When the Light of the Home is Abroad: Unskilled Female Migration and the Filipino Family     

Maruja Milagros B. Asis  Shirlena Huang  Brenda S.A. Yeoh 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2004,25(2):198-215

The migration of women engaged in transnational domestic work reveals how the uneven impacts of globalisation have intruded into the micro‐world of families and households. In this age of globalisation and migration, family membership has become multisited or transnational, with members dispersed in space. The migration of workers and the separation this entails has raised challenges to notions and ideals of “being family”. Unlike other workers on the move, the migration of domestic workers has some distinctive characteristics. It can be framed in terms of women moving between families and households; workers whose departure from their family of origin and insertion into their family of employment reconstitute the structure and content of family relationships in both material and imagined ways. Drawing on in‐depth interviews conducted in the Philippines and Singapore, we explore how migrant women and their family members define and negotiate family ideals, gender identities and family relationships, given the family's transnational configuration. Our findings provide some support to the notion that individual members in transnational families resort to “relativising” in fashioning responses to their situation.  相似文献   

Influence of groundwater level change on vegetation coverage and their spatial variation in arid regions   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

SULTAN Danyar  SONG Yudong  MARINA Jumakeld 《地理学报》2004,14(3):323-329

Sampling and testing are conducted on groundwater depth and vegetation coverage in the 670 km2 of the Sangong River Basin and semi-variance function analysis is made afterwards on the data obtained by the application of geo-statistics. Results showed that the variance curve of the groundwater depth and vegetation coverage displays an exponential model. Analysis of sampling data in 2003 indicates that the groundwater depth and vegetation coverage change similarly in space in this area. The Sangong River Basin is composed of upper oasis, middle ecotone and lower sand dune. In oasis and ecotone, influenced by irrigation of the adjoining oasis, groundwater level has been raised and soil water content also increased compared with sand dune nearby, vegetation developed well. But in the lower reaches of the Sangong River Basin, because of descending of groundwater level, soil water content decreased and vegetation degenerated. From oasis to abandoned land and desert grassland, vegetation coverage and groundwater level changed greatly with significant difference respectively in spatial variation. Distinct but similar spatial variability exists among the groundwater depth and vegetation coverage in the study area, namely, the vegetation coverage decreasing (increasing) as the groundwater depth increases (decreases). This illustrates the great dependence of vegetation coverage on groundwater depth in arid regions and further implies that among the great number of factors affecting vegetation coverage in arid regions, groundwater depth turns out to be the most determinant one.  相似文献   

Anisotropic migration weight for amplitude-preserving migration and sensitivity analysis     

D. Kiyashchenko  B. Kashtan  R.-E. Plessix 《Geophysical Journal International》2004,157(2):753-763

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Imaging the Dead Sea Transform with scattered seismic waves   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

N. Maercklin  C. Haberland  T. Ryberg  M. Weber  Y. Bartov  the DESERT Group 《Geophysical Journal International》2004,158(1):179-186

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Curie-point depth from spectral analysis of magnetic data in central-southern Europe   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

P. Chiozzi  Y. Okubo  M. Verdoya 《Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors》2005,152(4):267-276

The basal depth of the outer layer with internal magnetic sources was calculated from magnetic data available within a roughly 500 km wide and 1200 km long area, running from central Germany to southern Italy. The dataset, deriving from different aeromagnetic surveys, is reduced to the reference altitude of 3000 m a.s.l. and a reference year of 1980.0. The adopted method, which transforms the spatial data into the frequency domain, provides a relationship between the two-dimensional spectrum of the magnetic anomalies and the top and centroid depths of the magnetic sources. The magnetic layer bottom depth (MLBD) thus obtained is 29-33 km deep in the stable areas (central Europe Variscan units, Corsica-Sardinia Variscan block) and corresponds to the Moho, having an average temperature of 560 °C. From the Alps to the Apennines, MLBD ranges between 22 and 28 km and is clearly shallower than the Moho. In these units, the wide variation of MLBD appears to be compatible with the presence of shallow magnetised bodies, consisting of lower crustal rocks (Ivrea-Verbano zone), ophiolitic units (Penninic zone and Voltri Massif) and intrasedimentary basic volcanic bodies (Po Basin). An average value of 25 km can be attributed to MLBD, which corresponds to a temperature of 550 °C. In the peri-Tyrrhenian zone and the Ligurian Sea, MLBD is below the Moho, which ranges from 17 to 20 km depth, and it has a temperature matching approximately to the Curie temperature of magnetite (580 °C).  相似文献   

Hydrogeochemistry of karst underground waters at shallow depth in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province     

董志芬  朱立军吴攀沈峥  封志勇 《中国地球化学学报》2005,24(2):194-200

The aim of this study is to shed light on the hydrogeochemical characteristics of karst underground waters at shallow depth in Guiyang City, Guizhou Province with an emphasis on the geochemistry of major elements. Guiyang City bears abundant underground waters and it is also an important representative of the karst areas throughout the world. Ca^2 and Mg^2 are the dominant cations, accounting for 81% -99.7% of the total, and HCO3^- and SO4^2- are the dominant anions. Weathering of limestones and dolostones is the most important factor controlling the hydrogeochemistry of underground waters, and weathering of sulfate and evaporite rocks is less important. Moreover, the precipitation and human activities also have a definite influence on the hydrogeoehemistry of underground waters in the region studied.  相似文献   

Curie-point depth map of Turkey   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

&#;brahim Ayd&#;n  Halil &#;. Karat  Ali Koçak 《Geophysical Journal International》2005,162(2):633-640

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Recovering acoustic reflectivity using Dirichlet-to-Neumann maps and left- and right-operating adjoint propagators   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

M. W. P. Dillen  J. T. Fokkema  C. P. A. Wapenaar 《Geophysical Journal International》2005,163(1):106-125

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Inverse-ray imaging from triangulation of zero-offset reflection times     

Tan K. Wang 《Geophysical Journal International》2005,163(2):599-610

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The dynamic characteristics and migration of a pyramid dune   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6  

TAO WANG  WEIMIN ZHANG  ZHIBAO DONG  JIANJUN QU  ZHEFAN JING  WANFU WANG  JIANMIN FENG 《Sedimentology》2005,52(3):429-440

The results of wind tunnel experiments and field observations show that when the intersection angle between airflow direction and dune crest (ridge) line is > 30°, a reverse vortex is formed. Because of the convergence of sand streams from the windward and lee slopes at the crest, sand accumulates in the crestal region, causing vertical growth. Nevertheless, studies also show that the common asymmetry of the two slopes of a dune may significantly influence the evolution of arms of a pyramid dune. The migration rates of pyramid dunes are mediated by the interplay of their arms moving transversely and the vertical growth in response to the variations in wind regimes. Comparing the effects of airflow transverse to a given arm with longitudinal airflow, it is indicated that the transverse airflow is more significant in controlling the arms of pyramid dunes. The whole body of the studied pyramid dune, particularly the upper quarter section, migrated SE direction during the monitoring period. The patterns of wind erosion and deposition change alternately with seasonal variations in wind directions. The W, NE and SE sides undergo constant erosion, deposition and both erosion and deposition, respectively. The results of long-term monitoring of a pyramid dune show that southerly winds, resulting from a local circulation, markedly affect the transverse migration of the whole pyramid dune.  相似文献