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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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Over the past four decades, the small town of Naivasha in Kenya has attracted tens of thousands of labour migrants.
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Freelancing eagles: interpretation as a transient career strategy for skilled migrants
Journal of Management Development, 2013PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to assess the role that transient interpretation jobs play in the career development of skilled migrants.Design/methodology/approachBased on interviews and correspondence with ethnic Albanian interpreters in the USA and Britain, this study analyzes the bonding and bridging effects of transient careers.
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Asian and Pacific Migration Journal, 2023
Precarity often characterizes the inadequate social and legal protection that transient migrants receive. Drawing on participant observation and semi-structured interviews of Chinese migrant workers of Mainland Chinese enterprises in Brunei Darussalam between 2021 and 2022, this paper discusses their precarious experiences by demonstrating their ...
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Precarity often characterizes the inadequate social and legal protection that transient migrants receive. Drawing on participant observation and semi-structured interviews of Chinese migrant workers of Mainland Chinese enterprises in Brunei Darussalam between 2021 and 2022, this paper discusses their precarious experiences by demonstrating their ...
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“Transient Communities”: How Central American Transit Migrants form Solidarity Without Trust
Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2020Migrants in transit through Mexico are often separated from their social networks; this increases the risks associated with an already precarious process.
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Historicizing precarity: A labour geography of ‘transient’ migrant workers in Ontario tobacco
Geoforum, 2014Abstract So-called ‘transient workers’ from Quebec and Atlantic Canada made up a significant proportion of Ontario’s tobacco harvest workforce in the postwar era, though there is no existing research on this migrant population. Based on analysis of an unexamined archive, the article explores the relationship between seasonal transient workers ...
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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.
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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 +3 more
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Decoding impermanent narratives: A study of transient migrants as digital influencers on YouTube
Transitions: Journal of Transient MigrationStudents migrate from India annually for higher education in large numbers. Social media has become an essential network for disseminating information related to aspects of migration like student visas, college applications, residence and finances. YouTube engages vigorously in this dispersion of information.
Gunjan Gupta, Tanushri Banerjee
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Japanese migrants in London: a ’transient community’
2001Changes in the organisation of the global economy have created a series of new flows and transformed the nature of others. Manufactured products that were never previously traded internationally are now available uniformly across large parts of the globe – the international distribution of several premier makes of beer is an obvious example ...
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Television & New Media, 2018
With the rapid development of new media technology, many people are “cutting the cords” and viewing television through Internet-based video services via streaming or downloading. This study aims to better understand and contextualize this phenomenon through investigating Korean transient migrants’ television-viewing practices. Through forty qualitative
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With the rapid development of new media technology, many people are “cutting the cords” and viewing television through Internet-based video services via streaming or downloading. This study aims to better understand and contextualize this phenomenon through investigating Korean transient migrants’ television-viewing practices. Through forty qualitative
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Rural migrants in urban China: Enclaves and transient urbanism
2013After 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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