015. године када је у овај регион пристигао највећи талас миграната. Тема миграције је и данас присутна у меди…
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The Chilean diaspora in the UK has changed significantly since the 1970s. This research explores the knowledge gap that exists around the UK-based Chilean diaspora and its ongoing relationship to ‘home’ over a period which spans fifty years. From its exile origins to incorporati…
Evidence from NGOs and the charitable sector suggests that people who are refused asylum in the UK lead highly marginalised lives, experiencing levels of deprivation that flout UK and international human rights legislation. However, the number of studies engaging with this large…
This dissertation evaluates the experience of Latina migrant mothers living in New Haven, Connecticut amid the COVID-19 pandemic. I ask: How do Latin American migrant women accommodate traumatic histories and motherhood amid a global public health and economic crisis? This ethno…
XVIII. yüzyılda İstanbul’a yapılan göçler hakkında temel görüş; bu yüzyılda iç göçün artık önlenemez bir hâl aldığı, yöneticilerin ise bunu durdurmaya ve hatta zaman zaman şehrin tahliyesine çalıştığı yönündedir. Buradan hareketle bu tez çalışmasında, göçlerin gerçekten artıp ar…
Migratory animals are ecologically and economically important and are especially vulnerable to predation. Predators affect migratory prey through both consumption and changes to prey behavior scaling up to affect populations to communities. The balance between consumptive and be…
In a global asylum system that is increasingly hostile to refugees, queer Middle Eastern refugee narratives undeniably do political work. In this thesis, I examine three overlapping discursive sites—testimony, popular news stories, and memoir—where queer Middle Eastern refugee n…
Through an ethnography of African migrants in the United States, this dissertation approaches economy, law and politics as performative contradictions of contemporary capitalism. Since currency replaced gold as the epicenter of international trade in the 1970s, finance has emerg…
The rise of economic populism and movements for greater racial, gender, and class equality over the last few years have foregrounded the massive problems of spatial and social inequality in the United States. Academic research focused on these disparities increasingly suggests t…
Temporary contract migrants as a class fall between systems of responsibility: home country, host country, and international community. The systems are separately inadequate and basically uncoordinated, leaving migrants in a precarious situation. The situation of temporary contr…
It is estimated that the number of Iranians in the United States has reached 1.5 to 2 million since mass departures following the 1979 revolution, making it the largest population of Iranians in one place outside of Iran itself, with the majority having settled in California. Th…
Jewish migration from Romania began in mid-1900, and, owing to its particular political and temporal context, from its outset until early 1903 this migration commanded significant attention and interventions from the governments of the United States and Canada and from the organ…
In the past decade, Iranian architects have mobilized professional institutions—such as magazines, awards, professional bodies, and workshops—to transform their profession and to extend their exposure beyond Iran's tightly controlled borders. To do so, they established connectio…
The former West Germany recruited Turkish Gastarbeiter (guestworkers) from 1961-1973 without intending for them to stay. Additional African, Eastern European, and Middle Eastern migrants and asylum-seekers further changed the social landscape of the nation-state. Due in part to …
This research evaluates the effect of belonging to a migrant household on the likelihood of attending kindergarten and senior secondary school, as well as the impact of migration on household education expenditures in Indonesia. Both linear probability models and ordinary least …
This dissertation is a study about belonging among the Fatanis who are caught between two places, namely Makkah and Jawi. Using historical and ethnographic data collected during two years of transnational fieldwork in Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Malaysia, this dissertation shows…
This research examines the international migration of Igbo women from Southeastern Nigeria to the United States of America (U.S.A) from 1995 to 2012 within the context of brain drain, brain gain or brain circulation. It has five specific objectives: (1) to determine the social, …
Low demand for index insurance in several recent pilot programs has created a puzzle for development economists and policy makers concerned with enhancing farmers risk management capacity in low-income economies. Chapter 1 contributes to the resolution of this puzzle by providin…
Pursuing the same line of research, the second chapter of my dissertation explores 'The Effect of Chinese Import Competition on Mexican Local Labor Markets'. Recent estimates of the effect of globalization on labor markets have found that trade is having an increasingly larger i…