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A Transnational Colonial Migration: Puerto Rico’s Farm Labor Program

open access: yesNWIG, 2010
In this article, the author defines Puerto Rico as a nation, an imagined community with its own territory, history, language, and culture. Nevertheless, the Island lacks a sovereign state, an independent government that represents the population of that ...
Jorge Duany
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Migration Workers as Political Subjects: Globalization-as-Practices, Everyday Spaces, and Global Labour Migrations

open access: yesRefuge, 2007
Within the currently intensified labour flows from developing societies to highly industrialized areas, the Philippines has been the largest supplier of government-sponsored contract workers.
Hironori Onuki
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Distress Seasonal Migration and its Impact on Children’s Education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
There are still many categories of children in India for whom adequate and appropriate strategies are not in place for their effective education. One such substantive category is children of seasonal migrants – a group which has not been on the radar ...
Smita, Smita
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Prevalence of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Australia, 2010–2022: A Population‐Based Study Using Linked National Administrative Health Data

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a heterogenous inflammatory condition with widely varying global prevalence estimates. The frequency of SLE in the general population of Australia has been reported to be notably lower than contemporary estimates in countries such as the United States or United Kingdom, at 19 to 39 per 100,000 as opposed ...
Lucinda Roper   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

LABOUR MARKETS FOR RURAL POPULATION: COMMUTING AND MIGRATION ABROAD

open access: yesEkonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2013
In the absence of a satisfactory level of jobs offered in rural areas, achieving of the supply demand balance in the labour market can supported by labour migration, both internal and external.
Paweł Chmieliński
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Migrations from Poland after 1 May 2004 with Special Focus on British Isles

open access: yesEspace populations sociétés, 2008
The enlargement of the European Union (EU) of 2004 was a major watershed in the post-1989 migration patterns of Polish workers, mainly for the sake of opening the new labour markets within the EU.
Izabela Grabowska-Lusinska
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Poland in international migrations: the perspective of world systems theory

open access: yesMiscellanea Geographica: Regional Studies on Development, 2020
This article presents the special status of Poland, namely as a country that both sends out and takes in large numbers of migrant workers. Drawing on the world systems theory, the role attributed to Poland is that of semi-periphery, which means a ...
Żołędowski Cezary
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Characterization of a Recyclate‐Based MgO‐Steel Composite As‐Sintered Inert Anode Candidate After Exposure to Cryolite Electrolysis

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Carbon‐free inert anodes are essential for decarbonizing aluminum electrolysis. This study investigates a recyclate‐based MgO‐316L steel composite anode tested under galvanostatic Hall–Héroult conditions in cryolite at 1000°C. Microstructural analysis reveals selective MgO fluorination, spinel and oxide layer formation, electrolyte infiltration, and ...
Serhii Yaroshevskyi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Direct Metal Deposition of Graphene–Ti28Nb35.4Zr Matrix Composites With Enhanced Mechanical, Corrosion, and Biocompatibility Properties for Bone Implants

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Graphene nanoplatelet (0.1 wt.%) reinforcement significantly enhances the performance of β Ti‐28Nb‐35.4Zr alloy. Grain refinement, reduced water contact angle, and improved surface characteristics promote osteoblast adhesion and complete surface coverage after 7 days.
Khurram Munir   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experiments in indenture: Barbados and the segmentation of migrant labor in the Caribbean 1863-1865

open access: yesNWIG, 2008
Focuses on indentured and other labour migration from Barbados to other parts of the Caribbean starting in 1863. Within the context of the sugar estate-dominated agriculture of Barbados, as well as its high population density, the author describes the ...
Laurence Brown
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