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Scientific approaches to the study of migration
Хабаршы. Заң сериясы, 2016 The article analyzes the scientific approaches to the study of migration. Migration – a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. This makes studying it in terms interdisciplinary approach to display the breadth of the spectrum of its ...
Dzhansarayeva R.Ye.
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READING HOUSING AS AN URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE PATTERNING THE ‘WHORE STIGMA’
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article, I conceptualize housing as an urban infrastructure enabling the reproduction, exploitation, circulation and emplacement of the ‘whore stigma’. To this end, I engage with infrastructural scholarship, particularly the emerging field of infrastructural housing studies, and situate it in dialogue with critical perspectives on ...
Daniela Morpurgo
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Can migration reduce educational attainments? depressing evidence from Mexico
, 2006 This paper examines the impact of migration on educational attainments in rural Mexico. Using historical migration rates by state to instrument for current migration, we find evidence of a significant negative effect of migration on schooling ...
Rapoport, Hillel +3 more
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Marketplaces, crucial sites for low‐income populations as sources of affordable goods and social interaction, are at a critical juncture. They are experiencing decline due to the rise of shopping centres and neglect by public authorities, while at the same time being rediscovered as tourist attractions, sources of profit and tools for urban ...
Francesca Ru
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Illegal immigration at sea: a social analysis (Imigraţia ilegală pe mare: o analiză socială)
Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice, 2014 Illegal immigration could be defined as a pathology of migration (which is a much broader, positive and needed phenomenon). It is a phenomenon of relevant historical importance; in particular, European history has been marked by many waves of migration ...
Martina Federica MANFREDI
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PRECARIZED AGEING‐IN‐PERIFERIA: Low‐Income Older Adults in a Transforming Neighbourhood
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract In this article we investigate how intersecting forms of precarity shape the everyday practices of ageing‐in‐place developed by low‐income older adults in Via Milano, a historically segregated yet rapidly transforming neighbourhood in Brescia, northern Italy. We draw on qualitative and ethnographic research to examine how diverse urban changes—
Marco Alioni, Barbara Badiani
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Do amnesty programs encourage illegal immigration? Evidence from the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) [PDF]
This paper examines whether allowing certain undocumented immigrants to legalize their status leads to additional illegal immigration. The authors focus on the effects of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act, which granted amnesty to over three ...
Madeline Zavodny, Pia M. Orrenius
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
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The Firebrands Echo: National Fantasy as an Obstacle to Jean‐Luc Mélenchon's Populist Spectacle
Constellations, EarlyView.
Reid A. Kleinberg
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