Dissertations / Theses: 'Self-migration'

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Tomas, Katarina, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Displaced self: The impact of language-migration on self-identity." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2005. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051208.113428.

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In this dissertation I explore the impact that language-migration has on Self-Identity. The thesis consists of two parts: a memoir The Strangeness of Freedom, and an exegesis. Each is intended to stand alone, but also to complement the other. In the memoir I draw on my personal recollections of my family's migrations across five countries (Czechoslovakia, West Germany, USA and Australia) and into three languages (Czech, German and English) in order to convey my particular experience of language migration. In the exegesis I analyse several memoirs written by other language migrants and examine what impact they believe migrating into a new language and culture had on their own Self-identity. I draw on postmodern and psychoanalytic theory to explore the nature of Self-Identity formation and why migrants, as well as non-migrants might experience a change in their Self-identity during the course of their lives. I attempt to tease out to what extent the change in Self-identity is a universal experience that results from living across time and moving from a known past into an unknown future, regardless of whether one physically migrates or not. I found that while language-migrants tend to describe a more intense disruption of their Self-Identity, non-migrants also experience such a disruption in their sense of Self, simply by living in a rapidly changing world. I propose that while changing locations and languages clearly disrupts the continuity we presume life entails, it is in fact the passage of time that distances us from our known past, including our familiar Self, even if we never physically or linguistically migrate.

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Popova, Ekaterina. "Self and Other representations in contemporary Russian discourse on migration." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7901.

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This thesis is a discourse-analytical study of SELF and OTHER representations in contemporary Russian discourse on migration. The overall aim of this thesis is to explore how SELF and OTHER discourse participants are represented in pro-governmental discourse, to which extent the ideology of pro-governmental media discourse can be classified as discriminatory towards migrants and how it changes in the period between the years 2006 and 2009. The discussion is based on the results of the discourse analysis of the corpus of texts collected from three various sources. Firstly, the pro-governmental moderate corpus of media articles collected from the website of the Moscow City Council in August – November 2006 is compared to the corpus of texts collected from the website of the radical anti-migrant movement DPNI. The purpose of this comparative study is to establish the extent of commonalities through the analysis of referential-categorizing and evaluative strategies between thee two types of discourse. Moreover, in the instances of represented discourse, it is important to understand how journalists position themselves and the readers with respect to the evaluative force of the statements. The results received from the analysis of these strategies are used to construct discourse space ontology for SELF and OTHER representations. Secondly, the moderate corpus is extended to receive more data for the analysis of conceptual imagery, i.e. metaphors. The analysis of metaphors confirms tendencies typical of migration discourse but also has its special pattern which is attributed to sociocultural specifics explored through the examination of conceptual blends. The evaluative dimension constitutes an important aspect of the discourse analysis of conceptual imagery. Finally, a multimodal corpus of verbal and visual data representing a protest action by the pro-governmental youth movement “Molodaia Gvardiia” at the end of 2008 – beginning of 2009 is searched for specific strategies of SELF and OTHER representation. The analysis shows an extensive use of discursive strategies typical of racist ideology used for the representation of SELF and OTHER discourse participants in pro-governmental media discourse on migration.

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Lu, Yunhe [Verfasser]. "Self-selection, migration and inequality in source regions / Yunhe Lu." Gießen : Universitätsbibliothek, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1103432494/34.

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CARVALHO, LEANDRO SIQUEIRA. "FINANCIAL CONSTRAINTS, SELF-SELECTION AND BRAIN EFFECT: TWO ESSAYS ON MIGRATION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2004. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=5217@1.

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A literatura econômica que estuda migração sempre esteve preocupada com o impacto da migração sobre o bem-estar, seja na forma de imigração ou na forma de brain drain. Os dois artigos que compõem esta tese estão relacionados a este tema. Apesar do modelo de Roy concluir que os emigrantes são negativamente selecionados se a taxa de retorno à educação é maior na economia de origem, os trabalhos empíricos encontram evidências de emigrantes positivamente selecionados. O primeiro artigo utiliza um modelo para argumentar que se o mercado de crédito é imperfeito, tanto investimentos em educação como a decisão de emigração dependem da riqueza inicial do agente. Isto permite explicar a controvérsia entre a literatura teórica e empírica e o porquê da classe média ser aquela com maior mobilidade em alguns países. A segunda parte da tese está diretamente relacionada à literatura de beneficial brain drain. Os trabalhos nessa área argumentam que a possibilidade de um trabalhador educado de emigrar para outro país que remunera melhor sua mão-de-obra qualificada aumenta a taxa de retorno à educação na economia de origem e conseqüentemente os investimentos em capital humano. O artigo utiliza como experimento a construção de Palmas, capital do Tocantins, para investigar esta hipótese. Os resultados empíricos encontrados a partir dos microdados dos Censos de 1991 e 2000 indicam uma relação negativa entre investimentos em educação e a distância rodoviária até a capital - usada como proxy dos custos de emigração - para o período posterior à fundação de Palmas e uma relação nula para o período anterior. As evidências são interpretadas como favoráveis à existência do brain effect, uma vez que o aumento na escolaridade foi maior para os indivíduos que mais se beneficiaram com a construção da capital.
The Economic literature which studies migration has always been concerned about its impact on welfare. Two different lines of research in this field focus on impacts of immigration and brain drain. The two articles which comprise the thesis are related to these subjects. Although Roy s model claims that emigrants are negatively self- selected if the rate of return is higher in the origin economy, empirical works have found positively selected emigrants. The first article uses a model to argue that both investments in education and the decision to emmigrate depend on wealth if credit markets are imperfect. This argument allows us to explain the controversy between the theoretical and empirical literature as well as why the middle-class is the most mobile one in some countries. The second part of the thesis is directly related to the beneficial brain drain literature. Works in this field claim that the possibility for an educated worker of emmigrating to another country in which skilled labor is better paid raises the rate of return to education in the origin country and consequently the investments in human capital. The article uses as an experiment the creation of Palmas, a state capital in Brazil, to investigate this hypothesis. The empirical results obtained from microdata evidence a negative relation between investments in human capital and the distance to the capital-used as a proxy to emmigration costs-in the period after the creation of the capital and no relation in the period before. Those findings are interpretated as favorable to the brain effect hypothesis, once the increase in education was greater for individuals who benefited the most from the foundation of the capital.

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Schumacher, Linus J. "A mathematical exploration of principles of collective cell migration and self-organisation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bba68d2c-352b-4310-89c2-b9049b70515c.

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This thesis explores the role of collective cell migration and self-organisation in the development of the embryo and in vitro tissue formation through mathematical and computational approaches. We consider how population heterogeneity, microenvironmental signals and cell-cell interactions facilitate cells to collectively organise and navigate, with the aim to work towards uncovering general rules and principles, rather than delving into the microscopic molecular details. To ensure the biological relevance of our results, we collaborate closely with experimental biologists working on two model systems. First, to understand how neural crest cells obtain directionality, maintain persistence and specialise during their migration, we use computational simulations in parallel with imaging of chick embryos under genetic and surgical perturbations. We show how only a few cells adopting a leader state that enables them to read out chemical signals can lead a population of cells in a follower state over long distances in the embryo. Furthermore, we devise and test an improved mechanism of how cells dynamically switch between leader and follower states in the presence of a chemoattractant gradient. Our computational work guides the choice of new experiments, aids in their interpretation and probes hypotheses in ways the experiments can not. Secondly, to study the self-organisation of mouse skin cells in vitro, we draw on aggregation processes and scaling theory. Dermal and epidermal cells, after being dissociated and mixed, can reconstitute functional (transplantable and hair-growing) skin in culture. Using kinetic aggregation models and scaling analysis we show that the initial clustering of epidermal cells can be described by Smoluchowski coagulation, consistent with the dynamics of the "clustering clusters" universality class. Then, we investigate a potential mechanism for the size-regulation of cell aggregates during the later stages of the skin reconstitution process. Our analysis shows the extent to which this tissue formation follows a single physical process and when the transition to different dynamics occurs, which may be triggered by cellular biochemical changes.

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Westerlund, Olle. "Economic Influences on Migration in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi, 1995. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-17118.

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Paper [I]- Household Migration and the Local Public Sector: Evidence from Sweden, 1981-1984 (co-authored with Michael L. Wyzan), contains an empirical exploration of the nexus between variables related to the local public sector budget and migration. Micro-data is employed in binomial and multinomial-logit regressions estimating the probability to migrate. We report results separately for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas, because the per capita levels of the tax base and intergovernmental grants are theoretically important migration determinants where population is sparse, while the tax rate may be more important where population is dense. Empirical results support our fiscal hypotheses and are consistent with previous findings on household characteristics. Paper [II]- Internal Gross Migration in Sweden: The effects of Variation in Mobility Grants and Regional Labour Market Conditions, focuses on the effects of labor market conditions and migratory stimuli on over county-border migration. Aggregate data on the flows of all migrants and on the flows of migrants receiving extra mobility stimuli are used in estimations of a single-equation migration model based on the hiring function. The results indicate that regional migration flows respond to changes in labor market conditions in accordance with predictions from economic theory. This result seems mainly to stem from the migratory behavior of the unemployed. In addition, nonmatching migration subsidies at the levels employed are not found to be migration enhancing. Paper [IH]- Employment Opportunities, Wages and Interregional Migration in Sweden 1970-1989, deals with the impact of aggregate labor turnover and regional labor market conditions on gross in- and outmigration. Annual panel data is used in estimation of separate in- and outmigration functions, where regional labor market conditions are assumed to be endogenous with migration under two different assumptions concerning the working of the labor market. An increase in the regional excess supply of labor is found to increase outmigration and decrease inmigration. Moreover, cyclical variation in labor turnover is positively correlated with gross migration. The hypothesized effects of real wages on migration are not confirmed. The results are not sensitive to the various assumptions concerning regional wage formation considered in this study. Paper [IV]- A Panel Study of Migration, Household Real Earnings and Self-Selec- tion (co-authored with Roger Axelsson). The effects of migration on household real earnings are examined. Data pertain to a sample of stable household constellations in Sweden, 1978-1991. A treatment-effect model is employed, whereby the potential effects of nonrandom sampling of data on earnings for migrants and nonmigrants are taken into account. We find that stable multi-adult household constellations did not gain in income from migration during the 1980s. In addition, we find no strong indications of selection bias in the income equation.
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Seaux, Julien. "Migration and innovation : an analysis based on patent data." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019BORD0318.

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Cette thèse a pour but d’analyser la migration des inventeurs en étudiant leur contribution à l’innovation de leur pays de destination ainsi que leur pays d’origine, en contrôlant par leurs caractéristiques individuelles telles que leur genre, éducation, expérience, mobilité interentreprise et d’autres. De plus, nous décomposons les flux de migrants par canaux d’entrer dans le pays de destination, tel que le canal de l’éducation, multinational ou si l’inventeur change d’entreprise, et analysons la sélection des migrants et le gap de productivité entre les natifs et les migrants. Aussi, dans cette analyse, nous décomposons les cohortes d’entrées dans le pays de destination en comparant la productivité entre les migrants eux-mêmes. Finalement, nous étudions si les migrants de retour sont plus productifs que leurs collègues non migrants dans leur pays d’origine en fonction de leur expérience acquise à l’étranger
This thesis investigates the migration of inventors by studying their contribution to the innovation at both destination and in their home country, after controlling for individual characteristics such as gender, education, experience, company mobility and others. In addition, we decompose the flows of migrants by entry channel in the destination country, such as the education channel, the multinational channel or when the inventors change of company and investigate the selection of migrants and the productivity gap between natives and migrants. Also, in the analysis, we decompose the cohort of entry in the destination country to compare the productivity differences among migrants themselves. Finally, we study whether return migrants are more productive than their non-migrants’ colleagues in origin countries, as a function of their experiences abroad
L'obiettivo principale di questa tesi è lo studio della migrazione degli inventori e il loro contributo all’innovazione nei Paesi di destinazione ed origine, controllando per una serie di caratteristiche individuali, come ad esempio genere, livello di educazione, esperienza e mobilità. Inoltre, differenziamo il flusso migratorio secondo lo specifico canale di entrata nel Paese di destinazione, come ad esempio educazione, riallocazione di sede all’interno di imprese multinazionali, o mobilità tra imprese, per analizzare la selezione e il gap di produttività tra migranti e non-migranti. Per comparare la produttività tra migranti, la nostra analisi distingue i differenti periodi di entrata nel Paese di destinazione. Infine, analizziamo se gli inventori che tornano nel loro Paese di origine siano più produttivi dei loro colleghi non-migranti in funzione delle esperienze acquisite nel Paese di destinazione

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Zhang, Hanshuo. "Large-scale identification of functional genes regulating cancer cell migration and metastasis using the self-assembled cell microarray." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/49066.

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Metastasis is one of the critical hallmarks of malignancy tumor and the principal cause of death in patients with cancer. Cell migration is the basic and essential step in cancer metastasis process. To systematically investigate functional genes regulating cell migration and cancer metastasis on large scale, we developed a novel on-chip method, SAMcell (self-assembled cell microarray). This method was demonstrated to be particularly suitable for loss-of-function high-throughput screening because of its unique advantages. The first application of SAMcell was to screen human genome miRNAs, considering that more and more miRNAs had been proved to govern cancer metastasis. We found that over 20 % of miRNAs have migratory regulation activity in diverse cell types, indicating a general involvement of miRNAs in migratory regulation. Through triple-round screenings, we discovered miR-23b, which is down-regulated in human colon cancer samples, potently mediates the multiple steps of metastasis, including cell motility, cell growth and cell survival. In parallel, the second application of SAMcell was to screen human genome kinase genes, considering that more and more kinase genes had become successful diagnostic marker or drug targets. We found over 11% migratory kinase genes, suggesting the important role of kinase group in metastasis regulation. Through both functional screening and bioinformatics analysis, we discovered and validated 6 prospective metastasis-related kinase genes, which can be new potential targets in cancer therapy. These findings allow the understanding of regulation mechanism in human cancer progression, especially metastasis and provide the new insight into the biological and therapeutical importance of miRNAs or kinases in cancer.

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Takei, Roberta Ferreira. "Transição para a maternidade em diferentes contextos socioculturais: a experiência de mães brasileiras no Brasil e nos EUA." Instituto de Psicologia, 2012. http://repositorio.ufba.br/ri/handle/ri/18992.

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Este estudo busca analisar os significados sobre maternidade construídos por mulheres brasileiras que foram mães em dois contextos socioculturais diferentes: Brasil e Estados Unidos. Insere-se dentro de um projeto-matriz mais amplo, “Transições familiares como eventos narrativos: um estudo comparativo transgeracional” (CNPq), coordenado pela Dra. Ana Cecília de Sousa Bastos (Instituto de Psicologia, UFBA) e envolvendo uma parceria com os Drs. Jaan Valsiner e Roger Bibace (Clark University, Massachussets), e representa a primeira aproximação sistemática a uma análise intercultural, comparativa. Sendo um estudo de casos múltiplos, focalizando as narrativas destas mães, pretende-se compreender a experiência de maternidade e seus circunscritores culturais, bem como a mediação entre a cultura individual e coletiva, aplicando a figura da migração como uma metáfora à transição para a maternidade. O presente estudo adota um setting de conversação como espaço privilegiado para a coleta de dados. Foram participantes desse estudo 14 mulheres, conformando dois grupos de casos: sete mulheres brasileiras que tiveram filhos no Brasil e sete mulheres brasileiras migrantes que tiveram filhos nos EUA. A análise de dados se deu a partir da construção de sinopses das entrevistas e de categorias temáticas, que estruturam a descrição comparativa da experiência das mulheres nos dois contextos, através dos critérios de a familiaridade com os recursos da cultura no que concerne às informações e práticas relativas à gravidez e ao parto e à aproximação ou distanciamento com os valores da cultura local, utilização de recursos simbólicos e práticos, redes sociais e relações de afeto. Além disso, utilizou-se da abordagem do Self Dialógico para uma aproximação microgenética da dinâmica do Self na transição para a maternidade, considerando em maior profundidade dois dos casos analisados. Espera-se que os resultados obtidos permitam compreender as especificidades da transição para a maternidade, e do parto enquanto um marcador crucial deste processo, a partir dos circunscritores socioculturais dos dois contextos, possibilitando discutir o processo mais geral através do qual as práticas e discursos normativos de cada cultura são negociados no âmbito individual e familiar. A discussão afunila-se considerando um aspecto específico: a emergência do protagonismo da mulher que se torna mãe. This study aims at analyzing the meanings of motherhood built by Brazilian women who had delivered children in two different socio-cultural contexts: Brazil and US. It is part of a bigger project called “Family transitions as narrative events: a comparative transgenerational study” (CNPq), coordinated by Dr. Ana Cecilia de Sousa Bastos (Institute of Psychology, UFBA) and involving a partnership with Drs. Jaan Valsiner and Roger Bibace (Clark University, Mass.), and it is the first systematic approach to an intercultural, comparative analysis. As a multiple case study, focusing on mothers ‘narratives, it intends to understand the experience of motherhood and their cultural constraints, as well as the mediation between the individual and the collective culture, adopting the figure of migration as a metaphor to explain the transition to motherhood. The present study adopts a conversational setting to data collecting, and 14 women had been interviewed. These participants belong to two groups: seven Brazilian women who had their children in Brazil and seven migrant Brazilian women who had their children in US. Data analysis is based on the construction of summaries of the interviews and categories that structure the comparative description of women’s experience in the two contexts, using as criteria the degree of familiarity with the resources of culture in relation to information and practices relating to pregnancy and childbirth, the levels of adherence to the values of local culture, the possibility of using symbolic and practical contextual resources, the availability of social networks and affective relationships. The Dialogical Self Theory is the theoretical tool managed in order to have a microgenetic approach of the dynamics of the Self in the transition to motherhood, considering in depth two of the cases analyzed. The results allow understanding the specificities of the transition to motherhood, having childbirth as a central sign along this process, based on the socio-cultural constraints of the two contexts, and allowing to discuss the more general process by which practices and discourses norms of each culture are negotiated at the individual and family levels. The discussion narrows down considering a specific aspect: the emergence of agency for the woman who becomes a mother.

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Tsokodayi, Ruvimbo Tapiwa. "Refugee migration stress and family function: A phenomenological study of refugee mothers from East and Central Africa." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101939.

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Refugee families who flee their homes as a result of conflict or persecution and face stressful migration experiences often struggle with trauma that may put them at increased risk for family discord and dysfunction. The purpose of this study was to use an interpretative phenomenological approach to explore the lived experiences of 8 refugee mothers resettled in the United States, in particular their experiences pre-, during, and post-migration, and to further examine the impact that these experiences had on their relationships to their children and families. The study also examined mothers' experiences with different forms of support systems post-resettlement. Participants were recruited through a resettlement agency in Roanoke, Virginia. This study illuminated a number of key findings to further inform research, theory, and practice with this population. Refugee mothers reported stressful and traumatic experiences across their migration, describing harsh living conditions, prolonged stays in refugee camps, and loss of children and other family members as some of the most stressful experiences. Once resettled, mothers spoke of continued challenges, including language barriers and inconsistent or arbitrary support from formal social support services. Findings also suggest resiliency among this sample of refugee families, with mothers highlighting strong relationships with their children during and post-migration. The current study further informs the family stress literature and contributes a strength-based framework to understanding challenges faced by refugee families across the migration period.
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Bascetin, Rumeyza. "Etude de l’auto-assemblage de la fibronectine plasmatique humaine : mécanismes et réponses cellulaires." Thesis, Cergy-Pontoise, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014CERG0704/document.

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La matrice extracellulaire est un réseau enchevêtré de macromolécules variées, en étroite relation avec les cellules qu'elle environne. Les interactions bidirectionnelles qui s'établissent entre les cellules et leur microenvironnement matriciel régulent mutuellement leur comportement et devenir. La diversité biochimique des constituants moléculaires de la matrice, leurs propriétés biophysiques, leur architecture tout comme leur dynamique représentent autant de signaux régulateurs. Parmi les constituants de la matrice, la fibronectine (FN) est une glycoprotéine structurale et fonctionnelle majeure intervenant dans de nombreux processus physiologiques et pathologiques. Ces fonctions diverses sont directement liées à la dynamique structurale de cette protéine et à sa capacité à interagir avec les autres molécules matricielles, dont elle-même. Retrouvée sous forme soluble dans les fluides biologiques, la FN est incorporée dans les matrices insolubles sous forme d'assemblages supramoléculaires principalement fibrillaires mais aussi sous forme d'agrégats. Ces assemblages sembleraient être impliqués dans des processus physiologiques et pathologiques distincts.Si l'étude des assemblages de FN est rendue possible par l'élaboration de modèles in vitro, les mécanismes de polymérisation et l'effet d'assemblages de structures définies sur le comportement cellulaire restent cependant à mieux élucider et constituent le cœur de ce travail.Les travaux ont donc consisté à élaborer des assemblages de FN, à caractériser les mécanismes et structures impliqués dans leur polymérisation, et à étudier leur influence sur un modèle de cellules cancéreuses ovariennes. D'autre part, des études préliminaires comparatives ont été menées avec un analogue végétal de la FN.L'irréversibilité de la dénaturation thermique de la FN entraîne la formation d'agrégats de type amyloïde. Deux populations d'agrégats coexistent en solution. Cette agrégation est corrélée à une diminution de l'accessibilité des sites de liaison à la gélatine et des sites RGD, et à une diminution de l'incorporation dans les réseaux matriciels. De plus, si la FN sous sa forme agrégée n'est pas cytotoxique pour les cellules étudiées, la modification de la conformation de la FN favorise leur migration isolée et aléatoire.Ces résultats soulèvent la question de l'implication de ces agrégats de FN dans des processus pathologiques tels que le développement tumoral
Extracellular matrix is a complex meshwork of various macromolecules that have a tight relationship with the surrounding cells. Bidirectional interactions between cells and the microenvironment control their respective behaviors and fate. The biochemical diversity of matrix molecular components, their biophysical properties, their architecture but also their dynamic represent as many regulator signals. Among the components of the matrix, fibronectin (FN) is a major structural and functional glycoprotein involved in numerous physiological and pathological processes. These various functions are directly linked to the structural dynamic of this protein and its ability to interact with others matrix components, in particular with itself. Found as a soluble protein in biological fluids, FN is also incorporated in insoluble matrix as supramolecular assemblies, mainly fibrils but also aggregates. These assemblies could be involved in distinct physiological and pathological processes.If the study of the assembly of the FN is possible with the help of in vitro models, the mechanism of polymerization and the effects of defined assemblies on the cell behavior still have to be better defined.Therefore, this work consisted in elaborating FN assemblies, in characterizing the mechanisms and structures involved in their polymerization and in studying their influence on behaviors of a model of ovarian cancer cells. Besides, preliminary comparative studies have been performed with a plant analogous of FN.We show that irreversible thermal unfolding of FN triggers amyloid-like aggregation. Two states of aggregates could coexist in solution. FN aggregation correlates with a decrease of gelatin-binding domain and RGD sequence accessibility, and a decrease of the incorporation in the matrix network. Moreover, if aggregates are not cytotoxic for the studied cells, conformation change of FN promotes their single-cell and random migration.These results raise questions about the role of FN aggregates in pathological processes like tumor development

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Jensen, Laura Lippert Lamke Leanne K. "The relationship between geographic mobility and feelings of mastery during adolescence." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Fall/Thesis/JENSEN_LAURA_49.pdf.

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Mamalis, Dimitrios. "Phase change and complex phenomena in drops and bubbles of pure and binary fluids." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/25477.

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Evaporation, wetting and multiphase flows of drops and bubbles are everyday life phenomena with potential impact in many industrial, biological, medical or engineering applications. The understanding and controlling of the physical and chemical mechanisms governing these phenomena have become of paramount importance. This thesis encompasses three topics: evaporation of sessile droplets of polymer solutions, the role of thermocapillarity on self-rewetting fluid dynamics and migration of bubbles in liquid flows. Firstly, the evaporative behaviour of sessile droplets of aqueous polymer solutions and the effect of different molecular weights on the drying process has been studied. Drop shape analysis allowed monitoring the evolution of all stages during drying and indicating the transitions between stages. The mechanisms taking place during the crucial stages of pinning and depinning were illustrated, revealing the effects of adhesion and contact line friction forces on the final morphology of the dried polymeric deposits. Additionally, the effect of varying substrates from hydrophilic to hydrophobic was examined demonstrating the importance of interfacial interaction phenomena. The initial spreading dynamics of binary alcohol mixtures (and pure liquids) deposited on different substrates in partially wetting situations, under non-isothermal conditions was systematically investigated. Moreover, the temporal and spatial thermal dynamics within pure droplets and alcohol mixtures using IR thermography revealed the existence of characteristic thermal patterns due to thermal and/or solutal instabilities. The contribution of the Marangoni effect as an important heat transport mechanism within the evaporating droplets was investigated. The motion of buoyancy-driven bubbles in a vertical microchannel and the significant role of thermocapillarity was reported in this series of experiments. The behaviour of the bubbles in self-rewetting fluid flows departed considerably from that of pure liquids flows. Furthermore, heat transfer coefficient calculations in the single and two phase flows demonstrated that the presence of Marangoni (surface tension) stresses resulted in the enhancement of the heat transfer distribution in the self-rewetting fluid flows compared with the pure ones.

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Canessa, Eugenia. "Migration and female labour supply as shock coping strategies after economic crises and natural disasters." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11572/257451.

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The research project intends to investigate the responses of households to economic uncertainty and natural shocks and the coping strategies developed both in terms of growing migration rates and remittance inflows and of increasing labour supply. In the first Chapter, we employ household survey data from the Indian State of Kerala to evaluate how transfers of remittances sent from overseas respond to heterogeneous sectoral employment shocks experienced by migrants in the host country during the 2008 crisis. In the second chapter, migration and remittances have been investigated as coping strategies adopted by households after a dramatic flood that hit Bangladesh in August-September 2014. The combination of high-resolution satellite data to precisely measure our treatment variable and the difference-in-difference estimations allow us to causally identify the impact of the dramatic flooding on internal and international migration. The same robust estimation technique is then applied to evaluate the effect of the 2014 flood in Bangladesh on female labour force participation rate and on the probability for unemployed women to enter the labour force. In addition, correcting for selection into employment, we estimate how the flood affects the probability for women working in the household farm to engage in independent wage-earning activities, evaluatiing whether the expected rise in female labour force participation - instrumented by the shock intensity they face - would help to increase their bargaining power within the households.

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Blomstedt, Yulia. "Self-reported health among immigrants from the former Soviet Union : quantitative and qualitative studies in Sweden /." Stockholm, 2007. http://diss.kib.ki.se/2007/978-91-7357-108-1/.

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Hao, Shiying. "An implantable electronic system for in vivo stability evaluation of prostheses in total hip and knee arthroplasty." Thesis, University of Bath, 2010. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.525143.

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Total hip arthroplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) are relatively new biomedical techniques developed during the last century, which are frequently recommended for patients with joint diseases. In spite of their success and huge popularity, the postoperative failure rates for these procedures remain significant. Migration and micromotion of the implant are the primary indicators of its postoperative stability and many in vitro measurement techniques have been discussed. However, effective, practical methods to measure these metrics in vivo have proven elusive and the evolution of such a technique is the subject of this thesis. An implantable, remotely interrogated electronic system for the in vivo measurement of both micromotion and migration in the axial direction is proposed. The main purpose of the device is to improve the ability of clinicians to assess the longterm stability of orthopaedic implants and also to plan and optimise patients’ rehabilitation protocols. The system is based on a modified form of differential variable reluctance transducer (DVRT) in which the nullpoint of the system set automatically by means of a selfcalibration process. Simulations and preliminary in vitro measurements on the bench show that the selfcalibration algorithm works correctly in spite of component tolerances and initial set up errors, allowing a gross displacement (migration) to be measured with a resolution of 15 �m and a range from 0 to 4 mm, and that the device can measure micromotion with an amplitude as low as 1 �m in the range from 200 �m to 200 �m. Accuracy of less than 10 % are achieved in both micromotion and migration measurements. Prototypes of all the major components and subsystems have been fabricated in CMOS integrated circuit (IC) technology as part of the project. Measurements support the feasibility of constructing an integrated version of the complete system for implantation and in vivo use in the future.

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Huang, Kejie. "Lernen, Chinesen zu werden." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18405.2.

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Die vorliegende Dissertation analysiert das Integrationsverhalten der chinesischen Zuwanderer in Deutschland durch eine Fallstudie in einer neuen Perspektive: Die Chinesen in Deutschland rekonstruieren die chinesische Identität für ihre Kinder durch das Erlernen des Chinesischen, damit sie in Deutschland besser anerkannt wer-den und sich integrieren können. Im kurzen Wort: Die Eltern lassen ihre Kinder lernen, Chinesen zu werden, damit sie in Deutschland besser leben können. Ihre sorgfältig organisierte und rekonstruierte ethnische Identi-tät, als das Produkt der Integrationsstrategie, wirkt als der Hebel zwischen ihren beiden lebendigen Welten, damit sie ihre Chancen vor allem in Deutschland verbessern können.
The present dissertation analyzes the integration behavior of Chinese immigrants in Germany through a case study in a new perspective: The Chinese in Germany reconstruct the Chinese identity for their children and themselves by learning the Chinese so that they can be better recognized and integrated in Germany. In short: Parents let their children learn to become Chinese so they can live better in Germany. Their carefully organized and reconstructed ethnic identity, as the product of the integration strategy, acts as the lever be-tween their two living worlds so that they can improve their chances, especially in Germany.

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Dobre, Adrian. "Acculturation Through Education : A qualitative study on learning strategies of adult immigrants in Romania." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-131139.

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The purpose of the thesis is to examine how adult immigrants in Romania describe the learning strategies that have helped them integrate in the new culture. To be able to draw conclusions about migrants' learning strategies and what has made them work, I have looked at the experience of five immigrants who speak Romanian and who have successfully integrated in the Romanian culture. The study employs a qualitative methodology, information has been collected through semi-structured interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis and a framework approach to data analysis. The key findings of the thesis are that integration through education, specifically through language learning, takes place more effectively if migrants are driven by intrinsic goals or if they internalize the extrinsic rewards that they expect upon completion of their goals. These findings can be put into practice to form better strategies and actions steps in organizational programs that aim at integrating migrants. They can also be brought to the knowledge of migrants looking to successfully integrate, to make them aware of how their choices and goals, even those apparently unrelated, can impact the outcome of their integration efforts.

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Evans, Kerri. "Human Rights: Welcoming Unaccompanied Immigrant and Refugee Children in the United States Through Community, School, and Preparation for Adulthood." Thesis, Boston College, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108720.

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Thesis advisor: Thomas M. Crea
In 2019, 851,508 persons were apprehended at the Southwestern US border without lawful immigration status in the US; of whom 473,682 were part of a family unit, and 76,020 were classified as unaccompanied children (UC). UC are those entering the US under the age of 18 without a parent/legal guardian available to care for them. Recent research on unaccompanied children in the US has focused on educational outcomes, trauma, family separation at the border, and resiliency. However, more research is needed around this population given their unique vulnerabilities, the current unreceptive political climate in the US, and the fact that 2019 has had the highest arrival numbers yet. This dissertation draws on administrative data to provide information that can improve the services that social service agencies are delivering, to highlight areas of future research, and to recommend specific tools for data collection. I aim to advance three areas of research related to the human rights violations and social exclusions experienced by unaccompanied immigrant and refugee children in the US, as well as best practices used by service providers. The three areas are: (1) to understand the systems level facilitators and barriers to adjustment for UC, (2) to understand the challenges to formal education for UC, and the strategies that service providers are using to overcome these challenges, and (3) to examine the predictors of self-sufficiency for unaccompanied immigrants leaving foster care. The findings presented in this dissertation have multiple implications for policy, practice, research, and social work education. The qualitative studies provide a groundwork from which we can conduct more research in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the promising practices described, and advocate to increase funding and service availability. Through a greater understanding of the benefits and challenges to education for UC in foster care, we can build more inclusive and welcoming school environments, ultimately leading to higher educational attainment. Understanding the predictors of self-sufficiency can help caseworkers to better create service plans, and help agencies to advocate for funding of supplementary programming. Altogether, it is my hope that this knowledge can contribute to supports that help UC to be happier, thrive in school, and become productive members of our community
Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2020
Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Social Work
Discipline: Social Work

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Kulla, Gunilla. "ÅLDRANDE, HÄLSA, MINORITET : äldre finlandssvenskar i Finland och Sverige." Doctoral thesis, Nordic School of Public Health NHV, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:norden:org:diva-3698.

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Bakgrund: Minoritetsgrupper, inklusive invandrargrupper, tenderar att skatta sin hälsa sämre i jämförelse med majoriteten. Syfte: Det övergripande syftet med föreliggande avhandling var att beskriva, analysera, jämföra och fördjupa förståelsen för äldre finlandssvenskars hälsa i form av upplevd och självskattad hälsa återspeglad ur ett livsloppsperspektiv. Upplevd hälsa studerades kvalitativt bland äldre finlandssvenskar i Finland och bland äldre finlandssvenskar i Sverige och som återflyttare till Finland (delstudierna I, IV). Självskattad hälsa studerades kvantitativt bland äldre finlandssvenskar i Finland (delstudie II), samt bland äldre finlandssvenskar i Sverige jämfört med äldre finskspråkiga i Sverige (delstudie III). Migration (III, IV) och åldrandet (I, II, IV) återspeglade sig i äldres hälsa. Metod: Urvalen erhölls från Befolkningsregistet i Finland samt Statistiska Centralbyrån i Sverige. Studiegrupperna bestod av totalt n=982 personer. Data insamlades genom strukturerad muntlig och inbandad intervju, halvstrukturerad inbandad intervju, strukturerat intervjuformulär samt postad enkät. Data analyserades genom hermeneutisk ansats med kärnberättelser, tematisk kvalitativ innehållsanalys, kumulativ multipel regressionsanalys samt Chi2-test. Resultat: Äldres upplevda hälsa tog sig uttryck genom personligheten, fysisk hälsa, sociala relationer och samhället. Över hälften skattade sin hälsa som god. Hälsa skattades som bättre ju mindre mediciner man behövde, ingen värk/smärta, bättre funktionsförmåga, bättre livslust och bättre ekonomi. Äldre finlandssvenskar i Sverige skattade sin hälsa som bättre jämfört med finskspråkiga i Sverige. Migration hade medfört svårigheter i samband med flyttningen till Sverige och arbetslivet i Sverige. Återflyttningen kunde försvåras av ohälsa och åldrandet. Åldrandet medförde en anpassning till att sätta egen hälsa och nuläge i perspektiv. Resultaten visade att äldre kan bidra med kunskaper om friskfaktorer. Konklusion: Ur ett folkhälsovetenskapligt hälsofrämjande perspektiv är det av relevans att lyfta fram minoritetsgrupper ur ett resursperspektiv. Det är centralt att beakta att det kan förekomma skillnader i hälsa mellan minoriteter, inom minoriteter och inom etniska minoriteter. Sociala och kulturella skillnader kan inverka på hur äldre skattar sin hälsa. Äldre i minoritet kan vara mera sårbara på grund av ohälsa, migration och kön
Background: Minority groups, including immigrants, generally tend to report lower self-rated health than the majority. Aims: The overall object of the dissertation was to describe, analyze and compare the self-rated health of older Finland-Swedes, and deepen the understanding of their experience of health in a life-course perspective. The experience of health was qualitatively studied among older Finland-Swedes in Finland, Finland-Swedes in Sweden and after re-migration in Finland (parts I, IV). Self-rated health was quantitatively studied among older Finland-Swedes in Finland (part II), and among older Finland-Swedes in Sweden compared to older Finnish-speakers in Sweden (part III). Migration (parts III, IV) and ageing (parts I, II, IV) were reflected in the health of older persons. Methods: The sample was obtained from the Population Register Centre of Finland and Statistics Sweden. The target groups consisted of 982 persons. The data was collected in structured oral and taped interviews, semi-structured taped interviews, structured interview forms, and postal enquiries. The data were analyzed through a hermeneutic approach with core narratives, thematic qualitative content analysis, cumulative multiple regression analysis, and chi-square test. Results: The experiential health of older persons manifested itself in personality, physical health, social relations, and society. More than a half of the respondents rated their health as good. Better health was reported with less medicine, no pain/suffering, better functional capacity, more zest for life, and better financial position. Older Finland-Swedes in Sweden reported better health than the Finnish-speaking respondents in Sweden. Migration had caused difficulties in connection with the move to Sweden and with working life in Sweden. Ill-health and ageing could cause problems with remigration. Ageing involved an adjustment in setting own health and the present in perspective. The results showed that older persons could contribute knowledge about health factors. Conclusions: From the perspective of public health science and health promotion, it is relevant to present minority groups from the vantage point of resources. It is essential to realize that there can be health differences between minorities, within minorities, and among ethnic minorities. Social and cultural variations can affect the way older persons evaluate their health. Older persons in minorities can be more vulnerable owing to ill-health, migration and gender.

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Ip, Kin Ting. "Experiences of immigrant entrepreneurs in the context of the Swedish society." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för kultur och samhälle, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-166665.

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Immigrant entrepreneurs are seen in many societies in present days, no exception for a country like Sweden with a significant number of foreign-born populations. This thesis gets in touch with current immigrant entrepreneurs in the country to obtain first-hand experiences in the entrepreneurial process. The thesis explores the factors affecting these immigrant entrepreneurs in business establishment from the first-person point of view. Employing the mixed embeddedness approach in analysis, the thesis investigates the interactions between the immigrant entrepreneurs and the environment. Every part of the society and individual characteristics could impact the decision made by immigrant entrepreneurs regarding business establishment. The establishment of business is a result of contributions from many different elements surrounding the immigrant entrepreneur. This thesis represents some of the many actual experiences in the Swedish society. There is still an extensive field left to explore and many diversified experiences to be discovered.

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Sargun, Dawod Tanya, and Dahl Katja Pettersson. "Migration och identitet : En kvalitativ intervjustudie med arabisktalande kvinnliga immigranter i Sverige." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för hälsa och lärande, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-15725.

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Migration is a current subject in today's society. Many people are forced to migrate to a new country, but many of them are moving for other reasons, for example to study, to work or start a family. The aim of this paper is to gain an increased understanding of Arabic speaking female immigrant’s experiences of the adaptation process and whether there is a change in gender identity. The selection consists of Arabic speaking women who have lived in Sweden for a maximum of five years. A qualitative approach has been used and data were collected through interviews and analyzed within the themes that were presented by the research. In analysis, four such themes were identified, such as identity, social relations, cultural differences and migration processes. The result of the study shows that the majority of the respondents perceive that they have been affected by migration, that they have experienced cultural differences in Sweden compared with their homelands and that they are influenced by their social relations.
Migration är ett aktuellt ämne i dagens samhälle. Många människor tvingas fly, men många flyttar även av andra skäl, för att exempelvis studera, arbeta eller bilda familj. Syftet med arbetet är att få en ökad förståelse kring arabisktalande kvinnliga immigranters upplevelser av anpassningsprocessen och huruvida det sker en förändring gällande deras könsidentitet. Urvalet består av arabisktalande kvinnor som flytt från sina hemländer och som har bott i Sverige i högst fem år. En kvalitativ ansats har använts och data samlades in genom intervjuer och analyserades med tematisk analys. Vid analys framkom fyra övergripande teman som var identitet, sociala relationer, kulturella skillnader och migrationsprocessen. Resultatet av undersökningen visar på att majoriteten av respondenterna upplever att de har påverkats av migrationen, att de har upplevt kulturella skillnader i Sverige jämfört med deras hemländer och att de har influerats av deras sociala relationer.

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Bruyere, Blandine. "Une aventure humaine : la migration : approche des processus inconscients prémigratoires." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014LYO20072/document.

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Migration, exil, déportation, transplantation, exode, expatriation, autant de mots pour qualifier le départ d’un pays. Autant les sciences sociales se sont attachées à comprendre la migration sous toutes ses formes depuis longtemps, autant la psychologie « de la migration » n’en est qu’à ses débuts. Elle s’est, pour l’heure, surtout intéressée aux difficultés rencontrées par les immigrés, mais peu à l’émigré.Il est donc question dans ce travail de tenter de mettre à jour les processus psychiques, et dynamiques préalables au départ. Pour ce faire, j’ai choisi de me mettre également en situation de migration pendant le travail de la recherche, pour rencontrer, accompagner et prendre en charge des candidats aux départs, et des migrants en situation de transit. S’est révélé, au cours de ce travail, la complexité due aux emboitements des différents espaces de réalités auxquelles chaque sujet a à faire. Malgré tout, il est possible de dire que les processus migratoires se mettent en place à partir de contextes tyranniques (familiaux, sociaux) au sein desquels l'emprise et la violence sont au cœur du lien. Le prétexte économique, souvent mis au premier plan, vient symboliser la dualité dette / réparation de la dette, et semble consécutif au fantasme de meurtre qui agite le groupe familial. La migration manifeste une forme de libido d'expression épistémophilique. Elle est la mise en acte d'une quête de sens sur la jouissance de l'autre, parent, de la violence qu'il a agie en tyrannisant le groupe. La migration est métaphore, mais elle est aussi symptôme ; elle est à la fois tentative de mise en conflit par le déplacement de l’originaire aliénant, et répétition par retournement de mécanismes de rejet, d’exclusion
Migration, exile, deportation, transplantation, exodus, expatriation are as many words to describe leaving a country. Though for a long time, social sciences have been attempting to understand all forms of migration, migration psychology is starting out. Up to now, it was interested in studying the immigrant's difficulties more than the emigrant.This study tries to update the psychic and dynamic process preliminary to departure. This is why I deliberately became a migrant during the whole research: I encountered, accompanied and took in charge prospective and transit migrants.My work enlightened on the complexity due to the diverse and intricate spaces of realities each subject has to deal with.However, migratory processes can be described as induced by oppressive contexts (in family or society) where control and violence are at the core of the bond. Economic motives are often put forward: they symbolize the duality of debt and reparation, and seem to be resulting from the murder fantasy in the family group.Migration denotes a form of libido and of epistemophilic drive. It is the actuation of a quest for the meaning of the other's (the parent's) narcissistic pleasure; it questions the violence and the control the other exerts over the group.Migration is both a metaphor and a symptom; it is the attempt to challenge and to modify the original alienation, as well as a repetition and a reversal of mechanisms of rejection and exclusion

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Malmusi, Davide 1980. "Determinants of social inequalities in selfrated health: analysis at the intersection of gender, class and migration type." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/116733.

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This dissertation aims to describe social inequalities in self-rated health in an integrated framework of gender, social class and immigration, and to identify the main intermediary factors and health problems that contribute to these inequalities. Three cross-sectional studies were performed with data from surveys of the general population residing in Catalonia and Spain in 2006. Migration from poor regions of Spain to Catalonia emerged as a health inequality dimension in addition to and interaction with gender and social class, highlighting the transitory nature of the ‘healthy immigrant effect’ partially observed in foreign immigrants. Material and economic resources made major contributions to all three types of health inequalities: individual income made the greatest contribution to gender inequalities; household material assets and financial difficulties to migration-related inequalities; and both to social class inequalities. Poorer self-rated health of women was showed to be not an issue of perception but a precise reflection of the higher burden of chronic conditions they suffered compared to men, such as musculoskeletal, mental and other pain disorders, which could be targets for a health system responsive to gender inequalities. Intersections between axes of inequality created complex social locations with unique consequences on health.

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Xu, Hui. "Essays on the interaction between migration and sending communities : evidence from China and Vietnam." Phd thesis, Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00808693.

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This dissertation is comprised of three chapters on the interaction between migrants and their source regions applied to China and Vietnam. The first chapter examines whether remittances are related to receivers' trust and trustworthiness in Vietnam. Using a combination of a field experiment conducted in 2010 and the "2002 Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey", the chapter finds that while internal remittances have no significant relationship to trusting behavior, international remittances demonstrate a significantly positive connection. On the other hand, international remittances are negatively related to trustworthiness, while internal remittances are positively associated. Besides, this study finds that the level of trustworthiness is higher in the south than in the north. The second chapter explores the role of children by age and by gender as a motive for return migration in China by using a rural household survey conducted in Wuwei County (Anhui province) in 2008. Resorting to a discrete time proportional hazard model and a binary Probit model to estimate respectively the determinants of migration duration for both on-going migrants and return migrants, and the return intentions of on-going migrants, the chapter finds consistent results regarding the role of left-behind children as a significant motive for return. The last chapter examines the impact of the migration experience on individuals' choice of being self-employed upon their return to their home villages. By using the same data of Wuwei survey, the chapter finds that return migrants are more likely to be self-employed than non-migrants, and that both return savings and the frequency of job changes during migration increase the likelihood for return migrants to become self-employed.

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Altnji, Sam. "Morphological and stent design risks factors to prevent migration phenomena and type 1a endoleak for a thoracic aneurysm : A numerical analysis." Thesis, Lyon, INSA, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014ISAL0051.

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Le traitement endovasculaire des anévrismes de l’aorte (Endovascular Aneurysm Repair ou EVAR) est une chirurgie mini-invasive qui consiste à faire glisser une endoprothèse par voie fémorale jusqu’au niveau de l’anévrisme afin de re-canaliser le flux sanguin. Les principales complications qui peuvent survenir sont les phénomènes de migration et d’endofuites (écoulement persistant de sang dans le sac anévrismal) de type Ia. Ces phénomènes apparaissent lorsque l’étanchéité n’est plus assurée entre l’extrémité proximale de l’endoprothèse et le vaisseau sanguin. Dans ce travail, des simulations paramétrées de déploiement complet d’un système de pose de stent ont été développées en utilisant la Méthode des Éléments Finis (FEM) afin d’étudier la stabilité du contact lors du largage d’une endoprothèse en nitinol dans un Anévrisme de l’Aorte Thoracique (AAT) réaliste. Les facteurs suivants associés à ces complications ont été étudiés : (1) la longueur de la zone de fixation proximale (PASL), (2) la valeur de surdimensionnement ou « oversizing » du stent (O %), (3) la valeur du coefficient de frottement entre le stent et l’aorte (µ) et (4) l’angulation du collet proximal. L’influence de la présence de calcifications sur le comportement biomécanique de l’endoprothèse lors de son déploiement dans les zones de fixation a également été analysée. Les résultats des simulations ont montré qu’une PASL supérieure à 18 mm est un facteur décisif pour éviter la migration de l’endoprothèse pour une angulation du collet de l’anévrisme de 60° et dans des conditions de contact glissant (µ=0,05). L’augmentation de la valeur de l’oversizing de 10 % à 20 % améliore la résistance de la fixation de la prothèse. En revanche, un oversizing supérieur à 25 % pour une angulation du collet de 60° entraine des déformations excentriques ainsi que la ruine du stent. D’autre part, aucune migration n’a été observée dans un modèle d’aorte idéalisé où l’angulation du collet était de 0°, la PASL de 18 mm et le coefficient de frottement µ de 0,05. Afin d’améliorer le contact et de prévenir l’apparition de phénomènes de migration et d’endofuite de type Ia chez des patients présentant une aorte tortueuse et calcifiée avec un anévrisme fortement angulé, un nouveau design de stent a été proposé, basé sur les résultats des simulations numériques effectuées. La principale difficulté était de trouver un compromis entre flexibilité et raideur. Les résultats des simulations réalisées avec ce nouveau stent ont montré une amélioration de la stabilité de contact, ce qui a pour effet de limiter l’apparition des phénomènes de migration et donc de réduire les complications liées à la procédure endovasculaire
The main mechanical related problems of endovascular aneurysm repair are migration and endoleak type Ia. They occur when there is no effective seal between the proximal end of stent-graft and the vessel. In this work, we have developed parameterized-deployment simulations of a complete stenting system using finite element method (FEM) to investigate the contact stiffness of a nitinol stent in a realistic Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm (TAA). Therefore, the following factors associated with these complications have evaluated: (1) Proximal Attachment Site Length (PASL), (2) stent Oversizing value (O %), (3) different contact friction situations (stent/aorta) and (4) proximal neck angulation. The calcification impact on the biomechanical behaviour of the deployment at the attachment zone has also been investigated. The simulation results showed that PASL>18mm was a crucial factor to prevent migration at a neck angle of 60⁰and smoothest contact condition (μ=0.05). The increase in (O %) ranging from 10% to 20% improved the fixation strength; however, O % ≥ 25% at 60° caused eccentric deformation and stent collapse. No migration was reported in an idealized aorta model with a neck angle of 0⁰, PASL=18mm and μ=0.05. The numerical observations are used as a guide to optimize the stent design in such neck morphology to strengthen the contact and prevent migration or endoleak type Ia. The optimized stent results showed better contact stability to resist the migration. They also showed a good compromise of stent design requirements (flexibility and stiffness). Moreover, the new design can also prevent the risk of folding or collapse of stent struts by mitigating the energy of eccentric deformation caused by high angulation and oversizing

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Cham, Alphajoh. "Mining and HIV/AIDS Transmission Among Marampa Mining Communities in Lunsar, Sierra Leone." ScholarWorks, 2015. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1642.

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Since the human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) was first reported in Sierra Leone in 1987, its prevalence rate has stabilized at 1.5% in the nation's general population. However, concerns exist regarding the potential increase in high-risk populations, particularly among mineworkers and commercial sex workers. The potential spread of HIV/AIDS as a result of labor migration may threaten the mining sector, which has been identified as a critical driver of recent economic growth and development. A gap remains in the literature regarding the contextual factors in mining communities that lead to high rates of HIV/AIDS. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to quantitatively examine the association between labor migration and of sexual risk behaviors among mineworkers in the Marampa Mines in Lunsar, Sierra Leone. Grounded in the ecological model and using a cross-sectional design, 296 mineworkers from the Marampa mining communities were surveyed using a standardized survey questionnaire. Research questions were answered using simple linear and binary logistic regression analyses. Analyses of the results indicated a significant relationship between labor migration and condom self-efficacy, where migrants were predicted to have condom self-efficacy scores 7 times higher than nonmigrants. However, the results showed no statistically significant relationship between labor migration and engagement in multiple sexual partnerships and commercial sex among the mineworkers. These findings will provide important implications for positive social change in the development of multilevel HIV intervention programs to reduce sexual risk behaviors that transmit HIV, thereby improving the health and wellbeing of miners and that of their partners and families in the mining communities.

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Felix, Vivienne R. "The Experiences of Refugee Students in United States Postsecondary Education." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1460127419.

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Lecomte, Mia. "Voix poétiques des Italiens d'ailleurs. La poésie italophone (1960-2016)." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCA114.

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Les migrations planétaires, massivement produites par les renversements historiques et politiques de la fin du siècle dernier, sont en train de bouleverser les ordres nationaux actuels et de soumettre les populations à un nouveau mélange identitaire et linguistique dont résultent des cultures hybrides et la remise en question de la légitimité des canons littéraires nationaux. Les littératures transnationales plurilingues sont en train de dessiner la carte de plus en plus vaste d’un nouvel univers littéraire constitué d’écrivains omniprésents, inclassables, dont la production narrative et poétique échappe aux définitions de genre et met l’accent sur les dynamiques linguistiques inhérentes à ces écritures en transit. Comment s’intègre l’Italie dans cette nouvelle scène littéraire plurilingue ? Avec quels résultats et quelles perspectives ? Après un premier chapitre introductif – un cadre général de la littérature transnationale italophone à partir de ses débuts officiels, à l'aube des années 90 –, cette recherche s'orientera spécifiquement vers l’étude de l'italophonie poétique. En remontant de manière inédite aux débuts des années 60, la production transnationale italophone sera analysée pour la première fois à travers un panorama chronologique et raisonné des voix poétiques, où se dégagent les plus représentatives. Nous mettrons l’accent sur la littérarité des textes, qui seront toujours remis en perspective avec la poésie italienne contemporaine pour délimiter la relation entre les différentes expressions de l’écriture poétique en italien qui vient s’imposer au fil du temps
The mass planetary migrations set into motion by the historical and political transformations of the last years of the 20th century are disrupting current national status quos, while populations are undergoing a re-mixture of identities and languages that has produced hybrid cultures and, from the strictly literary point of view, a challenge to the legitimacy of national canons. The pluri-language transnational literatures are drawing an ever-wider map of a new literary universe made up of ubiquitous, unclassifiable writers whose production in prose and poetry escapes genre definitions, emphasizing the linguistic dynamics inherent to these writings in transit. How does Italy fit into this new pluri-language literary scenario? With what results and prospects? After a first introductory chapter, in which a general framework of Italian-language transnational literature is presented from its official beginnings at the start of the Nineties until today, my research focuses specifically on poetic Italophony. Locating its birth back in the early Sixties – the decade when the first « compelled » migrations to Italy began –, transnational Italian-language production is for the first time analyzed through a chronologically ordered panorama of poetic voices, against which the most representatives ones are silhouetted. Stress is laid on the literariness of the texts, and Italian contemporary poetry is always present, in perspective, to trace the relationship that is being created over time between the different expressions of poetic writing « in Italian »

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Schaland, Ann-Julia. "Die Bedeutung transnationaler Kompetenzen für die Selbstständigkeit." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät II, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16956.

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Weltweit sind immer mehr Unternehmensgründer Migranten. Ihre Gründungsaktivitäten werden mit den individuellen Ressourcen der Migranten und den Möglichkeiten in den Zielregionen erklärt (vgl. z.B. „Mixed-Embeddedness“-Ansatz von Kloosterman et al. 1999). Zu den Ressourcen zählen das Humankapital sowie das soziale und ökonomische Kapital. Veränderte Nachfragestrukturen, rechtliche, institutionelle und technologische Rahmenbedingungen sowie Entwicklungen auf den Arbeits- und Immobilienmärkten im Zielland beeinflussen ferner die Chancen für Migrantengründungen. Auffällig ist, dass transnationale Kompetenzen (Koehen und Rosenau 2002), wie z.B. Mehrsprachigkeit oder das Wissen über mindestens zwei länderübergreifende Kontexte nicht mit zu den individuellen Ressourcen gerechnet werden. So können Akteure, die unterschiedliche kulturelle Deutungsschemata kennen, z.B. bei Geschäftsverhandlungen Bedeutungsgleichheit mit unterschiedlichen Geschäftspartnern herstellen (Pütz 2004, 28). Ziel der Arbeit ist, die Bedeutung transnationaler Kompetenzen für unternehmerisches Handeln in Bezug auf die Entdeckung von Gründungsideen und die Entwicklung von Marktbearbeitungsstrategien herauszustellen und dadurch eine weitere Determinante zur Erklärung der Struktur von Migrantenökonomien zu identifizieren. Der theoretische Teil der Arbeit befasste sich mit der Rolle transnationaler Kompetenzen für die Selbstständigkeit. Die Auswertung 54 problemzentrierter Interviews mit Selbstständigen mit türkischem Migrationshintergrund zeigte, dass transnationale Kompetenzen vor allem für hochqualifizierte Migranten der zweiten Generation in wissensintensiven Dienstleistungsbranchen eine Ressource für ihre Selbstständigkeit darstellen. Sie können zwischen diversen Marktbearbeitungsstrategien wählen und heterogene lokale, nationale und transnationale Netzwerke aufbauen, die sie wiederum dazu befähigen, eine unbediente Nachfrage aufzudecken und spezielle Dienste anzubieten.
The number of entrepreneurs in Germany is expected to decrease by more than half a million within the next 40 years (Deutscher Industrie- und Handelskammertag 2008). Experts propose that migrants may be able to secure the business founding sector in the future. Today already more migrants with foreign nationality found businesses than Germans without a history in migration (Statistisches Bundesamt 2012b). The Research field of Migrant Entrepreneurship explains that some of the reasons for the increase in self-employment among migrants are difficulties in finding jobs, and struggle with legal conditions in the receiving country, as well as business opportunities due to migrant resources (e.g. “co-ethnic” support networks, see Waldinger et al. 1990). Surprisingly, individual transnational competences (Koehn and Rosenau 2002) as multilingualism and the knowledge of diverse cultural contexts are often overlooked. I assume that these competences have an impact on creativity, the exploration of market opportunities and the development of business strategies. Moreover they foster the chance to set up diverse local, national or transnational networks. In the first part of this thesis a summary of former and recent concepts to explain migrant entrepreneurship is presented. The next part deals with the definition of transnational competences (Koehn and Rosenau 2002). Afterwards I raise the question how to gain these competences and what impact they might have for the motivation of getting self-employed. The analysis of 54 structured interviews with self-employed workers of Turkish origin in different sectors in Hamburg shows that transnational competences are indeed advantageous, especially to second generation migrants in the knowledge intensive service industry (i.e. legal and health-care consultation). They develop innovative founding ideas and they can choose between diverse market strategies due to their special competencies and transnational networks.

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Maagaard, Sebastian. "The End of Sweden’s Nonalignment Policy and Generous RefugeePolicy, or EU as a Solution : Sweden’s National Self-determination in the EU Membership Debate,1987 – 1991." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för idé- och lärdomshistoria, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-320389.

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This thesis examines how the parliamentary debate in Sweden saw the consequences of Swedenas a nation were to join the European Union. The nation is defined as a state based on nationalself-determination. The EU is regarded as a supra-state organisation and one of the moreextensive efforts of its kind. I specifically examine two themes in Swedish foreign policy. Theseare the nonalignment policy and migration policy. Through a discourse analysis I show that allpolitical parties perceive consequences for the self-determination and all argue selfdeterminationwill be lost in the event of membership. However, they are divided in what theybelieved this would lead to. Some parties support EU whereas others are sceptical of EU. Partiesthat support an EU-membership argue that it is inevitable to join and Sweden will lose selfdeterminationanyway. A membership opens the possibility to influence and participate, but anabstaining will lead forced acceptance of policies. Many of the supporters are even positive ofbeing a member in EU. Sceptics, on the other hand believe Sweden will lack influence and loseall self-determination. The organisation itself is against Sweden as it is a supra-stateorganisation, which may reduce the role of single member-states. For the nonalignment policy,the government initially use it as an argument against EU, but later support membership if thenonalignment policy can be kept. The other supporters acknowledge the nonalignment policy,but nevertheless assert that EU is compatible with the nonalignment policy. This is because ofthe changes in the geopolitical situation. Sceptics believe the nonalignment policy rejectmembership, mostly due to the still uncertain geopolitical situation and the suspicion EU willdeprive Sweden of its decision-making. Sometimes they suggest the self-determination andnonalignment policy are prerequisites for each other. In the migration policy, all parties supportgenerous migration policy, but

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Dojs, Marek Ryszard. "Sights and Sounds of the Mysterious Side of Myself." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11050/.

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This film is an autobiographical documentary which tells the story of the process of documenting the filmmaker's trip to his land of heritage. As his plans for his journey and film begin to go awry, he begins to question the entire process of trying to connect with nation and place.

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Viseth, Arina. "Essays on emigration, remittances, and employment in the source country : evidence from Mexico." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010LYO22020.

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This dissertation contributes to the emerging empirical literature on the developmental impact of international migration in the source developing economy. Given the policy priority placed on job creation and the emphasis on wage impacts in recent work, the focus here is on the consequences of emigration on the extent of employment and the nature of that employment of those left behind. In particular, our questions are (i) does international migration and remittances have an impact on unemployment rates in the source country? and (ii) do remittances encourage entrepreneurship, as reflected by the share of workers classified as self-employed? We investigate these questions using census data from Mexico, unlike much of previous work that has relied on household survey data. Our empirical strategy attempts to address the typical issues of self-selection and endogeneity that migration impact studies encounter. We classify workers into skill groups and employ the Borjas (2003) empirical strategy, carrying out our analysis at the national level. We also introduce the fractional logit estimator (Papke and Wooldridge (1996)), unused in this field before, to address the fact that the dependent variables of concern are both proportions, and thus avoid the flaws in typical studies that investigate the impact of selected variables on the conditional expectation of a proportion or vector of proportions. Our results show that (i) emigration and remittances decrease native unemployment rates, and (ii) remittances intensify self-employment activities among the receivers. These results are even stronger once we control for sample bias and endogeneity. In terms of economic policy, we therefore provide indirect evidence that migration and remittances could be growth enhancing through their effects on employment in the source country
Cette dissertation contribue à la littérature empirique naissante sur l'impact développemental de la migration internationale dans le pays source. Etant donné la priorité de politique placée sur la création d'emplois, l’analyse est ici portée sur les conséquences de l'émigration sur l'emploi et la nature de cet emploi. En particulier, nos questions sont les suivantes, d’une part, (i) est-ce que la migration internationale et les transferts de fonds des travailleurs migrants ont un impact sur le taux de chômage dans le pays de source? D’autre part, (ii) les transferts de fonds des travailleurs migrants encouragent-ils l'esprit d'entreprise, comme reflété par la proportion de travailleurs indépendants du pays source? Nous étudions ces questions en utilisant des données de recensement du Mexique et des Etats-Unis, à la différence de beaucoup des travaux précédents qui se sont fondés sur des données d'enquête de ménage. Notre stratégie empirique essaye d'adresser les problèmes de biais de sélection et d’endogénéite, problèmes que les études précédentes ont rencontrés. Nous classifions les travailleurs dans différents groupes de compétence et utilisons la stratégie empirique dévelopée par Borjas (2003), effectuant ainsi notre analyse au niveau national. Nous introduisons également l'estimateur partiel de logit (développé par Papke et Wooldridge (1996)). Nos résultants montrent que (i) l'émigration et les transferts de fonds de travailleurs migrants diminuent le taux de chômage du pays source, et par ailleurs (ii) les transferts de fonds de travailleurs migrants augmentent le taux de travailleurs indépendants dans le pays source. Ces résultats sont encore plus significatifs une fois que nous prenons en considération les problèmes économétriques liés aux biais de sélection et d’endogénéité. En termes de politique économique, nous fournissons donc des preuves empiriques quant aux effets de la migration internationale et des transferts de fonds migrants sur la croissance économique du pays de source

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Charles, Faith, and Martin Wiberg. "Coping strategies among international students who transition to university in Sweden : Experiences and perceptions of loneliness as an international student in Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för socialt arbete och kriminologi, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-35857.

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This study explores the coping strategies amongst international students who moved to a medium sized city in Sweden to study. The aim is to explore how international students cope with loneliness and their perceptions and experiences related to loneliness. The method is qualitative and inductive, with deductive properties such as the topics related to loneliness, coping, resources and technology. We conducted semi structured interviews with six participants. The theory used is a strength-based perspective focusing on the resources and coping of the participants. The results show the participants express various accounts of experienced loneliness and coping strategies. The themes found were a New university and country, Social life, Society and culture, Self-agency, and Coping strategies. International students cope with loneliness by talking to family and friends, often using ICT. Other sources of support come from within the university environment. Most of the support utilized comes from the students acting themselves.

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Wolf, Caroline Antoniazzi. "Sexagem de embriões bovinos produzidos in vitro com sêmen selecionado por PERCOLL ou SWIM-UP." Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2007. http://repositorio.ufsm.br/handle/1/10058.

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Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is becoming a current issue in animal reproduction biotechnology due to economical reasons. Predetermining the sex of offspring is one example of PGD. This study aimed to determine the percentage of male and female bovine embryos in vitro produced after oocyte fertilization with Percoll density gradient centrifugation or with self-migration (swim-up) selected semen. In experiment 1, sperm selection was performed by 90%-45% discontinuous Percoll density gradient centrifugation (T1) and swim-up (T2). In experiment 2, along side the discontinuous gradient, a 67.5% continuous density gradient, and centrifugation time of 5 and 10 minutes were used. A total of 4 treatment groups was defined (TI = continuous, 5 minutes, TII = discontinuous, 5 minutes, TIII = continuous, 10 minutes and TIV = discontinuous, 10 minutes). Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to determine the sex of the embryos. T1 (n=185) resulted in 48.65% (n=90) male embryos and 51.35% (n=95) female embryos and T2 (n=142) in 58.45% (n=83) male and 41.55% (n=59) female embryos. In experiment 2, the percentages of male and female embryos obtained in TI (n=93), TII (n=70), TIII (n=82) and TIV (n=82) were 49.46% (n=46) and 50.54% (n=47), 57.14% (n=40) and 42.86% (n=30), 36.59% (n=30) and 63.41% (n=52) and 48.78% (n=40) and 51.22% (n=42), respectively. There was no difference on the percentage of males and females in all treatment groups from experiments 1 and 2 when these were individually compared to the expected percentage of 50% of each sex. There was also no difference in male and female embryo percentage between treatment groups in experiments 1 and 2.
O diagnóstico genético pré-implantação (DGP) vem se destacando na área da biotecnologia da reprodução animal por motivos econômicos. Um exemplo de DGP é a predeterminação do sexo da prole. Neste estudo foi verificada a percentagem de embriões bovinos machos e fêmeas produzidos in vitro após a fertilização de oócitos com sêmen selecionado por centrifugação em gradiente de densidade de Percoll ou por migração ascendente (swim-up). No experimento 1 a seleção espermática foi realizada usando o gradiente descontínuo de Percoll de 90% e 45% (T1) e o swimup (T2). No experimento 2 foi utilizado, além do gradiente descontínuo, um gradiente contínuo de densidade de Percoll de 67,5%, e tempos de centrifugação de 5 e 10 minutos, totalizando 4 tratamentos (TI = contínuo 5 minutos, TII = descontínuo 5 minutos, TIII = contínuo 10 minutos e TIV = descontínuo 10 minutos). A sexagem dos embriões foi realizada através da técnica da reação em cadeia da polimerase (PCR). No T1 (n=185) foram obtidos 48,65% (n=90) de embriões masculinos e 51,35% (n=95) de femininos e no T2 (n=142) 58,45% (n=83) foram machos e 41,55% (n=59) fêmeas. No experimento 2, a percentagem de embriões masculinos e femininos no TI (n=93), TII (n=70), TIII (n=82) e TIV (n=82) foi de 49,46% (n=46) e 50,54% (n=47), 57,14% (n=40) e 42,86% (n=30), 36,59% (n=30) e 63,41% (n=52), e 48,78% (n=40) e 51,22% (n=42), respectivamente. Não houve alteração na percentagem de machos e fêmeas nos tratamentos dos experimentos 1 e 2 quando estes tratamentos foram comparados individualmente com a percentagem teoricamente esperada de 50% de cada sexo. Também não houve alteração na percentagem de machos e fêmeas na comparação entre os dois tratamentos do experimento 1 e entre os quatro tratamentos do experimento 2.

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Wülfrath, Stefan. "Migration von Relaisschaltungen der Eisenbahnsicherungstechnik auf Programmierbare Schaltkreise." Master's thesis, Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2013. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-127754.

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In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden eine sichere FPGA-Stellwerksplattform und ein Transformationsverfahren entwickelt, mit dem die Schaltungen bestehender Relaisstellwerke in eine FPGA-Logik überführt werden können. Die FPGA-Stellwerksplattform ersetzt die Innenanlage eines Relaisstellwerks. Ihre Schnittstellen entsprechen den bisherigen Schnittstellen am Kabelabschlussgestell und zur Bedien- und Meldeeinrichtung. Damit ist eine einfache Migration bestehender Stellwerke möglich. Das Sicherheitskonzept basiert auf einer zweikanaligen Struktur mit sicherem Vergleicher und zusätzlichen Selbsttests zur schnellen, datenflussunabhängigen Ausfalloffenbarung. Die erreichbare Gefährdungsrate liegt im Bereich von SIL 4 und entspricht damit dem Sicherheitsziel für Stellwerke der Deutschen Bahn. Die Transformation sieht eine Trennung der Stellwerkslogik in Logik- und Leistungsteil vor. Der Logikteil wird auf dem FPGA realisiert. Die im Leistungsteil verbliebenen Kontakte und Überwacherrelais werden durch sichere Stellteile ersetzt. Die logischen Ansteuerbedingungen der Relais werden in Schaltnetze überführt. Die gesteuerten Relais werden durch Instanzen generischer Zustandsmodelle ersetzt. Für jeden verwendeten Relaistyp wurde ein entsprechendes Modell entwickelt, das bei der Transformation als Baustein eingesetzt werden kann. Die generischen Zustandsmodelle berücksichtigen auch die sicherheitsrelevanten konstruktiven Eigenschaften der Relais. So wird bei der Auftrennung einer Schaltung in Logik- und Leistungsteil sichergestellt, dass die in getrennte Schaltungsteile überführten Öffner und Schließer eines Relais nie gleichzeitig geschlossen sein können (Zwangsführung der Kontakte). Dies ist eine Voraussetzung für die Beibehaltung der sicherheitsrelevanten Funktionsbedingungen der Originalschaltung. Das Transformationsverfahren und die implementierten Mechanismen zur Ausfalloffenbarung sind unabhängig von der Anwenderlogik und vom gewählten Schaltkreistyp. Damit kann der generierte VHDL-Code bei Obsoleszenz eines Schaltkreises auch auf andere FPGA-Typen portiert werden. In einer Ressourcenabschätzung wird gezeigt, dass der gewählte Lösungsansatz geeignet ist, die Schaltungen kleinerer Relaisstellwerke vollständig auf einem FPGA zu realisieren. Die Anwendung des vorgestellten Verfahrens wird am Beispiel der Weichengruppe des Stellwerkstyps GS II DR demonstriert. Das Transformationsverfahren ist aber auch für andere Stellwerksbauformen geeignet. Dabei ist es unerheblich, ob diese nach dem tabellarischen Verschlussplanprinzip oder dem Spurplanprinzip arbeiten.

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Agin, Sol. "Communication without borders : A quantitative study on how mobility and a cosmopolitan self-identity affect Swedish expatriates communication patterns with friends." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för geografi, medier och kommunikation, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-47794.

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The purpose of this study is to find out how Swedish voluntary migrants communicate with friends in three different groups: friends that resides in the same country as the respondent currently lives in, friends in Sweden, friends in other countries around the globe and whether or not individual mobility, demographic factors or a sense of global citizenship affect the chosen mean of communication. The reason behind the study is to introduce a previously unstudied area into the field of geographically based media studies and hopefully contribute to a deeper understanding of the role played by different means of communication in shaping the dynamics of global friendship. The theoretical approach in this study will be from three different outlooks, migration, polymedia (including the second-level digital divide) and cosmopolitanism. The study is based on data from the Institute for Society, Opinion and Media (SOM) and their survey questionnaire sent out to Swedish expatriates during fall 2014 / winter 2015, also known as Utlands-SOM. The total number of respondents are 2268. The study starts with basic frequencies to find out which media that are the most prominent, then binary logistic regressions have been made. The total number of dependent variables are 21 and these have then been analysed from seven independent variables; age, gender, education, travel patterns, years spent abroad, number of countries lived in and whether or not the respondent consider himself/herself being a cosmopolitan. This generates a total of seven tables (one for each media) with three models in each (contact with friends in current country of residency, contact with friends in Sweden and contact with friends in other parts of the world). Amongst Swedish expatriates, e-mail and Facebook are the two most popular media for keeping in touch with friends, regardless of the friends location. The most significant demographic variable is age. Usage of video call, text message, chat, Facebook and other social media tend to decrease with age. Every year spent abroad decreases the communication with friends in Sweden, but increases the communication in the current country of residency. The number of countries lived in have a positive effect on communication with friends in other parts of the world. Cosmopolitan self-identity is found to be most significant when communicating with friends in other parts of the world, and it also affects e-mail the most. Level of education, which in previous studies have been found closely linked to a cosmopolitan identity, is found to have no significant correlation. Arguably, this is explained by the other means of communications negative relationship with the variable.
Syftet med denna studie är att ta reda på hur svenskar som frivilligt emigrerat utomlands kommunicerar med vänner inom tre olika grupper: vänner som bor i samma land som respondenten för tillfället lever i, vänner i Sverige samt vänner bosatta i övriga länder världen över. Detta sätts i perspektiv med huruvida den individuella mobiliteten, demografiska faktorer eller en känsla av ett världsmedborgarskap påverkar det valda kommunikationsmedlet. Denna studie ämnar att introducera ett tidigare förbisett forskningsområde inom geografiskt baserade mediestudier och därigenom förhoppningsvis bidra till forskningsfältet genom en fördjupad förståelse om kommunikationsmediers roll för vänskapsdynamik på global skala. Det teoretiska ramverk som utgör studiens grund är tre stycken skilda delar, migration, polymedia (inklusive en andra gradens digital klyfta) och kosmopolitism. Denna studie bygger på data från Institutet för Samhälle, Opinion och Media (SOM), och deras undersökning ställd till utlandssvenskar (Utlands-SOM) från hösten 2014 / vintern 2015. Totalt antal respondenter är 2268. Först görs en enkel frekvenstabeller för att undersöka vilket/vilka de primära medierna är i varje grupp, därefter har binära logistiska regressioner körts. Det totala antalet beroende variabler som behandlas är 21. Dessa sätts i perspektiv med ålder, kön, utbildning, resemönster, antal år utomlands, antal boendeländer och om respondenten anser sig vara världsmedborgare eller ej. Detta genererar totalt sju tabeller (en för varje media), med tre modeller i varje (kontakt med vänner i nuvarande boendeland, kontakt med vänner i Sverige och kontakt med vänner i övriga världen). Utlandssvenskarnas favoritmedium för att hålla kontakten med vänner, oavsett var vännerna befinner sig, visade sig vara e-post och Facebook. Den mest signifikanta demografiska variabeln visade sig vara ålder. Användandet av videosamtal, SMS, chatt, Facebook och andra sociala medier visade sig minska med högre ålder. För varje år respondenterna spenderar utomlands minskar oddsen för kommunikationen med Sverige, men ökar i det nuvarande boendelandet. Antalet länder som respondenterna har bott i har en positiv inverkan på kommunikationen med vänner i övriga världen. Den kosmopolitiska identiteten är mest signifikant när det kommer till att kommunicera med vänner i övriga världen och den påverkar även e-post som medium allra mest positivt. Utbildningsnivå, vilket sedan tidigare studier funnits vara tätt länkat med en kosmopolitisk identitet, visade sig inte vara signifikant i denna undersökning. Detta kan förklaras genom de andra kommunikationsmediernas negativa förhållande med variabeln.

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Wang, Shaolin. "Economic influences on and impacts of the migration of health professionals." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2010. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/0255a87d-a50e-4197-a3ad-86cfebdaa75b.

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Migration has become an important feature of health labour markets due to the global shortage of health professionals. While there exists an extensive Labour Economics literature studying the general migration, policy development remains hampered by limited research undertaken in the health sector. This thesis fills some of that gap by examining the economic influences on and impacts of the migration of health professionals. The migration of skilled health professionals has exhibited strong sectoral properties, such as the motivation of career development and various regulatory regimes. We incorporate these features into the self-selection model by Borjas and Bratsberg (1996) and examine factors that influence the scale and skill composition of the migration flow. Our model suggests that the restrictive relicensing regime and work permit requirements for non-EEA professionals adopted by the British government to maintain practice standards and secure employment opportunities for native graduates, could only limit the migration from countries with higher returns to skills. The effect is ambiguous for most donor countries, which provide lower returns to skills.Using the administrative data derived from the Scottish dental system, we also examine the impacts of health professional migration within EU on the host country by investigating the performance of EEA dentists contracted under the Scottish NHS in terms of retention and treatment provision. A discrete-time survival analysis has been applied to characterize the time trend of the retention and identify factors associated with the likelihood of a dentist leaving the NHS. We also compare treatments provided by migrant and non-migrant dentists by estimating a difference-in-differences model. Unobserved heterogeneity in dentists is controlled using fixed effects.Our results suggest that EEA health professionals can be a good substitute to British graduates. They provide marginally different treatments and exhibit strong assimilation within two years post-entry. However, a constant issue we have found is their high turnover rates in the NHS: half of them left the service by the 26th month following entry. The primary policy recommendation of our analyses is that there is need for the government to develop recruitment initiatives so as to retain migrant dentists. Our results suggest hazards of leaving are significantly associated with dentists’ age-at-entry, arrival cohort and patient composition, but not with dentists’gender, country and practice deprivation. These findings potentially help to set evidence-based targets for international recruitment programmes

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Madrisotti, Francesco. "L'étape marocaine des self-made migrants. La recherche d'une émancipation économique et sociale par la mobilité." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018PSLEH082/document.

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’appuyant sur une ethnographie d’environ cinq ans, effectuee entre 2010 et 2015 dans la ville de Tanger, l’enquete presentee ici interroge les formes de mobilité et les pratiques économiques mises en place par des migrants originaires de l'Afrique de l'Ouest et exclus des circuits de la mobilité privilégiée. Je décris ces individus comme des self-made-migrants qui, ne disposant pas des moyens économiques, administratifs et relationnels leur permettant d'accéder aux cir-cuits de la mobilité privilégiée, construisent, par le bas, une mobilité transnationale et subalterne réalisée par étapes et contournements de frontières. Cette mobilité se configure comme un projet et est conçue par les migrants comme un moyen pour “chercher leur vie”, a savoir pour chercher de manière autonome de nouvelles opportunités et une émancipation économique et sociale et s'imposer ainsi comme les acteurs de leur destin. Cette quête est orientée moins par une desti-nation precise que par la volonte de “sortir” et de circuler dans un ailleurs indefini et ouvert qui devient le catalyseur des imaginaires de réussite de ces migrants. Cette mobilité se réalise par étapes, à travers des découvertes, des explorations, des allers-retours : les migrants inventent ainsi étape après étape des parcours singuliers en reformulant constamment leurs itinéraires en fonction des contraintes et des opportunités qui se présentent. À travers mon enquête j'explore la relation existant entre cette forme de mobilité transnationale subalterne et des pratiques économiques de la mobilité et de la débrouille que les migrants in-ventent et développent afin d'alimenter leur trajectoire. Ces pratiques relèvent d'une économie de la pauvreté, caractérisée par des revenus extrêmement modestes et aléatoires et par un manque complet de toute forme de protection. Je montrerai que ces pratiques s'ancrent dans les marges de l'économie régulière et se greffent sur d'autres formes de mobilités qui se croisent et s'imbriquent dans la région tangéroise : des mobilités touristiques et commerciales notamment. Ces pratiques sont en outre transposables et peuvent être déclinées de manière inédite lors des étapes futures des itinéraires de ces self-made-migrants. Ces self-made-migrants sont donc les acteurs d'une mobilité subalterne qui se fonde sur des pratiques économiques de la débrouille qui leur permettent de circuler sur des territoires trans-nationaux et alimenter ainsi leur quête d'émancipation économique et sociale. Mots-clés : self-made-migrants, migration, mobilité transnationale, économie de la mobilité, économie de la débrouille, émancipation économique et sociale, étape, Maroc
Based on an ethnographic field, made between 2010 and 2015 in the Tangier city, this research seeks to find out how the West African moves excluded of the circuits of the mainstream migration, and the economical practices they use in order to move. I describe these individuals as the self-made-migrants, whom not having access to the economical, administrative and social resources to move, they create by they own means, a transnational and subordinate mobility made by stages and border circumventions. This mobility is understood as a project, and a way to “seek their life”. For them, this expression means to look autonomously new social and economic opportunities to become the main character of their destiny. This quest is not lead by the destination but by the will of “going out” and move in an indefinite elsewhere, which becomes the catalyst of the imaginations of success of these migrants. This mobility is made by stages, through discoveries, explorations, and roundtrips. The migrants create, step by step, singular journeys by constantly reformulating the itinerary, in order to respond to the opportunities and the difficulties they found on their quest. In this research I explore the relationship between this transnational subordinated mobility and the economical practices created by the migrants in order to continue the trip. These economical strategies take part of the economics of poverty, defined by lowest and random incomes, and by a lack of protection. I’ll show that these strategies are link to the regular economy and are related to other forms of mobility found in the Tangier region. These strategies are also easy to transpose and adapt to other contexts in other steps of the journey. The self-made migrants are the actors of a subordinated mobility based on a precarious economy that nonetheless allows them to continue their transnational journey and their pursuit of an economic and social emancipation. Key Words: self-made-migrants, migration, transnational mobility, economics of the mobility, precarious economy, social and economic emancipation, stage, Morocco

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Persson, Sophie, and Sofie Wäremalm. "FRÅGA OM STATLIGT SJÄLVBESTÄMMANDE? : En analys av Sveriges regerings syn på migration under flyktingkrisen 2015 och 2016." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-58992.

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Traditionally Sweden has had a liberal migration policy and has been opened to both refugees, asylum seekers and labor immigrants. In year 2015 Sweden introduced internal border controls to stop the inflow of people by reason of the overloaded asylum system, internal borders that earlier had been open for over 60 years. The purpose of this survey is to analyze the Swedish governments’ view on migration during the years 2015 and 2016 based on ideas about migration as a universal human right and the states self-determination. This is interesting because Sweden has had a liberal migration policy, and besides, calls itself for a humanitarian superpower. The questions in this survey is first how the relationship look like in the governments’ view on migration based on universal human rights and state self-determination during the refugee crisis 2015 and 2016 and how they express themselves in the various government documents. The second question is what ideas are specifically emphasized by the government in the view of who the central actor is, the view of state borders and the view of who the state should help? The method in this survey is a qualitative actor-centered and descriptive idea and ideology analysis where dimensions are used as an analysis tool. The material used in the survey is government documents from 2015 and 2016 consisting government declarations, propositions and debate articles. The result shows that both ideas of migration as a universal human right and the state self-determination can be found in the Swedish government view on migration during this years. The first idea is most prominent in the principal view of what the government wants to do in the migration politics and the second idea is most prominent in the documents about how the government actually act, such as in law suggestions. In addition, the government’s view is also different between the dimensions of the various government documents.

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Teodossieva, Assia. "Die Niederlassungsfreiheit der Staatsangehörigen und der Unternehmen aus Mittel- und Osteuropa in der Europäischen Union." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Juristische Fakultät, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/16228.

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Die Arbeit untersucht aus der Perspektive der Arbeitsmigration die Niederlassungsrechte der Staatsangehörigen und der Unternehmen aus Mittel- und Osteuropa in der Europäischen Union im Zeitraum 1990-2009. Erörtert werden das relevante EU-Recht und die entsprechenden nationalen Regelungen am Beispiel Deutschland und Bulgarien. Behandelt werden u.a. unterschiedliche Fallkonstellationen, in denen die gewährten Niederlassungsrechte nicht zweckentsprechend genutzt werden. Untersucht werden dabei die rechtlichen Aspekte der unlauteren Nutzung der erwähnten Niederlassungsrechte als eine ungewöhnliche Form der legalen Migration aus Mittel- und Osteuropa. Diese können unter bestimmten Umständen als Mittel eines legalen Zugangs zu sonst gesperrten Arbeitsmärkten der „alten“ EU-Mitgliedstaaten dienen oder als Instrumentarium für eine Aufenthaltsverfestigung in Hinsicht auf die Versuche, durch die Niederlassungsrechte einen vorher unrechtmäßigen Aufenthalt in einem EU-Mitgliedstaat zu legalisieren. Die Untersuchung berücksichtigt die relevante Rechtsprechung im Bereich und verläuft komplex auf drei Ebenen - auf Ebene des internationalen Privatrechts Bulgariens, des EU-Rechts und des deutschen alten und neuen Ausländerrechts.
The dissertation examines the right of establishment of nationals and companies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in the European Union from the perspective of labour migration. It discusses the relevant EU legislation combining the corresponding German and Bulgarian national regulations over the period 1990-2009. The dissertation presents inter alia different constellations, in which the right of establishment is not used according to the spirit and purpose of the law. It analyzes the legal aspects of such unfair practices as a nontypical form of legal migration from Central and Eastern Europe in the European Union. In the years preceding the EU accession 2004/2007 and in the transitional periods after that the labour markets of the “old” EU Member States were subject of restrictive regulations. That fact provoked the CEE nationals under certain circumstances to use the right of establishment improperly - as an instrument for a legal access to the aforementioned labour markets, as a tool for acquiring a permanent residence status in the host country or even as an attempt to legalize an illegal residence. The study takes into account the relevant EU and German case law and runs complex on three levels - on the level of EU law and on the level of the corresponding Bulgarian and German law.

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Almonte, Michelle. "History, Material Culture, and the Search for the Mythic American Dream in Angie Cruz’s Let it Rain Coffee." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3175.

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This thesis examines the connection between Dominican history, the influence of American material culture, and the mythic American Dream as catalysts for migration. The two U.S. occupations and American propaganda through media had a great effect on the deceptive perception of an American life as an effortless method for attaining wealth. Let it Rain Coffee by Angie Cruz, will focus on the character, Esperanza Colon, and her obsession with the lavish lifestyle she views on the television show, Dallas. Material objects, as argued by Daniel Miller in his book, Stuff, work in subtle yet significant ways and determine our function, identification, and experience in society. If the ideal purpose of material culture is to presuppose our roles as individuals, one can conclude that the novel showcases the issues of a subordinate class struggling to attain the material goods that represent economic wealth while maintaining a sense of self-identification and self-agency.

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Maier, Katrin Dorothee. "Redeeming London : gender, self and mobility among Nigerian Pentecostals." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/43345/.

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This thesis is an ethnographic investigation into how Pentecostalism impacts on the religious, family and work life of Nigerian migrants in London, and overall how such religious engagement shapes informants' relationship with the United Kingdom. It brings together the study of migration, Pentecostal Christianity and gender relations. The thesis focuses on the members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG). The RCCG is one of the biggest Pentecostal churches in Nigeria, where it has developed into a significant social and political player and has spread worldwide. In London, the RCCG caters for a good portion of the local Nigerian Christian community. The RCCG is part of a transnational social and moral field that I term ‘London-Lagos', which Nigerian migrants inhabit. RCCG members' relationships in church, with significant others and with wider society are embedded in power relations – relations that are mediated and rendered meaningful by a Pentecostal morality. The negotiation of moral authority is therefore central theme in this thesis. I trace how it shapes and is shaped by church doctrines and wider British society. The central modes employed to mould Pentecostal Nigerian selves in London are self-discipline, the dialectic of submission and responsibility, and the disciplining of others. Such dynamics around Pentecostal authority are crucially articulated in gendered terms. Hence, they are investigated in relation to gendering processes in singlehood, marriage and the raising of children. The requirements of non-Pentecostal contexts such as wider British society and state institutions sometimes contradict this three-fold way of becoming a morally sound Pentecostal. To navigate this tense and morally complex situation RCCG members tend to employ skills (‘smartness') they have obtained in Nigeria.

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Willett, Gudrun Alyce. "Crises of self and other-- Russian-speaking migrants in the Netherlands and European Union." Diss., University of Iowa, 2007. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/130.

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Savikovskaia, Iuliia. "From Soviet intelligentsia to emerging Russian middle class? : social mobility trajectories and transformations in self-identifications of young Russians who have lived in Britain in the 2000s." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:61af7d35-efd6-4e30-989c-2378a3010124.

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The focus of interest in this thesis is the social and personal trajectories of men and women who were born in the Soviet Union in the 1970-1980s and then, after growing up in post-Soviet Russia in the 1990s in an atmosphere of change and uncertainty, decided to exploit the opportunities to go abroad to study and work that started opening up in the early and mid-1990s. The thesis analyses these moves as the individual strategies of either escaping or waiting on the career insecurities in Russia, or consciously enhancing one's social standing and professional and educational capital. It traces their social and professional trajectories, showing that, apart from developing the desired expertise and gaining experience, these Russians went through intensive changes in their self-identifications and senses of belonging, including the acquisition of new habits of mobility, international social networks and cosmopolitan dispositions. This thesis argues that, while their Soviet-Russian cultural past and their belonging to a particular social group of 'Soviet intelligentsia' was still important to them, they continuously acquired new social, cultural and cosmopolitan forms of capital that influenced their coming back to Russia as different persons from their contemporaries who had stayed in the country. They brought with them new dispositions and new social practices resulting from their active comparisons of their lives in Russia and Britain, and in many respects they actively maintained their differences in creating clubs for returnees. While able to integrate successfully into the emerging Russian middle classes, they still expressed the cultural and intellectual heritage of the past Soviet intelligentsia, now reborn in the guise of Westernizing attitudes and practices, different degrees of cosmopolitan patriotism, intellectual pursuits, a quest for education and self-development, interest in world travel, an ethical concern for sustainability, opposition to excessive consumerism in Russia and conspicuous practices of status performance. The materials for this research were mainly gathered through the use of semi-structured in-depth interviews, one third of them longitudinal, with informants talking to the researcher several times during the course of fieldwork between 2007 and 2012. Some additional participant observation has been conducted in informal Russian circles in the UK and among returnees from Britain in Russia. This research consists of an ethnography with elements of a biographical approach. This has made the researcher attentive to the inclusion of a certain event within a person's whole biography, aimed at putting the period researched within the context of the past and future lives of the informant. The participants of this research were aged between 22 and 40 and belonged to a transition cohort generation (Miller 2000), as they had all passed their childhoods in the Soviet Union, their adolescence and teenage years coinciding with the period of dissolution of the USSR, with the transitional break up of one system and the formation of another, while their young adulthood developed in post-Soviet Russia. They were mainly single when they initiated their move to Britain, and had various professional profiles within the broadly defined groups of 'highly skilled' and 'highly educated', the latter term being preferred in this research. The dissertation includes an introduction, four ethnographic chapters, a conclusion and one appendix. The introduction presents the historical and research context, the methodology and the design of the study. The first chapter traces the professional and educational trajectories of participants, while the second chapter focuses on informants' spatial mobility and habits of extensive travel acquired during the move to Britain. The third chapter deals with the negotiation of informants' belonging to a particular cultural and social past, which is associated both with Russian-Soviet culture and with their social status as the children of Soviet-era intelligentsia. The fourth chapter argues that, while belonging to Soviet intelligentsia families was still important for informants' self-identifications in Britain, new social, cultural and cosmopolitan forms of capital were acquired during this period, resulting in new cosmopolitan dispositions, ethics and moral values, and new practices socially remitted (Levitt 2001) from Britain. The conclusion places this ethnography within the state-of-the-art research on the mobilities of Russians to the UK.

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Thorel, Philippe. "Transition psychosociale de repatriation : la dynamique identitaire et capacitaire au retour d’expatriation professionnelle." Thesis, Paris 10, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016PA100134.

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Le retour d’expatriation professionnelle (repatriation) est une transition psychosociale qui fait l’objet de peu de recherches dans le champ de la psychologie de la carrière. Les données disponibles indiquent que le rapport à l’emploi occupé au retour reste problématique pour nombre de repatriés. L’épreuve du retour semble témoigner d’un « choc identitaire » plus complexe que le seul « choc culturel » décrit couramment dans la littérature : comment expliquer que la majorité des repatriés évoquent des difficultés d’adaptation professionnelle plus grandes au retour d’expatriation qu’à l’aller, alors que pour la plupart d’entre eux, ils retrouvent à la fois leur pays, leur culture, leur langue maternelle, leur famille, leurs amis voire leurs collègues? La recherche de Thèse vise à mieux appréhender des processus et dimensions psychologiques associés à la transition psychosociale du retour d’expatriation professionnelle et en particulier à éclairer la dynamique identitaire et capacitaire en jeu chez les repatriés lors de leur réintégration au travail dans le pays d’origine. Trois études, utilisant des méthodes d’analyse quantitatives et qualitatives, ont été conduites auprès de cadres repatriés après des expériences d’expatriation professionnelle réussie. Ces études soulignent l’importance d’envisager la transition psychosociale de repatriation en prenant en compte des construits psychologiques clés référant à l’ensemble du parcours d’expatriation-repatriation comme les motivations à s’expatrier, le sentiment d’adaptation en expatriation ainsi que les conditions perçues, le sentiment d’efficacité professionnelle, les retentissements identitaires et la tonalité affective au retour. Cette perspective a notamment montré que les motivations professionnelles pour l’expatriation étaient en lien avec un développement capacitaire souhaité par le sujet, qu’il cherche à valoriser à son retour. En conséquence, les tensions identitaires ressenties sont d’autant plus criantes que l’individu perçoit un décalage important avec l’environnement du retour, alors que son projet d’expatriation visait au contraire un meilleur ajustement. Les résultats de la recherche dégagent aussi quelques pistes d’application en conseil de carrière pour accompagner les personnes en mobilité internationale, tout au long de leur parcours d’expatriation-repatriation
Professional repatriation is a psychosocial transition that has been little studied in the field of career psychology. The data available indicate that after being repatriated, the relationship to the job remains problematic for many people. Upon their return, the stress seems more like a ‘shock of identity’ than a simple ‘cultural shock’ usually described by the literature. How to explain that most repatriates mention greater difficulties for professional adaptation when they return to their country, their culture, their native language, their family, and friends or colleagues that they did when leaving? The present research thesis seeks to enhance our understanding of the psychological processes and the psychosocial dimensions of the professional repatriation transition, focusing in particular on identity and capability dynamics at play among repatriates when they return home. Three studies using quantitative and qualitative methods were conducted with repatriated executives after successful professional expatriation experiences. These studies highlight the importance of the psychosocial transitions of repatriation by taking into account key psychological constructs involved in the entire expatriation-repatriation process, such as the motivations for expatriation, the sentiment of adaptation during expatriation, as well as the perceived conditions, professional self-efficacy, and the repercussions on identity and emotional tone after the return. The approach adopted here found that the professional motivations for expatriation were often based on a desire to learn a new skill or capacity, which the subject tried to showcase upon his/her return. Thus, the identity tensions experienced were greater the more the individual perceived a significant difference with his/her return environment, while they had expected the contrary that expatriation would provide a better fit. The research results provide some suggestions for career counselling to support people in international mobility throughout their experience of expatriation-repatriation

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Brown, Paige M. ""Black Cowboys: Self-Sufficiency in the American West through the ideology of Booker T. Washington"." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1612.

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Despite the black cowboy's considerable achievement, the history of their lives remains largely uncovered. Most historiographies present a sympathetic picture, but what is missing is the voice of the black cowboys. Using the views and ideologies of Booker T. Washington, black cowboys were able to become self-sufficient men. This thesis will present a comparison and contrast between the historiography and autobiographies of black cowboys. Furthermore, giving black cowboys a voice through the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and presenting an argument on why the stories and histories of black cowboys have only recently been resurrected, largely because popular media in the progressive era did not include their stories.

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Pettersson, Theodora. "Araby: A Self-fulfilling Prophecy? : The Reproduction of Rumours and Socio-Economic Conditions in Araby, Växjö." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-55630.

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Questions of integration and immigration are increasingly subject to public debate in Sweden. With the arrival of many immigrants, the current ethnic housing segregation in the country is enforced. The problems associated to segregated and socio-economic weak areas are to a larger extent also defined in terms of ethnicity: connecting problems of a place to the people of that place. Research shows that many problems in these neighbourhoods exist regardless of who happens to be the residents today. Based on this, the current study aims to better understand the reproduction of rumours and socio-economic conditions in Araby, Växjö. The voices of people from Araby are brought forward in order to let them reflect about their neighbourhood. The main material collected through interviews provide an exploration of different perceptions present in relation to processes of reproduction in Araby. The material is discussed in relation to the concepts zone in transition and stigmatisation of place and mutually the concepts are discussed by situating them in relation to the material. Two new insights not pronounced in previous studies were found: the segregation unfolding within Araby, and the understanding of the neighbourhood as a zone in transition in a positive light. In conclusion, the study strengthens previous literature on segregated and socio-economic weak areas and also problematizes the application of the concepts used. The exploration lays ground for future research, in Araby, or in other kinds of segregated neighbourhoods.

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Zeidan, Rawah. "Can I bring my whole self to my workplace? : A qualitative study of immigrant Muslim women’s workplace experiences in Sweden." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-36667.

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In general, immigrants face various problems as they adjust to their new surroundings and begin a new life. The educated, employed Arabic immigrant Muslim women, (EEAIMW), live between two worlds: a Swedish world at work and an Arabic world at home. In this East-West dichotomy, they keep trying to find who they are and where they belong. This thesis helps to understand the influence of the intersection of religion, ethnicity, and gender serving as the primary disadvantage due to cultural expectations, socio-political considerations, and unfavourable stereotypes and stigmatization. This disadvantage affects not only their employment and career advancement, but also the agency and performed identities of EEAIMW in their Swedish workplace, (SWP). The purpose is to give voice to 17 EEAIMW narrating their journey in re-evaluating and developing their religious, ethnic, and gender identities to adapt to the environment of their SWP. Furthermore, to challenge the stereotyping and the stigmatization that position them as the “Other,” impeding their sense of belonging. Comprehensive data concerning the phenomena was gathered through a qualitative research approach and from in-depth semi-structured interviews with the study participants, joined with a literature review on immigrants, Islam, and employed Muslim women, covering topics about identity theories and organizational behaviour. According to the study’s findings, EEAIMW create a place for themselves in their SWP through their diverse agency and identity performing adaptation strategies, and that relationships rather than the place, create a sense of belonging. It is also found that the different sociocultural contexts do not destroy EEAIMW’s religious beliefs but add value to their existence outside their religious aspect. And when representing Swedish society, they remain linked to their homelands.

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Lanier, Valérie. "L'accueil des enfants (d') immigrés dans les écoles françaises : éducation entre culture familiale et culture du pays d'arrivée." Phd thesis, Université de Bourgogne, 2011. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00696486.

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Les enfants (d') immigrés sont porteurs d'une langue et d'une culture familiales différentes de celles de la société d'arrivée et de son école. Or, la langue et la culture familiales jouent un rôle important dans le développement harmonieux de l'enfant et son " intégration " à la société d'arrivée. L'école qui doit permettre à l'enfant d'une part de se construire en tant qu'individu et d'autre part de trouver sa place dans la société où il vit, véhicule une culture différente, considérée comme légitime. Que fait-elle des langues et cultures familiales des enfants (d') immigrés? Jusque dans les années 1970, rien de particulier n'était prévu pour les enfants (d') immigrés scolarisés. Ils devaient se fondre dans la masse des élèves. Avec la mise en place d'une politique de regroupement familial, l'institution scolaire a commencé à prendre en compte ces enfants. Deux dispositifs ont été institués : des structures d'accueil pour les enfants non francophones et des enseignements de langue et culture d'origine. Cependant, si ces dispositifs constituent un premier pas dans la prise en compte des enfants (d') immigrés dans les écoles, elles restent dans une logique simultanément assimilationniste et différencialiste. Au delà de la conception de ces dispositifs, les observations effectuées dans les classes d'accueil et les cours de langue et culture d'origine de Côte d'Or ainsi que les entretiens et les enquêtes réalisées auprès des enseignants de ce département ont montré différents problèmes matériels, techniques et humains dans leur fonctionnement. Par ailleurs, la période de scolarisation joue un rôle important dans la construction des enfants et ce que l'on y enseigne marque pour longtemps. Ainsi, la place donnée aux cultures extra-occidentales ainsi que l'image de l'autre véhiculée au cours de celle-ci, en particulier par les manuels scolaires, d'une part constituent le miroir de la manière de voir l'autre plus généralement dans la société d'arrivée, et d'autre part emportera des conséquences sur le long terme, sur la société de demain. L'occidentalo-centrisme qui caractérise l'enseignement de l'histoire et de la littérature entraîne une dévalorisation/stigmatisation de l'Autre, de ses langues et de ses cultures qui est transmise aux élèves.

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