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670 Migration and Quality of Life. Part II

Saturday, August 4, 2012: 10:45 AM-12:15 PM
OB 23 (Faculty of Economics)

RC55 Social Indicators (host committee)
RC31 Sociology of Migration
Session Organizer:
Sergiu BALTATESCU, University of Oradea, Romania
Chair:
Sergiu BALTATESCU, University of Oradea, Romania
670.1
An indicator of the social and civic integration of migrants in Canada: The development of an immigrant integration index and some findings (Oral Presentation)
Lloyd WONG, University of Calgary, Canada

670.2
‘The U.S. is for working, Brazil is for living': Quality of life expectations for Brazilian migrants in the U.S. (Oral Presentation)
Tiffany JOSEPH, Harvard University, USA

670.3
Dignity, happiness and being able to live a ‘normal life' – An examination of post-accession Polish migrants' autobiographical transnational fields (Oral Presentation)
Derek MCGHEE, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

670.4
“To leave or not to leave” migration and quality of life: The case of female refugees in South Africa (Oral Presentation)
Ria SMIT, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

670.5
Migration and “well-being” - The experience of mixtec migrants in the United States and Mexico (Oral Presentation)
Magdalena ARIAS CUBAS, University of Sydney, Australia

670.6
The quality of life of African immigrant women in Canada: A study of small-scale women entrepreneurs in the province of Alberta (Distributed Paper)
Patience ELABOR-IDEMUDIA, University of Saskatchewan, Canada

670.7
“The emotional costs of transnational fatherhood: Dilemmas of fathering from afar” (Oral Presentation)
Erika BUSSE, University of Wisconsin River Falls, USA

670.8
“Desde niños hasta muertos” the transnational back and forth of emotions: A multi-sided ethnographic case study of Mexican transnational communities (Oral Presentation)
Veronica MONTES , UCSB, USA

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