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Uneven geographies: ageing and population dynamics in Latvia
Abstract The twin phenomena of ageing populations and declining populations are profoundly transforming societies and economies in Europe. Driven by decreasing fertility rates and the continuing increased life expectancy, populations have not been ageing uniformly across time and space.
Zaiga Krisjane +4 more
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Are old regions less attractive? Interregional labour migration in a context of population ageing
Abstract Regional demographic change is often conceptualized as a circular process, where out‐migration continuously worsens conditions of population ageing and shrinkage. Thus, if migration acts as a consequence as well as cause of ageing, migration patterns should be influenced by the age structure of origin and destination regions.
Paula Prenzel
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At the beginning of Korean migration to Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s, most Korean immigrants in Argentina were intensively involved in garment sewing and knitting jobs, working as employees at or owners of Korean workshops subcontracted by Jewish manufacturers.
Jihye Kim
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Why Central Americans Emigrate? Patterns and Gaps Within Academic Research
ABSTRACT Despite extensive debate and speculation surrounding the recent rise in emigration from Central American countries, the underlying drivers of this migration remain largely unexplored in the academic literature. This research note seeks to spark academic discussion by analysing the patterns and gaps in the existing literature on the drivers of ...
Alfonso Sánchez‐Carrasco
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The article focuses on the predicaments faced by return migrants to Cuba and how they respond to societal pressures to make a valuable difference ‘back home’, opening analytical avenues at the juncture of the anthropology of ethics and morality and migration.
Valerio Simoni
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“Exiliados” in Podemos: A grassroots approach of long‐distance activism in parties abroad
Abstract This article proposes a grassroots approach and a process‐based analysis of emigrants' activism in parties abroad, through a case study on the Spanish party Podemos' circle in Paris. Building on ethnographic fieldwork and biographical interviews conducted between 2015 and 2016, I explore activists' individual trajectories to better understand ...
Vincent Dain
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Vivencias de emigrantes costarricenses en torno al voto en el exterior: una exploración de la construcción de sentido de los derechos políticos de la diáspora costarricense [PDF]
Explora las percepciones sobre los mecanismos institucionales del Estado instaurados para el ejercicio de los derechos políticos de las personas emigrantes costarricenses, con el fin de examinar mediante la sociología política la creación de sentidos ...
Rojas Mena, Pamela
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Numeracy selectivity of Spanish migrants in colonial America (sixteenth–eighteenth centuries)
Abstract Since the arrival of Christopher Columbus in the so‐called New World in 1492, hundreds of thousands of Spaniards settled in Central and South America. This paper assesses the skill selectivity of Spanish migrants who went to Hispanic America during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries for the first time.
María del Carmen Pérez‐Artés
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Emigración y alfabetización en Galicia
RESUMEN: La emigración es, sin duda, uno de los fenómenos que configuran la Galicia contemporánea. Su significación a nivel demográfico, económico, social y político, ha sido indagada en trabajos de diversa índole1.
Narciso de GABRIEL
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Los problemas de las fronteras humanitarias
Este texto plantea un análisis crítico del papel de los discursos y prácticas humanitaristas en nuestra concepción de la migración y en las políticas públicas desarrolladas en relación a la movilidad poblacional a través de las fronteras internacionales.
Miriam Ticktin
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