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Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration: National and subnational influences

Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2019

Across the world, we observe different experiences in terms of inequality between migrant and 'host-country' populations. What factors contribute to such variation? What policies and programmes facilitate 'better' economic integration? This paper, and the broader collection of studies that it...

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Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility: The case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United States

Bankston, Carl L.; Zhou, Min - 2018

In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group in a host country. We approach this case in three parts. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic...

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The political economy of women's empowerment policies in India: Understanding it through the beginning and end of the Mahila Samakhya programme

Jha, Jyotsna; Menon, Niveditha; Ghatak, Neha - 2022

This paper analyses the political economy of women's-empowerment-related policymaking in India through a re-examination of the context of both the genesis and closure of a major programme, Mahila Samakhya. Mahila Samakhya, which embodied feminist philosophy and pedagogy, started in 1987 with the...

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Programme-135: Addressing poverty and inequality in Viet Nam

2022

Viet Nam has achieved remarkable economic growth and poverty reduction since the Doi Moi. However, ethnic minorities and the ethnic majority do not benefit equally from the national economic progress. The proportion of poor households that are ethnic minority-headed soared from 18 per cent in...

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Affirmative action policy in developing countries: Lessons learned and a way forward

Kaletski, Elizabeth; Prakash, Nishith - 2016

There are several countries who have responded to concerns regarding historically disadvantaged groups, particularly ethnic and racial minorities and women, with not only anti-discrimination legislation, but also affirmative action policies. Although these policies are seemingly well...

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Social mobility and inequality between groups

Funjika, Patricia; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2020

The relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention has been paid to 'vertical' than to 'horizontal' inequality. This paper focuses on mobility and horizontal inequality between ethnic, racial, and culturally-defined groups. Not...

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Degrees of disadvantage

Srikanth, Chinmayi - 2023

This study is positioned in two strands of literature-intersectionality and social mobility. It is the first to measure (dis)advantage at the individual level as an outcome of the intersectionality of identities and parental circumstances. By linking circumstances at the parental level with...

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Cities of youth: Post-millennial cases of mobility and sociality

Hansen, Karen Tranberg - 2014

With a focus on cities in eastern and southern Africa, this paper draws on recent scholarship and my own research in Lusaka, Zambia, to analyse pathways for, and challenges to, greater social mobility for youth against the background of economic, political, and spatial processes that are...

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Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA: Evidence from labour market panel surveys

Hlasny, Vladimir; AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2018

This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …, demographics and migration status. Migration patterns are found to differ systematically between Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as well …

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Globalization and the emergence of a transnational oligarchy

Brezis, Elise S. - 2010

The aim of this paper is to examine the evolution of recruitment of elites due to globalization. In the last century, the main change that occurred in the way the Western world trained its elites is that meritocracy became the basis for their recruitment. Although meritocratic selection should...

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