Sökning: "migration industry"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 47 avhandlingar innehållade orden migration industry.
1. The Migration Industry in Managed Migration: Authority, Control and Guestworkers in the United States
Sammanfattning : This thesis is an investigation into the private migration actors, also known as the migration industry, that have become ubiquitous within managed migration programs in the United States. From employers and visa agents to recruiters and law firms, a tremendous number of private actors have become embedded within modern migration programs. LÄS MER
2. Managing Migrant Workers : moral economies of temporary labour in the Swedish IT and wild berry industries
Sammanfattning : Temporary migrant workers and circular migration constitute a growing global phenomenon as the management of migration becomes increasingly important to policymakers. This thesis takes academic discussions on citizenship and migration as its starting point, and examines the role of employers in terms of defining temporary migrant workers and their role in the Swedish labour market. LÄS MER
3. Gendered routes and courses : The socio-spatial mobility of migrants in nineteenth-century Sundsvall, Sweden
Sammanfattning : This dissertation examines migrants during a time of large-scale socio-economic transformations. These changes were particularly evident in the nineteenth-century town of Sundsvall, Sweden, to which thousands of men and women moved. LÄS MER
4. Learning and Returning : Return Migration of Swedish Engineers from the United States, 1880-1940
Sammanfattning : This thesis examines different aspects of international migration and return migration among Swedish engineers – particularly to and from the United States between 1880 and 1940. The social, geographical, and educational backgrounds of these engineers and their role in diffusing technological knowledge in Sweden in addition to being a possible source of technical development during the country’s second industrial breakthrough is of particular interest. LÄS MER
5. An information system migration framework for the electricity industry control centers
Sammanfattning : The Electricity Industry Reforms (EIR) is a worldwidephenomenon that is inducing an intensive business orientedcontext in the organization, processes and functions of theElectricity Industry (EI). The electric power grid is nowtreated as the electricity market, the consumer as thecustomer, the power system activities are related to marketactors (i. LÄS MER