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Characterization of an outbreak of malaria in a non-endemic zone on the coastal region of Ecuador

open access: yesBiomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2021
Introduction: Malaria is a vector-borne disease widely distributed in the Amazon region and the coastal area of northern Ecuador. Its epidemiology involves related factors such as human settlements, vector reproduction sites, mobility, productive ...
Diego Omar Morales   +2 more
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Arrival or Transient Spaces? Differentiated Politics of Mobilities, Socio-Technological Orderings and Migrants’ Socio-Spatial Embeddedness

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2020
<p>For the last decade there has been a lively debate on urban arrival spaces. Saunders’ (2011) widely received book <em>Arrival Cities</em> can be seen as catalyst of this debate. Taking a hitherto largely unexplored comparative approach, based on two empirical research studies on migrant workers and highly-skilled migrants in ...
Tabea Bork-Hüffer, Simon Alexander Peth
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Invisible Diaspora? English Ethnicity in the United States before 1920 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The article presents an examination into the English population of the United States during the 19th and early 20th centuries, examining their ethnic identity as a diaspora community.
Alexandrescu   +164 more
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Dynamics of depressive symptoms and within-country migration among Peruvian women

open access: yesRural and Remote Health, 2020
Introduction: Peru has experienced a significant internal migration from rural to urban areas in recent years. This study estimates the prevalence of depressive symptoms in Peruvian women of childbearing age and their probability of having these ...
Akram Hernández-Vásquez   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Footloose transients: International students in Australia and their aspirations for transnational mobility after graduation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Work on the sociocultural aspects of international students tends to largely focus on their experiences within the host country. Research points to the desire of these transient migrants to stay in the host nation through permanent residency rather than ...
Gomes, C
core   +1 more source

Improvement of measles immunity among migrant populations: lessons learned from a prevalence study in a Swiss prison

open access: yesSwiss Medical Weekly, 2011
BACKGROUND: Measles persists worldwide despite the implementation of general vaccination campaigns. The environmental and demographic characteristics in many prisons increase the risk of measles epidemics.
L Gétaz   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Diagnosis and treatment of vulnerable migrants: a retrospective study at a Doctors of the World clinic in Stockholm

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background At Doctors of the World Medical Clinic in Stockholm (DWMCS), medical care is offered to migrants who live under particularly vulnerable conditions and who lack access to subsidized care.
Klas Ytterbrink Nordenskiöld   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Migrants in transit across Central America and the potential spread of chloroquine resistant malaria–a call for action

open access: yesThe Lancet Regional Health. Americas, 2023
Summary: Human migration has shaped the distribution and patterns of infectious diseases transmission throughout history. Migration is one of the contributing factors that has played an important role in the dissemination of drug-resistant Plasmodium ...
Nelson Iván Agudelo Higuita   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Partial Migration and Transient Coexistence of Migrants and Residents in Animal Populations

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
Partial migration, whereby a proportion of the population migrates, is common across the animal kingdom. Much of the focus in the literature has been on trying to explain the underlying mechanisms for the coexistence of migrants and residents. In addition, there has been an increasing number of reports on the prevalence and frequency of partially ...
Navinder J Singh, Kjell Leonardsson
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New mobilities across the lifecourse: a framework for analysing demographically-linked drivers of migration [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Migration, along with fertility and mortality, is one of the fundamental drivers of population change. Taking the lifecourse as the central concern, the authors set out a theoretical framework and define some key research questions for a programme of ...
Coulter, Rory   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

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