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How Yoopers see the future of their communities: why residents leave or stay in Michigan\u27s Upper Peninsula [PDF]
, 2010 According to a Community and Environment in Rural America survey, Michigan\u27s Upper Peninsula residents, often called Yoopers, said that ties to community and the area\u27s natural beauty were significant factors for those who planned on staying in ...
Ulrich, Jessica D.
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The social security rights of older international migrants in the European Union [PDF]
, 2006 Europe is now home to a significant and diverse population of older international migrants. Social and demographic changes have forced the issue of social security in old age onto the European social policy agenda in the last decade.
Ackers H.L. +20 more
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The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the death penalty in Malaysia, where foreign nationals have historically been sentenced to death at a disproportionately high rate. The international community has recognised that foreign defendants are disadvantaged in alien criminal justice systems and made efforts to address this through the United Nation's Vienna ...
Carolyn Hoyle, Lucy Harry
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To Grandmother's House We Go: Informal Childcare and Female Labor Mobility
International Economic Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We document how childcare costs and the location of extended family influence the labor supply and mobility of US women. Women return to their home locations immediately before fertility events, suggesting that informal childcare needs may motivate home migration. Women who live near their parents have lower child earnings penalties.
Garrett Anstreicher, Joanna Venator
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The Changing Faces of New England: Increasing Spatial and Racial Diversity [PDF]
, 2007 New England's population stood at 14,270,000 in July of 2006, a gain of 347,000 residents since 2000. This gain of 2.5 percent is less than half that of the nation as a whole and lags far behind the fast growing South and West.
Kenneth M. Johnson
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Rural environmental concern: Effects of position, partisanship and place [PDF]
, 2013 The social bases of environmental concern in rural America resemble those for the nation as a whole, but also reflect the influence of place. Some general place characteristics, such as rates of population growth or resource-industry employment, predict ...
Hamilton, Lawrence C. +3 more
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Journal of Midwifery &Women's Health, EarlyView.Introduction Women of refugee backgrounds who are pregnant continue to face significant challenges after migration, including barriers to accessing adequate perinatal care, resulting in higher risks for poor perinatal outcomes. To address these barriers and reduce these risks, it is imperative to understand the viewpoints of those involved in perinatal
Shadow Toke +3 more
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Regional Socioeconomic Changes Affecting Rural Area Livelihoods and Atlantic Forest Transitions
Land, 2018 Centuries of colonization of the Atlantic Forest biome in Brazil have led its native vegetation cover to be reduced to only 11.7%. On the other hand, regional land changes have fostered natural forest regeneration, since the 1960s, in the region of Para ...
Ramon F. B. da Silva +2 more
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Local Elites in Chile's Pisco Valley: Dispossession, Legal Mobilisation and Intertwined Citizenship
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In countries in the Global South, citizenship is often closely tied to access to water and land ownership. In Latin America, the literature has primarily explored social mobilisation and identity reconfiguration in response to development‐driven processes of land and water dispossession affecting peasants, rural and Indigenous communities ...
Chloé Nicolas‐Artero
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The Impact of Weather Anomalies on Migration in sub-Saharan Africa [PDF]
This paper analyzes the effects of weather anomalies on migration in sub-Saharan Africa. Theoretically, we show how weather anomalies induce rural-urban migration that subsequently triggers international migration.
Ingmar SCHUMACHER +2 more
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