MIGRATION MANAGEMENT WITHIN FAMILY REUNIFICATION

Family Reunification—Concepts and Challenges

This article offers an outline for the components of disaster planning and response where considerations for family reunification should occur and describes the challenges and solutions within each. Challenges and solutions are described in 6 areas including practice and planning, clinical services, ancillary support, transportation and accommodations, communication and identification, and psyc...

Who stays, who goes, who returns? East--West migration within Germany since reunification

We study the determinants of East–West migration within Germany during the period 1990–2006, using administrative data, the German Microcensus and the German Socio-Economic Panel. We find that in addition to income prospects and employment status, two well-known determinants of migration, psychological and social factors play an important role in determining the migration decision. Men and wome...

Indicators for Safe Family Reunification: How Professionals Differ

Family Separation and Reunification of Newcomers in Toronto

Overview What is family separation and reunification? Historically, when immigrating to Canada, one family member often came first to assess opportunities, find a job, and establish a foundation, all the while sending remittances back home. After this initial period, other family members followed from the country of origin. In contemporary Canada, the forms of these family separations and reuni...

Face Match for Family Reunification: Real-World Face Image Retrieval

Despite the many advances in face recognition technology, practical face detection and matching for unconstrained images remain challenging. A real-world Face Image Retrieval (FIR) system is described in this paper. It is based on an optimally weighted image descriptor ensemble utilized in a single-imageper-person (SIPP) approach that works with large unconstrained digital photo collections. Th...