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Migration and culture
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …
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Ethnic goods and immigrant assimilation
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2014
Some immigrants try to keep their ethnicity hidden while others become ever deeply more mired in their home culture. We argue that among immigrants this struggle manifests itself in the ethnic goods they choose to consume. Different types of ethnic goods have vastly different effects on...
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A political economy of the immigrant assimilation : internal dynamics
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010
Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant...
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Adjustment of the labor market to the foreign outflow of skilled labor : The case of construction workers
Tan, Edita A. - 1983
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