scholarly journals Conceptualizing Temporary Economic Migration to Kuwait

2016 ◽  
pp. 97-111
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Author(s):  
Smriti Rao ◽  
Vamsi Vakulabharanam

Since liberalization, urban migration in India has increased in quantity, but also changed in quality, with permanent marriage migration and temporary, circular employment migration rising, even as permanent economic migration remains stagnant. This chapter understands internal migration in India to be a reordering of productive and reproductive labor that signifies a deep transformation of society. The chapter argues that this transformation is a response to three overlapping crises: an agrarian crisis, an employment crisis, and a crisis of social reproduction. These are not crises for capitalist accumulation, which they enable. Rather, they make it impossible for a majority of Indians to achieve stable, rooted livelihoods.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Sandra E. Herrera-Ruiz

En los estudios clásicos sobre las migraciones, y también en las posturas de los Estados centroamericanos, la violencia contra la mujer ha estado invisibilizada bajo la categoría de migración económica. Sin embargo, testimonios sobre violencia psicológica y física descubren la posibilidad de ser motivos recurrentes en la migración internacional. Los perpetradores no solo pueden ser esposos y parejas, sino también pandillas y entes criminales, inclusive el mismo Estado lo es, a través de sus políticas institucionales anacrónicas. Por ello, con este estudio antropológico construido eminentemente desde el discurso y metáforas de estudios de casos provenientes de entrevistas completamente abiertas, las mujeres-madres que migran hablan sobre la forma en que cargan el peso de la pobreza de sus países, las relaciones de pareja, la violencia de género y de los roles que las sublimizan. De esa manera la migración internacional hacia Estados Unidos, se convierte para ellas en una forma de escapar de la violencia concreta y simbólica en sus comunidades de origen y es en la frontera Guatemala-México, donde sus historias se entrecruzan.


2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-94
Author(s):  
Daniel Kucharek

One of the most transparent manifestations of globalization processes currently occurring is the phenomenon of economic migration. It is associated with the movement of large masses of people from poor, economically underdeveloped regions often disturbed by armed conflicts to economically developed countries with already shaped prosperity. Migration processes pose many economic, social and cultural problems that discourage the population of wealthy countries from receiving incoming migrants. This article was organized in order to firstly consider the impact of economic migration on the phenomenon of changes in the population structure and thus cultural changes that might result from it. The next stage of the conducted analysis refers to the problem of commodification of artworks created within the area of culture. An important effect of the conducted research is to draw attention to the phenomenon of blurring differences, and, as a result, the emergence of widely accepted, supranational cultural patterns. Finally, the undertaken research identifies possible opportunities and threats for sustainable development of culture on an economically diverse world.


Global Focus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-37
Author(s):  
Irfa Puspitasari ◽  

Economic migration create opportunities as well as humanitarian challenge. People travel across national boundary looking for work in the country destination. They would benefit their hosted as well as sending high amount of remittance for home. However, those dream were not applicable to all economic migrant when some of them fall victim into human trafficking. This research would investigate the strategy as well as challenges by Indonesia government and NGOs to promote protection of Indonesian migrant worker. It is imperative to evaluate state policies, state diplomacy, transnational advocacy network, and the nature of companies as agent of service provider. It would show how current practices and law has loopholes that create challenges for public private partnership to provide adequate support for Indonesian migrant worker. Investigation is conducted through interview, observation and literature review. The struggle to end modern slavery shall be one among priority in protecting civilian abroad, if the government is serious to minimize economic inequality and to change itself into welfare nation.


Author(s):  
Richard Alba ◽  
Nancy Foner

This chapter explores the role of post-World War II immigration laws and policies of France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands, United States, and Canada in giving rise to the mix of new social groups on their social landscapes. In one fundamental sense, the immigration regimes of European countries, the United States, and Canada are very much alike. All are restrictive in that they set limits on the numbers and type of people who can settle as permanent residents. There are, however, important transatlantic differences, lending some support to the common perception that Canada and the United States are more welcoming of immigration. Western European countries continue to be wary about immigration from outside of Europe. Their wariness is reflected in their attempts to make migration through marriages to the second generation more difficult as well as in immigration laws that constrain economic migration from the global South, keeping its numbers modest while seeking to select high human-capital immigrants.


Author(s):  
Angelos Koutsourakis ◽  
Mark Steven

This book examines the oeuvre of Theo Angelopoulos, whose films are deeply immersed in the historical experiences of his homeland, Greece, while the international appeal of his work can be attributed to his firm commitment to modernism as a formal response to the crises and failures of world history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It considers some of the main themes in Angelopoulos' filmography, including the crisis of representation and the force of mediation; the question of representing history and how to come to terms with the past; the failures of the utopian aspirations of the twentieth century; issues of forced political or economic migration and exile; and the persistence of history in a supposedly post-historical present. This introduction discusses the lack of critical attention that Angelopoulos' cinema has received in the Anglophone scholarship and provides a historical overview of Angelopoulos' modernist cinema. It also summarises the individual chapters that follow.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Choquette-Levy ◽  
Matthias Wildemeersch ◽  
Michael Oppenheimer ◽  
Simon Levin

Abstract Increasing climate stress is likely to significantly impact smallholder farmer livelihoods, and can lead to divergent adaptation pathways. However, empirical evidence is inconclusive regarding how climate affects smallholder farmers’ deployment of various livelihood strategies, including rural-urban migration, especially as these impacts become more severe. Here we use an agent-based model to show that in a South Asian-type agricultural community experiencing a 1.5oC temperature increase by 2050, climate impacts are likely to decrease household income in 2050 by an average of 28 percent relative to the same income under a stationary climate, with fewer households engaging in economic migration and investing in cash crops. Pairing a small cash transfer with risk transfer mechanisms significantly increases the adoption of alternative livelihood strategies, improves community incomes, and reduces community inequality. While specific results depend on contextual factors such as risk preferences and climate risk exposure, these interventions are robust in improving adaptation outcomes by addressing the intersection of risk aversion, financial restrictions, and climate impacts.


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