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Jones, Pearl. "Analysing visual representations in the North Korean Refugee Movement for Social Change and Justice." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22987.
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Art has the ability to give voice to the vast number of ordinary citizens suffering undertotalitarian rule in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, both past and present. Thispaper uses a mixed-analysis approach to examine three selected examples of visualrepresentations concerning the North Korean Refugee Movement in order to illustrate howArt functions as a strategic component of C4D, and how it can be effectively used by socialmovements as a way of framing movements’ identities in collective action, promotingawareness and enhancing resource mobilisation through the emotive communication ofknowledge. Art has been found to play an important role in the communication and transferof knowledge by creating powerful emotions and providing a voice to the otherwisevoiceless. Visual texts can be used strategically by social movements in the area of C4D toreinforce/create a collective identity and aid in movement participation by enhancingsolidarity and self-assurance while creating motivation for collective action.
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Ericson, von Bahr Vera. "Sacred Resistance : Exploring the Roles of Religious Organizations in the Refugee Movement “Lampedusa in Hamburg” 2013-2014." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Religionsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-41312.
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This study explores the roles of religious organizations in the refugee movement “Lampedusa in Hamburg”, in Hamburg, Germany during 2013 and 2014. “Lampedusa in Hamburg” consisted of approximately 300 refugees who had come from Libya, and decided to fight for their right to stay in Germany. Early on, religious organizations became important supporters to the movement, by providing the members food and shelter. By analyzing archival material and interviews with two religious representatives, this thesis investigates the involvement of religious organizations, their collaborations, and the outcomes produced by their work during the protests, using theories connected to secularization and religion and migration. The analysis shows that the involvement of religious organizations in the “Lampedusa in Hamburg”- movement is an example of how faith-based actors in the West are standing up against authorities and objecting migration policies. Their work, collaborations and impact were clearly shaped by national ties with the German state and their position in society. Further, local dynamics formed the roles of the religious organizations, especially in the case of the St. Pauli church – one of the most central religious actors – located in St. Pauli, a block with a long history of protests. During the Lampedusa in Hamburg-movement, processes operating at global, national, and local scales met, exposing the complexities of the roles that religious organizations take on, as they become involved in migrant processes in Western Europe today.
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Singer, Allison Jane. "'Hidden treasures, hidden voices' : an ethnographic study of movement and dance in psychosocial work with war-affected refugee children and adults (Serbia 2001-2002)." Thesis, De Montfort University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2086/4258.
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Barasa, Noela N. "Kenya's implementation of the smuggling protocol in response to the irregular movement of migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia." University of the Western Cape, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/2985.
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Neumann, Cora Lockwood. "Examining the role of traditional health networks in the Karen self determination movement along the Thai-Burma border : examining indigenous medical systems and practice among displaced populations along the Thai-Burma border." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e9a5b7a1-5b9c-43ba-9dcb-250f53b33128.
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According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), by 2012 there were 15.4 million refugees and 28.8 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) forced to flee their homes due to war or violent conflict across the globe. Upon arrival in their host settings, forced migrants struggle with acute health and material needs, as well as issues related to identity, politics, power and place. The Karen ethnic minority of Burma (also known as Myanmar) has been involved in a prolonged civil conflict with the Burmese military government for nearly six decades. This fighting has resulted in massive internal displacement and refugee flight, and although a ceasefire was signed in 2012, continued violence has been reported. This study among the displaced Karen population along the Thai-Burma border examines the relationships between traditional – or indigenous – medicine, the population's health needs, and the broader social and political context. Research was conducted using an ethnographic case-study approach among 170 participants along the Thai-Burma border between 2003 and 2011. Research findings document the rapid evolution and formalisation of the Karen traditional medical system. Findings show how the evolutionary process was influenced by social needs, an existing base medical knowledge among traditional health practitioners, and a dynamic social and political environment. Evidence suggests that that Karen traditional medicine practitioners, under the leadership of the Karen National Union (KNU) Department of Health and Welfare, are serving neglected and culturally-specific health needs among border populations. Moreover, this research also provides evidence that Karen authorities are revitalising their traditional medicine, as part of a larger effort to strengthen their social infrastructure including the Karen self-determination movement. In particular, these Karen authorities are focused on building a sustainable health infrastructure that can serve Karen State in the long term. From the perspectives of both refugee health and development studies, the revival of Karen traditional medicine within a refugee and IDP setting represents an adaptive response by otherwise medically under-served populations. This case offers a model of healthcare self-sufficiency that breaks with the dependency relationships characteristic of most conventional refugee and IDP health services. And, through the mobilisation of tradition for contemporary needs, it offers a dimension of cultural continuity in a context where discontinuity and loss of culture are hallmarks of the forced migration experience.
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Mäkelä, Fanny. "Broken Solidarity: The Refugees Welcome Movement in Sweden 2015-2020." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23449.
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This qualitative inquiry explores and describes the Refugees Welcome movement in Sweden from 2015 to 2020 by exploring how people became volunteers, their motivation and experience while at the same time describing events, sceneries, and context with the help of their stories. The empirical material consists of 25 interviews with 20 interviewees, the theoretical perspectives come from the fields of volunteering, civil society, and social movements. A thematic analysis is the method used and the results are presented as part 1 Refugees Welcome to Malmö during the refugee crisis in the fall of 2015, and part 2 with the post-2015 Refugees Welcome initiatives separated by the establishment of checkpoints. The volunteers paint a picture of civil society handling an international issue in a globalized world, and what happens when that globalized world closes. The conclusion is that when the states of Europe introduced checkpoints it drastically changed the context of the opportunities to help refugees, cutting off networks of solidarity from the Mediterranean Sea to Malmö Central Station, and when the local authorities took over the responsibility for the refugee reception they cut off civil society and killing the engagement of the volunteers.
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Ssemugenyi, Daniel. "Challenges to Refugees' Freedom of Movement in Uganda : A Case of Self-Settled Refugees in Kisenyi, Kampala." Thesis, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Geografisk institutt, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-17032.
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The thesis discusses the challenges to refugees’ freedom of movement in Uganda. The main objective of this study was to explore the factors confronted by refugees in a bid to exercise their relative freedom of movement in Uganda and was conducted from Kisenyi suburb in Kampala city. To achieve this objective, the study employed quantitative approach and key informant interviews for data collection in addition to secondary materials. Respondents were selected using systematic sampling approach where a sampling frame was used and a total of 100 research participants were interviewed and purposive sampling was meant for the key informants. In data analysis, the study dwelt on the Rights- Based Approach which postulated that governments and other duty bearers have to protect, respect and fulfil all the human rights of the rights-holders which in the end leads to refugees’ rights realization. This is in line with the study’s objective of ensuring that refugees enjoy their relative freedom of movement which would enable them participate in the social and economic life to attain self-sufficiency. The study identified a couple of factors refugees expressed as impediments to their right of movement in Uganda. Firstly, they revealed that the lack of identity documents curtails them from freely moving in Uganda as this has subjected many of them to enormous police harassments, bribery and extortions, valuable confiscations.The study also revealed that refugees feel insecure in both their places of residence because of xenophobia from the locals and living within the same vicinity with theirivformer enemies as well as insecurity aggravated by the police personnel which compelled many of the refugees to limit on their movements.
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Collyer, Michael. "Explaining change in established migration systems : the movement of Algerians to France and Britain." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.247973.
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Johnstone, Julia. "Consequences of Ethnic Conflict: Explaining Refugee Movements in the Southeast Asia/Pacific Region." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Political Science, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/892.
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Ethnic conflict is the most common type of internal armed conflict in the world. It often involves systematic attacks on civilian populations and is therefore also the major source of most of the world's 9.2 million external refugees and 25 million internal refugees. In 2003, Asia-Pacific was the region second most affected by conflict-induced displacement and in 2004 it had the second largest global number of internal refugees following Africa. Given the likelihood that this trend will continue, it is perhaps surprising that a relative lack of research has been conducted concerning the relationship between ethnic conflict and refugee movements within this region compared to other areas. It is therefore imperative that a comprehensive study be undertaken to fill this void of knowledge. The fundamental question posed by my thesis is why do some ethnic conflicts produce external refugees and others do not in the Southeast Asia/Pacific region? To answer this question, this thesis develops a theoretical model from which to analyse variations in both external and internal refugee numbers as a result of ethnic conflict in the region. It applies the model to specific ethnic conflicts in Fiji, Indonesia, the Philippines, and the Solomon Islands during the period 1995 2005 and identifies a common set of factors conducive to creating internal and external refugees. The findings emphasise the interlinked nature of the variables and demonstrate that no single-factor explanation exists that can explain how refugees are created.
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Johnstone, Julia. "Consequences of ethnic conflict : explaining refugee movements in the Southeast Asia/Pacific Region /." Saarbrücken, Germany : VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008. http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/etd/adt-NZCU20060830.124838.
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Vo, Dang Thanh Thuy. "Anticommunism as cultural praxis South Vietnam, war, and refugee memories in the Vietnamese American community /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3307329.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2008.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed July 14, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-235).
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Witherow, Keely. "The nexus between discourse and multi-level governance during times of crisis : Sweden during the 2015-2016 refugee movements." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Statsvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-150012.
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In order to understand the role of discourse in a system of multi-level governance, this thesis performs a case study of Sweden’s response to the 2015-2016 refugee crisis. Initially praised as the European country who accepted the highest number of asylum applications per capita, by the end of 2015 Sweden had limited its asylum policy to the minimum levels under EU law. The abrupt policy change coincided with the emergence of two primary refugee discourses among media and politicians: a solidarity-oriented discourse and a problem-oriented discourse. While both discourses are visible at each level of governance, the national government expressed a commitment to solidarity through its humanitarian ideology while the local municipalities often described the challenges of accommodating the refugees as problematic. To analyze the impact of contrasting discourses at multiple levels of governance, a critical discourse analysis is conducted of news media in Sweden at the national level and the local level and discussed with reference to the theory of postcolonialism. The discourse analysis is then compared to the major changes to refugee policy at the national level and refugee reception at the local level. The results indicate a strong relationship between refugee policy/reception and media discourse at each level of governance, but a much weaker relationship between the levels of governance. This research provides new insight into the theory of multi-level governance and migration studies through its comparison of refugee governance at multiple levels.
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McAlpin, Kathleen. "Ongoing conversion in ministry, movement from critiquing issues about refugees to compassionate love of neighbors." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ35454.pdf.
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Bakewell, Oliver. "Refugees repatriation or migrating villagers? : A study of movement from north west Zambia to Angola." Thesis, University of Bath, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.285298.
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Costa, Maria João Ferreira Rodrigues. "Effects of hydropeaking and refuge configurations on the behaviour of cyprinids in experimental flume conditions." Doctoral thesis, ISA/UL, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/18333.
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Doutoramento em Restauro e Gestão Fluviais (FLUVIO) - Instituto Superior de Agronomia / Faculdade de Arquitetura / Instituto Superior TécnicoFlow regime regulates the ecological integrity of river ecosystems, shaping the structure and function of fish communities. The discharge fluctuations in hydropower plants in response to peak electricity demand (i.e. hydropeaking) result in rapid flow changes in tailwaters. The continued hydropower operations produced morphological, hydraulic and water quality alterations, affecting downstream fish. Fish responses to hydropeaking range from organism to life-cycle event changes. It is challenging to establish a cause-effect relationship between flow variability and a fish response, and to propose adequate mitigation measures. In the first part of this research, a literature review was conducted to find evidence for that relationship. The review showed that flow variability can represent a stressor for fish. However, it remained unclear if the responses were maladaptive. In the second part, the effects of hydropeaking and refuges were assessed for L. bocagei in an indoor flume. A multidisciplinary approach was adopted, where fish responses were combined with a hydraulic characterization. Peak events were tested by manipulating magnitude, peak frequency and duration. The refuges were lateral (meandering and one-sided deflectors) and instream (triangular pyramids and v-shaped) structures, tested along three experimental campaigns. Glucose and lactate (secondary responses), and movement behaviour (whole-animal responses) were assessed. The flow field and fluid-body interactions were characterized by using acoustic Doppler velocimetry and an artificial lateral line probe respectively. The movement patterns of L. bocagei were diverse and not always proportional to the severity of the flow event. Lateral deflectors and v-shaped structures provided low velocity areas. However, the created flow complexity represented an additional constraint for fish, reducing their ability to find them. Flow thresholds that represented the resting state of L. bocagei were identified, and specific movement patterns were related with hydrodynamic changes. Practical recommendations for operational schemes and for the implementation of mitigation measures to hydropeaking were proposed
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Rainey, B. A. "Responses top mass movements of refugees in national and international law : past, present and future." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.273425.
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Kornberger, Martin, Stephan Leixnering, Renate Meyer, and Markus Höllerer. "Rethinking the sharing economy: The nature and organization of sharing in the 2015 refugee crisis." AOM, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/amd.2016.0138.
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Our paper focuses on a non-standard sharing example that harbors the potential to disrupt received wisdom on the sharing economy. While originally entering the field to analyze, broadly from a governance perspective, how the 2015 refugee crisis was handled in Vienna, Austria, we found that the non-governmental organization Train of Hope - labeled as a "citizen start-up" by City of Vienna officials - played an outstanding role in mastering the crisis. In a blog post during his visit in Vienna at the time, and experiencing the refugee crisis first-hand, it was actually Henry Mintzberg who suggested reading the phenomenon as part of the "sharing economy". Continuing this innovative line of thought, we argue that our unusual case is in fact an excellent opportunity to discover important aspects about both the nature and organization of sharing. First, we uncover an additional dimension of sharing beyond the material sharing of resources (i.e., the economic dimension): the sharing of a distinct concern (i.e., the moral dimension of sharing). Our discovery exemplifies such a moral dimension that is rather different from the status quo materialistic treatments focusing on economic transactions and property rights arguments. Second, we hold that a particular form of organizing facilitates the sharing economy: the sharing economy organization. This particular organizational form is distinctive - at the same time selectively borrowing and skillfully combining features from platform organizations (e.g., use of technology as an intermediary for exchange and effective coordination, ability to tap into external resources) and social movements (e.g., mobilization, shared identity, collective action). It is a key quality of this form of organization to enable the balancing of the two dimensions inherent in the nature of sharing: economic and moral. Our paper contributes to this Special Issue of the Academy of Management Discoveries by highlighting and explaining the two-fold economic and moral nature of sharing and the organization of sharing between movement and platform.
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Terzibasoglu, Yucel. "Landlords, nomads and refugees : struggles over land and population movements in north-western Anatolia [1877-1914]." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.405569.
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This thesis is a study on the changing property relations in rural Anatolia in the late nineteenth century. The contention underpinning it is that the transformation that took place during the course of the nineteenth century, in the countryside, in the Ottoman society and in the nature of state power, fundamentally altered the property relations on land, and consequently, changed the nature of land conflicts and claims in Ottoman Anatolia. The claims and counter-claims put forth by the nomadic groups, refugees from the wars in the Balkans, landowners, and peasantcultivators centred around the very definition of property on land. The pressure on land resulting from large-scale population movements into the empire and the settlement of nomads had impinged, in a fundamental manner, on the existing patterns of land use and forms of ownership, and rendered critical the delineation and enforcement of land boundaries, as well as the protection of existing land rights. At the same time, these rights were being redefined by the central state, which had begun codification of a generalized and unified legal framework for land ownership in the empire, and registration of land rights according to the categories of the new property regime. These modern administrative practices were aimed at transforming use rights on land into exclusionary ownership rights, and were hotly contested both by those who were adversely affected by privatised land rights and by the nomads whose custom was increasingly being criminalised. At the turn of the twentieth century, when the multi-ethnic Ottoman empire was disintegrating into many nation-states, and in an atmosphere of worsening intercommunal relations, this contestation rapidly led to the framing of land claims in an ethnically and religiously oppositional language. Claims to land, as a result, were channelled to the arena of ethnic politics, to the realm of nationalism
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Butz, Andrew David. "Selling Protest in the News? Movement-Media Framing of Occupations: an Exploratory Study." PDXScholar, 2018. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4510.
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Using quantitative content analysis, this study explores social movement (SM) framing in commercial news media -- by comparing how leading newspapers covered prominent protest occupations in 2011 and 2016. More than other SMs, anti-systemic protests like the 2011 Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and the 2016 Malheur Refuge Occupation (MRO) only have partial frame-setting agency, raising a broad theory question (to inform the research questions below): If SMs and media relate as interacting systems, are protest news frames more movement- or more media- driven; and do media not just enable but also constrain SMs?
With the movement-media theory question above, the study design adapts media opportunity structure (MOS) to model a hierarchy of influences on news coverage of ideologically opposed or "distant twin" OWS and MRO, as 40- to 60-day protest occupations. The focused research question -- exploring media's constraining potential -- asks if commercial news framing of collective action: i) commercially frames or "sells" even anti-corporate protest; or ii) instead marginalizes or neutralizes such protest? Coverage from three top national or state newspapers (The New York Times, USA Today, and The Oregonian) was analyzed randomly from all protest stories during the occupations. Sampled time periods in 2011 and 2016, during actual encampments/ occupations in Portland, OR and New York City (OWS) and in Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Oregon (MRO), also correspond with transitional years in print news.
The inductive-based comparative results, from 15 coding dimensions for news framing of collective action, dispersed passivity, and commercially-framed activism, showed some evidence for the "selling protest" question. And the compiled summary Framing Advantages and Disadvantages yield this study's key finding: Although anti-corporate OWS was far larger, with more widespread media coverage, the comparative overall media frame for the small, remote, anti-government MRO was far more potent and resonant.
Comparing media-and-movement framing of these distant twin 40-day protest occupations finds some support for the "selling (or underselling) protest" question. This comparative frame analysis helps bridge micro- and macro-theory levels, addressing an enduring dual gap in movement-media research literature -- to yield insight on SMs' and media's respective roles in protest news framing and then identify potential mechanisms for future research.
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Juliawan, Benedictus Hari. "Playing politics : labour movements in post-authoritarian Indonesia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b7d799e4-5a32-4bb3-81fb-76578c78c07f.
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Since the collapse of the New Order regime in 1998, democratisation and economic liberalisation have combined to create both opportunities and constraints for the revival of organised labour in Indonesia. The picture of post-authoritarian labour movements painted by various scholars is almost universally bleak, portraying helpless trade unions in the face of economic impasse and the undemocratic remnants of the old forces. Being overtly cautious of the new democracy, this line of analysis has not done justice to Indonesian labour movements. It overestimates the ghost of the old dictatorship and underestimates the power of budding organised labour. Using trade union as the unit of analysis, this dissertation seeks to offer a different view of Indonesian labour movements. It looks at shifting political opportunities in the regions and the agency of trade unions which constitute a political force that is far from being consolidated but has certainly made a significant contribution to the broadening of democratic politics. In negotiating pressures that originate from an increasingly liberalised economy, trade unions have adopted a strategy which is called „playing politics‟ in this dissertation. The term means that in the absence of significant market power, trade unions enter into the realm of power politics primarily by organising labour as social movements and attempt to ally with political elites, exploit the conflicts that emerge within state institutions and between the state and business, and try to join the ruling classes. In developing this argument, this dissertation makes two contributions to the study of labour politics in Indonesia: its reassessment of the historiography of the first ten years of post-authoritarianism and its offer of insights into possible future directions of labour politics.
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McMillen, Janet L. "Productivity and movements of the greater sandhill crane population at Seney National Wildlife Refuge: potential for an antroduction of whooping cranes." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1298917399.
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McMillen, Janet L. "Productivity and movements of the greater sandhill crane population at Seney National Wildlife Refuge : potential for an introduction of whooping cranes /." The Ohio State University, 1988. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487588939090135.
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Yokotsuka, Shino. "Internalizing the Norm of Burden Sharing: The UNHCR, Social Movements, and Empathetic Social Activists as a Solution." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1366369620.
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Alsbjer, Annelie, and Linn Sjöberg. "Civilengagemang i sociala medier : En studie av Refugees Welcome to Gothenburgs mediering och medialisering." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-29346.
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Denna studie har undersökt medialiseringen av nätverket Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg. Det har skett genom att identifiera sociala handlingar på en mesonivå för att hitta medieringsprocesser bland dem. Analysen på makronivå (i relation med samhället) har i sin tur visat vilken betydelse medieringsprocesserna har haft för Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg. Urvalet har skett på sociala medier och nätverkets webbsida. Analysen är baserad på ett ramverk av Alice Mattoni och Emiliano Treré (2014) kombinerat med medialiseringsteorier, mer specifikt, Winfried Schulzs (2004) fyra processer inom medialisering tillsammans med José van Dijck och Thomas Poells (2013) medielogik på sociala medier. En kvalitativ textanalys har använts för att kunna studera materialet. Analysen har genomförts på två nivåer, en mesonivå för att hitta de sociala handlingarna och deras medieringsprocesser, och på en makronivå, för att se medialiseringen inom Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg. Resultatet visade att Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg har en stark medialisering, men att de samtidigt är långt från helt medialiserade. Vissa sociala handlingar har inte medialiseras, men har fortfarande haft en sammanslagning (amalgamation) med andra medierade handlingar. Slutligen har studien också påvisat att sociala rörelser bör studeras ytterligare ur ett medieperspektiv, för att förstå funktioner och förändringar inom dem.This study has examined the mediatization of the social movement Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg. By identifying social practices at a meso level within Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg, mediation processes have been found. The analysis at a macro level (in relation with the society) have then led to the understanding of the mediation processes. The material selection has been made on social media and on the website of Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg. The analysis is based on a conceptual framework by Alice Mattoni and Emiliano Treré (2014), combined with mediatization theories, and more specifically, the four processes of social change within mediatization by Winfried Schulz (2004) together with the media logics in social media by José van Dijck and Thomas Poell (2013). A qualitative text analysis was used in order to study the material. The analysis was performed at two levels, firstly, at a meso level to identify the social practices and the mediation processes, and secondly, at a macro level to find the mediatization of Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg. The results showed that Refugees Welcome to Gothenburg has a strong mediatization, but at the same time, not completely. Some social practices have not been mediated. The non-mediated social practices, however, have shown an amalgamation (joining) with the mediated social practices. Finally, the essay has also shown that social movements should be studied from a media perspective even further, to be able to understand functions and changes within them.
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Stjärnqvist, Amanda. "Balancing Independence and Neutrality : A Study of Civil Society and State Interaction." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Statsvetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35028.
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Interaction between the civil society and the state has increased in modern democracies. This thesis analyzes the forms and dynamics of the interaction between civil society and governmental institutions in Skåne about the issue of refugee reception. This is done by examining two overarching research questions: 1. How, why and between which actors interaction occurs; and 2. How interaction develops over time and which factors influence the changing nature of the interaction. With the theoretical framework of civil society and state relations, governance, social movements and critical junctures, a research model is developed to analyze the case of interaction between the spheres in Skåne. The research model is based upon semi-structured interviews with governmental institutions and representatives from civil society organizations. The development of the interaction is described through the framework of critical junctures, showing the interaction developed with an intention of increased interaction and participation, while being cautious of the independence and neutrality of the civil society at the same time. The results show that the interaction occurs through partnership, networks, funding and personal informal interaction. Shared goals and the intention of increasing interaction because it is believed to better solve the complex problems are reasons for interaction. The empirical findings point at factors such as ideological affinity, structure, resources and experience to be important to gain access to the interaction. Another important conclusion is the lack of representation of certain valuable perspectives, such as Muslim organizations or free churches. The issue of representation stems mostly from structural factors and lack of resources. Relations between the civil society and governmental institutions in Skåne has grown closer, and the interaction is complex and dynamic. Together, the spheres address the complex issue of refugee reception. It is characterized by a mutual respect and an awareness of the necessity of an independent and neutral civil society. In spite of problems with representation, the interaction does facilitate knowledge exchange and increases adaptability to complexity. It has increased the overall participation in interaction between the spheres.
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Allison, John Bryan. "Characterization of sediment movement in tidal creeks adjacent to the gulf intracoastal waterway at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Austwell, TX: study of natural factors and effects of barge-induced drawdown currents." Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2347.
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The coastal wetlands at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge near Austwell, Texas,
support the last migrating population of whooping cranes during the winter months
(October through April). With a population currently at 216 individuals, these are the
rarest cranes in the world. The wetlands in which they winter are a part of the San
Antonio Bay system, a bay that receives constant fresh water flow from the Guadalupe
River. Currently there is a plan for using water diverted from the Guadalupe River just
before it enters San Antonio Bay as a water supply for the greater San Antonio
metropolitan area located 200 km to the northwest. The Guadalupe River delivers
nutrients and sediment into the estuary along with fresh water. Because of the
importance of sediment within a tidal wetland ecosystem, it is imperative to understand
the sediment budget and underlying forces that drive it if one is to ultimately grasp how
this ecosystem functions. To document natural and anthropogenic factors exerting
control over sediment movement in this system, three sites on tidal creeks near the
boundary between marsh and bay were chosen. The Gulf Intracoastal Waterwayparallels the marsh edge. Over six, non-consecutive weeks water level and velocity were
automatically monitored in the tidal creeks. Automated water samplers extracted water
samples that were analyzed for suspended sediment. In addition, bedload traps were
deployed in one creek to monitor sediment movement along the channel bottom. Inflow
exceeded outflow during the study. As a result there was a net influx of suspended
sediments into the marsh. Bedload material also moves with current direction, and it
appears to move in response to barge induced outflow currents. Barges passing on the
Gulf Intracoastal Waterway exert influence on water level, flow direction, and velocity
within tidal creeks. Natural factors such as winds, tides, and freshwater input from
upland runoff or river discharge also impact suspended and bedload sediments.
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Walsh, Kym. "Diurnal Movements and Site Fidelity of the Florida Manatee, Trichechus manatus latirostris, in Fort Lauderdale, FL." Thesis, NSUWorks, 2010. https://nsuworks.nova.edu/occ_stuetd/196.
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The diurnal movements of Florida manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) in warmwater refugia are poorly understood and these may prove critical in accurately estimating populations of these animals. Previous studies indicate that manatee populations in such refuges in Tampa Bay, FL, peak mid-day and decline towards evening when the animals leave to forage. This trend suggests that variation in the timing of aerial manatee population surveys may hamper accurate estimation of the true population size. Aerial survey counts are known to underestimate population size, yet the extent of the underestimation may be greater than expected. In this study data were collected over three seasons from land-based surveys monitoring the presence of manatees in the effluent canal from the Florida Power and Light electricity generating facility in Port Everglades, FL between 15 November and 31 March. My findings indicated there was no significant difference in the number of manatees observed during the seasons studied despite a significant difference in ambient water temperatures. There was a significant correlation in the number of manatees an observer can expect to see based on time of day with the trend indicating there are higher numbers of observable manatees in the morning compared to later in the day. This suggests that early morning aerial counts will more accurately reflect true manatee presence in the Port Everglades power plant. Photographs of individual manatees yielded a total of 58 animals with unique scaring patterns.
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Munro, Kirstin Marie Elizabeth. "Trade-offs: the Production of Sustainability in Households." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3777.
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Over the past half-century, environmental problems have become increasingly serious and seemingly intractable, and a careless, clueless, or contemptuous consumer is often portrayed as the root cause of this environmental decline. This study takes a different approach to evaluating the demand for resources by households, assessing possible pro-environmental paths forward through a study of highly ecologically-conscious households. By modeling "green" households as producers of sustainability rather than consumers of environmental products, the sustainability work that takes place in households is brought into focus. An investigation of household sustainability production makes possible the evaluation of the trade-offs inherent in these pro-environmental activities.
Ethnographic interviews with 23 sustainability-oriented households with young children living in and near Portland, Oregon, provide data on how households balance priorities and get things done in day-to-day life by employing the available resources, limited by constraining factors. An orienting perspective combining neoclassical and radical political economic theories of household production frames the analysis of how households make choices between alternatives. Sociological theories of consumption and theories of social practice aid in the analysis of how these choices have evolved over time, and how household members view the social meanings of these choices. Particular attention is paid to areas of day-to-day life neglected in previous research--household waste, comfort, and cleanliness.
The results indicate that there is not one "sustainability" with varying degrees across a "green" spectrum, but rather varying priorities in the sustainability realm--personal health, nature, waste avoidance, technology, and community. This analysis reveals some of the negative consequences of shifting the responsibility for environmental protection to households. Ecologically-conscious households devote substantial time and money to these sustainability efforts, but their efforts frequently stimulate conflicts, and the end results are rarely perfect. Constrained resources and limited information mean household members must make trade-offs between competing priorities, often under duress. The results suggest that policies promoting household-level sustainability efforts may be misguided, as this transfer of institutional responsibility for environmental protection to individuals and groups results in even greater burdens on households, whose time and money are already stretched to their limits.
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Schilmar, Boris. "Der Europadiskurs im deutschen Exil : 1933 - 1945 /." München : Oldenbourg, 2004. http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0f0v2-aa.
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Childers, Rex A. "The Rationality of Nonconformity: the United States decision to refuse ratification of Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1214247432.
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Xu, Bei. "Les approches extrêmes de la contagion sur les marchés financiers." Thesis, Bordeaux 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012BOR40033.
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La thèse est composée de trois parties. La première présente un certain nombre de mesures de dépendance extrême. Une application sur les actions et les obligations de 49 pays montre que la théorie des valeurs extrêmes multivariées conduit aux résultats différents de ceux issus du coefficient de corrélation, mais relativement proches de ceux obtenus du rho de Spearman conditionnel multivarié. Cette partie évalue aussi le risque de pertes importantes simultanées. La deuxième partie examine les déterminants des co-mouvements extrêmes entre 5 pays core et 49 pays non core. Les mécanismes de transmission des chocs varient de la période moins récente à la période récente, des pays développés aux pays émergents, des chocs normaux aux chocs extrêmes. La troisième partie étudie le rôle de valeur refuge de l’or sur la période 1986-2012. Les gains positifs extrêmes de l'or peuvent être liés aux pertes extrêmes du S&P. Cependant, ce lien n'est pas toujours valable, il évolue dans le temps et serait conditionné par d'autres facteursThe thesis consists of three parts. The first part introduces a number of measures of extreme dependency. An application on stock and bond markets of 49 countries shows the multivariate extreme value theory leads to results which are different from those from the correlation coefficient, but relatively close to those obtained from multivariate conditional Spearman's rho. This part also assesses the risk of simultaneous losses. The second part examines the determinants of extreme co-movements between 5 core countries and 49 non-core countries. Transmission mechanisms of shocks vary from less recent to recent period, from developed to emerging markets, from normal to extreme shocks. The third part examines the role of safe haven of gold over the period 1986-2012. Extreme positive gains of gold can be linked to extreme losses of S&P. However, this relationship is not always valid, it evolves over time and could be determined by other factors
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Altar, Sylvie. "Etre juif à Lyon de l'avant-guerre à la libération." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSE2095.
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Le cadre global des persécutions juives en France, les mécanismes de la Shoah sont largement connus. Sur 330 000 Juifs qui vivaient France en 1940, 80 000 ont été victimes des persécutions d’État et des déportations. En deçà de cette histoire nationale, André Kaspi s’étonne en 1991 que des centres aussi importants que Lyon, Toulouse, Grenoble n’aient pas fait l’objet d’étude attentive et scientifique (Les Juifs pendant l’Occupation, Édition du Seuil, 1991, 150 p.). Les travaux locaux ont comblé ce manque depuis. Mais le déroulement sur le terrain au quotidien, au « ras des individus », mérite encore de faire l’objet de nouvelles investigations, sans perdre de vue la diversité des situations que l’on soit de part et d’autre de la ligne de démarcation. Lyon, en zone libre jusqu’en novembre 1942, n’est pas à considérer comme Paris occupée dès juin 1940. Dans cette étude nous n’avons eu de cesse de nous interroger sur ce qui fait les spécificités de Lyon. Globalement le sort des Juifs dans la capitale des Gaules a été proche de leurs coreligionnaires de la zone sud. Toutefois, écrire l’histoire des Juifs à Lyon de l’avant-guerre à la Libération, revient à s’intéresser à des itinéraires de vie et de survie dans une ville dont certaines caractéristiques lui sont propres. L’histoire des Juifs à Lyon de l’avant-guerre à la Libération, en plus de parler de la Shoah dans la cité rhodanienne, cherche à raconter les ondes de choc d’une Europe en guerre sur les individus pour comprendre ce qui leur arrive. C’est en étant plus attentifs au tissu de la vie quotidienne, dans sa diversité individuelle que nous nous proposons dans cette étude de restituer la dimension humaine d’un monde qui a été au bord du gouffreThe global framework of the Jew's persecutions in France as well as the mechanisms of the Shoah are widely known. 80 000 Jews out of the 330 000 who were living in France in 1940 have been the victims of state persecutions and deportations. On this side of this national history, Andre Kaspi was surprised in 1991 at seeing that cities as populated as Lyon, Toulouse or Grenoble had not been given an active and scientific consideration (Les Juifs pendant l'Occupation, Édition du seuil, 1991, 150 p.). Local research have since then enabled to address this lack. However, the daily course of operations, as close as possible to each individual, still deserves to be submitted to new investigations, without losing sight of the diversity of situations on both sides of the line of demarcation. The city of Lyon, which was within the unoccupied zone until November 1942, is not to be compared with the city of Paris which had been occupied from June 1940.In this essay, we kept wondering about the causes related to the specificities of the city of Lyon. On the whole, the fate of the Jews in the capital of the Gauls was almost the same as for their co-religionists in the south zone. Nevertheless, writing about the history of the Jews in Lyon from the pre-war years to the Liberation comes down to taking an interest in different journeys though life and survival within a city which has its own features.Besides tackling the Shoah in the Rhone city of Lyon, the history of the Jews in Lyon from the pre-war years to the Liberation, also aims at telling about the shock waves experienced by individuals in a Europe in war and perceiving what was happening to them. By paying more attention to the fabric of daily life seen in its individual diversity, we thereby intend to reconstruct the human dimension of a world which was once on the brink of the abyss
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Reed, Patrick. "A foothold in the whirlpool : Canada's Iberian refugee movement." Thesis, 1996. http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/4537/1/MM10890.pdf.
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Peters, Tanya. "Interweaving place: A transitional interior for refugee women and children set in West Broadway, Winnipeg." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/22125.
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As the world shifts and changes, so do its people, and every day, more refugees are forced out-of-place, out of their homelands, and into a foreign and unfamiliar context. Many of these refugees are women, single mothers, who along with their children, are set to face many challenges in the process of re-settling into a new cultural landscape.
This project is a study on how the design of an interior can aid in the difficult process of transitioning between lands and cultures. Within it, I explore the making of place through the design of a transitional residence for women and children refugees, set within the dynamic urban landscape of West Broadway in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
I proceed through this project through an exploration of four conceptual frameworks and examine the project and its users in relation to movement and migration, to boundaries, to the contact zone, and finally to weaving.
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Barasa, Noela N. "Kenyaâs Implementation of the Smuggling Protocol in Response to the Irregular Movement of Migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia." Thesis, 2012. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9783_1373550331.
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Almeida, Francisca Vaz Pinto Simões de. "Viagens como ritual: percursos na Selva de Calais." Master's thesis, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10071/18540.
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Num mundo globalizado que se destaca pela diversidade e intensificação de actividade, dinamização e
mobilização, os conceitos de tempo e espaço alteram-se à luz de uma nova ordem mundial. Numa era
de transformação, em que o conceito de mobilidade adquire significados distintos para diferentes
indivíduos, emergem novas identidades e percursos que acarretam consigo formas desiguais de poder,
envolvidas na relação dinâmica com o movimento em si.
Perante uma crise global relacionada com o fluxo de refugiados, vivemos uma época em que o
próprio conceito de fronteira se altera, convocando consigo noções de cidadania e não cidadania,
exclusão e inclusão, num mundo moderno em que o campo como espaço de excepção, se torna regra.
Através de métodos de observação adaptados ao contexto da Selva de Calais, centrei a minha
pesquisa no que a mesma reporta consigo, à luz de um discurso de barbarismo contemporâneo e
simultânea manutenção dos indivíduos que nela (co)habitam como categoria. Busco compreender o
movimento como viagem particular de um processo ritual que objectiva uma ida para um território
específico para dele partir rumo ao Reino Unido, simbolizado como destino prometido.
Debrucei-me nos percursos estratégicos inseridos numa geografia simbólica da Selva como
palco em que indivíduos convertidos em actores rotulados, se vêm postos a participar. Como que
numa encenação muito própria, jogos de transição acarretam consigo uma continuidade descontínua
inserida em discursos políticos de separação que se perfazem entre o absurdo do campo e o atentado
real e metafórico aos ideais europeus, com especial ênfase, em França.
Numa teatralização óbvia das experiências, que vidas (re)produzem narrativas e significações
particulares de ritualização de um mito europeu em prole do sucesso, que nos transporta para a
realidade da Selva como viagem de iniciação do mesmo.In a globalized world that stands out for the diversity and intensification of activity, dynamism and mobilization, the concepts of time and space are changing in the light of a new world order. In an age of deeply transformations, in which the concept of mobility acquires distinct meanings to different people, new identities are emerging, bringing with them unequal forms of power involved in the relation with the movement itself. In a face of a global crisis related to the refugees’ flow, we are living in a time in which the concept of border is changing, as well as the notions of citizenship and non-citizenship, exclusion and inclusion. The refugee camps as spaces of exception are becoming the new rule in the modern world. Through observation methods adapted to the context of the Jungle of Calais, I focused my research on what it brings with it, in the light of a contemporary barbaric discourse and that maintains individuals living in it as a category. I intend to understand a specific movement of a ritual process that aims to go to the Jungle as a purpose to leave for the United Kingdom, symbolized as a promised destination. I focused on the strategic paths inserted in the Jungle, as a symbolic geography of a stage in which individuals are put to participate as labeled actors. Transitional games bring with them a discontinuous continuity inserted in political discourses of separation that are prefaced between the absurdity of the refugee camp and the real and metaphorical attack on European ideals, with emphasis on the French scenario. In an obvious theatrical way of experiences, my purpose is to explore lives that produce narratives and significations of a European myth ritualization of success, which transports us to the Jungle as a journey of initiation.
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Losango-Nzinga, Jean Didier. "How do transnational networks facilitate the movement of Congolese migrants and refugees into Johannesburg?" Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/4645.
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ABSTRACT.
The failure of the 1990 political transition in the Democratic Republic of Congo to
deliver on promises of better living conditions for all Congolese and the diminishing
job opportunities available to young Congolese have resulted in many looking for
economic opportunities outside their country of nationality. With most of the
European and North American countries effectively off limits due to restrictive
measures on migration (Bauman, 1998; Soguk 1999).
The post-apartheid South Africa is relatively prosperous. This fact couple with a
corrupt immigration and asylum system make the country very attractive for an
increasing number of Congolese migrants who desire a better standard of living.
Although the borders are relatively porous, the expense and hazards of moving require
resources that are not available to all. This project explores how migrant networks can
provide those resources through information and access to documentation, housing,
and opportunities for income-generation.
In particular, this thesis explores the role of social networks in structuring the
movements of Congolese into Johannesburg and their integration into its social fabric.
It intersects with a part of a growing body of literature demonstrating numerous new
ways in which contemporary global migrants remain closely connected to their places
of origin, to co-nationals or co-ethnics across nation-state borders, and indeed across
the world 1(Transnational Communities Programme; 1999).
While this analytical perspective has been applied fairly extensively to other groups of
migrants, few scholars have sought to examine the extent to which refugees and
asylum seekers maintain such a worldwide web of relationships (Crisp, 1999). Indeed,
academic discourses on refugees, and also the practical efforts made on their behalf
by United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) and other
humanitarian organizations, continue to be informed by the assumption of a rigid
separation between the exile country of origin and country of asylum (Crisp, 1999).
1 Programme of a workshop on ‘Policy challenge of the new migrants diasporas’, Chatham House,
London, 22-23 April 1999. Quoted by Jeff Crisp in: Policy challenges of the new diasporas: migrant
networks and their impact on asylum flows and regimes. WPTC-99-05 Policy Research Unit, UNHCR,
CP 2500, CH-1211 Geneva Switzerland. www.transcomm.ox.ac.uk/working%20papers/riia3.pdf
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Against this background, social networks play an important role in facilitating
migration, whether across borders or across regions (Guzman, Haslag and Orrenius
2004). These networks are likely to act as an important source of information to
prospective migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, providing them with details on
matters such as transport arrangements, entry requirements, asylum procedures and
social welfare benefits, as well as the detention and deportation policies of different
destination states (Crisp, 1999). Consequently, refugees and other migrants who have
access to such data are better placed to negotiate entry into developed countries than
those who do not2.
2 Given the increasingly important role these networks play in facilitating movement of people around
the world today, the emergence of the internet plays a major role in making these networks possible.
See report prepared for the Knowledge for Development Program of the World Bank: Role of Diaspora
in Facilitating Participation in Global Knowledge Networks: Lessons of Red Caldas in Colombia
(Bogota, December 2004).
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LAI, Hsuan-Ju, and 賴宣儒. "The Analysis of Movement Problems of Iraqi Refugees: A Case Study of Iraqi Kurds." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68760801256385530984.
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Kurdish is a nation who never established any independent regime and country in the history. The geographical distributeon in the land of Kurdistan, roughly distributed in Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. This article discusses Iraqi Kurdish refugee movements, and time distribution, including Saddam Hussein was in power in the 1980s to the first Gulf War in 1991 and the second Gulf War in 2003. This paper presents about the Kurdish problems and entanglements in Iraq history during Saddam Hussein in power, and it disputes to be described in the above paragragh two period of Iraqi Kurdish refugee movements resulting from an analysis of large-scale presentation. Finally, concludes the second Gulf War, which is also called Iraq War, relatively speaking, did not occur as in the 1980s and the first Gulf War in 1991, during triggered by Saddam Hussein’s ruling under the large-scale refugee movements.
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Tatten, Jessica. "Factors Influencing Stopover and Movement of Migratory Songbirds within the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge." 2021. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/masters_theses_2/1026.
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Most migrating songbirds are required to stopover to rest and replenish their fat reserves, and suitable stopover habitat is vitally important to their survival and success securing territories at their breeding and wintering grounds. Identifying and protecting stopover locations and movement corridors is essential to connecting all life stages of these species, yet there remain significant knowledge gaps regarding the utilization of stopover sites and fine-scale movements during migration, particularly at inland stopover areas. We investigated the factors that influence stopover duration and migration rate of ten migratory songbirds within the Silvio O. Conte National Fish and Wildlife Refuge in the Northeastern United States during two fall and spring seasons in 2015 and 2016 at 5 banding sites using automated telemetry. We expected that fat and mass would influence stopover duration and migration rate, in that birds with larger fat stores and greater masses would make shorter stopovers, and migrate faster than leaner birds. We also expected that birds would move faster in spring, and minimize time later in the season, by making shorter stopovers and migrating faster as the season progresses. A lower percentage of our focal species departed the banding sites within 24 hours compared to other studies in coastal and urban sites, indicating that more birds made stopovers. Sixteen percent of birds made prolonged stopovers (> 7 days) in spring, and 38 % in fall, highlighting the importance of the refuge for long term refueling. Spring birds made shorter stopovers, and traveled at faster rates than fall birds, suggesting there is may be more pressure for early arrival at breeding grounds. Spring birds captured with significant fat loads made shorter stopovers, and traveled faster than leaner birds. Spring birds also appeared to employ a time minimization strategy, with birds captured later in the season making shorter stopovers. Migration rate of spring birds decreased with distance from the capture site, indicating many birds needed to make additional stopovers. Fall birds that made longer stopovers migrated at faster rates. Fall birds captured later in the season made longer stopovers, and subsequently traveled at faster rates once they departed to possibly minimize time on migration. Variation in stopover behavior was evident among sites and species and this may suggest habitat or site characteristics that affect their value for migrating birds, which should be taken into consideration when conservation planning or vulnerable species. The extensive use of this inland National fish and wildlife refuge by migratory birds, and the fact that birds are acquiring energy reserves that are facilitating successful migration suggests this region is an important corridor for migrating songbirds.
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Moyo, Khangelani. "Zimbabweans in Johannesburg, South Africa: space, movement and spatial identity." Thesis, 2017. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/24198.
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Thesis is submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Town and Regional Planning)
to the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2017Focusing on Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg, this thesis engages the ways in which diverse groups and individuals construct and negotiate spaces in the city. I have looked at how Zimbabwean migrants spatially respond to the regulatory and socio-economic environments within which they lead their everyday lives in Johannesburg. I emphasize the theme of heterogeneity, specifically highlighting the differentiated nature of Zimbabwean immigrants living in South Africa and discuss their movements and spatial identities. Theoretically, I have combined de Certeau's conception of space as represented by the schema of “strategies” of the powerful and the “tactics” of the subordinate with Bourdieu's concept of “habitus”, which operates within a field of social forces that are responsible for, and the result of, its emergence. Following my empirical engagements within the context of Johannesburg, I observe that, the initial decision by Zimbabwean migrants to move to South Africa, be it in search of work opportunities or forced by political circumstances, enable a structure that predisposes them (migrants) to continued mobility. Firstly, as transnational migrants who engage in frequent short term and long term movements between Zimbabwe and South Africa. Secondly, as transient residents of Johannesburg who frequently change residential addresses yet remain largely within the same spaces where they first arrive. Thirdly, as de Certeau's ordinary man who walks the city while engaged in everyday activities such as, shopping, going to places of employment, to places of education, etc. I theorise mobility as a way of making do and an inhabited space that migrants mobilise in contestation with the broader strategic entities such as the City of Johannesburg's regulatory platforms, South African citizens and other migrants. I also argue that, for migrants to engage in different mobility cycles and deploy mobility as a tactical resource, particular dispositions are necessary. I refer to these dispositions as the transnational migrant habitus, which operates within a transnational social field constituted by socio-cultural factors in both South Africa and Zimbabwe. Both, the transnational habitus and the transnational social field are hybrid social formations that are not reducible to either the Zimbabwean or the South African contexts that are responsible for their genesis and ongoing reconstitution. Methodologically, I employed a mixed methods research design, which refers to a procedure by which the researcher mixes two or more methods with different meta-theoretical assumptions in a single study in order to understand a research problem. I used mixed methods because I needed sufficient breadth to explore the diversity of Zimbabwean migrant experiences and spatial decision-making, but also sufficient depth to uncover the reasons for behaviours and decisions.
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Chen, Yan-Tong, and 陳彥彤. "Application of Volunteered Geographic Information and Arena Simulation System in the Exploration of Visitors' spatial movement in Gaomei Wildlife Refuge." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/tr779j.
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The "Gaomei Wildlife Protected Area" belonging to Qingshui District of Taichung City is famous for its rich basal wetlands in benthic ecological resources and Bolboschoenus planiculmis(F. Schmidt) T.V. Egorova. Especially, the sunset seascape connected with salt grass has become a famous online photo shooting attraction. With the rapid increase in visitor arrivals, the huge recreation pressure has challenged the environmental carrying capacity of wetland reserves, and it is likely to intensify year by year. Therefore, in order to response the on-site recreation management, how the tourists’ moving have become an important information. This study used the Flickr on-line platform as the source of research data from early 2006 to the end of 2017. The total of 696 community users (referred to as visitors to this study) who have taken photos with geographic information in Gaomei Wetland. A total of 11,127 data were collected using VGI (Volunteered Geographic Information) data in the geographic information system for the purpose of analyzing the tourist activities in the Gaomei Wetland, and also comparing the differences of tourists distribution before and after setting the wetland wood path as the second purpose. At the same time, 200 tourists have been selected to trace their movement in Gaomei Wetland, and combined the Arena simulation software to construct the path selection model of tourists to further analyze the recreation movement status. The study found that VGI data can be used as a reference for the time and space distribution of tourists entering the wetland, which can be closer to the real population distribution, and can clearly understand the movement of tourists in the Gaomei Wetland, and can be observed by restore the order of the path. The tourist route model by applying the Arena simulation system will provide the visitors’ distributions during peak time. This research has provided the basic of management strategies toward wetland recreation.
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"An Ethnography of the Living's Solidarity with the Dead Tibetan Refugees and Their Self-Immolators." Doctoral diss., 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.55565.
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abstract: Since 1998 and as recently as November 2018, 165 Tibetans have burned themselves alive in public protest, both inside Tibet and in exile. This study foregrounds Tibetan refugees’ interpretations of the self-immolation protests and examines how the exile community has socially, politically, and emotionally interrogated and assimilated this resistance movement. Based upon eleven months of ethnographic field research and 150 hours of formal interviews with different groups of Tibetan refugees in northern India, including: freedom activists, former political prisoners, members of the exile parliament, teachers of Tibetan Buddhism, families of self-immolators, and survivors of self-immolation, this project asks: What does activism look like in a time of martyrdom? What are the practices of solidarity with the dead? How does a refugee community that has been in exile for over three generations make sense of a wave of death occurring in a homeland most cannot access? Does the tactic of self-immolation challenge Tibetan held conceptions of resistance and the conceived relationship between politics, religion and nation? These questions are examined with attention to the sociopolitical expectations and vulnerabilities that the refugee community face. This study thus analyzes what it means to mourn those one never knew, and examines the fractious connections between resistance, solidarity, trauma, representation, political exigency, and community cohesion. By examining the uncomfortable affect around self-immolation, its memorialization and representation, the author argues that self-immolation is a relational act that creates and ushers forth witnesses. As such, one must analyze the obligations of witnessing, the barriers to witnessing, and the expectations of solidarity. This project offers the theory of exigent solidarity, whereby solidarity is understood as a contested space, borne of expectation, pressure, and responsibility, with its expression complex and its execution seemingly impossible. It calls for attention to the affective labor of solidarity in a time of ongoing martyrdom, and demonstrates that in the need to maintain solidarity and social cohesion, a sense of mutual-becoming occurs whereby the community is reconciled uneasily into a shared fate.Dissertation/Thesis
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"垃圾之戰: 廣州的綠色治理, 反焚運動與科技爭議 = Garbage war in Guangzhou : green governmentality, anti-incineration movements, and technological controversies." 2015. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6115401.
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本研究聚焦2009年到2013年，中國廣州的一場圍繞垃圾處理展開的社會運動。運動最初是當地居民動員起來反對市政府垃圾焚燒項目的鄰避抗爭。勝利後，運動領袖成立了一個環保組織，和政府從對抗走向合作，力圖推动焚燒技術以外的替代性垃圾治理方案。不過，儘管政府和環保者致力於解決垃圾，垃圾問題在消費社會中始終無法消除。本研究試圖理解後社會主義中國的綠色治理和環保行動之間的對抗與合作。首先，我分析當代中國高速城市化和消費社會急速發展所帶來的垃圾危機。然后，我檢視圍繞垃圾焚燒技術的主要爭議，並描繪廣州居民是如何針對政府計劃中的垃圾焚燒項目做出抗爭的。我指出，他們結合地方性知識和科學話語，將自己建構為"常民專家"，對全球性的焚燒科技的"地方適用性"作出成功挑战。接下來，我提供一個民族誌，追溯抗議成功后運動的歷史軌跡。我注意到，通過成立一個環保組織"EC"，反焚運動走向合法化、組織化和制度化，抗爭被體制吸納，轉變為參與協助國家環境治理的運動。最後，我描繪EC與广州政府聯手推動的垃圾分類運動。指出，國家在此運動中的尷尬身份、以利潤為導向的回收市場影響、理想化的垃圾分類知識與普通民眾的知識存在斷裂，都使得推動垃圾分類異常艱難。
通過展示運動變遷與國家治理轉型相互交織的辯證关系，本研究挑戰了國家與社會的二元對立，指出在國家在治理轉型過程中不斷收編反抗的行動和話語，而於此同時反焚者又在不斷生產新的另類知識做出挑戰。此外，本研究還貢獻於對廢棄物的理解，將廢棄物視為是一個動態的範疇，國家、市場、科學技術、普通消費者、環保行動者等多個行動者共同生產、競爭、建構其意義。還有，本研究對於科技知識的普遍性的探討，對科學技術研究領域做出了貢獻。
This is a study on social movements that focused on waste treatment in Guangzhou, China from 2009-2013. The campaign began as a NIMBY (Not-In-My-Backyard) movement that mobilized community residents to protest against municipal government's proposed incineration projects. After its success, the movement leaders changed their dissident role to form an environmental protection NGO, collaborating with the state to explore alternative waste treatment solutions other than incineration. However, despite of the politicians and activists' attempt to eliminate waste, waste continues to exist in tandem of our consumption spree. I endeavor to understand the contradiction as well as collusion between green governance and environmental activisms in post-socialist China.
Firstly, I analyze the garbage crisis caused by the rapid urbanization and the dramatic growth of consumer society in contemporary China. Then I examine a few major technological controversies of waste incineration and depict how the activists protest against the pro-incineration government. I argue that through deploying local knowledge, the activists, as "lay experts", successfully challenged the "local appropriateness" of the global technology of incineration. Next, I provide an in-depth ethnography of the transformation of this campaign after its initial success. I notice that by taking the form of an environmental NGO called "EC", the campaign was legitimized, institutionalized and incorporated into the state’s governance framework. The environmental activism became an aid to the state’s green governmentality. Lastly, I take a detailed look at the waste classification campaign jointly launched by Guangzhou government and EC. I point out that the ambiguous role of the state in this campaign, the profit-oriented recycling market together with the idealist knowledge/practice systems of this project make this campaign extremely difficult.
My research challenges the state-society dichotomy by showing that the trajectory of the campaign is dialectically entangled with the transformation of the state’s governance. The state constantly incorporates the resistance and alternative discourses produced in the movement, whereas the activists keep on producing alternative knowledge to challenge the state. Moreover, this study deepens the understanding of waste by considering waste as a flexible category in which various actors such as state, market, technosicence, consumers as well as the environmental activists are producing, competing and reconstructing its meaning. Also, my discussions of the universal knowledge of science contribute to the field of science and technology studies.
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Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 220-236).
Abstracts also in English.
Zhang Jieying.
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Skosana, Jacob. "Discrimination on the ground of citizenship under the constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996." Diss., 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16054.
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Prior to 1994, citizenship was one of the pillars upon which the erstwhile government's
policy of separate development rested. The concepts of citizenship and nationality were
manipulated by the apartheid government to justify the denationalisation of black people and
the creation of different classes of citizenship. Race, colour and language were the
distinguishing features used to classify people into the different classes of citizenship.
With the advent of the new constitutional order in 1994, common citizenship and the
rights associated with it were restored to all South Africans. This discussion shows how in
the post-1994 constitutional order citizenship has become an element of nation-building,
while on the other hand it continues to perpetuate discrimination against non-citizens. The
study aims to further the debate regarding the ill treatment of non-citizens with a view of
influencing legislative and policy reform to replace the existing laws which are biased
against no-citizens.Law
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Chang, Shu-Xun, and 張書熏. "Habitat Use, Movement Patterns and Home Range of the Asian Yellow Pond Turtle (Mauremys mutica) in the Feitsui Reservoir Yellow-margined Box TurtleWildlife Refuge." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/34595285084324332787.
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The populations of most turtle species are declining on a global scale mainly due to anthropogenic causes, and the endanered Asian yellow pond turtle (Mauremys mutica) in Taiwan are also threntened by habitat destruction and illegal poaching. To develop effective conservation plans, it is urgently needed to obtain the basic ecology of this species. From 2013 to 2015, a trapping program and telemetry study of M. mutica were conducted in a wildlife refuge in northern Taiwan. Of 37 individuals captured, there were seven unsexed juveniles, 18 males and 12 females; there were no significant biases from balanced sex ratio. Based on radiotelemetry results, home range of males was significantly larger than that of females. In addition, males traveled longer distances than females among ponds, especially during May to October. Females tended to stay near the ponds used in early summer, however they also moved in shorter distance during June to August. The radio-tagged individuals were relocated in ponds most frequently (38.1%), following by terrestrial habitats (20.7%). There showed a variation in habitat use in different periods; all radio-tagged individuals leaved aquatic habitats, six stayed in forest floor and the others burried in muddy burrows under herbal vegetation or ruins during overwinter period. Although M. mutica made long-distance movements among ponds or wandering terrestrially, they showed a high fidelity to the ponds used in April and May. Dataloggers were also deployed to shell surface of the radio-tagged individuals to moniter the changes in body temperature of M. mutica. Mauremys mutica entered overwinter when air temperature dropped to 15 °C . In summary, M. mutica uses heterogeneous habitats and travel long distances among ponds or terrestrially, this turtle will be highly vulnerable to habitat fragmentation or disturbance near its aquatic habitats. Currently, most populations of M. mutica in Taiwan are small and locateed at the areas where are highly disturbed by human activities. Untill now, quite limited studies on the ecology of M. mutica have been conducted, few ecology information is available for its further conservation.
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Johnstone, Julie. "Consequences of ethnic conflict : explaining refugee movements in the Southeast Asia/Pacific Region : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements of the degree of Master of Arts in Political Science in the University of Canterbury /." 2006. http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/etd/adt-NZCU20060830.124838.
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Holbičková, Monika. "Postoj vybraných politických stran České republiky k migraci." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-384879.
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The aim of this diploma thesis is to answer research questions concerning the attitudes of the President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman selected political subjects and their chairmen to migration. For selected political subjects the goal is to find out what attitude they are whether their election programs from 2013 and 2017 include the issue of the migration crisis or if so how much this issue is in the programs. For the research where selected political entities which exceeded the threshold for entry into the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic at least in one case of the Parliamentary elections in years 2013 and 2017. Researched political subjects are: ANO, ČPS, ČSSD, KDU-ČSL, KSČM, ODS, SPD, STAN, TOP 09 and Úsvit. The analysis deals with which attitudes to the migration crisis have the chairmen of selected political subjects, whether they change over a given time frame and whether they agree with the political entity they represent. The thesis also deals with the attitude of the President of the Czech Republic Miloš Zeman to the migration crisis and whether it changes during the specified period of time. The researched time period is from January 2013 to December 2017. Research is done through quantitative content analysis. Variables of analysis are: refugee crisis...
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Mokebe, Thabo. "Implementation of waste management policy in the City of Tshwane." Diss., 2018. http://uir.unisa.ac.za/handle/10500/25647.
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The City of Tshwane is the capital city of South Africa and the administrative seat of government. The status of the city as a capital creates high expectations on the level of basic service delivery on municipal services like waste management, water, electricity and health. The city is currently facing challenges in relation to the delivery and implementation of waste management services. In an attempt to find solutions to the waste management challenges of the city a study on the implementation of waste management services is undertaken by the researcher. The study identifies and then analyses the underlying reasons for the challenges faced by the City of Tshwane in the implementation of waste management services.
This aim of this study was to investigate and to analyse the implementation of waste management services in the City of Tshwane’s historically disadvantaged areas with particular focus on Region 01, 02, 05 and 07. In order to investigate these factors, a descriptive research design and qualitative methodology was used which related to convenient and purposive sampling of officials and data collected from fifteen (15) respondents using semi structured interviews and observations. The study also utilised document analysis to interpret the challenges and solutions related to the research topic.
It emerged from the study that a lack of capacity and resources to perform efficient waste management services underpinned many of the challenges experience by the city. The failure of the city to ensure community participation and involvement is another reason for the challenges the city faces in waste management. Furthermore, the lack of policy implementation and enforcement is an element that the city needs to deeply consider. When policy is crafted with input of residents and when there is a social contract as to the roles and responsibilities of each party, it becomes easier to enforce.
Some of the challenges that the city faces with regards to waste management can also be attributed to political interference and institutional deficiencies. Beyond issues like capacity, institutions and others, the city will continue to face challenges if it does not seriously invest in innovation and new technologies that address its generic and specific conditions in relation to the management of waste.
The marginalisation and selective enforcement of by-laws on the informal recyclers and reclaimers are some of the findings of the study that demonstrate the inability of the city to find specific solutions to specifics regions on waste management .These challenges resulted in the peri urban regions like region 01, 02, 05 and 07 not receiving quality and consistent waste management services.
The study recommends some interventions to address the waste management problems identified in the highlighted regions and entire City of Tshwane. Some of the recommended interventions include, assessing the unique characteristics of the communities and regions with a view of identifying waste management solutions that will be relevant for the circumstances and profile of such regions, ensure that proper and adequate resources, infrastructure and capacity is deployed to such areas to improve the waste services in those areas. Furthermore aggressive education and awareness campaigns conducted in partnership with communities will be critical to change people’s attitude towards waste management and a clean environment. This can be achieved through a consultative process led by the City of Tshwane in partnership with its communities and enforced through a progressive and incentive driven by-law system.Public Administration and Management
M.P.A. (Master of Public Administration)