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Assessing the major push factors of migration in the Caribbean region

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Introduction The following is an assessment of the major push factors of migration in the Caribbean countries.  I also discuss the positive and negative effects of emigration on the home countries while making recommendations to all the stakeholders to address the situation at local, national, and international levels. Ultimately, I seek to provide readers a […]

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Assessing Transcontinental Sub-Saharan African Migration and Displacement

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This piece profiles and discusses internal displacement as well as transcontinental migration among Sub-Saharan African migrants to the European Union and the Middle Eastern Countries.  It is reported that the overall human movement, displacement, and migration among the migrants of Sub-Saharan countries appears to be caused by the combined effect of natural disasters or human-made

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Turbulent Journey of Little Adu to Find a Secure Place

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Adu is a Spanish epic melodrama that had taken place in several African places such as Cameroon, a lower-middle-income country in Central Africa, Morocco, and North African country, directed by Salvador Calvo. The film is based on the true story that touches upon the problems of global migration crisis, the impact of migration on crime and

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Diasporic multiple citizenships through extraterritorial networking

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This piece is written to summarize the basic arguments and findings of an academic article by Glick Schiller (2017), titled “Transborder citizenship: An outcome of legal pluralism within transnational social fields”. I decided to review this paper for a couple of reasons. First, this article is related to my thesis work which is about the

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Pandemic Impact on Migrant Children and Youth in GCC

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* Author: Dr. K Ranju Introduction GCC migrants’ children, born in GCC Countries and migrated, are very much like domesticated parrots. Weakened health networks and disturbed health services have a direct impact on the well-being of children and young people, on parents’ work and income reductions, disrupted entry to education and limits on transport and

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Skill Development Tool or Trade for Safe Migration: The Case of Bangladeshi Emigrants

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Author: * K.Ranju Rangan 1.1       Introduction   This article examines an essential dimension of globalisation: labour migration between emerging economies and skill development roles, which has not gained sufficient reportage. Migration of skilled workers from developed countries is a persistent trend, and governments need to respond to and benefit from this migration in both sending and

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Plight of the Distraught: Situating Migrant Domestic Workers in times of Pandemic

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* Author: Nupur Pattanaik As the entire society woke up to the global shutdown and economic collapse following the COVID-19 pandemic, all economic zones have been reeling under its ramifications. This encompasses “the unchecked enterprise” of the domestic workers, which mainly hires and engages women. While women have substantially bestowed to progress of the economy,

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