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Public History oltre lo Stato: presentare il passato Yiddish nell’Europa contemporanea

Authors Gerben ZAAGSMA
Year 2011
Journal Name Memoria e Ricerca, 2011, 37, 2, 129-142
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46003 Journal Article

Roadway crash risks in recent immigrants

Authors Donald A. Redelmeier, David Katz, Hong Lu, ...
Year 2011
Journal Name ACCIDENT ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION
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46004 Journal Article

Consequences of the 2008 financial crisis for intergroup relations: The role of perceived threat and causal attributions

Authors Julia C. Becker, Oliver Christ, Ulrich Wagner
Year 2011
Journal Name GROUP PROCESSES & INTERGROUP RELATIONS
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46005 Journal Article

High Street Adaptations: Ethnicity, Independent Retail Practices, and Localism in London's Urban Margins

Authors Suzanne M Hall
Year 2011
Journal Name Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Citations (WoS) 21
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46006 Journal Article

THE IMPACTS OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION ON REMAINING HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS: OMNIBUS RESULTS FROM A MIGRATION LOTTERY PROGRAM

Authors J Gibson, DJ McKenzie, S Stillman
Year 2011
Journal Name Review of Economics and Statistics
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46007 Journal Article

THE IMPACTS OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION ON REMAINING HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS: OMNIBUS RESULTS FROM A MIGRATION LOTTERY PROGRAM

Authors J Gibson, DJ McKenzie, S Stillman
Year 2011
Journal Name The Review of Economics and Statistics
Citations (WoS) 50
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46008 Journal Article

La question de la migration en Algérie : Evolution vers une diplomatie de l'émigration et une politique de contrôle de l'immigration

Authors Hocine LABDELAOUI
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Cette contribution analyse, d’une part, le discours gouvernemental algérien sur l’émigration, d’autre part, les dispositions légales encadrant l’immigration. Tout d’abord, la création en mai 2010 du secrétariat d’Etat chargé de la Communauté nationale à l’étranger, auprès du ministère des Affaires étrangères, marque une évolution de la politique algérienne visant à concilier l’action diplomatique dans les pays d’accueil et la gestion interministérielle des actions en direction de la communauté algérienne à l’étranger. Par ailleurs, de sévères restrictions sont prévues par la loi de 2008 sur l’entrée, le séjour et la circulation des étrangers, qui sont caractéristiques d’une approche sécuritaire de la politique migratoire. Abstract The paper analyses the Algerian official discourse dealing with out-migration, on the one hand, and the legal framework regulating in-migration, on the other hand. First, the creation in May 2010 of the State Secretary in charge of the National Community Abroad, within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, represents an evolution of the Algerian policy aiming at conciliating diplomatic action in hosting countries, and joint ministerial management of the actions towards the Algerian community abroad. Moreover, the 2008 law provides severe restrictions regarding the entry, the stay and the circulation of foreigners, which are typical of a security-oriented migration policy.
Year 2011
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Immigration and Crime: The European Experience

Authors Martin KILLIAS
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Crime and migration has been a subject of debate over many decades. The present review of the literature attempts to synthesize the available evidence from statistics, crime victimization surveys, self-report surveys and other sources regarding offending and victimization rates among migrants and native populations, discriminatory decision-making by victims, police and criminal justice officials, attitudes to the police and explanations. The paper concludes that crime among migrants is a problem that policy-makers should not ignore. A number of policy changes are proposed.
Year 2011
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Defining Obesity Cut-Off Points for Migrant South Asians

Authors Laura J. Gray, David R. Webb, Kamlesh Khunti, ...
Year 2011
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 46
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46012 Journal Article

Imagining Integration: Why Fictional, Inter-Ethnic Marriages Matter

Authors Brent O. Peterson
Year 2011
Journal Name GERMAN STUDIES REVIEW
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46013 Journal Article

Immigrant Children and Child Welfare in the United States: Demographics, Legislation, Research, Policy, and Practice Impacting Public Services

Authors Sonia C. Velazquez, Alan J. Dettlaff
Year 2011
Journal Name Child Indicators Research
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46014 Journal Article

National attachments, economic competition, and social exclusion of non-ethnic migrants in Israel: a mixed-methods approach

Authors R Raijman, Oshrat Hochman
Year 2011
Journal Name Quality & Quantity
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46015 Journal Article

Classical Diasporas of the Third Kind: The Hidden History of Christian Dispersion

Authors R. F. Gorman, RF Gorman
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
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46016 Journal Article

Political activism and ethnic revival of a cultural symbol

Authors Rachel Sharaby
Year 2011
Journal Name Ethnicities
Citations (WoS) 4
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46017 Journal Article

A Visa for Schengen's Europe: Consular practices and regular migration from Senegal to Italy

Authors Francesca ZAMPAGNI
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In this paper I am going to explore the process of visa issuance of a European Union Member State's consulate in a country of high emigration, taking the Italian Embassy in Dakar as a case-study. The paper falls into two main sections. In the first part, I will present the context of my analysis, in order to get to grips with the significance of consulates within the wider framework of migration management in countries of origin. Thus, I will focus on the European Union visa policy, which represents one of the key EU instruments for regulation of migration flows from third countries, then on the role of Senegal in EU migration management as well as on the relevance assumed by Italy in Senegalese migratory routes. The second part deals with an analysis of visa' issuing procedures in the Italian consulate in Dakar, taking into account the whole process, from accessing information to issuance/refusal, in order to estimate costs of migrating with documents (‘regularly’) towards the EU. Furthermore, I will focus on family reunification visas to show how practices of control persist even in the case of a recognized right. My argument is that the map of Schengen visas represents a metaphor of the new division in our world, where EU Member States’ consulates filter out ‘undesirable people’ at their gates with the presumption of ‘migration risk’ demanding stricter and stricter requisites for visas. It is difficult not to question the consequences of such practices on the development of the streams of ‘irregular’ migration and on the responsibilities that consulates come to assume. Dans cet article, j’explore le processus de délivrance des visas du consulat d’un État membre de l'Union européenne dans un pays à forte émigration, en prenant l'ambassade d'Italie à Dakar comme une étude de cas. Le document se divise en deux sections principales. Dans la première partie, je présente le contexte de mon analyse afin de se familiariser avec l'importance des consulats dans le cadre plus large de la gestion migratoire dans les pays d'origine. Ainsi, je me concentre sur la politique de l'Union européenne en matière de visas, un des instruments clés de l'UE dans le cadre de la régulation des flux migratoires en provenance des pays tiers. Ensuite, j’étudie le rôle du Sénégal dans la gestion de la migration de l'UE ainsi que sur la pertinence assumée par l'Italie dans sénégalais routes migratoires. La deuxième partie traite de l'analyse de visa »les procédures de délivrance dans le consulat italien à Dakar, en tenant compte de l'ensemble du processus, d'accéder à l'information à l'émission / refus, afin d'estimer les coûts de migration avec des documents (« régulièrement ») vers la UE. Par ailleurs, je vais me concentrer sur les visas de regroupement familial pour montrer comment les pratiques de contrôle de persister même dans le cas d'un droit reconnu. Mon argument est que la carte de visas Schengen représente une métaphore de la nouvelle division dans notre monde, où les Etats membres de l'UE des personnes indésirables »consulats filtrer 'à leurs portes avec la présomption de« risque migratoire exigeants »requis en plus strictes pour les visas . Il est difficile de ne pas remettre en question les conséquences de telles pratiques sur le développement du flux des «irréguliers» des migrations et sur les responsabilités qui viennent consulats à assumer
Year 2011
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Migration from and to Palestine from a gender perspective: results from the Migration Survey – 2010

Authors Mohammed DURAIDI
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Migration has gained in importance in recent years due to significantly increased migration rates, in addition to the effect of migration on various population structures such as age, gender and marital status in both sending and receiving countries. This paper aims to look at the recent patterns of migration from and to the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) in terms of size, characteristics, remittances, migration determinants, return migration, etc. To this objective, data have been taken from the Migration Survey 2010, which represents a unique source for studying migration issues in the oPt being the first specialized national survey on migration conducted there. With this survey, the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics aimed to broaden its knowledge of migration patterns in the light of the severe shortage in migration statistics both at the national and at the international level. This paper includes four main sections. After a brief introduction describing the overall structure of the Migration Survey 2010, section 1 analyzes recent migration flows from and to the oPt; in the second part, emigration patterns from the oPt as well as migrants’ characteristics are described; section 3 focuses, instead, on perceptions and attitudes towards migration among Palestinians; finally, section 4 deals with return migration trends. Résumé Le phénomène migratoire a récemment pris une importance inédite au regard de l’augmentation des flux migratoires, ainsi que de l’impact des migrations sur la structure de la population en termes d’âge, de sexe et d’état matrimonial dans les pays à la fois d'origine et d’accueil. Cet article se propose d’analyser les tendances migratoires récemment enregistrées à partir de et vers les territoires Palestiniens occupés (tPo) en termes d’échelle, de caractéristiques des migrants, d’envois de fonds, de déterminants de la migration, de migration de retour, etc. Les données réunies et traitées ont été recueillies dans le cadre de l'Enquête Migration 2010, laquelle représente une ressource inédite en vue de conduire des études sur les questions de migration dans les tPo - étant la première enquête nationale spécialisée sur les migrations. Sur la base de cette enquête, le Bureau Central Palestinien des Statistiques (BCPS) se donne comme objectif d’élargir sa connaissance des migrations au regard toujours de la rareté des statistiques se rapportant aux migrations aux niveaux national et international. Ce document comprend quatre sections. Après une brève introduction décrivant la structure globale de l'Enquête sur les migrations - 2010, la première section se propose d’analyser les récents flux migratoires en provenance de et vers les tPo ; dans la deuxième partie sont décrites les tendances migratoires ainsi que les caractéristiques des émigrants ; la troisième section se concentre autour des perceptions et attitudes envers la migration enregistrées parmi les Palestiniens ; enfin, la dernière partie porte sur l’analyse des tendances à la migration de retour.
Year 2011
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Women on the Move: Refugees, Migration and Exile. Edited by Fiona Reid and Katherine Holden.

Authors Maryanne Loughry, M. Loughry
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
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46020 Journal Article

Class, ethnicity, gender and Latino entrepreneurship

Authors Zulema Valdez
Year 2011
Journal Name Latino Studies
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46021 Journal Article

Regulating immigrant media and instituting ethnic boundaries – The FCC and Spanish-language television: 1960–1990

Authors G Cristina Mora
Year 2011
Journal Name Latino Studies
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46022 Journal Article

Ethnicity and Population Structure in Personal Naming Networks

Authors Pablo Mateos, David O'Sullivan, Paul A. Longley
Year 2011
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 39
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46023 Journal Article

The matrimonial web of migrants: The economics of profiling as a new form of ethnic business

Authors Dana Diminescu, Matthieu Renault
Year 2011
Journal Name SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION SUR LES SCIENCES SOCIALES
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46024 Journal Article

Emotional cues and concerns in hospital encounters with non-Western immigrants as compared with Norwegians: An exploratory study

Authors Emine Kale, Pal Gulbrandsen, Arnstein Finset, ...
Year 2011
Journal Name PATIENT EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
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46025 Journal Article

The Impact of Immigration Policies on Transnational Filipino Immigrant Women: A Comparison of Their Social and Spatial Incorporation in Rome and Toronto

Authors Flavia Cristaldi, Joe Darden
Year 2011
Journal Name JOURNAL OF URBAN HISTORY
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46026 Journal Article

Diverse Pathways to Immigrant Political Incorporation: Comparative Canadian and US Perspectives

Authors SJ Mahler, Myer Siemiatycki
Year 2011
Journal Name American Behavioral Scientist, 2014, Vol. 58, No. 12, pp. 1614-1633
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46027 Journal Article

"Two Peas in a Pod," "Apples and Oranges," and Other Food Metaphors: Comparing Canada and the United States

Authors Bloemraad
Year 2011
Journal Name American Behavioral Scientist, 2014, Vol. 58, No. 12, pp. 1614-1633
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46028 Journal Article

WOMEN ON THE MOVE: LONG-TERM CARE, MIGRANT WOMEN, AND GLOBAL JUSTICE

Authors Lisa Eckenwiler
Year 2011
Journal Name INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FEMINIST APPROACHES TO BIOETHICS
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46029 Journal Article

"We'd Be Free": Narratives of Life Without Homophobia, Racism, or Sexism

Authors Ilan H. Meyer, Rahwa Haile, Suzanne C. Ouellette, ...
Year 2011
Journal Name SEXUALITY RESEARCH AND SOCIAL POLICY
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46030 Journal Article

Governing Immigrant City: Immigrant Political Representation in Toronto

Authors Myer Siemiatycki
Year 2011
Journal Name American Behavioral Scientist, 2014, Vol. 58, No. 12, pp. 1614-1633
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46031 Journal Article

Immigrant Incorporation in an Era of Weak Civic Institutions: Immigrant Civic and Political Participation in the United States

Authors L DeSipio
Year 2011
Journal Name American Behavioral Scientist, 2014, Vol. 58, No. 12, pp. 1614-1633
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46032 Journal Article

"To whom honor is due": Mediated crime-scenes and minority stigmatization in a border-crossing context

Authors Kira Kosnick
Year 2011
Journal Name New Perspectives on Turkey
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46033 Journal Article

Agenda Setting and Immigrant Politics: The Case of Latin Americans in Toronto

Authors Patricia Landolt, Judith K. Bernhard, Luin Goldring
Year 2011
Journal Name American Behavioral Scientist, 2014, Vol. 58, No. 12, pp. 1614-1633
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46034 Journal Article

Centre Sampling Technique in Foreign Migration Surveys: A Methodological Note

Authors Gianluca Baio, Marta Blangiardo, Gian Carlo Blangiardo
Year 2011
Journal Name JOURNAL OF OFFICIAL STATISTICS
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46035 Journal Article

An essay on social representations and ethnic minorities

Authors Serge Moscovici
Year 2011
Journal Name SOCIAL SCIENCE INFORMATION SUR LES SCIENCES SOCIALES
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46036 Journal Article

Ethnic Enclaves and the Earnings of Immigrants

Authors Yu Xie, Margaret Gough
Year 2011
Journal Name Demography
Citations (WoS) 61
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46037 Journal Article

Border skirmishes and the question of belonging: An authoethnographic account of everyday exclusion in multicultural society

Authors Kathy Davis, Lorraine Nencel
Year 2011
Journal Name Ethnicities
Citations (WoS) 5
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46038 Journal Article

Phylogeographic Analyses Reveal a Crucial Role of Xinjiang in HIV-1 CRF07_BC and HCV 3a Transmissions in Asia

Authors Jun Liu, Chiyu Zhang
Year 2011
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 27
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46039 Journal Article

'Arisen from Deep Slumber': Transnational Politics and Competing Nationalisms among Syrian Immigrants in Argentina, 1900-1922

Authors Steven Hyland
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of Latin American Studies
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46040 Journal Article

Somali Young Women and Hierarchies of Belonging

Authors Aisha Phoenix
Year 2011
Journal Name YOUNG
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46041 Journal Article

Economic Migration and Happiness: Comparing Immigrants' and Natives' Happiness Gains From Income

Authors D Bartram
Year 2011
Journal Name Social Indicators Research
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46042 Journal Article

Healthier before they migrate, less healthy when they return? The health of returned migrants in Mexico

Authors S. Heidi Ullmann, Noreen Goldman, DS MASSEY
Year 2011
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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46043 Journal Article

Extending the Case for a Beneficial Brain Drain

Authors Simone Bertoli, Herbert Bruecker
Year 2011
Journal Name JAHRBUCHER FUR NATIONALOKONOMIE UND STATISTIK
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46044 Journal Article

Expression of Patients' and Providers' Identities During the Medical Interview

Authors Juliann C. Scholl, PC Hughes, Jacquee B. Wilson
Year 2011
Journal Name QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
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46045 Journal Article

Stressors Related to Immigration and Migration Background in Turkish Patients with Psychiatric Disorder: Validity of a Short Questionnaire (MIGSTR10)

Authors Matthias Johannes Müller, Matthias Johannes Mueller, Eckhardt Koch
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
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46046 Journal Article

Understanding 'Sanctuary': Faith and Traditions of Asylum

Authors P. Marfleet, Philip Marfleet
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of Refugee Studies
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46047 Journal Article

A Stochastic Simulator of a Blood Product Donation Environment with Demand Spikes and Supply Shocks

Authors Ming-Wen An, Kenrad E. Nelson, TA Louis, ...
Year 2011
Journal Name PLOS ONE
Citations (WoS) 3
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46048 Journal Article

Migration and paraethnography in Honduras

Authors DANIEL REICHMAN
Year 2011
Journal Name American Ethnologist
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46050 Journal Article

More than a Photo: Germans from Russia Remember Their Familial Relationships

Authors Jessica Clark
Year 2011
Journal Name JOURNAL OF FAMILY HISTORY
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46051 Journal Article

Mexico and the United States: Heading towards a new diplomacy?

Authors Marisela Castillo Apitz
Year 2011
Journal Name ARGOS
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46052 Journal Article

Tsunami survivors' perspectives on vulnerability and vulnerability reduction: evidence from Koh Phi Phi Don and Khao Lak, Thailand

Authors Marylynn Steckley, Brent Doberstein
Year 2011
Journal Name Disasters
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46053 Journal Article

"It is not Easy ..., nor here Either". Migratory Paths of Cuban Women in Spain

Authors Cristina Garcia-Moreno, Joan Josep Pujadas Munoz
Year 2011
Journal Name REVISTA DE DIALECTOLOGIA Y TRADICIONES POPULARES
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46054 Journal Article

Risk and reproductive decisions: British Pakistani couples' responses to genetic counselling

Authors Alison Shaw
Year 2011
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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46055 Journal Article

Far Away in Another Land: One Immigrant's Story of Incest, Trauma, and Healing

Authors Bharati Sethi
Year 2011
Journal Name QUALITATIVE INQUIRY
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46056 Journal Article

Improving Qualitative Interviews With Newly Arrived Migrant Women

Authors Lisa Merry, Anita Gagnon, Christina Clausen, ...
Year 2011
Journal Name QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
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46057 Journal Article

From emigrant Spain to immigrant Spain

Authors Felipe Arocena
Year 2011
Journal Name Race & Class
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46058 Journal Article

International Migration and Europe’s Demographic Challenge

Authors Philippe FARGUES
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Demography challenges Europe in three ways: 1) Europe’s size: while the population of Europe will decrease or stabilise, depending upon migration scenarios, most other regions will continue to increase so that the relative weight of Europe in world population terms will dwindle, thereby endangering Europe’s weight in world affairs and the institutions of global governance; 2) Europe’s wealth: the European workforce is about to enter a period of fast decline that might hamper Europe’s ambitious economic goals; 3) Europe’s social contract: the unprecedented rise of an elderly population combined with shrinking numbers of working-age natives alters the generational contract and will put Europe’s welfare systems at risk. In order to curb negative population trends, Europe can have recourse to various strategies, each of them having though only a partial potential impact on the above challenges: 1) Geographic enlargement: including new countries in the European Union (EU) brings at once additional populations to the Union; 2) Pro-natalist policies: if successful, they would foster a higher birth rate which translates 20 years later into a corresponding increase in the working-age population; 3) Immigration policies: calling in immigrants would affect both the size and the structure of the population; 4) Retirement policies: changing the age limit between economic activity and retirement is a way to address problems brought about by demographic numbers without changing the numbers themselves; 5) Other policies, notably those on education and labour, can also contribute to addressing, albeit indirectly, some of the problems generated by a decreasing workforce.
Year 2011
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The Evolution of Public Attitudes toward Immigration in Europe and the United States, 2000-2010

Authors Joel S. FETZER
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This paper documents and analyzes trends in immigration-related public opinion over the past decade in the major North Atlantic countries of the EU-15 and US. Opening with a summary of the international social-scientific literature on the roots of immigration attitudes, the essay next documents changes in the average European’s and American’s views on migration since 2000 using such polls as the Eurobarometer, European Social Survey, World Values Survey, International Social Science Programme, and American National Election Study. A third major section employs over-time statistical models to examine the (minimal) impact of the current economic crisis on such attitudes. Finally, the paper describes the scholarly literature on the relationship between public opinion and immigration policy in Europe and the United States and speculates on how likely the current global recession is to alter immigration laws and their enforcement.
Year 2011
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Social Cohesion and Diaspora Politics

Authors Jonathan LAURENCE
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Faced with difficulties with the operation of their newly established Islam Councils, European governments are increasingly open to the involvement of erstwhile sending states in the social and religious lives of immigrant diasporas in Europe. This is especially visible in the provision of externally-funded religion services (imams and mosques) in the absence of viable domestic alternatives. This paper considers the British debate on social cohesion and offers some context and offers background on recent diaspora outreach from Morocco and Turkey. The sending states are natural partners of Europeans during the current phase of institution-building, and European governments have tried to channel these foreign influences to encourage the institutional integration of their Muslim minorities without ceding sovereignty over European citizens.
Year 2011
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Immigration and European Innovation Systems, Challenges for Economic Growth and Prosperity

Authors Koen JONKERS
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Immigration plays an important role in helping developed economies to maintain and improve their standards of living while their societies are aging. Developed economies are increasingly dependent upon highly skilled immigrants to provide scarce skills and boost innovation. They also rely on a broad range of low and middle skilled immigrants to perform work for which few native workers are available. These demands remain even in times of economic downturns, in particular the need to attract and retain the most talented immigrants. The aim of this paper is to outline how the EU and its member states approach the immigration-growth question. It examines the short and long term trends in how the immigration system supports economic growth and prosperity. The paper is organised into five parts and each provides a partial contribution to the question of how immigration contributes to the economic growth of the European Union. The first part outlines the theoretical framework for this study, which combines the national innovation systems approach with studies of the migration system, in order to get a better understanding of the relationship between immigration and economic development. The second aims to provide a general background to the question of how different migrant workers contribute to economic development. It explores, in particular, the differences between the contribution of immigrants at different skill levels1 and the way in which policy makers have responded to this in general. The third part focuses in on developments in the European Union and its member states. It studies the nature of the economic contribution expected of different types of migrant workers and which impacts are short term as opposed to long term. It also discusses the types of immigration which the EU member states have experienced in recent decades and how these trends have changed. The paper devotes special attention to (super) highly skilled immigrants because of their expected contribution to economic development and the performance of European innovation systems. It also highlights the difference between immigration from third countries and intra European migration as there are important differences in the nature of these flows and the extent to which national governments can influence them. The fourth part consists of the evaluation of policies and institutions, focusing on the features of the migration system which affect economic growth and competitiveness. More specifically, it discusses the extent to which the European innovation and migration systems succeed in selecting, attracting, absorbing, and retaining talented immigrants who contribute to economic development. The final part assesses the impact of the economic crisis on migration flows, policy responses and the role of immigrants in the economy in both the short and medium term. It argues that changed economic conditions and the policy measures taken in response have an impact on immigration flows in the short term. The economic restructuring which accompanies the downturn may lead to a jobless recovery and a changed demand for different types of migrants. In the medium and long term the need for, in particular, highly skilled migrant workers remain.
Year 2011
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Trafficking in Persons in Jordan

Authors Mohamed Y. OLWAN
Description
The study is designed to offer the reader an outline of Jordan’s legal responses to human trafficking. It is divided into five sections: legal framework of human trafficking; child labor and human trafficking; migrant domestic workers and human trafficking; migrant laborers in the qualified industrial zones (Qizs); and finally Jordanian case law. The conclusion then follows these five sections. Cette étude vise à présenter au lecteur les réponses juridiques apportées par la Jordanie à la traite des personnes. Elle est en cinq sections : le cadre juridique de la traite des personnes, le travail des enfants et la traite, les migrants travailleurs domestiques et la traite, les travailleurs migrants dans les zones qualifiées industrielles et enfin la jurisprudence jordanienne. Une conclusion suivra ces cinq sections.
Year 2011
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Le droit tunisien de l'immigration

Authors Monia BEN JEMIA
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Les conditions d’entrée, de séjour et de travail des étrangers sont, dans la réglementation tunisienne actuelle, particulièrement restrictives et procèdent d’une politique législative de fermeture à l’immigration. Le passé colonial explique sans aucun doute cette politique législative, matérialisée par une réglementation (1968) prise au lendemain de l’indépendance (1956). Les contraintes du développement, un taux de chômage élevé expliquent le maintien de cette politique législative qui n’a été assouplie que dans deux domaines clés pour l’économie tunisienne, l’investissement étranger et le tourisme. L’amélioration de la condition des étrangers devrait d’autant plus figurer parmi les priorités de la transition démocratique qu’elle souffre dans la réglementation actuelle de sa non-conformité au droit international des droits de l’homme et plus particulièrement à la Convention internationale sur les droits de tous les travailleurs migrants et des membres de leur famille de 1990, non ratifiée par la Tunisie. Abstract The current rules governing foreign nationals’ entry, stay and work in Tunisia are extremely restrictive and are part of a closed legislative policy towards immigration. The colonial past surely explains this legislative policy, translated into regulation (1968) adopted after independence (1956). The constraints of development and a high level of unemployment explain the continuing use of this legislative policy, which has been softened only in two key sectors of the Tunisian economy : namely foreign investment and tourism. The improvement of foreign nationals’ status should be a priority in the democratic transition, all the more so since the current status does not conform to international human-rights law or, more specifically to the 1990 international convention on the rights of all migrant workers and members of their family, which has not been ratified by Tunisia.
Year 2011
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The art of becoming ‘Swedish’: Immigrant youth, school careers and life plans

Authors Thomas Johansson, T Johansson, Rita Olofsson
Year 2011
Journal Name Ethnicities
Citations (WoS) 7
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46066 Journal Article

Environmental Refugees: A Misleading Notion for a Genuine Problem

Authors Stijn Neuteleers
Year 2011
Journal Name ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES
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46067 Journal Article

Public opinion on bilingual education in Colorado and Massachusetts

Authors Jennifer Fitzgerald
Year 2011
Journal Name SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL
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46068 Journal Article

Camel Play in The Context of Cultural Memory

Authors Nezir Temur
Year 2011
Journal Name MILLI FOLKLOR
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46069 Journal Article

North-South Migration in Ghana: What Role for the Environment?

Authors Kees van der Geest, Kees van der Geest
Year 2011
Journal Name International Migration
Citations (WoS) 54
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46070 Journal Article

The Transnational Political Practices of Chilean Migrants in Switzerland

Authors Claudio Bolzman
Year 2011
Journal Name International Migration
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46071 Journal Article

Keskek in the Culinary Culture of Kursunlu: Its Past, Present, and Future

Authors Elif Sari
Year 2011
Journal Name MILLI FOLKLOR
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46072 Journal Article

The dialect of the Mitrovica Roma

Authors Daniele Viktor Leggio
Year 2011
Journal Name Romani Studies
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46073 Journal Article

Medical returns: Seeking health care in Mexico

Authors Sarah Horton, Stephanie Cole
Year 2011
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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46074 Journal Article

Back Home, Safe and Sound: The Public and Private Production of Insecurity

Authors Scott Watson
Year 2011
Journal Name International Political Sociology
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46075 Journal Article

Diversity in Transnationalism: Surinamese Organizational Networks

Authors Liza M. Mugge
Year 2011
Journal Name International Migration
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46076 Journal Article

The "Diaspora Politics" of Colombian Migrants in the UK and Spain

Authors Anastasia Bermudez
Year 2011
Journal Name INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
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46077 Journal Article

Understanding the “Russian Mortality Paradox” in Central Asia: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan

Authors Michel Guillot, Michel Guillot, Natalia Gavrilova, ...
Year 2011
Journal Name Demography
Citations (WoS) 18
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46078 Journal Article

Communicable and Non-Communicable Diseases Among Recent Immigrants with Implications for Primary care; a Comprehensive Immigrant Health Approach

Authors Ramin Asgary, Ramesh Naderi, Kristin A. Swedish, ...
Year 2011
Journal Name Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health
Citations (WoS) 7
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46079 Journal Article

The public visibility of Islam and European politics of resentment: The minarets-mosques debate

Authors Niluefer Goele
Year 2011
Journal Name PHILOSOPHY & SOCIAL CRITICISM
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46080 Journal Article

Diasporas

Authors Michel Beine, Frederic Docquier, Caglar Oezden
Year 2011
Journal Name JOURNAL OF DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
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46081 Journal Article

NEW HISTORY, POST-ZIONISM AND NEO-COLONIALISM: A CRITIQUE OF THE ISRAELI 'NEW HISTORIANS'

Authors Nur Masalha
Year 2011
Journal Name HOLY LAND STUDIES
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46082 Journal Article

The sexuality of migration: Border crossings and Mexican immigrant men

Authors Susana Peña
Year 2011
Journal Name Latino Studies
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46085 Journal Article

Becoming Brazuca: Brazilian immigration to the United States

Authors Tiffany D Joseph
Year 2011
Journal Name Latino Studies
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46086 Journal Article

The toxic tonic: Narratives of xenophobia

Authors Rosaura Sánchez
Year 2011
Journal Name Latino Studies
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46087 Journal Article

Internal migration and health: Premarital sexual initiation in Nigeria

Authors Blessing Uchenna Mberu, MJ White
Year 2011
Journal Name Social Science & Medicine
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46088 Journal Article

Transnational Relations: Family Migration among Recent Polish Migrants in London

Authors Louise Ryan
Year 2011
Journal Name International Migration
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46089 Journal Article

Indo-European Migrations: Their Origin from the Point of View of Odontology

Authors A. Yu Khudaverdyan
Year 2011
Journal Name ANTHROPOLOGIST
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46090 Journal Article

Uncovering European Union Immigration Legislation: Policy Dynamics and Outcomes

Authors Adam Luedtke
Year 2011
Journal Name International Migration
46091 Journal Article

On the Labour Market Progress of Polish Accession Workers in South-East England

Authors Ray Bachan, Maura Sheehan
Year 2011
Journal Name International Migration
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46092 Journal Article

Intercultural education in the multicultural and multilingual Bolivian context

Authors Live Danbolt Drange
Year 2011
Journal Name Intercultural Education
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46093 Journal Article

The Libyan Migration Corridor

Authors Sylvie BREDELOUP, Olivier PLIEZ
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Since the mid 1990s, the media have directed our attention to the thousands of Southern Sahara Africans who take life threatening risks crossing the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic ocean. Their numbers on migratory routes leading to Europe are increasing, joining up, especially in the “Libyan crossroad” with North Africans, Egyptians and even Asian migrants on the same quest. This image reflects reality, but only partially so, for it leads one to believe that these migrants cross the Sahara in the hope of reaching Europe. It should be pointed out that one of the main misunderstandings when evoking these migrations flows is to reduce them to the act of crossing the straits of the Mediterranean Sea. Since the 1990s, the Libyan case exemplifies the way the multilateral (EU-Maghreb) or bilateral (Libya-Italy) political negotiations between the two shores of the Mediterranean sea rapidly focus on the figure of the “illegal sub-Saharan migrant in transit”. This simplistic view is dangerous because it erases the historical dimension of the movement of people and its consequences. The Sahara is not merely a desert to be crossed; it is an area that has been shaped for more than half a century by the various migrant, trader or pastoral communities who have contributed to its massive urbanisation and economic development. At the same time, the reorganization of African migration is affected by the inflation of tensions, border and police controls, the diversification of routes between Niger, Chad Sudan and Libya consequently contributes to the perpetuation of transit spaces. There are tens of thousands of these migrants who settle down more or less durably in these new transit areas dependants on opportunity, status controls, and expulsions. But these transit areas have also become places where migrants seek employment, create new economic activities, or develop new skills while working, studying or practicing other tongues. As migration patterns across the Sahara are reconfigured, the impact is more visible in some places. But their durability should not be taken for granted. Villages specialised in the transit economy may easily decline as new diplomatic relations are formed between countries of immigration and third countries.
Year 2011
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Gender and Migration in Sudan

Authors Mohamed Abdelsalam BABIKER
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Abstract This paper focuses on legal issues related to gender and migration in Sudan and highlights rules which specifically focus on women, and also rules and practices whose implementation mainly concerns women. In this context, the paper examines migration rules in Sudan as a host, origin and transit country of female migrants by looking at key issues such as family reunification, personal laws or personal status, asylum rights and refugee protection, protection of vulnerable persons or groups, and discriminatory rules affecting both Sudanese and foreign nationals. The paper argues that in Sudan there are no rules, institutions or mechanisms to support women before or during the migration procedure irrespective of whether they are Sudanese women, refugees or foreign nationals. Résumé Cet article traite des questions juridiques relatives au rapport entre genre et migration au Soudan et met en lumière les règles concernant spécifiquement les femmes, ainsi que les règles et pratiques dont l’application concerne surtout les femmes. Dans ce contexte, l’article examine les règles de la migration au Soudan en tant que pays de réception, de départ et de transit de femmes migrantes, en s’attardant sur des questions clé que sont le regroupement familial, le statut personnel, le droit d’asile et la protection des réfugiés, la protection des personnes ou groupes vulnérables, et les règles discriminatoires affectant aussi bien les Soudanaises que les étrangères. L’article montre que le Soudan ne dispose pas de règles, d’institutions ou de mécanismes susceptibles de soutenir les femmes avant ou pendant le processus migratoire, qu’elles soient soudanaises, réfugiées ou étrangères.
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Emigration from Palestine: a gender perspective

Authors Mustafa KHAWAJA
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Abstract Several factors make Palestine a case apart for the analysis and study of migration: a dependent state still under Israeli occupation; a dependent economy; no control over borders; the lack of sovereignty over land and natural resources; and the absence of detailed data on migration. Given these limitations, this note approaches several aspects of the gender dimension of migration from Palestine, by using a variety of sources, both national and international, in order to define the most comprehensive profile of Palestinian women on migration. As a whole, the propensity for Palestinians to emigrate has decreased in the last decades regardless of their level of education. However, the same analysis conducted according to sex, found evidence that highly-skilled women were more likely to emigrate than their male counterparts. As women are more likely to undertake tertiary education, and as, at the same time, socio-economic conditions do not improve, emigration is found to be a good (or necessary solution) in improving life conditions and trying to develop skills abroad. Indeed, the characteristics of women abroad are continually changing. Younger generations of Palestinian female emigrants tend to be better educated and tend too to participate more in the labor market of host countries. However, studying the link between gender and migration leads to a more comprehensive reflection on the cultural constraints faced by women in Palestinian society. Despite the disadvantaged position of women with respect to men in all labor-market indicators, the vast majority do not wish to migrate in order to stay with family or spouses. They often stop their education because ‘they want to remain at home in housekeeping’ or simply because ‘their family does not allow them to continue studying’. These patterns suggest that the cultural environment is an ‘obstacle’ for women, both in leaving the country, their family and their spouses and in entering the Palestinian labor market. To conclude, while the gender gap is declining in Palestinian life and while Palestinian women abroad are better and better educated and ever more present in the labor market, greater efforts must be made in order to attain gender equality in all aspects of life at home. Résumé L’absence d’un Etat indépendant - en reste de l’occupation israélienne, une économie tributaire, l’absence de contrôle aux frontières, de souveraineté sur ses territoire et ressources naturelles, de données détaillées et actualisées se rapportant au phénomène de la migration, pour ne citer que ces facteurs, demeurent des points de crispation dans le débat. Au regard de ces limites, cette note adopte une approche pragmatique des aspects relevant de la migration palestinienne fondée sur la dimension genre, sur la base d’un recueil de sources nationale et internationale, en vue ensemble d’établir une définition compréhensive du profil de la femme émigrante palestinienne. En général, la propension des Palestiniens à émigrer a significativement diminué au cours de ces dernières décennies aussi bien parmi les hommes que parmi les femmes, et peu important encore le niveau d’éducation. Toutefois, la même analyse menée en termes de sexe révèle une propension à émigrer plus élevée et croissante de femmes hautement qualifiées par comparaison avec la gente masculine. Alors que les femmes disposent davantage d’un niveau d’éducation supérieur, sans que les conditions socioéconomiques ne s’améliorent, l’émigration est accueillie comme une bonne voire nécessaire solution en vue à la fois d’améliorer leurs conditions de vie et de développer leurs compétences à l’étranger. En effet, les caractéristiques de l’émigrante palestinienne résidant à l’étranger tendent à se modifier sur une base continue. Les jeunes générations d’émigrées palestiniennes sont de plus en plus éduquées, et tendent à participer davantage au marché du travail au sein du pays de destination. Toutefois, l’analyse du lien existant entre femmes et migration impose une réflexion plus compréhensive intégrant les contraintes culturelles pesant sur les femmes appartenant à la société palestinienne. En dépit de leur position désavantagée marquée au regard de tous les indicateurs du marché de travail - par comparaison avec leurs homologues masculins, la majorité d’entre elles se refusent à émigrer en vue de rester avec la famille et l’époux. Elles arrêtent très souvent leurs études dans la mesure où “elles veulent rester à la maison et s’occuper du foyer” ou simplement parce que “leur famille refuse qu’elles poursuivent leurs études”. Ces caractéristiques sont le point de départ d’une réflexion à mener sur l’environnement culturel érigé comme “obstacle” aux femmes dans leur volonté à la fois d’émigrer, de quitter leur famille et leur époux, et d’intégrer le marché du travail au sein du pays d’origine. En conclusion, il convient de relever que, bien que le gender gap tend à s’atténuer dans une série de secteurs, et que les femmes résidant à l’étranger sont de plus en plus éduquées et investies dans le marché du travail au sein du pays d’accueil, reste que des efforts supplémentaires doivent être fournis en vue d’obtenir une équation équilibrée entre égalité des opportunités et égalité des genres dans tous les aspects de la vie dans le pays d’origine.
Year 2011
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46097 Report

The Legal Dimension of Migration: The Palestinian Case

Authors Asem KHALIL
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Abstract In this report I consider Israeli policies aimed at reducing the number of Palestinians in the areas under its control. I then deal with the rights and freedoms of Palestinian refugees in host countries. I show how Palestinian refugees are dealt with in host countries as a security issue, with consequently limited rights and freedoms, an extra burden on their already fragile situation. I urge for a more stable legal status for Palestinian refugees. I then deal with the special challenge that the Gaza Strip poses for the international community. I argue that UNRWA is being pushed into a risky though perhaps necessary field, namely the protection of refugees and other fragile categories of civilians. Finally, I present an update of Palestinian Authority legislative enactments notwithstanding the stagnation in the Palestinian constitutional system that followed the 2007 Hamas coup in Gaza. Résumé Cet article aborde plusieurs points. Il se penche sur les politiques israéliennes visant à créer des faits accomplis en réduisant le nombre de Palestiniens dans les zones sous contrôle israélien. Il évalue l’état des droits et des libertés dont bénéficient les réfugiés palestiniens dans leurs pays d’accueil. Il montre que les réfugiés palestiniens sont abordés dans les pays hôtes comme un problème sécuritaire, entraînant une réduction des droits et des libertés et aggravant leur situation déjà fragile. L’article recommande un statut juridique plus stable pour les réfugiés palestiniens. La bande de Gaza représente un défi particulier pour la communauté internationale. L’UNRWA est entraînée sur un terrain risqué, et pour cette raison utile, celui de la protection des réfugiés et d’autres catégories de civils vulnérables. Enfin, l’article présente une actualisation de l’activité législative de l’Autorité palestinienne en dépit de la stagnation du système constitutionnel palestinien qui a suivi la prise de contrôle du Hamas à Gaza en 2007.
Year 2011
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46098 Report

Comparaison des profils des émigrés maliens en Afrique et en Europe : aspects démographiques et économiques

Authors Sadio TRAORÉ
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La présente étude est un mélange d’empirie et de théorie, fondé sur une démarche comparative des caractéristiques démo-économiques des émigrés maliens établis en Afrique versus ceux établis en Europe. Après un bref rappel théorique des niveaux d’analyse de la migration africaine, les différentes caractéristiques individuelles et collectives envisagées en guise de variables et qui affectent cette migration ont été intégrées dans cette étude. L’illustration de certaines variables constatées à partir des données recueillies au cours de l’Enquête Migration de 1993 a mis en évidence une série de différentiels entre les émigrés maliens en Afrique et les émigrés maliens en Europe. En définitive, il conviendra de retenir que des efforts restent à fournir en termes de collecte de données aussi bien dans les milieux d’origine que dans les pays d’accueil, dans la mesure essentielle où les données nécessaires à la conduite d’analyses comparatives plus consistantes restent encore que très peu disponibles aux deux niveaux. The present study is a mixture of the empirical and theoretical. It offers a comparative approach to demographic and socio-economic differentials among Malian emigrants established in Africa versus those established in Europe. After a short theoretical summary of the analysis of African migration, various other variables including the individual and collective characteristics that affect this migration are reviewed. Data from the 1993 Malian Survey on Migration and Urbanization are employed to highlight some of these differentials among Malian emigrants. Finally we conclude that comparative analysis is theoretically possible, but that some efforts in data collection are needed given the very little data on emigrants available in the sending countries as well as in the host countries, if comparative analysis is to be consistent.
Year 2011
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46099 Report

Circulatory Migration vs. Sedentary Immigration

Authors Patrick WEIL
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One of the many reasons for undocumented migration are the poorly-designed regulations for circulatory migration. The lack of flexibility in granting circular residence status forces many migrants, both unskilled and skilled, to remain in a country against their personal wishes. Twentieth-century nation-states were inert and liked stable populations, quotas and permanent residents. However, the modern twenty-first century state must learn to manage circulatory migration and toadapt policies to address the legal rights and the status of migrants in movement.
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