[PDF] Communities Surviving Migration eBook

Author : James P. Robson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351729357

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Out-migration might decrease the pressure of population on the environment, but what happens to the communities that manage the local environment when they are weakened by the absence of their members? In an era where community-based natural resource management has emerged as a key hope for sustainable development, this is a crucial question. Building on over a decade of empirical work conducted in Oaxaca, Mexico, Communities Surviving Migration identifies how out-migration can impact rural communities in strongholds of biocultural diversity. It reflects on the possibilities of community self-governance and survival in the likely future of limited additional migration and steady – but low – rural populations, and what different scenarios imply for environmental governance and biodiversity conservation. In this way, the book adds a critical cultural component to the understanding of migration-environment linkages, specifically with respect to environmental change in migrant-sending regions. Responding to the call for more detailed analyses and reporting on migration and environmental change, especially in contexts where rural communities, livelihoods and biodiversity are interconnected, this volume will be of interest to students and scholars of environmental migration, development studies, population geography, and Latin American studies.

Author : Alexander Betts
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0801468957

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International treaties, conventions, and organizations to protect refugees were established in the aftermath of World War II to protect people escaping targeted persecution by their own governments. However, the nature of cross-border displacement has transformed dramatically since then. Such threats as environmental change, food insecurity, and generalized violence force massive numbers of people to flee states that are unable or unwilling to ensure their basic rights, as do conditions in failed and fragile states that make possible human rights deprivations. Because these reasons do not meet the legal understanding of persecution, the victims of these circumstances are not usually recognized as "refugees," preventing current institutions from ensuring their protection.In this book, Alexander Betts develops the concept of "survival migration" to highlight the crisis in which these people find themselves. Examining flight from three of the most fragile states in Africa—Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Somalia—Betts explains variation in institutional responses across the neighboring host states. There is massive inconsistency. Some survival migrants are offered asylum as refugees; others are rounded up, detained, and deported, often in brutal conditions. The inadequacies of the current refugee regime are a disaster for human rights and gravely threaten international security. In Survival Migration, Betts outlines these failings, illustrates the enormous human suffering that results, and argues strongly for an expansion of protected categories.

Author : Jamie Longazel
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 143991978X

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"This book uses theories of social death and the construction of lives as disposable across legal, public health, criminal, carceral, media, labor, and medical arenas to examine the fatal stakes of migration policy and practice for migrants crossing the U.S. southern border"--

Author : Ruth Trinidad Galván
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 2015-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 081650198X

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Women Who Stay Behind examines the social, educational, and cultural resources rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by the migration of loved ones. Using narrative, research, and theory, Ruth Trinidad Galván presents a hopeful picture of what is traditionally viewed as the abject circumstances of poor and working-class people in Mexico who are forced to migrate to survive. The book studies women’s and families’ use of cultural knowledge, community activism, and teaching and learning spaces. Throughout, Trinidad Galván provides answers to these questions: How does the migration of loved ones alter community, familial, and gender dynamics? And what social relations (convivencia), cultural knowledge, and women-centered pedagogies sustain women’s survival (supervivencia)? Researchers, educators, and students interested in migration studies, gender studies, education, Latin American studies, and Mexican American studies will benefit from the ethnographic approach and theoretical insight of this groundbreaking work.

Author : Frank Trovato
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,96 MB
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Immigrants
ISBN : 1785365975

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Publications in this field have, in general, been based predominantly on the experiences of individual national settings. Migration, Health and Survival offers a comparative approach, bringing together leading international scholars to provide original works from the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, England and Wales, Norway, Belgium and Italy.

Author : Nik Evasco
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
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Abstract: This paper explores the growing phenomenon of migration due to climate change through an analysis of human rights and a review of international conventions. It argues that current migration, refugee and asylum regimes at the regional and international policy levels are inadequate to serve the needs of individuals, families and communities that are preemptively relocating or are forced to migrate due to climate change and its subsequent effects. This paper shows that environmentally-displaced migrants who are either forcibly displaced or preemptively migrating do not have sufficient recognition or legal or political protections compared to 'traditional' refugees or migrants. The lack of resources leaves environmentally-displaced migrants in a limbo where individuals, families and whole communities have migrated internally to capital and major city centers only to wait for limited visa or work opportunities in major regional or former colonial hegemonic states. The migrants themselves may resort to drastic unauthorized migration efforts only to be denied refugee or asylum claims at the destination state. This paper argues that refocusing the discussion around migration through the lens of Survival Migration which centers front-line communities and human agency, will provide relief not only for environmentally-displaced migrants but also state actors and humanitarian agencies. Keywords: environmentally-displaced migrants, climate change, survival migration

Author : The Migration Conference Team
Publisher : Transnational Press London
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 180135295X

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The Migration Conference 2024 Abstracts for 5 days full of research, debates and discussions on migration and all relevant topics and areas from Iberoamericana Universidad in Mexico City.

Author : Alejandro I. Canales
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 18,69 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 900440922X

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In Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales offers a theoretical model for understanding the role of migration in the reproduction of contemporary society. He demonstrates how immigration constitutes a political dilemma that embodies the ethnic and demographic transformation of advanced societies. En Migration, Reproduction and Society, Alejandro I. Canales propone un modelo teórico para el entendimiento de las migraciones en la reproducción de la sociedad contemporánea. En las sociedades avanzadas la inmigración establece un dilema político concerniente a la transformación étnica y demográfica de sus poblaciones.

Author : Tom Bigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 21,10 MB
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136556222

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Few scientific developments have given rise to as much controversy as biotechnology. Numerous groups are united in their opposition, expressing concern over environmental and health risks, impacts on rural livelihoods, the economic dominance of multinational companies and the ethical implications of crossing species boundaries. Among the supporters of the technology are those that believe in its potential to enhance food security, further economic development, increase productivity and reduce environmental pressures. As a result, countries - and sectors within countries - find themselves at odds with each other while potential opportunities for development offered by the use of biotechnology are seized or missed, and related risks go unmanaged. This book, a unique interdisciplinary collection of perspectives from the developing world, examines the ongoing debate. Writing for the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, leading experts address issues such as diffusion of technology, intellectual property rights, the Cartagena Protocol, impacts of international trade, capacity building and biotechnology research and regulation. With the most recent and relevant examples from around the world, Trading in Genes offers the reader a single-volume overview of the connections between biotechnology, trade and sustainability that is both wide-ranging and thorough.