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Migration and Trade: A Complex-Network Approach [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2013
This paper explores the relationships between migration and trade using a complex-network approach. We show that: (i) both weighted and binary versions of the networks of international migration and trade are strongly correlated; (ii) such correlations can be mostly explained by country economic/demographic size and geographical distance; (iii) pairs ...
Fagiolo, Giorgio, Mastrorillo, Marina
arxiv   +4 more sources

Understanding the challenges and gaps in community engagement interventions for COVID-19 prevention strategies in Rohingya refugees: a qualitative study with frontline workers and community representatives

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
BackgroundRohingya refugees in Bangladesh are vulnerable to infectious diseases such as COVID-19 due to the crowded living conditions with fragile shelters, and limited water, sanitation and hygiene facilities and practices.
Charls Erik Halder   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementation of a Curriculum to Optimize Hygiene Behaviors Among Refugees and Migrants Being Resettled

open access: yesInterdisciplinary Journal of Partnership Studies, 2023
Health knowledge and behaviors can impact well-being and promote community integration post-arrival for refugees and migrants being resettled. Health and hygiene curricula are efficient and accessible mechanisms to mitigate the risk of chronic and ...
Shanna Miko   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Rooted America: Immobility and Segregation of the Intercounty Migration Network [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Sociological Review 2023; 88(6), 1031-1065, 2022
Despite the popular narrative that the United States is a "land of mobility," the country may have become a "rooted America" after a decades-long decline in migration rates. This article interrogates the lingering question about the social forces that limit migration, with an empirical focus on internal migration in the United States.
arxiv   +1 more source

SDN Controller Load Balancing Based on Reinforcement Learning [PDF]

open access: yes2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Software Engineering and Service Science (ICSESS), 2021
Aiming at the local overload of multi-controller deployment in software-defined networks, a load balancing mechanism of SDN controller based on reinforcement learning is designed. The initial paired migrate-out domain and migrate-in domain are obtained by calculating the load ratio deviation between the controllers, a preliminary migration triplet ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Tuberculosis-related knowledge, behaviors, stigmatizing attitude, and discrimination among refugees, migrants, and the general population in Jordan

open access: yesSAGE Open Medicine, 2023
Objective: A better understanding of tuberculosis-related knowledge, attitude, practices in the community, and other issues can help in implementing evidence-driven activities to control tuberculosis in Jordan.
Majd A Alsoukhni   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

High prevalence of current tobacco smoking among patients with tuberculosis and people living with HIV in Jordan: A cross-sectional survey

open access: yesTobacco Induced Diseases, 2023
Introduction Continued smoking by patients with tuberculosis (TB) and people living with HIV (PLHIV) leads to adverse treatment outcomes. Estimates of tobacco use among the population are scarce in the Eastern Mediterranean region, where the burden of TB
Ayaka Teshima   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nutritional profile of Syrian refugee children before resettlement

open access: yesConflict and Health, 2019
Background The year 2015 marked the highest number of refugees globally and included record numbers of Syrians moving to neighboring countries. Half of the Syrians were children aged ≤18 years. Our study sought to examine undernutrition and overnutrition
Sweetmavourneen Pernitez-Agan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Perception of effective access to health services in Territorial Spaces for Training and Reincorporation, one year after the peace accords in Colombia: a cross-sectional study [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]

open access: yesF1000Research, 2020
Backgrounds: The signing of the peace accords in Colombia created challenges that are inherent to post-conflict transitions. One of those is the process of reintegrating ex-combatants into society, in which ensuring their rights to health is a ...
Julián Alfredo Fernández-Niño   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Labour Market Integration, Remittances and Optimal Tax Policy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper, using a model comprising two labour sending countries and one labour receiving country, analyses the optimal tax/subsidy policies of countries to control international migration when labour markets are integrated.
Braun S.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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