Awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021, Gurnah’s Gravel Heart can be considered as a bildungsroman, which delineates repercussions of colonialism on individuals once colonized societies. It tells story growing young boy who both psychologically and geographically becomes estranged from his self hometown due to impacts outcomes that colonial powers have left country. Through narrating s...

An increasing number of public policies and schemes aim to foster integration dynamics by supporting immigrant development practices. The intent of this paper is to assess the effectiveness of this correlation through a comparison between two major immigrant Berber groups in France: the Algerian Kabyles and the Moroccan Chleuhs. While Moroccan organisations have become active development actors...

Couples' residential decisions are based on a large variety of factors including housing preferences, family and other social ties, socialisation biography (e.g. earlier experience in the life course) environmental market, labour market). This study examines, firstly, to what extent people stay in, return or leave their hometown (referred as ‘migration type’). We refer place where most childhoo...

SocialNews seeks to enhance the news results returned by online news services such as Google News or Bing News by leveraging social networking information to provide more relevant results to the user. For example, Facebook profiles contain a wealth of information about the user’s interests, hobbies, personal history, and friends. We describe a system that analyzes the content in a user’s social...

A hometown is the place to which an individual has affective bond resulting from either being born there or living for lived a long time. This article investigates people's intention support revival of tourism in their hometowns post-COVID-19. The research hypothesises that individuals are affected by threat ontological security, freedom movement, and information, this synthetic will affect hom...

Abstract Universities spend significant time and energy establishing a sense of community for their students. University personnel strive to increase school ties commuter students who travel back forth from home campus under the assumption that these increased will predict academic success. In an effort understand those variables related student success, 335 participants responded questions reg...