Sökning: "kulturgeografi migration"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 55 avhandlingar innehållade orden kulturgeografi migration.

1. 1. "For a better life..." : a study on migration and health in Nicaragua

   Författare :Cecilia Gustafsson; Gunnar Malmberg; Aina Tollefsen; Mark Rosenberg; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; migration; health; health care; migration-health nexus; Nicaragua; remittances; mobile livelihoods; translocal geographies; vulnerability; suffering; coping; undocumentedness; mixed-methods; HDSS; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis explores and analyses the manifold relations between migration and health, what I call the migration-health nexus, in the contemporary Nicaraguan context. The study is based on fieldwork in León and Cuatro Santos and a mixed-methods approach combining qualitative in-depth interviews and quantitative survey data. LÄS MER

3. 2. On Specifying and Estimating Economic Growth as a Spatial Process : Convergence, Inequality, and Migration

   Författare :Martin E. Gustafsson; Roger Bivand; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; Economic geography; economic growth; regional convergence; migration; spatial statistics; spatially correlated errors; geographical dependence; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis includes three self-contained papers. The first paper considers the effect of geographically dependent observations on cross-sectional growth convergence and proposes a way of decomposing the level of technology taking into account geographical variation in growth rates. LÄS MER

4. 3. New motives for migration? : On interregional mobility in the nordic context

   Författare :Emma Lundholm; Gunnar Malmberg; Kerstin Westin; Allan Findley; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; interregional migration; migration motives; migration outcomes; commuting; Human geography; Kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : The subject of this thesis is migrants’ motives and the outcomes of interregional migration, as well as how the propensity for interregional migration has changed for different groups over the past three decades. The background consists of a discussion on the role of the labour market in long-distance migration decisions and a discussion on how social and economic change affect the context in which migration decisions are made. LÄS MER

5. 4. Socio-economic differentiation and selective migration in rural and urban Sweden

   Författare :Susanne Hjort; Gunnar Malmberg; Colin P. Pooley; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Migration; rural; urban; Sweden; rural gentrification; polarization; segregation; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography; kulturgeografi;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to analyse migration and socio-economic differentiation in rural and urban spaces: where people move, what the characteristics of migrants are and whether experiences of rural and urban space affect attitudes toward the local living environment and place attachment. The background consists of five themes discussing different aspects of socio-economic differentiation and selective migration, for example polarization and rural gentrification. LÄS MER

7. 5. Moved by the mountains : migration into tourism dominated rural areas

   Författare :Maria Thulemark; Susanna Heldt Cassel; Mats Lundmark; Linda Lundmark; Högskolan Dalarna; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; tourism. mobility; lifestyle migration; amenity migration; litestyle amenities; creative class; occupational communities; tourism employment; seasonal workers; rural Sweden; Bergslagen database; interview study; focus groups; Complex Systems – Microdata Analysis; Komplexa system - mikrodataanalys; Social and Economic Geography;

   Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER