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Arrival brokers as a key component of the arrival infrastructure: how established migrants support newcomers [PDF]

open access: yesGeographica Helvetica, 2023
In recent years, numerous studies have stressed the importance of established migrants helping newcomers access settlement information. This article focuses on the everyday practices of these so-called “arrival brokers” in supporting newcomers in their ...
N. Hans
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Temporalities of Arrival: Burundian Barbershops as an Arrival Infrastructure in a South African Township

open access: yesUrban Planning
Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have contributed to the diversity of the informal economy in urban South Africa. However, they have faced xenophobic violence and discrimination in urban spaces such as townships, which were previously designated only for
Nomkhosi A. Mbatha, Leah Koskimaki
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Precipitation, EMS use, and time to presentation of Acute Ischemic stroke in the get with the guidelines-stroke registry [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases
Background: Delayed presentation to the hospital is a barrier for delivering acute stroke treatments. The effects of weather on delay are unstudied. We examined the relationship between precipitation and time to arrival nationwide.
Marisa Berner, MA   +4 more
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Infrastructures in the context of arrival – multidimensional patterns of resource access in an established and a new immigrant neighborhood in Germany [PDF]

open access: yesGeographica Helvetica, 2023
Recent debates on arrival cities, neighborhoods, or other scales of local contexts tend to focus on aspects of local areas which support new migrants in accessing resources such as social networks, organizations, and other kinds of local infrastructure ...
N. El-Kayed, L. Keskinkılıc
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How the Presence of Newly Arrived Migrants Challenges Urban Spaces: Three Perspectives from Recent Literature

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2020
This article explores the notion of arrival spaces in the recent urban studies literature, and it outlines three emerging perspectives on their role and the associated processes and complexities.
Martina Bovo
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Intergenerational support during the rise of mobile telecommunication in Indonesia

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2022
Background: In many Southeast Asian populations, urbanization and migration have increased the share of older adults supported by nonresident children.
Yiyue Huangfu, Jenna Nobles
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Between Hospitality and Inhospitality: The Janus-Faced 'Arrival Infrastructure'

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2020
Although ‘arrival infrastructure’ is central to the experience of migrants arriving in a new city, is it sufficient to form a ‘hospitable milieu’? Our article compares newcomers’ experiences with ‘arrival infrastructure’ in two European cities: Brussels ...
Maxime Felder   +4 more
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Short-Term Arrival Delay Time Prediction in Freight Rail Operations Using Data-Driven Models

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
Despite rail’s growing popularity as a mode of freight transportation due to its role in intermodal transportation and numerous economic and environmental benefits, optimizing all aspects of rail infrastructure use remains a significant challenge.
Juan Pineda-Jaramillo   +4 more
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Peripheral Estates as Arrival Spaces? Conceptualising Research on Arrival Functions of New Immigrant Destinations

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2020
In recent years, the question of how urban spaces support the arrival of immigrants has found increased attention among scholars. The emerging discussion uses terms like arrival cities, arrival neighbourhoods, arrival spaces, arrival contexts, or arrival
Nihad El-Kayed   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characterization of prehospital time delay in primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction: analysis of geographical infrastructure-dependent and -independent components

open access: yesInternational Journal of Health Geographics, 2023
Background Prehospital delay in reaching a percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) facility is a major problem preventing early coronary reperfusion in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
Keisuke Oyatani   +4 more
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