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Consumption, ongoingness and everyday-life embeddedness: Lifestyle experiences of Chinese transient migrants in Chiang Mai, Thailand

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2022
This article examines recent Chinese migrants to Thailand, with a specific focus on those who migrate for education and remain in Thailand after graduation. It aims to drive the analytical theory from a methodological nationalism to a transient migration approach, and to capture the sense of “transience” of the new wave of Chinese migration in a ...
Jiangyu Li, Aranya Siriphon
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Transient Populations: Linking HIV, Migrant Workers, and South African Male Inmates

Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 2009
Risk factors associated with the spread of HIV are common among South Africa’s transient populations—migrant workers and prisoners. Social ills in South Africa have yielded a growing transient population. Importantly, the migrant workers and prisoners in this population are likely to subscribe to masculine beliefs.
Aba D, Essuon, David S, Simmons, Torrance T, Stephens, Donna, Richter, Lisa L, Lindley, Ronald L, Braithwaite   +5 more
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‘They just move in with relatives’: translocal labour migrants and transient spaces in Naivasha, Kenya

Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2020
Over the past four decades, the small town of Naivasha in Kenya has attracted tens of thousands of labour migrants.
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P015 Estimating occupational attributable disease burden in migrant and transient workers now and in the future: an example in construction

Burden of Disease, 2016
Introduction To date, migrant workers have generally been excluded from disease burden estimates. However, changing employment patterns, worldwide and in the European context, suggest occupational disease in these workers may become an increasingly important consideration.
Sally Hutchings, Midori Courtice, Lesley Rushton, John W Cherrie   +3 more
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Transient servitude: migrant labour in Canada and the apartheid of citizenship

Race & Class, 2010
Shifts in Canada’s immigration policy, most recently linked to the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) with the US and Mexico, have created an increased reliance on temporary migrant workers, who constitute a disposable workforce, driven from their own countries by the same forces of neoliberal capitalism which foster their super-exploitation in
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Transients and Settlers: Varieties of Caribbean Migrants and the Socio‐Economic Implications of their Return

International Migration, 1986
The author analyzes international migration patterns of Caribbean populations with particular attention to the persistence of significant return flows. A typology of migration in the region is presented which includes categories of transients or shuttle migrants and settlers or long-stay migrants.
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Rural migrants in urban China: Enclaves and transient urbanism

2013
After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’s economic vision.
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Irregular migrants and families: the challenges of transnational family lives in times of limited mobility and transient settlement

2023
Stock, Inka, van Liempt, Ilse, Schapendonk, Joris, Campos Delgado, Amalia   +3 more
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Book review: Migrant Workers in Singapore. Lives and Labor in a Transient Migration Regime

Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2023
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Migrants' Agency and the Making of Transient Urban Spaces

Population, Space and Place, 2014
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