International Migration as a stepladder of opportunity: What do the global data actually show?

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Arman Jayady

Formasi joint operation (JO) antara perusahaan jasa konstruksi asing dan perusahaan jasa konstruksi lokal bukanlah bentuk kemitraan yang baru di Indonesia. JO telah diimplementasi di Indonesia melalui regulasi pemerintah sejak tahun 1991. Melalui formasi JO perusahaan jasa konstruksi lokal diharapkan mampu meningkatkan kapasitas internalnya sehingga dapat meningkatkan daya saing perusahaan jasa konstruksi lokal baik pada pasar domestik maupun global. Data yang dihimpun dari sumber terkait menunjukkan bahwa adanya tren peningkatan proyek konstruksi yang diselenggarakan melalui formasi JO di Indonesia. Hampir tiga dekade JO diimplementasi, namun hingga kini belum diperoleh kejelasan terhadap varian JO yang ada di Indonesia. Untuk memenuhi kuriositas tersebut, penelitian ini secara khusus bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi varian JO dan karakteristiknya di Indonesia. Studi kualitatif dengan wawancara semi-terstruktur face to face dilakukan dalam penelitian ini dengan melibatkan beberapa praktisi berpengalaman dan berkompeten sehubungan JO di Indonesia. Hasil studi menunjukkan bahwa teridentifikasi dua varian JO bila ditinjau dari perspektif pengendalian proyek dan tiga varian JO bila ditinjau dari perspektif pengelolaan modal kerja.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-143
Author(s):  
Julie Boyles

An ethnographic case study approach to understanding women’s actions and reactions to husbands’ emigration—or potential emigration—offers a distinct set of challenges to a U.S.-based researcher.  International migration research in a foreign context likely offers challenges in language, culture, lifestyle, as well as potential gender norm impediments. A mixed methods approach contributed to successfully overcoming barriers through an array of research methods, strategies, and tactics, as well as practicing flexibility in data gathering methods. Even this researcher’s influence on the research was minimized and alleviated, to a degree, through ascertaining common ground with many of the women. Research with the women of San Juan Guelavía, Oaxaca, Mexico offered numerous and constant challenges, each overcome with ensuing rewards.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agustín Escobar Latapi

Although the migration – development nexus is widely recognized as a complex one, it is generally thought that there is a relationship between poverty and emigration, and that remittances lessen inequality. On the basis of Latin American and Mexican data, this chapter intends to show that for Mexico, the exchange of migrants for remittances is among the lowest in Latin America, that extreme poor Mexicans don't migrate although the moderately poor do, that remittances have a small, non-significant impact on the most widely used inequality index of all households and a very large one on the inequality index of remittance-receiving households, and finally that, to Mexican households, the opportunity cost of international migration is higher than remittance income. In summary, there is a relationship between poverty and migration (and vice versa), but this relationship is far from linear, and in some respects may be a perverse one for Mexico and for Mexican households.


2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 155-164
Author(s):  
Michelle J. Moran-Taylor

Understanding the return aspect of international migration is vital because returnees replete with new ideas, perceptions on life, and monies affect every dimension of social life in migrants’ places of origin.  Yet, return migration remains uneven and an understudied aspect of migratory flows because migration scholars have privileged why individuals migrate, the underlying motivations for their moves abroad, and how migrants assimilate and succeed in their destinations abroad. Drawing on ethnographic research, this article addresses the migratory flows of Ladino and Mayan Guatemalans:  those who go North, but in particular, those who come South. And in doing so, it highlights their similar and divergent responses towards migration processes.


Author(s):  
Dariya Logvinova

At the beginning of the XXI century a noticeable transformation of migration processes is observed under the influence of globalization, which effect the change of social, cultural, spiritual and economic models of different countries and world regions more and more actively. This stipulates the necessity for host countries to improve migration policies for more effective control over economic, social and cultural advantages or, vice versa, disadvantages, which international migration brings with it. Consequently, the necessity of constant examination of this problem seems logical, including the level of cross-national comparative researches, during which the study of the same phenomenon in two or more countries in various socio-cultural conditions with the usage of the same tools takes place. Taking into consideration the variable and unpredictable nature of the problem, the necessity of the stable basis for such researches is transparent, first of all, the need of permanent generally accepted and used conceptual and categorical apparatus, which predetermines primary importance of the research of this apparatus in the field of migration; in this context, the analysis of using of the terms “migrant” and “ethnic minority” in the scientific political and social discourses of such countries, as Canada, Great Britain and Germany is given in the case of this article. Keywords: Migration, migrant, ethnic minority, cross-national comparative researches, conceptual and categorical apparatus


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