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Getting Tsunami Recovery and Early Warning Right

Wisner, Ben; Walker, Peter - In: Open House International 31 (2006) 1, pp. 54-61

The massive human and economic impact of the Asian tsunami in later 2004 is mirrored in the aftershocks felt among humanitarian organisations, development agencies, and policy makers. This paper raises a number of these troubling, fundamental issues. Firstly, the call for an Indian Ocean tsunami...

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Migration Directions and Policy in Malaysia

Hassan, Asan Ali Golam - In: Open House International 30 (2005) 3, pp. 69-74

-to-urban migration has contributed to decreasing poverty and income distribution, it has also had side effects for the urban and rural …

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Contested Terrains: Visualizing Glocalization in Global Cities

Krase, Jerome - In: Open House International 34 (2009) 3, pp. 65-73

This essay employs a visual approach to explore some of the ways that spatial practices become markers of a globalising and glocalizing world. Images are offered that reflect some of the symbolic competition created by more and less recent migrants as they lay claim to ‘contested terrains’...

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Migration and Urbanism in Glasgow: The Spatial Impact of South Asian Communities

Remali, Adel M.; Salama, Ashraf M.; Wiedmann, Florian - In: Open House International 44 (2019) 4, pp. 45-54

South Asian communities have lived in Scotland since the late nineteenth century, experiencing a substantial growth in the post-war period. This paper contributes a new understanding of the spatial practices of South Asian communities in the city of Glasgow based on statistics and surveys. The...

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Re-thinking mobility : contemporary sociology

Kaufmann, Vincent; Grieco, Margaret - 2002

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Questioning Fluidity -- 2. Insights from Empirical Research -- 3. Re-thinking Spatial Mobility -- 4. Mobile, therefore Free? -- 5. The Use of Speed Potentials -- 6. What Inequalities? -- 7....

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Pedestrian- and transit-oriented design

Ewing, Reid; Bartholomew, Keith - 2013

Explaining how to design spaces for pedestrians while also accommodating transit needs, this book is an excellent reference for students, public sector planners and officials, and private sector designers and developers seeking to make places more pedestrian- and transit-friendly. Written by a...

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Labour mobility in the enlarged single european market

Dølvik, Jon Erik (ed.); Eldring, Line (ed.) - 2017 - First edition.

consequences of large-scale labour migration. This volume improves understanding of the drivers, mechanisms, and effects of the … past decade's surge in cross-border labour mobility and work related migration within Europe. … and Policy Makers? -- Notes -- References -- New Patterns of Labour Migration from Central and Eastern Europe and its …

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Surviving on the Move : Migration, Poverty and Development in Southern Africa

Crush, Jonathan - 2010

Since the collapse of apartheid, there have been major increases in migration flows within, to and from the Southern … African region. Cross-border movements are at an all-time high across the region and internal migration is at record levels …. The implications of greater mobility for areas of origin and destination have not been systematically explored. Migration …

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Non-migration policies and mobility decisions

Bakewell, Oliver; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Kováčová, … - 2024

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Shattered dreams : the economic impact of eliminating DACA

Ortega, Francesc; Connor, Phillip - 2024

We present a novel imputation for legal immigrant status in 2023, which identifies likely DACA recipients, and provide estimates of the short-term and long-term income losses stemming from the potential elimination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Our estimates...

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