The article addresses the role of performative practices in informal camps and shantytowns southern Italy, where many sub-Saharan migrants live. In these settlements, creation expressions take various forms: an organic unplanned one, which gives shape to multiple improvised languages; one supported, sustained, often directed managed by associations; finally, produced non-migrant artists who see...

BACKGROUND China has been experiencing the largest rural to urban migration in history. Rural-to-urban migrants are those who leave their hometown for another place in order to work or live without changing their hukou status, which is a household registration system in China, categorizing people as either rural residents or urban residents. Rural-to-urban migrants typically find better job opp...

The proportion of citizens with an ethnic minority background in Denmark is rising and considerations about how to adapt health care services to the needs of this part of the population are becoming increasingly relevant. To do this, knowledge is needed about the factors influencing the health of these population groups. Migration is one of these factors. The process of migration influences the...

Abstract Does enhanced descriptive representation lead to substantive representation? Legislators who share features with disadvantaged groups do not necessarily represent their group interests. Instead, Members of Parliament (MPs) strategically choose when engage the policy topic corresponding groups. MPs respective at beginning career because it confers credibility they have no legislative tr...

As with most computer science problems, representation of the data is the key to ecient and eective solutions. Piecewise linear representation has been used for the representation of the data. This representation has been used by various researchers to support clustering, classication, indexing and association rule mining of time series data. A variety of algorithms have been proposed to obtain...

background recent british national health service (nhs) reforms, in response to austerity and alleged ‘health tourism,’ could impose additional barriers to healthcare access for non-european economic area (eea) migrants. this study explores policy reform challenges and implications, using excerpts from the perspectives of non-eea migrants and health advocates in london.   methods a qualitative ...

Partial migration occurs across a variety of taxa and has important ecological and evolutionary consequences. Among ungulates, studies of partially migratory populations have allowed researchers to compare and contrast performance metrics of migrants versus residents and examine how environmental factors influence the relative abundance of each. Such studies tend to characterize animals discret...

Working Conditions and Job Satisfaction of China’s New Generation of Migrant Workers: Evidence from an Inland City China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants with different attitudes towards living and working form an increasing share of the migrant labour force. At the same time, the destinations of migrants are changing as a result of governm...

OBJECTIVE The number of Marshallese migrants has dramatically increased in the US and its territories since the 1986 Compact of Free Association agreement. Their poor health status and patterns of untimely care are considered a great public concern in the host society. This paper examines the health care patterns of Marshallese migrants in Hawai'i and how their specific characteristics and circ...