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The scales of human mobility [PDF]
Nature, 2020 There is a contradiction at the heart of our current understanding of individual and collective mobility patterns. On the one hand, a highly influential body of literature on human mobility driven by analyses of massive empirical datasets finds that ...
Laura Alessandretti +2 more
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Coupling Human Mobility and Social Ties [PDF]
Journal of The Royal Society Interface, 2014 Studies using massive, passively data collected from communication technologies have revealed many ubiquitous aspects of social networks, helping us understand and model social media, information diffusion, and organizational dynamics.
Gonzalez, Marta C. +3 more
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Failed asylum seekers in South Africa: policy and practice
African Human Mobility Review, 2021 The return of failed asylum seekers has become an issue of concern for asylum states who must balance immigration control measures while upholding refugee protection obligations. The 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa saw the state establish a
Corey Johnson
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Leveraging language foundation models for human mobility forecasting [PDF]
SIGSPATIAL/GIS, 2022 In this paper, we propose a novel pipeline that leverages language foundation models for temporal sequential pattern mining, such as for human mobility forecasting tasks.
Hao Xue +2 more
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Angolan refugees in South Africa: alternatives to permanent repatriation?
African Human Mobility Review, 2021 For almost twenty years, voluntary repatriation has been considered by the international community the preferable, durable and fitting solution to refugee situations.
Sergio Carciotto
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Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 Background: Play is critical for children’s physical, cognitive, and social development. Technology-based toys like robots are especially of interest to children.
Joseline Raja Vora +8 more
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Models for Migrant Leadership: The Cape Town Women's Platform
African Human Mobility Review, 2021 Since 2011, South Africa has increasingly moved toward an immigration system of enforcement and exclusion, seeking to discourage immigration through punitive policies that make daily life for migrants difficult to bear.
Leah Mundell, Emma Carone
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International Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Call for a Global Research Agenda
African Human Mobility Review, 2021 Research on international migration has brought about remarkable awareness within the global research community, stimulating some theorists and policy-makers to talk about ‘international migration’ as a field for research.
Mulugeta Dinbabo, Sergio Carciotto
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The effect of human mobility and control measures on the COVID-19 epidemic in China
Science, 2020 Tracing infection from mobility data What sort of measures are required to contain the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome–coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)?
M. Kraemer +16 more
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Economic and social consequences of human mobility restrictions under COVID-19 [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance This paper presents a large-scale analysis of the impact of lockdown measures introduced in response to the spread of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on socioeconomic conditions of Italian citizens.
G. Bonaccorsi +10 more
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