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Remittances, Migration and Social Development: A Conceptual Review of Literature
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The designations employed in UNRISD publications do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNISD concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
The designations employed in UNRISD publications, which are in conformity with United Nations practice, and the presentation of material therein do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNRISD concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The responsibility for opinions expressed rests solely with the author(s), and publication does not constitute endorsement by UNRISD. Contents Acronyms ii Acknowledgements ii Summary/Résumé/Resumen iii Summary iii Résumé iii Resumen ivread more
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반도체 공정 overview
TL;DR: The study of distributed systems which bring to life the vision of ubiquitous computing systems, also known as ambient intelligence, is concentrated on in this work.
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Migration and Development: A Theoretical Perspective
Abstract: The debate on migration and development has swung back and forth like a pendulum, from developmentalist optimism in the 1950s and 1960s, to neo-Marxist pessimism over the 1970s and 1980s, towards more optimistic views in the 1990s and 2000s. This paper argues how such discursive shifts in the migration and development debate should be primarily seen as part of more general paradigm shifts in social and development theory. However, the classical opposition between pessimistic and optimistic views is challenged by empirical evidence pointing to the heterogeneity of migration impacts. By integrating and amending insights from the new economics of labor migration, livelihood perspectives in development studies and transnational perspectives in migration studies – which share several though as yet unobserved conceptual parallels – this paper elaborates the contours of a conceptual framework that simultaneously integrates agency and structure perspectives and is therefore able to account for the heterogeneous nature of migration-development interactions. The resulting perspective reveals the naivety of recent views celebrating migration as self-help development “from below”. These views are largely ideologically driven and shift the attention away from structural constraints and the vital role of states in shaping favorable conditions for positive development impacts of migration to occur.
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Social remittances reconsidered
Peggy Levitt,Deepak Lamba-Nieves +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors revisited the concept of social remittances and showed how people's experiences before migrating strongly influence what they do in the countries where they settle; this, in turn, affects what they remit back to their homelands.
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The Internal Dynamics of Migration Processes: A Theoretical Inquiry
TL;DR: This paper proposed a conceptual framework on the internal dynamics of migration processes by elaborating a set of hypotheses on the various migration-facilitating and migration-undermining feedback mechanisms at play in the various trajectories and stages of migration system formation and decline.
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The effects of integration and transnational ties on international return migration intentions
Hein de Haas,Tineke Fokkema +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the effects of integration and transnational ties on return migration intentions and find that sociocultural integration has a negative effect on migration intentions, while economic integration has more ambiguous and sometimes positive effects.
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