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591. Publications & Writing
The Challenges and Rewards of International Research and Training - Children of Immigrants in Schools
Video interviews examining some of the difficulties and advantages of international collaborative and comparative research encountered by researchers while working on the Children of Immigrants in Schools Project. http://www.ssrc.org/programs/pages/children-of-immigrants-in-schoo…
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592. Publications & Writing
The Children of Fate: Families, Class, and the State in Chile, 1800-1930
In modern Latin America, profound social inequalities have persisted despite the promise of equality. 1999 IDRF Fellow Nara B. Milanich argues that social and legal practices surrounding family and kinship have helped produce and sustain these inequalities. Tracing families bot…
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593. Publications & Writing
The Coming Elections in Zimbabwe: Hysterical Headlines and Happy Losers
Zimbabwe’s Government of National Unity (GNU) was formed three and a half years ago, a month after Barack Obama was sworn in. It is difficult to reach a thumbs up or down appraisal of the GNU before its final chapter is written. The brutal election of 2008 that preceded the GNU…
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594. Publications & Writing
The Complex Wars of the Congo: Towards a New Analytic Approach
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595. Publications & Writing
The Congo: A Revolution Deferred
In the run-up to last November’s presidential elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Cassandras were easy to find on the streets of Kinshasa. “Ça va péter,” a parliamentarian told me, “It’s going to blow up.” It wasn’t hard to see why. Both the incumbe…
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596. Publications & Writing
The Cork City flood of November 2009: Lessons for flood risk management and climate change adaptation at the urban scale
Publication by DPDF 2008 "Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change"James Jeffers. Flood hazards are a pressing challenge in several Irish and European cities and their impacts seem likely to intensify as climate change brings sea level rise, changes in storm patterns and…
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597. Publications & Writing
The Deadly Rampages of April
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598. Publications & Writing
The Deepening Crisis: Governance Challenges after Neoliberalism
Response to financial meltdown is entangled with basic challenges to global governance. Environment, global security, ethnicity, and nationalism are all global issues today. Focusing on the political and social dimensions of the global financial crisis, contributors examine chang…
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599. Publications & Writing
The Demographic Benefit of International Migration: Hypothesis and Application to Middle Eastern and North African Contextsfar
This paper argues that international migration may have resulted in a smaller world population than in the non migration scenario. The author claims that most of recent migration has been from high to low birth-rate countries, and since migrants typically adopt and send back idea…
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The Demographic, Economic and Financial Determinants of International Remittances in Developing Countries
Using data from 76 developing countries, this paper analyzes how such variables as the skill composition of migrants, poverty, and interest and exchange rates affect the level of international remittances received by different developing countries. Controlling for endogeneity usi…
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