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Australia’s policies towards asylum seekers hit the headlines when it refused to admit those aboard the Tampa in September 2001. This tough stance and the raft of legislation that followed became known as Australia’s ‘Pacific Solution’. It was clearly intended to deter those who might...
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The intensity of asylum flows over the last 20 years represents a significant challenge to national and European policy making. This article studies the dynamic reciprocal effects between asylum applications and recognition rates in 29 European countries over 24 years. Furthermore, it explores...
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, 288 pp., (ISBN13: 9780199574414), (paper). Birgit Jentsch and Myriam Simard (eds.), International Migration and Rural … Jacobs, Experience and Representation, Contemporary Perspectives on Migration in Australia, Farnham: Ashgate, 2010, 176 pp …-90-8964-250-9), (cloth). Elisabeth Eide and Kaarina Nikunen, Media in Motion: Cultural Complexity and Migration in the Nordic Region. Farnham …
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with migrants in Germany. We present data on both sides of migration: the migrant household in the destination country as …-economic features of three migration waves. Individual demographic characteristics of the migrant are analysed as well as economic … features including the income situation and the remitting behaviour. We furthermore discuss the nature of migration - if it is …
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This paper studies the impact of income inequality on the subjective well-being of different social groups in urban China. We classify urban social groups according to their hukou status: rural migrants, "born?urban residents, and "acquired?urban residents who once changed their hukou identity...
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Globalization is not only about the rise of trade, FDI, and migration. It is also about the changing linkages among …
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migrants. This paper explores the issue of welfare migration across the 15 countries of the pre-enlargement Union and finds a … significant but small effect of the generosity of welfare on migration decisions. This effect, however, is still large enough to … distort the distribution of migration flows and, possibly, offset the potential benefits of migration as an inflow of mobile …
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Im Rahmen dieses Beitrags wird die Frage analysiert, ob ein großzügig ausgestalteter Sozialstaat zusätzliche Wanderungsanreize generieren kann, die eine nennenswerte Zuwanderung in das Sozialversicherungssystem zur Folge hat. Darüber hinaus werden verschiedene Politikoptionen zur...
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