Results 31 to 40 of about 4,783,866 (374)

Spousal violence against women and its consequences on pregnancy outcomes and reproductive health of women in India

BMC Women's Health, 2021
Background Globally, one in three women experienced domestic violence. Alike the scenario observed in India, and a very few studies talk about violence and its consequences on women's health.
Mahadev Bramhankar, R. S. Reshmi
doaj   +1 more source

International Migration: Trends, Determinants, and Policy Effects

Population and Development Review, 2019
What have been the main trends and drivers of international migration over the last century, and to what extent have migration policies been effective in shaping the volume, direction, timing, and selection of immigration and emigration?
H. Haas, M. Czaika, Marie‐Laurence Flahaux, Edo Mahendra, Katharina Natter, S. Vezzoli, María Villares-Varela   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
Job seekers face substantial information frictions, especially in international labor markets where intermediaries match prospective migrants with overseas employers. We conducted a randomized trial in Indonesia to explore how information about intermediary quality shapes migration outcomes.
Bazzi, Samuel, Cameron, Lisa, Schaner, Simone, Witoelar, Firman   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Scholarly migration within Mexico: Analyzing internal migration among researchers using Scopus longitudinal bibliometric data [PDF]

, 2020
The migration of scholars is a major driver of innovation and of diffusion of knowledge. Although large-scale bibliometric data have been used to measure international migration of scholars, our understanding of internal migration among researchers is very limited. This is partly due to a lack of data aggregated at a suitable sub-national level.
arxiv   +1 more source

Food insecurity as a determinant of international migration: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Food Security, 2019
In this paper, we examined how food insecurity can affect international migration aspirations and subsequent actions taken in preparation to move internationally from Sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing on a conceptual framework of the determinants of migration,
A. Sadiddin, A. Cattaneo, Marinella Cirillo, Meghan Miller   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health issues affecting female internal migrant workers: A systematic review

Journal of the College of Community Physicians, 2016
Background Economic contribution by internal migrant workers, in particular the workers in Export Processing Zones (EPZ) in Sri Lanka, is well recognized, yet the social and health consequences are unknown.Objective To systematically review the health ...
Upul Senarath, Kolitha Wickramage, Sharika Peiris   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Internal Migration in the United States [PDF]

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2011
This paper examines the history of internal migration in the United States since the 1980s. By most measures, internal migration in the United States is at a 30-year low. The widespread decline in migration rates across a large number of subpopulations suggests that broad-based economic forces are likely responsible for the decrease.
Molloy, Raven, Smith, Christopher L., Wozniak, Abigail   +2 more
openaire   +7 more sources

Exploring the use of COVID-19 antigen rapid diagnostic tests among displaced populations in Iraq: findings from a pilot project in four IDP camps

Conflict and Health
Background IOM piloted the use of Ag RDTs for COVID-19 in Iraq, in collaboration with FIND, the Global Alliance for Diagnostics, to facilitate access to testing and understand barriers and opportunities for testing in a displacement context.
Lara Abou Ammar, Caitlin M. Wolfe, Lamiaa Nagib, Mohammed Slebei, Sezan Shawkat, Dilman Amo, Raveen Abdullah, Rawshan Abdulmalik, Hiwa Muhammed Amin, Huda Shafiq, Shivan Hafthalah, Aso Qahraman, Jirjees Mohammed, Hassan Ghawji, Srinath Satyanarayana, Nevin Wilson, Sanjay Sarin, Kekeletso Kao, Nellie Ghusayni   +18 more
doaj   +1 more source

The impacts of international migration on the UK’s ethnic populations

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2019
The United Kingdom faces demographic uncertainty, as negotiations for leaving the European Union (Brexit) proceed. Brexit has implications for international migration into and out of the UK, dependent on future immigration policy and on how attractive ...
N. Lomax, P. Wohland, P. Rees, P. Norman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Religion and international migration

, 2021
This is a draft chapter/article. The final version is available in Kaya, Ayhan (2021). “Religion and International migration," In Jeffrey Haynes (ed.), Handbook on Religion and International Relations. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar: 156-170. The material cannot be used for any other purpose without further permission of the publisher, and is for private ...
openaire   +2 more sources