The making of the ‘precarious’: examining Indian immigrant IT workers in Canada and their transnational networks with body shops in India

Since the 1990s, temporary staffing agencies have been playing a key role in managing and supplying a ready pool of skilled workers to the global IT market. Yet, such agencies often regulate their workforce to maintain flexible, low-cost and accommodating workers. Due to continuing racial and gendered barriers, many immigrant Indian IT professionals living in Canada are increasingly depending on many such India-based staffing agencies (body shops) to get into IT employment globally. Such associations I argue are turning the workers into a self-regulated and precarious workforce subjected to severe regulations and flexible work patterns of the agencies.     

Mobilizing learning resources in a transnational classroom: translocal and digital resources in a community technology center

Drawing from transnational and activity theory frameworks, this study analyzes the ways translocal flows shape learning in a community technology center serving adult immigrants in the US Southwest. It also explores students' constructions of the transnational nature of the courses they took, where they had access to both online and face-to-face instruction. Findings describe the ways transnational flows shaped relationships between elements in the classroom activity system – in particular, the framing of the online platform as a mediating tool and object of instruction, the roles in the division of labor for local tutors, and the students' construction of remote and local support. Pedagogical implications for adult immigrant education supported by translocal online resources are discussed.     

旅游地外来人口流动研究

旅游地外来流动人口是随着旅游目的地的发展而衍生出来的一种社会群体,也是旅游移民的一个重要分支,属于旅游移民中的临时性移民。通过国内外相关文献资料的对比分析,阐述了国内外学者在这一方面研究的不同内容,并且针对其不同的研究内容做出了相关评述,得到了相应的启示。     

缅甸的外国移民:历史、现状及其影响

1988年以前,外国人移居缅甸的历史可以根据缅甸的历史发展进程分为六个不同的阶段,每个阶段的外国移民数量和特点随着缅甸历史和政局的变动而不同。1988年后,随着缅甸新军人政权的建立,大量的中国人移居缅甸,成为缅甸的新移民。不同时期的外来移民对缅甸的发展贡献了力量,同时也对缅甸造成了一定的消极影响。     

Ecological Influences on Chinese Migrant Mothers’ Integration with Hong Kong

The present study uses an ecological model to understand how personal, interpersonal, and environmental factors contribute to migrant mothers’ employment readiness and their perceived integration with the host society. In the literature, successful employment, especially for recent arrivals, has proven to be important in the acculturation process. Little work has taken into account how various personal characteristics, relational factors (e.g., social capital), and neighborhood features make their contributions simultaneously. To enrich the work, this study employs survey data on 433 Chinese migrant mothers living in three low-income neighborhoods of Hong Kong. Results are supportive of the ecological model. They are favorable to the strengthening of social capital and workplace accessibility as a way to champion migrant women's integration with the host society.     

Acculturative stress in Latino Immigrants: The impact of social, socio-psychological and migration-related factors

The purpose of this study was to investigate factors that predict acculturative stress in a nationally representative sample of Latino migrants. The participants in this study were 2059 Latinos. Among them were 868 Mexicans, 577 Cubans and 614 other Latinos. The subcategory other Latinos consisted of immigrants and refugees from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru and Nicaragua. The participants took part in face-to-face interviews, which were conducted with computer-assisted interviewing software in Spanish and English. Findings revealed that acculturative stress decreases with an increase in the English proficiency index, the context of migration exit index, and the social network index. Furthermore, acculturative stress was lower for US citizens versus non-citizens; immigrants who wanted to migrate to the US versus refugees who had to leave their country of origin; and later generation immigrants. Acculturative stress increases with a higher native language proficiency index and a higher discrimination index.     

初唐中原移民入闽与闽台文化之形成

初唐时期 ,为平定岭南地区的蛮獠之乱 ,唐王朝派遣陈政、陈元光父子率领中原移民入闽 ,开发漳潮地区 ,这一事件意义十分深远。在稳定闽南粤东北的同时 ,经多年的播迁 ,形成独具特色的闽台文化。闽台文化根在中原 ,这是不容否认的历史事实。     

The imperial welfare state? Decolonisation,education and professional interventions on immigrant children in Birmingham, 1948–1971

Abstract

This article approaches debates about how the history of the post-1945 English welfare state might be written. It argues that professionals’ interventions on immigrant children can serve as a prism for understanding the crafting of the modern English welfare state. In this sense the article engages with the narrative concerning the resilience of a post-war British history that sees 1945 as a moment of profound rupture symbolised by the demise of Empire, the development of a universal welfare state, and the coming of mass immigration that brought with it social problems whose management presaged a distinctive British multiculturalism. Due to its influential impact on the development of immigrant education policies in England and because of its extensive education archive the article uses the Birmingham Local Education Authority (LEA) as an empirical and historical case. The significant British Nationality Act of 1948 and the Immigration Act of 1971 serve as demarcations of the period treated. The article concludes that the immigrant child and the child’s background were consistently presented as educational problems and as the cause of both poor academic attainment and a more intangible unwillingness to assimilate. In this lens the crafting of the post-war English welfare state was a continuation of an imperial project shoring up imperial boundaries within as the former colonised appeared on English soil.     

A Shoelace Left Untied: Teachers Negotiate Class and Ethnicity in a City of Northern England

Using qualitative research methods supported by demographic data, the role of castelike class patterns in British schooling and the participation of teacher mentalities in maintaining images of working-class students and their families within urban communities were examined. The common American assumption that race is the most salient, if not the sole, designator of resistance to schooling was challenged as teachers and administrators in three urban schools in the north of England presented their experiences and views of working with low-income urban students. In returning as an American researcher to the city of her British family, the author brings a unique cross-cultural lens to the analysis of ethnicity and class.     

北海白话语音

记录北海市的传统方言北海白话,内容分三个部分：一、社会概况,二、语音构成,三、同音字汇。北海白话跟广州白话不同的地方主要是：有边擦音[ ]（心母）,有舌面前鼻音[ ]（日疑）,没有撮口呼,鼻音韵尾错位,上去不分阴阳,全浊去声以及“浊上变去”的字归阳平。同音字汇收3800字。