Sökning: "New Economics of Labour Migration"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade orden New Economics of Labour Migration.
1. Aunque les cueste la vida/ Even if it will cost them their life : A study of irregular migration between Guatemala and the United States of America and the effects it has on the Maya communities
Kandidat-uppsats, Jönköping University/HLK, Globala studierSammanfattning : Today, many Guatemalans flee the country and leave their home communities behind due to poor living conditions and high unemployment. Irregular migration involves many risks yet is for many seen as a necessity to live a purposeful life. LÄS MER
2. The Formation of Return Migration Intentions: An Intra-Household Analysis of Foreign Families Residing in Italy
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenSammanfattning : This study inspects the micro-determinants of return intentions for foreign nuclear families in Italy. In particular, I argue against the unitary nature of households and focus on intra-household patterns of decision-making, which have been largely neglected by previous studies. LÄS MER
3. En majoritet av minoriteten - En intervjustudie som söker förståelse för den hazariska invandringen till Europa
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenSammanfattning : In this thesis I seek to understand why a majority of the Afghans that have migrated to Europe during the last decade belong to the Hazara ethnicity. Reports claim that the situation has improved dramatically for the minority since the fall of Taliban in 2001 and there is currently no legal opportunity for refuge on the basis of ethnicity. LÄS MER
4. Environmental Migration in Bolivia? : Perceived effects of climate variability on internal migration to the area of Sacaba
Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenSammanfattning : There has been an on-going discussion between researchers regarding the economic and climate induced reasons for migration (Renaud et al. 2011, Afifi, 2011). There also seems to be insufficient data when it comes to internal migration within low-income countries (Tacolí, 2009). LÄS MER
5. The Healthy Immigrant Effect (HIE) in the UK.
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenSammanfattning : The so-called “Healthy Immigrant Effect” (HIE) is based on two complementary hypotheses: i) immigrants who recently arrived to a new country present a better health than the native-born population with similar socio-demographic characteristics; ii) immigrant´s health deteriorates faster than that of the native-born and converges towards native-born levels with the years lived in the host country. This phenomenon has been widely studied for working immigrants in countries who have traditionally received large flows of labour migration as Australia, Canada and the US. LÄS MER