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Temporary Labor Migration: C. Foulkes
Temporary migration is migration to a country that is not intended to be permanent, for a specified and limited period of time, and usually...
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Isolation and Interaction in Temporary Agricultural Labor
This article examines how isolation and the seasonality of employment both constrain and enable agricultural guest workers’ contact with outsiders....
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Mitigating export-related distance via temporary learning environments: results from Nova Scotia
Barriers related to distance pose challenges for exporters, especially smaller-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in terms of increased uncertainty,...
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Planning for temporary housing through multicriteria decision analysis
Over the last three decades, the severity and frequency of natural disasters has experienced an increasing trend. As a result, the numbers of...
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Causes of child labor and working conditions in Ethiopia: evidence from temporary inter-rural child labor migrants from Sekela district
Child labor migration is a critical issue that has received limited attention from academic and policy domains in many develo** countries. This...
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Temporary Migration and Savings Rates: Evidence from China
We study the effect of temporary migration on migrants' savings rates in China. This is done by develo** a simple theoretical model and conducting...
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Migrant Optimism in Educational Aspirations for Children in Big Cities in China: A Case Study of Native, Permanent Migrant and Temporary Migrant Parents in Shanghai
There is a socioeconomic hierarchy by people’s migration and hukou status in urban migration destinations in China. Children’s education determines...
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Translocal vulnerability of temporary rural–rural labor migrant-sending households in Quarit district, Northwestern Ethiopia
The current era of globalization is accompanied by vulnerabilities of migrants at their destination. Although such cases possibly shape the...
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Who adjusts? Exchange rate regimes and finance versus labor under IMF programs
Who adjusts under International Monetary Fund (IMF) programs and why? In this paper, I demonstrate that labor groups adjust when there is a fixed...
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Local Events as a Temporary Urbanism Tactic for Public Spaces Revival
One primary urban regeneration objective is to revive the city’s declined and sluggishly animated public spaces. Nevertheless, due to a lack of...
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The unintended consequences of IMF programs: Women left behind in the labor market
Despite societal progress toward achieving gender equality, women remain disadvantaged across all walks of life. We examine how pressures by the...
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Funding of Population Policies and Programs
This chapter reviews the types of resource requirements usually entailed in implementing population policies, focusing on intentional policies with...
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A Conceptual Framework for Quality Improvement of Senior Housing Programs
The growing number of older people has become a critical social and economic challenge globally. In Taiwan, the proportion of people aged 65 and over...
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Spatial Design and Management of Refugee Camps: Al Za’atri and Its Transformation from a Temporary Shelter to a Permanent “Slum”
ThisTemporary Shelter, refugee camp as chapter focuses on the resettlement process of refugeesRefugee who have been forced to flee from their home...
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Opportunities and Cracks in Canada’s Two-Step Migration Model During the Pandemic: Lessons from Chinese Migrant Experiences
Canada’s migration management has been evolving into a two-step model since the 1990s, creating pathways for temporary residents to apply for...
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Labor Borders: Recruitment of Central American Migrants in “Exodus” through Southern Mexico and Indigenous Mexican “Braceros” in the Californian Fields
The article proposes the concept of “labor border” to explore the evolution of migration policies in the Central America-Mexico-USA region by...
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The Role of Temporary Marriage (TM) in Promoting Early Child Marriage (ECM) in Iran
This study aims to deepen understanding of the phenomenon of temporary marriage (TM) and its role in promoting early child marriage (ECM) in Iran....
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Household-Based Clientelism: Brokers’ Allocation of Temporary Public Works Programs in Argentina
This paper argues that political brokers pay particular attention to household size, and the age distribution of its members, when allocating scarce...
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The Settlement and Integration Experience of Temporary Foreign Workers Living in an Isolated Area of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
This study explored the settlement and integration experiences of 12 current and former Filipino temporary foreign workers (TFWs) in the low-wage...
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Assessing temporary foreign worker programs through the prism of Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program: can they be reformed or should they be eliminated?
This article assesses Temporary Foreign Worker Programs (TFWPs) through the prism of Canada’s Seasonal Agriculture Worker Program (SAWP), often...