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    Without an understanding of the concepts associated with this course, the article “Resettling China’s ‘Ecological Migrants’” would seem to make sense. However, with an understanding of the concepts and their functions that have been discussed thus far, the consequences and results of the resettling of the Hui Muslims, from the Ningxia Hui stand out boldly. The first concept that stands out in this article is the moral panic that was created by the Chinese government. By using various reports that

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    The definitions are useful to be used as a lens to scrutinize two diaspora narratives of Indonesian and Mexican migrant workers. A comparison and contrast analysis is assumed to fit the effort on exploring two different texts which certainly offer distinguished and unique characteristics since both narratives have different socio-cultural backgrounds. I argue that since the Mexican migrant workers work and live within their families, they are most likely able to practice, maintain and preserve their

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    Australia’s Policy on Illegal Migrants Australian immigration has a long history, which began over 50,000 years ago when the ancestors of Australian Aborigines arrived via Indonesia and New Guinea. Britain colonized the country in 1788, before that, Europeans began landing the continent in the 1600’s and 1700’s. In recent decades Australia has faced the serious problem of large-scale illegal migration, which has occurred residents instability and unrest. In this

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    China has been the world’s largest migrant sending country for centuries. Chinese residents, most of which were laborers, migrated to countries such as the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia in search of opportunities that would grant them jobs and new lives. But in the last 30 to 40 years, the situation has seemed to have changed. Highly educated Chinese emigrants now seek employment in the globalized world, acting as wealthy investors in the global market. Meanwhile, China has been popularly

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    The Typical Day: Migrant Case Management Today Sherrill Tanner is a man of few words. Stoic and serious about his work, you would never guess the man truly has a heart of gold. For the better part of more than thirty years, Mr. Tanner has been working hard to change the lives of the less fortunate children of Webster County for the better. He began as an elementary school teacher at Clay Elementary, and has never looked back since. Today, holding a master’s degree of education from a prestigious

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    of Wrath. Before he wrote his masterpiece, first The Harvest Gypsies had to be written. This is a collection of seven articles written by John Steinbeck in 1936. These seven articles are the results of Steinbeck’s investigate reports of American migrant workers during the Great Depression. Steinbeck wrote to inform the people of the mistreatments and alienations that were known to the squatters. Squatters were primarily composed of immigrant workers, but as a result of the dust bowl an increasing

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    Christine Bowman, writer of the essay “Undocumented Lives: Migrant Latinos in America”, presents a strong response to a book of a similar name. Bowman’s authority is already shown without having to read her review at all due to her choice of topic alone and how controversial it is. She brings up the stereotypes and misconceptions about immigrants and how they are exploited for their hard work, challenging the idea that migrants are only here to take away American jobs (Bowman 261). Along with this

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    Mass influxes of vulnerable migrants seeking refuge have found themselves landing in European countries, encountering friendly faces and hostility along the way. More than a million migrants crossed borders into European countries in 2015, a substantial increase from the 280,000 that made the same journey only a year before. According to BBC reports, more than 135,000 arrived in the first two months of 2016 alone. Fleeing from the violent conflicts of Syria and Afghanistan, these refugees are searching

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    When studying the transnational political practices of Chilean migrants in the Netherlands, a transnational approach forms part of the theoretical framework. The work on transnational migration by Glick Schiller, Basch and Blanc-Szanton (1992) offers this analytical framework. Glick Schiller et al. have been among the first scholars to have introduced a transnational approach in understanding the effects of migration. They define transnationalism as “The processes by which immigrants build social

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    Irregular Migrants: Amnesty and Right to Stay Name: Course Title: Professor: Date: Irregular Migrants: Amnesty and Right to Stay Introduction: Irregular migrants are people living in a nation illegally. They do not have the citizenship of the country, or they might have come in as illegal refugees. Residents in another nation with visas but they have passed they due date or has expired without having obtained the citizenship of the particular nation are also viewed as irregular migrants in that particular

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