Parental aspirations, schools, and the limits of flexible citizenship: Examining elite return migrants’ schooling decisions

This article investigates how return migrant parents navigate primary and secondary education options in Bangalore, a city in southwest India, by addressing the following question: What factors do return migrant parents consider when making schooling decisions? Through analyzing interviews with return migrant parents from 37 different families, the author argues that parents ultimately want to give their children the skills necessary to pursue their educational and professional interests anywhere in the world. To do so, parents select the ‘best’ school for their child, taking into consideration its demographics, curriculum, and reputation. However, in the process of crafting their children’s transnational futures, parents encounter stumbling blocks as they prepare for the transition from high school to college.

On the Road Again: King David as Involuntary Migrant

When David ben Jesse’s triumphant return from battle in 1 Sam 18 causes King Saul to despise him, the wheels are set in motion to make David an asylum seeker, refugee, and return migrant. It is burdened with those traumatic experiences that he is announced king in 2 Sam 2. What follows is a narrative of familial conflict and fracture, involuntary migration for David again (2 Sam 15), and a final return (2 Sam 20). From this point, David lives a sedentary life. Although this is an atypical summary of the narrative in 1 Sam 18–2 Kings 2, it foregrounds the important role involuntary migration plays in its plot. This article will explore that story, looking especially at how David’s attitude toward mobility as king is implicitly rejected by the narrative.

Job Shift of The Indonesian International Return Migrant in Central Java Province

This study aims to explain: (i) shift jobs in Indonesian International Return Migrant (IIRM) between before and after becoming a international migrant; (ii) migrant jobs in the destination country and after returning to Indonesia; and (iii) duration of time as IIRM and number of countries of work. This study uses a theoretical framework of needs and stress theory. This study uses survey design and case studies and selected the location of studies in the Central Java. The determination of the sample size of this study uses the Krejcie and Morgan techniques. Based on the calculation results, the number of respondents in this study was 313 respondents. The number of informants for this study was 60 people. Data collection uses structured interview methods, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussions. Data analysis uses descriptive statistical analysis and qualitative descriptive analysis. The analysis showed that a significant shift in migrant worker occurred in the employment of labor who switched to trade, before working abroad as much as 22.7% to 9.3% and the trade sector from 4.8% to 20.4%, in addition to the agricultural sector (8.6% to 11.8%) and services (2.9% to 6.1%). The duration of time for migrants working abroad for more than 4 years is 50.8%. The main objective of international migration for Indonesian migrants is Southeast Asia, 38% and second, East Asia, which is almost 29%. The employment sector that absorbs the most labor in various destination countries is domestic work (69%), which includes 60% of domestic work (household work) and 8% in nursing homes. In addition, migrants work in the plantation sector, which is 6.5%. These three jobs are known as smelly, heavy and dangerous (S.H.D) or in Indonesia as bau, berat, bahaya (3B), which are usually a relatively for work force segment of low education.

ORGANIZING RETURN MIGRANT WORKERS FROM INDONESIA FOR SUSTAINABLE GOVERNANCE

Artikel ini akan menyajikan pemahaman tentang bagaiamana purna buruh migrant dapat memberikan dampak bagi keluarga dan masyarakat di sekelilingnya dalam hal peningkatan kualitas hidup dan kesejahteraan. Latar belakang utama dari artikel ini adalah semakin mudah dan banyaknya orang yang memutuskan menjadi pekerja migran di luar negaranya sebagai dampak dari globalisasi. Selanjutnya artikel ini akan focus pada purnaburuhmigran dan akan mencoba memberikan penjelasan pentingnya penelitian lebih lanjut tentang bagaimana para purna buruh migrant tersebut dapat berkontribusi untuk pembangunan yang berkelanjutan. Dalam artikel ini disajikan beberapa hasil penelitian tentang hubungan remitan, pembangunan dan buruh migran di dua negara Asia Tenggara yang merupakan negara pengirim buruh migrant terbesar di asiaTenggara. This article presents an understanding of how returnees of overseas workers have an impact on family and community in term of prosperity and wellbeing. The main background of thisarticle is the growing trend of migration as one impact of globalization. Furthermore this article focuses on overseas workers and will seek to address the lack attention of current research on demonstrating how returnees overseas workers could contribute to sustainable development. At the end of the article it suggests to do further research in order to find answers about the impacts of having experiences as overseas workers for family and community prosperity and well being. In this article is discussed two regions in Southeast Asia namely Indonesia and Philippine where in these two countries playing significant role as sending countries for overseas workers.

Return Lebanese migrants and their post-return experience Tripoli case study

Research on migration studies for decades has been mostly aimed at understanding the collective movement of people. Scholars from interdisciplinary backgrounds arrived at various theories attempting to understand the motives behind their emigration. This thesis aims to examine the post-return experience and the complexities return migrant encounter. It focuses on the identity of Lebanese return migrants, their sense of belonging, their social dimension, and access to legal rights. This study takes North Lebanon as a case study to answer the thesis’s basic question: What is the post-return experience of Lebanese return migrants and their role as agents of change.

P.3.14 Occupational hazards among migrant workers: impact on their fertility and mental health

BackgroundMore than 1,750 Nepalis leave the country daily for foreign employment. A total of 6 39 167 aspirant migrant workers left for various countries in last fiscal year 2016/17, up from418,713 in previous FY 2015/16. Most the migrant worker destination is hot humid climate countries for occupational work especially chemical, biological hazards.MethodsIt is the retrospective study among return migrant male 100 case reports with non-migrant control reports in (2016 Jan–2018 Nov.) years. Data of Semen analysis reports(questionnaire for duration of infertility, sperm count, percentage of normal sperm morphology,percentages of sperm ), BMI, mini mental health examination and family details data was collected. Descriptive statistics, analysis of variance, and correlations were conducted using SPSS 21.0 and Epi infoResultsMost of the return migrant workers who had long term (>1 years) exposed with solvents, biological or chemical occupation have less than the normal sperm counts than non-migrant cases. BMI was normal but the mental stress on return migrant workers having more than others. Clinical findings of less than 20 million/mL sperm concentration, progressive motility 32%, Odds ratios (ORs), after allowing for confounding, were 2.07 (95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.24 to 3.44) for 1–3 years exposure to solvents and 3.83 (95% CI 1.37 to 10.65) for more than 3 years exposure. Chances of fertilization was at least 1–2 year among long term migrant return workers.ConclusionOccupational hazards in reproductive life is more seen among the mental stress workers. It may be due to improper use occupational safety clothes, equipment etc. Proper counselling, Workplace safety rules and regulation policy should be clearly documentation for all migrant workers. Occupation physician screen all workers health every 3 months. Education, awareness and changing attitude of work style is essential in this globalization era.