Ethnicity and Migration in Canada

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Trovato ◽  
S.S. Halli
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Census Data ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Geographic Mobility ◽  
Social Demography ◽  
The Social ◽  
Competing Hypotheses ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Social Demographic ◽  
The Relationship

This study focuses on the relationship between ethnicity and geographic mobility in Canada by examining 1971 census data. Several competing hypotheses are extracted from the literature on the social demography of ethnic and minority groups and evaluated for their efficacy in explaining the observed differences in geographic mobility. The results from a multivariate analysis suggest that the causal mechanisms involving ethnic, characteristic factors and the propensity to move are varied and interconnected; hence, both ethnic and social demographic characteristics are important sources of migration differentials. The article concludes by providing a theoretical model for further examination of ethnicity and migration.

scholarly journals A INFLUÊNCIA DOS CONTEXTOS SOCIODEMOGRÁFICOS NO BONDING PATERNO

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 489
Author(s):  
Carla Cruz ◽  
Paula Nelas ◽  
Emília Coutinho ◽  
Cláudia Chaves ◽  
Odete Amaral
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Bonding Process ◽  
Nurse Specialist ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sample Characterization ◽  
Social Demographic ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract.THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC CONTEXT ON PARENT/BABY BONDINGBackground: The bonding process is essential to favors and/or determines the future relationship between parent and baby and influences the cognitive and social development of the child. The bonding is conditioned by a set of interrelated factors with parental and situational conditions that may assist or prevent the establishment of bonding (Pereira, 2009).Objective: Establish the relationship between the sociodemographic context (age, marital status, educational qualifications and length of relationship) and bonding parent/baby.Methods: This study is a cross-sectional study, correlational descriptive, quantitative, attended by 349 parents, aged between 19 and 55, with an average age of 31,84 (sd=6,067). To providing a reliable sample characterization the social-demographic we applied questionnaires and Bonding Scale (Figueiredo et al., 2005).Results: This study reveals that positive bonding is influenced by age (p=0,010), being higher in parents aged 30 years or less. With regard to qualifications, it was found that the smaller the educational level of the parents, the greater the bonding positive (p=0,045). On the other hand the marital status and the length of the relationship did not influence the bonding.Conclusion: Given the importance of the bonding process between parent and baby, whose involvement should exist from the beginning of pregnancy, it’s imperative that the Nurse Specialist in maternal health take responsibility to educate and stimulate the paternal bonding supporting and integrating the father in the process of adaptation to parenthood.Keywords: Father, Baby, Bonding; Pregnancy.Resumo. Enquadramento: O processo de vinculação é indispensável pois favorece e/ou determina a futura relação entre a díade: pai/bebé e influencia o desenvolvimento cognitivo e social da criança. Este processo de vinculação (bonding) é condicionado por um conjunto de fatores interligados com as condições parentais e situacionais que poderão coadjuvar ou impedir o estabelecimento do proceso de vinculação (Pereira, 2009).Objetivo: Estabelecer a relação entre o contexto sociodemográfico (idade, estado civil, habilitações literárias e duração do relacionamento) e a vinculação (bonding) entre o pai e o bebé.Método: Trata-se de um estudo transversal, descritivo-correlacional, de natureza quantitativa, com uma amostra de 349 pais com média de idade de 31,84 anos (dp= 6,067). O instrumento de colheita de dados foi o questionário que permitiu caracterizar a amostra nas variáveis sociodemográficas e a Escala de Bonding (Figueiredo et al., 2005).Resultados: Os resultados demonstram que o bonding positivo é influenciado pela idade (p=0,010), sendo mais elevado nos pais com idade igual ou inferior a 30 anos. No que concerne às habilitações literárias, verificou-se que quanto menor é a escolaridade dos pais, maior é o bonding positivo (p=0,045).Por outro lado o estado civil e a duração do relacionamento não influenciam o bonding.Conclusão: Face à importância do processo de vinculação pai/bebe, cujo envolvimento debe existir desde o início da gravidez, é imprescindível que o Enfermeiro especialista em saúde materna assuma a responsabilidade de educar e estimular o bonding paterno apoiando e integrando o pai no processo de adaptação à parentalidade.Palavras-chave: Pai; Bebé; Bonding; gravidez

Networks of Resilience: Legal Precarity and Transborder Citizenship among the Karen from Myanmar in Thailand

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-89
Author(s):  
Indrė Balčaitė
Keyword(s):  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Life Stories ◽  
The Political ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Karen Refugees ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Precarious Legal Status

AbstractThis study probes the relationship between legal precarity and transborder citizenship through the case of the Karen from Myanmar in Thailand. Collected through ethnographic multi-sited fieldwork between 2012 and 2016, interconnected individual life stories evolving across the Myanmar-Thailand border allow the critical interrogation of the political and legal categories of ‘migrancy’, ‘refugeeness’, and ‘citizenship’, teasing out their blurry boundaries in migrants’ experience. Following the recent critical research in legal ethnography, this study demonstrates that legal precarity is not simply an antithesis to citizenship. The social and legal dimensions of citizenship may diverge, creating in-between areas of not-yet-full-citizenship with varying levels of heft (Macklin 2007). The article consists of three parts. First, it offers a theoretical framework to reconcile the Karen legal precarity (even de facto statelessness) and citizenship, even on both sides of the border (legally impossible). Second, it presents the three groups of Karen in Thailand, produced by the interaction of three major waves of Karen eastward migration and tightening Thai citizenship and migration regulations: Thai Karen, refugees, and migrant workers. All three face varying levels of legal precarity of temporary status without full citizenship. However, the last part demonstrates the intertwined nature of those groups. A grassroots transborder perspective reveals the resilience of the Karen networks when pooling together resources of the hubs established on Thai soil by the three waves. Even the most recent arrivals in Thailand use those resources to move from one precarious legal status to another and even to clandestinely obtain citizenship.

Seeing Immigrants

2012 ◽  
Vol 641 (1) ◽  
pp. 58-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Winders
Keyword(s):  
Urban Governance ◽  
Immigrant Incorporation ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Immigrant Settlement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Gateway Cities ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
American Cities ◽  
The City

Since the 1990s, immigrant settlement has expanded beyond gateway cities and transformed the social fabric of a growing number of American cities. In the process, it has raised new questions for urban and migration scholars. This article argues that immigration to new destinations provides an opportunity to sharpen understandings of the relationship between immigration and the urban by exploring it under new conditions. Through a discussion of immigrant settlement in Nashville, Tennessee, it identifies an overlooked precursor to immigrant incorporation—how cities see, or do not see, immigrants within the structure of local government. If immigrants are not institutionally visible to government or nongovernmental organizations, immigrant abilities to make claims to or on the city as urban residents are diminished. Through the combination of trends toward neighborhood-based urban governance and neoliberal streamlining across American cities, immigrants can become institutionally hard to find and, thus, plan for in the city.

scholarly journals Introduction

Focaal ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 2008 (51) ◽  
pp. 3-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline Gardiner Barber ◽  
Winnie Lem
Keyword(s):  
Global Change ◽  
Political Mobilization ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Cultural Components

This issue brings together the work of researchers who seek to illuminate the class configurations of contemporary global diasporas. Contributions proceed by problematizing the relationship between political mobilization and the class locations of women and men as they negotiate and renegotiate the social conditions under which they make a living as émigrés, people who are subject to and participants in the processes of global change. Although class and culture, as well as mobility and fixity, are often presented as oppositional lenses though which to view global transformations, articles in this issue explore the possibilities for translation of particularized local or cultural concerns into broader collective mobilizations of class activism, nationalist claims, or struggles for entitlement in the circumscribed political spaces migrants seek to create. The gender, ethnic, local, national, and other cultural components of identity and class formation are made explicit as contributors question how and why political struggles and activism may, or indeed may not, be carried forward in geographic and social border crossings as well as citizenship and migration scenarios. It is the contention of each contributor that any instance of activism, and also its absence, requires sustained critical examination of the politics and economics of its production and reproduction.

1. Demography is destiny … or not

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Sarah Harper
Keyword(s):  
Population Change ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Static Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship

It is increasingly recognized that population change plays a key role in our political systems, economies, and societies at the local, national, regional, and global level. ‘Demography is destiny … or not’ explains that demography has at its core the notion of drivers of population change—mortality, fertility, and migration—and how these then interact to change populations. Contemporary demography is divided into three separate areas of study: the characteristics of past or current populations, with regard to their size and make-up; the different demographic drivers that directly influence this composition, primarily fertility, mortality, and migration; and the relationship between these static characteristics and dynamic processes and the social, economic, and cultural environments within which they interact.

scholarly journals SENIOR TOURISM AND CHANCE FOR TOURISM BUSINESS PLAYERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (19) ◽  
pp. 01-13
Author(s):  
Farma Mangunsong
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Elderly People ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Demographic

Increasing the number of elderly people in the world creates an opportunity for the tourism business. To be in line with this, business players in the tourism sector have to cope with their social demographic factors such as age, gender, income, cultural values, and also promotion methods to promote senior tourism. The objective of this study is to describe the social demographic characteristics and needs of potential elderly people so that business players can utilize the phenomena and collected information as a benefit to promote tourism for elderly people or senior tourism. This study used SWOT analysis to identify strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat of senior tourism business as well as to formulate strategies for senior tourism. The literature review was conducted to collect information about elderly people having senior tourism. It is found that social demographic characteristics influence the needs and motivation of elderly people in senior tourism. Senior tourists from high-income levels need high quality of service, beautiful scenery, and privacy while those from middle-income levels prefer attractions and festivals. Senior tourists with “young at heart” prefer more challenging activities as well as younger and male senior tourists, while those with “old at heart” put higher concern on convenience and security as well as older and female tourists. Leisure, cultural values, and personal achievement motivate elderly people to have senior tourism. Leisure with family and parents motivates senior tourism in Asia but living away from materialistic life is more appropriate for western people. Creating several traveling packages to adapt to various characteristics of elderly people will enlarge the market for the tourism sector. Providing better facilities adopting physical need of elderly people make them confident to travel. Business players can use digital social media to promote senior tourism to elderly people as well as to current adult children since current old parents experience higher technological exposure rather than their previous counterparts.

scholarly journals The relationship between some demographic characteristics and organizational commitment of nurses working in the Social Security Hospital of Khorramabad

10.19082/4503 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 4503-4509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faribah Sepahvand ◽  
Foorozan Atashzadeh-Shoorideh ◽  
Soroor Parvizy ◽  
Mansoureh Zagheri Tafreshi
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Commitment ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals The role of an urban festival in public space: case study of the Light Move Festival in Łódź

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magdalena Miśkowiec
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Space Case ◽  
Social Demographic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Source Of Information

The aim of this article is to examine the relationship between an urban festival and changes in the social and spatial-functional structures in a city. We analyze the Light Move Festival in Łódź as a case study, showing the use of light in emphasizing local identity and cultural heritage. Data for this study was collected by means of interviews with the festival’s organizers. We also present data gathered in a survey conducted among the festival’s participants in 2016. The results show the social-demographic structure of the respondents, frequency of participation and source of information. We present the correlation between the festival’s spatial organization and the guidelines of the “Attractive Urban Spaces 2020+ Program” (Strategie przestrzennegorozwoju Łodzi 2020+ w ramach programu szczegółowego „Atrakcyjneprzestrzenie miejskie 2020+”). The study presents the possibility to use an urban festival as a local potential for building sustainable social and spatial policy. With constant population outflow, such events may help to attract new residents and rebuild the city’s image. It also creates an opportunity to test temporary traffic solutions and to familiarize the residents with them. Considering the revitalization actions undertaken by the city of Łódź, one might ask a question: What kind of impact does The Light Move Festival have on the city of Łódź?

scholarly journals Russia for Russians: mental representations of image of the country

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 03034
Author(s):  
Svetlana Maximova ◽  
Oksana Noyanzina ◽  
Daria Omelchenko
Keyword(s):  
Mental Representations ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Omsk Oblast ◽  
Amur Oblast ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
The Social ◽  
Orenburg Oblast ◽  
Region Of Residence ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Social Demographic

The article analyzes several components of the image of Russia in borderlands: the Altai krai, the Amur oblast, the Jewish Autonomous oblast, the Transbaikal krai, the Kemerovo oblast, the Omsk oblast, the Orenburg oblast, and the Republic of Altai. Noting, the positive features of the image correlate with international prestige of Russia, historical achievements and cultural heritage, and the negative ones are determined by low standards of living, social inequality and decline of the economy. We found that the parameters of one of the components of Russia’s image (identification with a community of citizens) vary considerably depending on the social demographic characteristics: age, sex, and level of material wellbeing, as well as the region of residence.

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