A5103132142- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration
- International Development and Aid
- Island Studies and Pacific Affairs
- Local Economic Development and Planning
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
- Natural Resources and Economic Development
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Historical Geography and Geographical Thought
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Geography Education and Pedagogy
- African history and culture analysis
- Globalization and Cultural Identity
- Cambodian History and Society
- African studies and sociopolitical issues
Radboud University Nijmegen
2009-2025
University of the Witwatersrand
2021-2025
GSI Environmental (United States)
2021
University of British Columbia
2010
Seagate (United States)
2009
University of Amsterdam
2006
International Food Policy Research Institute
2001
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
1993
ABSTRACT Migrants are increasingly leading transnational lives, impacting the institutions that shape local economies both in their place of residence and home communities. One example this is institution funerals developing countries. Funerals becoming multi‐sited events as migrants from countries play important roles organization, financing practice funeral ceremonies thus give rise to flows money, goods people across national borders, ultimately affecting different around world. This...
ABSTRACT Studies around the world have shown interest of migrants to invest in houses their countries origin. Yet scholarly and political debates mainly focused on productivity these investments, arguing that money spent might found more productive uses. We argue this is too limited a view, as it fails take into consideration two dimensions: Why do investments place, question not only economic but also social cultural nature. Second, how transnational place? This important given are seldom...
Drawing on longitudinal research engagement with villages and government projects in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, we argue case for a strong revamp policies rural development. Thereby suggest that legitimacy ascribing to policy notion "post-apartheid" is largely redundant as current development Africa have not changed sufficiently. Notably underlying rationale behind interventions associated governance mechanisms remains highly technocratic. This represents continuity role...
Abstract This perspective article was prepared by members of the Sustainable Remediation Forum (SURF), a professional nonprofit organization seeking to advance state sustainable remediation within broader context site reuse. SURF recognizes that and reuse, including redevelopment activities, are intrinsically linked—even when is subordinate or sometimes precursor Although end life cycle has traditionally served as beginning site's next cycle, disconnect between these two processes remains....
Do increases in the food supply per person a country, i.e., national availability, contribute substantially to reductions malnutrition among its children? This paper sets out answer this controversial question using panel data from 63 developing countries over 1970–1996. gives evidence support of statistically significant and strong positive impact availability on child nutrition, finding that increased supplies have resulted since 1970s despite population period. However, per-capita...
Abstract Regulators seem to currently be focusing on green remediation and not sustainable remediation. How can the industry change this perception so that a more holistic approach is followed?
In the field of migration and development, role diasporas has been examined critically because political consequences culturally informed moral norms often attached to their engagement with country origin. These shape nature interactions. Drawing on two case studies diaspora philanthropic interventions in post-war Sri Lanka, this article applies a post-development framework study complexities transnationalism. cases highlight complex uneven relationships between local actors, doing so...
Abstract This introduction to the Special Issue on Family Migration in Times of Crisis explains why concept crisis is a useful prism uncover new insights into family migration. It recognizes multivalent character crises and their tendency merge accumulate what has been called ‘polycrisis’. recognises critical perspectives ‘crisis’, that it represents interpretations events rather than themselves are socially constructed narrated. Crises present risks challenges for migrants families. The...