Download or read book Migration Patterns of Skilled Tradesmen in Mining written by T. F. Cawsey and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culture Conflict and Migration written by Donald M. MacRaild and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major study of Catholic and Protestant Irish in an important but neglected center of historic Irish settlement where communal violence and Irish-related antipathy bore the hallmarks of the Liverpool and Glasgow experiences. "Culture, Conflict and Migration... deserves to be read as an important contribution to the growing literature on the Irish in Britain."Irish Studies Review
Download or read book Capitalism and Migration written by Nestor Rodriguez and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system. It presents comprehensive case studies on various historical periods of hegemony recognized by world-system theory: the Dutch hegemony (1625-1675), British hegemony (1815-1873), and US hegemony (1945-1970). Moreover, the book identifies an earlier period of economic dominance in Western Europe when merchant-bankers from Florence dominated the regional wool trade in the early thirteenth century. In these four intervals of dominance, i.e., from the medieval period to the late twentieth century, capital and labor migration formed the basis of capitalist development in the hegemonic core states as well as in peripheral regions under their economic and political influence. In turn, the book analyzes the migration patterns associated with the rise of hegemony from the perspectives of class relations between employers and workers, technological advances at the workplace, economic cycles, and state policies on labor migration. It concludes with a projection that heightened migration will continue to characterize the capitalist world system, especially as many poor and displaced populations in peripheral regions resort to migration for survival. Accordingly, it appeals to scholars in the fields of politics, sociology, history, anthropology, and economics who are interested in globalization and world-system analysis.
Download or read book Miners Peasants and Entrepreneurs written by Norman Long and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-06-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research report, case study of economic conditions and economic and social implications of regional development in the central highlands of Peru - examines the role of the mining industry and its impact on social stratification, social class relations and internal migration; discusses rural economy, the growing informal sector and the transition from household production to income generating activities in urban areas. Bibliography, graphs, maps, statistical tables.
Download or read book Migration and Development written by Wonderful Hope Khonje and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past two decades, studies on the migration-development nexus often portray small states as one homogeneous group, ‘developing countries’, without considering their critical and peculiar challenges or inherent vulnerabilities, due mainly to their size. This book explores key dynamics of migration and development in a small states setting. It includes case studies from small states in Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific that will help policy-makers to embrace migration as an inevitable phenomenon and devise policies that will maximise the benefits from migration at a minimal cost.
Download or read book Turquoise written by Joe Dan Lowry and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Turquoise has been mined on six continents and traded by cultures throughout the world's history, including the Europeans, Chinese, Mayan, Aztec, Inca, and Southwest Native Americans. It has been set in silver and gold jewelry, cut and shaped into fetish animals, and even formed to represent gods in many religions. This gemstone is displayed in museums around the world, representing the arts and traditions of prehistoric, historic, and modern societies. Turquoise focuses on the latest information in science and art from the greatest turquoise collections around the globe.
Download or read book Migration Volume 2 Sociological Studies written by J. A. Jackson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thesis (D.P.A.)--University of Georgia, 2001.
Download or read book European Migrants written by Dirk Hoerder and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1996 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes statistics.
Download or read book Making Sense of Mining History written by Stefan Berger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-30 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws together international contributors to analyse a wide range of aspects of mining history across the globe including mining archaeology, technologies of mining, migration and mining, the everyday life of the miner, the state and mining, industrial relations in mining, gender and mining, environment and mining, mining accidents, the visual history of mining, and mining heritage. The result is a counter balance to more common national and regional case study perspectives.
Download or read book The Mining Industry in Sub Saharan Africa written by Elodie Marlet and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This doctoral dissertation establishes a comprehensive overview of the impacts of the mining industry in Sub-Saharan in three different sectors: gender-specific effects on employment, change in subnational migration flows and subsequent impacts on households’ welfare, and finally, the effects of remittances sent from mining regions on recipient households’ expenditures. Chapter 1 analyzes whether the mining industry has gender-specific labor allocation effects in local mining communities. I leverage spatial and temporal variation in mines location and production in 29 Sub-Saharan countries. Women are found to leave the labor market after a mine opens nearby, but that effect is mitigated by a small increase in employment in supporting services. Inversely, men are able to increase overall labor supply, mainly in skilled and unskilled manual labor. However, mining policies recently implemented by producing countries, such as Minerals Development Funds, have the ability to mitigate the negative impacts on women’s employment thanks to the reinvestment of royalties in the local community. Finally, I use the gold mining industry of Ghana as a case study to measure the role of pollution on mines’ employment effects. I find that pollution accounts for 38% of the decrease in women’s agricultural employment after a mine opens but doesn’t significantly affect men. These negative labor effects could be overturned with effective environmental regulations. Chapter 2 estimates the change in households’ welfare and land prices in Ghanaian mining districts using both a theoretical and empirical model. In the former, I elaborate and calibrate a spatial general equilibrium model with spatial linkages in trade and migration to compute the change in welfare and agricultural land prices following a mine opening. This shock is represented by a shock in productivity, a change in the production function’s parameters and a reduction in migration costs. The latter two changes are calibrated using households census, roads maps, and microenterprise surveys from Ghana. Following a mining shock, welfare increases by 1.3% on average in treated districts thanks to an increase in wages, which mitigates the spike of 11.5% in land rental rates. The empirical model, building on spatial and temporal variation in mining activity and an instrumental variable strategy, supports these findings. Finally, results indicate a significant change in indirect utility and land rental rates up to 200kms from the treated district and shed a new light on the mechanisms through which a mining boom can spread to nearby regions. Chapter 3 takes a fresh look at the long-standing debate on the effects of remittances on households’ welfare using Ghana as a case study. More specifically, this chapter studies the differential impacts on households’ expenditures of two different types of remittances: remittances sent from mining regions of Ghana and those sent from abroad. Thanks to two different instrumental variable strategies, I am able to show that both types of remittances appear to alleviate the budget constraint of poorer households located in the lower quartiles of income distribution. In fact, they increase their total expenditures but also the fraction of expenses spent on education, food and non-food items. On the opposite, richer households who receive remittances do not reallocate expenditures, indicating non-binding budget constraints. I also analyze how domestic shocks alter these patterns. First, following a negative shock in gold prices (which might signal higher volatility in mining regions’ revenue), mining remittances receiving households will smooth their consumption by reducing the increase in education and non-food items expenditures. On the other hand, following a national currency appreciation, international remittances receiving households will be able to significantly increase their total expenditures and experience lower food burden compared to other households. Thus, households receiving international remittances seem to be better protected against negative economic shocks as they are able to mitigate any negative effects on their expenditures, contrary to households receiving remittances from mining regions.
Download or read book Immigration Policy and the Search for Skilled Workers written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The market for high-skilled workers is becoming increasingly global, as are the markets for knowledge and ideas. While high-skilled immigrants in the United States represent a much smaller proportion of the workforce than they do in countries such as Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, these immigrants have an important role in spurring innovation and economic growth in all countries and filling shortages in the domestic labor supply. This report summarizes the proceedings of a Fall 2014 workshop that focused on how immigration policy can be used to attract and retain foreign talent. Participants compared policies on encouraging migration and retention of skilled workers, attracting qualified foreign students and retaining them post-graduation, and input by states or provinces in immigration policies to add flexibility in countries with regional employment differences, among other topics. They also discussed how immigration policies have changed over time in response to undesired labor market outcomes and whether there was sufficient data to measure those outcomes.
Download or read book People in motion forests in transition Trends in migration urbanization and remittances and their effects on tropical forests written by Susanna Hecht and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Migration is not new. In recent decades however, human mobility has increased in numbers and scope and has helped fuel a global shift in the human population from predominantly rural to urban. Migration overall is a livelihood, investment and resilience strategy. It is affected by changes across multiple sectors and at varying scales and is affected by macro policies, transnational networks, regional conditions, local demands, political and social relations, household options and individual desires. Such enhanced mobility, changes in populations and communities in both sending and receiving areas, and the remittances that mobility generates, are key elements of current transitions that have both direct and indirect consequences for forests. Because migration processes engage with rural populations and spaces in the tropics, they inevitably affect forest resources through changes in use and management. Yet links between forests and migration have been overlooked too often in the literature on migration as well as in discussions about forest-based livelihoods. With a focus on landscapes that include tropical forests, this paper explores trends and diversities in the ways in which migration, urbanization and personal remittances affect rural livelihoods and forests.
Download or read book Migration in Africa written by Michiel de Haas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the age of intra-African migration, a period from the mid-19th century onward in which the center of gravity of African migration moved decisively inward. Most books tend to zoom in on Africa’s external migration during the earlier intercontinental slave trades and the more recent outmigration to the Global North, but this book argues that migration within the continent has been far more central to the lives of Africans over the course of the last two centuries. The book demonstrates that only by taking a broad historical and continent-wide perspective can we understand the distinctions between the more immediate drivers of migration and deeper patterns of change over time. During the 19th century Africa’s external slave trades gradually declined, whilst Africa’s expanding commodity export sectors drew in domestic labor. This led to an era of heightened mobility within the region, marked by rapidly rising and vanishing migratory flows, increasingly diversified landscapes of migration systems, and profound long-term shifts in the wider patterns of migration. This era of inward-focused mobility reduced with a resurgence of outmigration after 1960, when Africans became more deliberate in search of extra-continental destinations, with new diaspora communities emerging specifically in the Global North. Broad ranging in its temporal, spatial, and thematic coverage, this book provides students and researchers with the perfect introduction to age of intra-African migration.
Download or read book Post apartheid Patterns of Internal Migration in South Africa written by P. C. Kok and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular belief is that urbanisation has increased substantially in the new South Africa, when, in fact, patterns of internal migration have remained static since the late 1970s.
Download or read book Population Geography written by Huw Roland Jones and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1990-12-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with a wide range of case studies drawn from all parts of the world, POPULATION GEOGRAPHY clearly depicts the cause-and-effect links between demographic change and the socio-economic transformation of societies. Providing timely information in a clear and accessible style, the text is an ideal classroom text for instructors who are introducing their students to the topic of population geography.
Download or read book Indigenous Migration and Social Change written by Ann M. Wightman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many observers in colonial Spanish America—whether clerical, governmental, or foreign—noted the large numbers of forasteros, or Indians who were not seemingly attached to any locality. These migrants, or “wanderers,” offended the bureaucratic sensibilities of the Spanish administration, as they also frustrated their tax and revenue efforts. Ann M. Wightman’s research on these early “undocumentals” in the Cuzco region of Peru reveals much of importance on Andean society and its adaptation and resistance to Spanish cultural and political hegemony. The book thereby informs our understanding of social change in the colonial period. Wightman shows that the dismissal of the forasteros as marginalized rural poor is superficial at best, and through laborious and painstaking archival research she presents a clear picture of the transformation of traditional society as the native populations coped with the disruptions of the conquest—and in doing so, reveals the reciprocal adaptations of the colonial power. Her choice of Cuzco is particularly appropriate, as this was a “heartland” region crucial to both the Incan and Spanish empires. The questions addressed by Wightman are of great concern to current Andean ethnohistory, one of the liveliest areas of such research, and are sure to have an important impact.
