Sökning: "migration distance"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 93 avhandlingar innehållade orden migration distance.
1. Migration i 1600-talets Sverige : Älvsborgs lösen 1613–1618
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of migration in the early seventeenth-century Swedish feudal society, and of its migration regime; that is the political, legal and economic structures that shaped the migration patterns. The most important sources are taxation records from Älvsborgs lösen, containing demographic migration data for large parts of the Swedish realm 1613–1618. LÄS MER
2. Feeling Across Distance : Transnational Migration, Emotions, and Family Life Between Bolivia and Spain
Sammanfattning : What are the relational dynamics of family life as it is lived across vast distances and over time? What underpins these relations, practices, and experiences of being apart and yet together? Based on a long-term multi-sited fieldwork carried out in Spain and Bolivia from 2013 to 2015, this study sets out to address these questions by investigating caring practices, mediated connections, (non)material exchanges, and lived experiences of “doing” and “feeling” family across borders. It conveys the story of ten families divided between Madrid and the Bolivian urban areas of Cochabamba, Sucre, and Santa Cruz de la Sierra. LÄS MER
3. New motives for migration? : On interregional mobility in the nordic context
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
4. Ecology and evolution of large-scale bird migration patterns : A natural history and comparative study of the migration in common and little ringed plovers
Sammanfattning : Migration distance and seasonal redistribution patterns may vary between and within bird populations. A common pattern is leap-frog migration, in which northerly breeding populations migrate farther and winter south of more southerly breeding populations. LÄS MER
5. Gendered Migration Patterns within a Sex Segregated Labor Market
Sammanfattning : When a couple moves, the woman is often placed at a disadvantage. Moves are more often motivated by men’s career advancement opportunities, and men tend to gain more economically from moving. In this thesis, these patterns are examined with an eye on the role of sex segregation on the labor market. LÄS MER
