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A relationship between globalization, cities and immigration is increasingly apparent. Whether one is trying to understand Dubai, Toronto, or London, immigrants are culturally, economically, and spatially changing cities in significant ways. This study compares the roster of world cities with that of major urban immigrant destinations. The number of major urban immigrant destinations is growing due to the acceleration of immigration driven by income differentials, social networks and various state and local policies to recruit skilled and unskilled labor and replenish population. This study will present urban-level data on the foreign-born for 145 metropolitan areas of over 1 million people. It will focus on the world’s 19 metropolitan areas with over 1 million foreign-born residents. Analysis of the data suggests that there is a range of destination types. Although not all world cities are immigrant gateways, many are. 相似文献
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Brij Maharaj 《GeoJournal》2002,56(1):47-57
While South Africa's political transformation has been lauded internationally, one of the greatest challenges facing the post-apartheid
democratic government is undocumented immigration. There has been a xenophobic tendency to stigmatise immigrants, particularly
those from other African countries as criminals, as people who undermine economic development and take jobs from locals. The
aim of this paper is to critically review changing policies towards undocumented migration in post-apartheid South Africa.
More specifically, the paper will present a historical context to migration; question whether there are millions of illegal
immigrants in South Africa; identify reasons for the increasing influx of migrants into the country; analyse the rise of xenophobia
in the Republic; discuss problems associated with migrants; and assess changing immigration policies. The main reason for
leaving their home countries was a lack of employment opportunities. Therefore the migrants could be regarded as economic
refugees.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Pierpaolo Mudu 《GeoJournal》2007,68(2-3):195-210
In the last 20 years, the growth of Chinese immigration in Italy has increased, being characterized by multiple migration strategies linked to transnational economic activities. This has been particularly the case with the Chinese immigrant community in Rome, where many of these immigrants are involved in the restaurant or import–export business. In this context, the Chinese immigrant presence in the restaurant sector will be analysed in detail within a multimethod approach developed to explore the number, location and characteristics of all Chinese restaurants that were opened and closed since the 1970s. This exercise in economic geography is linked to other questions such as power and cultural relations, urban planning practices and the discourses of racism. The development and the geography of the Chinese restaurants allow us to understand not only how far or close they are to the mainstream Italian restaurant sector, but also the spatial trajectories of Roman Chinese in general within the urban landscape. As Chinese restaurants outside China have become a symbol of transnational Chinese identity, it is worth considering the real spatial practices attached to the construction and negotiation of this transnationality. 相似文献
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Nicholas Dines 《GeoJournal》2002,58(2-3):177-188
This article examines the relationship between immigration and urban renewal in Naples during the 1990s through the conflicting representations and uses of Piazza Garibaldi, a large piazza located in front of the city's central railway station. As well as the hub of the city's public transport network, since the mid-1980s this piazza has been the multifunctional space for a number of immigrant groups. Re-envisioned as the `gateway' to the city's regenerated centro storico (historic centre) during the 1990s, the piazza became a focus of public debates on security, tourism and, in particular, immigration. I examine how these issues intersected with political discourses about a renewed sense of citizenship in redefining the piazza as a strategic but problematic public space. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of local newspaper reports, the article looks at the ways in which the piazza has been appropriated by different immigrant groups for social and economic purposes, and how, at the same time, they have been excluded from discourses about a `new' Naples. 相似文献
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Spain, which has always been a land of emigrants, is currently a centre of attraction for immigrants, as are other countries in Mediterranean Europe. The proportion is not as high as in other countries with a longer tradition of immigration. In this survey we selected the six nationalities which provide the highest numbers of immigrants from the developing world, and which have the greatest racial or cultural contrast to the native population. We analyse their structural features, whether or not immigrants from the same country are collect in the Madrid Metropolitan Area, the recent mobility of the immigrant population, and the evolution of immigration since the Administration carried out a regularization process, as well as Spaniards' opinion of foreign immigrants. 相似文献
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日本的泡沫经济与土地利用变化 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Yukio Himiyama 《地球科学进展》2006,21(2):120-130
自1981年起日本经历了长达10年的泡沫经济时期,经济过热的现象于1991年12月突然终止。这一时期对日本的土地和经济造成了许多长远的影响,这是一个无论从经济学视角还是土地利用视角都非常严肃却在学术上又非常有趣的现象。来自地方的土地利用变化趋势调查报告（1980—2005）揭示了政府政策以及地方权力机构的意图是如何影响土地利用的,不同类型的土地利用是如何响应泡沫经济的,而泡沫经济又对土地产生了怎样影响。本研究揭示了在泡沫经济下人类活动影响土地的一些明显的规律。这些规律非常值得其他国家、特别是亚洲的发展中国家借鉴,以减轻或回避经济过热对土地和环境带来的灾难性后果。 相似文献
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Sutama Ghosh 《GeoJournal》2007,68(2-3):223-242
Transnational theories have established that, after migrating to a new country, migrants often maintain their pre-existing social, economic, and political ties to their home country. The extent to which however, transnational institutional and social connections may affect the residential location and housing experiences of immigrant and refugee groups, and why and how these experiences differ within broadly defined immigrant groups such as the ‘South Asians’ remains unexplored. Building on transnational theory and previous research on the housing trajectories of new Canadians, this paper examines the housing experiences of two recently arrived ‘South Asian’ subgroups in Toronto–Indian Bengalis and Bangladeshis. By highlighting important intra-immigrant group differences, the study reveals how diverse transnational ties affect their neighbourhood choice and the type, tenure, and quality of housing when they first arrived in Toronto. 相似文献
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Beyond Chinatown,beyond Enclave: Reconceptualizing Contemporary Chinese Settlements in the United States 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Profound changes in international geopolitics and national policies, as well as global economic restructuring, and technological
and communicational development have occurred since Chinatown first emerged. With the rapid pace of globalizing economy, increasing
flows of population, commodities, information, and financial resources across the Pacific Rim – particularly in the last two
decades – it is imperative that we reexamine the international migration patterns of Chinese population and reconceptualize
the resulting Chinese settlement forms in the globalization era. This article attempts to serve such purposes by briefly reviewing
the debate centered around historical and contemporary Chinatowns; discussing the impacts of societal and structural factors
on Chinese immigration and settlement; presenting a spectrum of contemporary Chinese settlement forms in the United States,
and highlighting some key characteristics. The article ends with brief discussion and conclusion sections that summarize some
issues in contemporary Chinese community studies. 相似文献
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《Geoforum》1993,24(4):381-396
Agriculture stands alone among resource sectors in Western industrialized countries as having the fastest growth in production/productivity during post-war years. Yet that growth in productivity and accompanying high levels of sufficiency has been at the expense of such goals as adequate income, community stability and resource/environmental conservation. In the process, agriculture has mimicked trends in the economy as a whole through increased segmentation and differentiation, throughput of non-renewable resources and divergence of natural and economic processes. Within the context of prevailing policies and market forces in OECD countries in general and Canada in particular, this paper evaluates the problems facing the sector and the nature of the trade-offs being made in the pursuit of high-input agriculture. It is argued that, while agri-business and market forces are generally responsible for a weakening of the links between environment and economy, numerous market distortions, precipitated by agricultural policy, do much the same. To achieve a better balance among the production and consumption functions of the land and to achieve an approach to future agricultural production which is sustainable will require changes in many of the rules, standards and conventions influencing the growth of food and fibre. From a policy perspective, the main task ahead is to redesign and implement programs which will encourage new ‘opportunity sets’ for the economic and competitive viability of the farmer and agricultural system, while at the same time meeting the nutritional needs of society and ensuring the protection of important environmental services and amenity values. 相似文献
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经济全球化下的区域经济空间结构演化研究评述 总被引：9，自引：0，他引：9
近50年以来,交通与通讯技术的迅猛发展使以往许多限制生产活动区位选择的本地化生产要素丧失了固有的垄断性,国际金融市场自由化降低了资本流通的障碍,标准化生产减少了对工人特殊技能的依赖,因此跨国公司可以在全球范围组织生产活动,但是技术创新和知识创新又极大地突出了地区企业集聚、地区创新环境的重要性。因此在经济全球化时期,生产活动的空间区位呈现出复杂的集聚或扩散趋势,区域经济空间结构表现为特殊的形式和规律。在最近20年的地理学研究中,出现了大量关于经济全球化时代区域空间结构的讨论。以跨国公司对生产活动空间区位的影响为主线,对近10年来国内外关于经济全球化时期区域空间结构研究的主要热点问题和观点予以综述。 相似文献
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King R 《GeoJournal》1993,30(3):283-292
During the 1970s Italy changed from being a country of mass emigration to one of mass immigration, taking over from Germany the role of Europe's main recipient of immigrants from less developed countries. By 1991 the officially registered foreign population in Italy stood at 860,000; however, clandestine migrants push the real figure above 1 million. Italy was generally unprepared for this immigration and policy has been slow to evolve. Analysis of residence permit data show that the immigrants come increasingly from Third World, especially African, countries, and that there is a relative concentration in the north of Italy. One third of the immigrants are Moslem. Employment data are scarce but indicate that around two–thirds are involved in low-grade service sector activities (street-trading, domestic service, hotel work etc.). There is a high degree of occupational specialisation amongst certain national groups (Senegalese street-hawkers, Tunisian fishermen, Filipino domestics etc.). The immaturity of the immigration is also revealed by marked gender and age assymetry. Five main causes are suggested as being behind the immigration: ease of entry; Italy's increasing prosperity; segmentation of the Italian labour market, opening up specific niches for immigrant employment; dominance of push factors from the countries of origin; and the demographic collapse in Italy. Within Italy, the reaction to immigration has not been very favourable. Opinion polls indicate that Italians have mainly negative and stereotyped views of immigrants and there is disturbing evidence of growing racism. Further inflows of immigrants are likely, whatever policies Italy attempts to put in place. 相似文献
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《Geoforum》2016
The housing outcomes of immigrants in Canada vary mainly along ethnicity. However, many other factors including place of birth, length of stay in Canada, labour market outcomes, and discrimination among others also play a role. Although general patterns are observable at broad ethnic group levels, vast intra-group differences exist—with housing outcomes potentially being influenced by specific group behaviours such as transnational (housing) activities. This study investigates the relationship between homeownership in Canada and Ghanaian immigrant transnational housing investment. Logistic regression models are fitted on survey data collected among Ghanaian immigrants resident in the Greater Toronto Area. The results show an association between homeownership status in Canada and transnational housing investment. Interestingly, we found that immigrants with on-going housing projects in Ghana were more likely to own a house in Canada. Theoretically the findings demonstrate the importance of including a transnational perspective in immigrant housing integration research. The findings show that it is possible to simultaneously engage in transnational activities and remain integrated in the society of destination areas. This has wider implications for the transnationalism-integration debate within immigrant receiving nations across the world. Recognition of transnationalism as a possible conduit for enhancing integration in destination societies should result in eschewing alarmist perspectives which have been relied on to formulate anti-immigration policies. 相似文献
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Heike C. Alberts 《GeoJournal》2007,68(2-3):141-153
In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, newspapers and magazines reported a dramatic decline in the enrollment of international students at US universities. Many of these articles blamed this decrease on the difficulties of getting a visa to the US and expressed concern about the potential impact on the US education system and economy. A look beyond the headlines, however, reveals that this decline cannot be attributed exclusively to the heightened security measures, as student numbers from some countries had already begun to decline before 2001 or continue to increase despite the changed regulations. Therefore, other factors also play a role in explaining the diverse migration patterns—most notably increasing competition from other host countries and changing economic and educational conditions in sending countries. Since international students often stay in their host countries after the completion of their degrees, the United States has a strong interest in continuing to attract international students as potential highly skilled immigrants. In order to achieve this, changes need to be implemented at the government level as well as at individual universities. 相似文献
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经济地理学新的思维范畴 总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8
全球经济一体化与信息时代的到来，给经济地理学带来了新的变化，加之实践的检验，经济地理学由过去那些“区位论”，“生产布局”相应地发展到空间理论和信息理论，重在分析机制因素，时空的变化也更加深刻了，本学科比较综合，具有广阔的区域空间，复杂的内涵 ，其学科的创新在于在时空耦合度上使经济和社会同人口，资源，生态环境之间保持和谐，高效优化有序的发展，逐步建立具有我国特色的资源节约型的社会经济消费体系。着重分析了经济地理学新的思维范畴与研究趋势，强调用科学方法来检验以前的结论，用统计方法（层面分析）来解释数量关系，用GIS的分析法来印证空间布局的合理性。 相似文献
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Takeyuki Tsuda 《GeoJournal》2011,76(6):641-659
Although research on immigrants in the US provides strong evidence that human capital is more important than social capital
in determining their wages, data from Hamamatsu, Japan indicates that social capital variables are the primary determinant
of immigrant earnings and human capital does not have a significant effect. The divergent impact of these two variables on
the earnings of immigrants are a result of the different economic and social conditions that immigrants encounter in Japan
compared to the United States. In a recent country of immigration like Japan where immigrant labor markets are relatively
undeveloped and foreign workers are confined to unskilled, marginal jobs, the human capital that they acquire over time is
not reflected in better jobs with higher earnings. In contrast, immigrants with access to social capital in the form of immigrant
networks, gender, and ethnicity are able to obtain jobs with higher wages in Japan. Because foreign workers are still temporary
target earners, they therefore rely heavily on their immigrant social networks to find better-paying jobs. In addition, Japan
is a country with significant gender and ethnic discrimination where employers strongly prefer male foreign workers and ethnically
similar nikkeijin (Japanese descendants born and raised abroad) and are willing to pay them significantly higher wages. Therefore,
depending on the local context of immigrant reception, the relative importance of human versus social capital in explaining
economic outcomes among immigrants can vary considerably. 相似文献
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Nancy Krieger has been one of the leading voices in documenting how social ‘axes of difference’, including race, ethnicity
and class make people vulnerable to poor health and limit their access to effective health care. We discuss the importance
of ‘locating’ diversity in health inequalities research. This includes critically dissecting racial and ethnic axes into more
nuanced social categories that incorporate differences based on immigration and other factors. It also involves considering
how diverse population groups vary in their perception and use of space for health-related activities and exposures. Examples
relating to immigrant populations’ health and access to health care are discussed. 相似文献
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《Geoforum》2016
This article provides a critical intervention into South Korea’s recent effort to promote its 1970s authoritarian-era rural modernization program, Saemaul Undong (New Village Movement), as the ‘iconic’ model of its international development assistance. To better understand how this movement has been represented, this article examines the policy narratives that have been produced by the Korean government’s Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP) and circulated through multiple development cooperation initiatives. These narratives portray Saemaul as the key to Korea’s developmental success: a mental revolution in values that inculcated the ‘can-do’ spirit in poor rural villagers and allowed them to escape poverty and stagnation. We argue that the emphasis of this narrative on the spiritual, voluntary, and value-oriented nature of the movement has been used to ‘render technical’ Korea’s development experience: i.e. to reduce it to a question of how development experts successfully cultivated the spirit of development in the Korean people and, by extension, how developing countries might do the same. We show how this narrative neglects the contested history and Cold War context of Saemaul, raising questions about the ‘brand’ of development assistance that has been built upon it. 相似文献
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Two issues arise in the long-term use of groundwater for thermal purposes: (1) the sustainability of an individual system; and (2) the effect of neighbouring systems on each other. Both of these effects are observed in an area of the Carbonate Rock Aquifer beneath Winnipeg in Manitoba, Canada, where groundwater has been exploited in thermal applications since 1965. In this area, there are four systems that utilize groundwater for cooling purposes that are closely spaced. The current temperatures observed in this area of the Carbonate Rock Aquifer and the results of the numerical modeling conducted in this study confirm that in each system, temperatures at the production well have risen as a result of breakthrough of injected water. The results of numerical modeling also indicate that interference effects are present in three of the four systems examined in this study. The influence of these systems on each other implies that these systems have a spacing that is smaller than the optimum spacing for such systems, and indicates that there is a limit to the density of development that can occur in a given aquifer.Contaminación termal y simulaciones post-desarrollo de sistemas geotermales de baja temperatura en Winnipeg, Canadá 相似文献
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《Geoforum》1988,19(4):433-445
Since a central concern of the geography of international migration is to consider how and why stocks and flows of migrants are variable from country to country, the study of skilled international migration must address policies of individual governments towards local and foreign skilled workers. These policies are most evident in immigration and emigration legislation, regulations and practice, but also, less directly but often of more fundamental significance, in policies in education, manpower planning and towards wages and salaries. In Sub-Saharan Africa there is a wide range of experience of recent skilled international migration, driven by direct and indirect policies pursued by individual governments since independence. At an intercontinental scale the deleterious effects of the global division of labour have not merely been passively accepted; within the continent new patterns of skilled-labour migration have been created by increasingly differentiated economic performance and political relationships. A case study of Kenya, a country of small current net immigration of skilled workers, is used to specify some of the processes that establish the relationships between immigration and emigration policies, and how these have been mediated by conditions for skilled workers. The concluding section of this paper sets the general experience and that of the Kenyan case study in the wider context of the role of the state as a factor in the geography of skilled international migration in the Third World. 相似文献
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In this paper we suggest how social network analysis, in contrast to looking at physical space, can be used to trace the social
and economic location of ethnic enclaves. Taking skilled workers immigrating to Canada from China as an example, we analyze
critically how split labor market theories describe materialist and structural factors that determine immigrants’ limited
options. Cultural theories play up immigrants’ interest in using their cultural resources to pull themselves ahead. We propose
that social network analysis as a single framework can bring together elements from materialist–structural and cultural theories.
The position of people and firms in these networks gives us a view of the kinds of jobs immigrants get and the businesses
they set up. To understand the ethnic economy, we discuss how networks of social and economic relations intersect each other.
By seeing the ethnic economy embedded in social networks, we can provide a more general explanation of the social space of
the ethnic economy in contrast to its physical location. We use three cases of ethnic entrepreneurs to illustrate how the
social and economic relations locate their businesses in the enclave and how they are also linked to the mainstream economy.
1This paper has benefitted from the critical clarifications of Chiu Luk and an anonymous reviewer, and the talented editing
of Allen Sutterfield. Lynn Xu Liping helped on an earlier draft. 相似文献