11 research outputs found
Welfare Considerations in Migration Decision-Making through a Life-Course Approach: A Qualitative Study of Spanish EU-Movers
The welfare aspects of intra-European migration remain an important and controversial topic of academic and political debates. These discussions touch upon the classical âwelfare magnetâ or âwelfare tourismâ hypothesis. Transcending the politicised concept of âbenefit tourismâ, our paper examines how welfare-state considerations in relation to migration decisions vary across the life course. Relying on micro-level qualitative research focusing on Spanish intra-EU movers, the paper probes deeper into how individuals perceive welfare systems, analysing the subtle and nuanced meanings of different aspects of the welfare for their migration decisions. We focus more specifically on welfare provisions in terms of health care, compulsory education, child support and other care responsibilities, unemployment and pensions and retirement. Our research indicates that, in studies on the migrationâwelfare nexus, it is necessary to move beyond the current narrow focus on the welfare magnet hypothesis and to examine how diverse welfare arrangements continuously and dynamically set the context for migration decisions at various stages of an individualâs life. The results of our research show how features of the Spanish welfare system, in comparison to those of potential destination countries, might act as both a trigger and/or a barrier to migration. As such, we get a âthicker descriptionâ of the role which welfare might play in shaping individualsâ eventual migratory aspirations and decisions
Welfare considerations in migration decision-making through a life-course approach: A qualitative study of Spanish EU-movers
The welfare aspects of intra-European migration remain an important and controversial topic of academic and political debates. These discussions touch upon the classical âwelfare magnetâ or âwelfare tourismâ hypothesis. Transcending the politicised concept of âbenefit tourismâ, our paper examines how welfare-state considerations in relation to migration decisions vary across the life course. Relying on micro-level qualitative research focusing on Spanish intra-EU movers, the paper probes deeper into how individuals perceive welfare systems, analysing the subtle and nuanced meanings of different aspects of the welfare for their migration decisions. We focus more specifically on welfare provisions in terms of health care, compulsory education, child support and other care responsibilities, unemployment and pensions and retirement. Our research indicates that, in studies on the migrationâwelfare nexus, it is necessary to move beyond the current narrow focus on the welfare magnet hypothesis and to examine how diverse welfare arrangements continuously and dynamically set the context for migration decisions at various stages of an individualâs life. The results of our research show how features of the Spanish welfare system, in comparison to those of potential destination countries, might act as both a trigger and/or a barrier to migration. As such, we get a âthicker descriptionâ of the role which welfare might play in shaping individualsâ eventual migratory aspirations and decisions
The impact of distance learning on the social practices of schoolchildren during the COVID-19 pandemic: reconstructing values of migrant children in Poland
Post-mortem findings in southern right whales Eubalaena australis at PenĂnsula ValdĂ©s, Argentina, 2003-2012
Unexplained recurring high mortality of southern right whale Eubalaena australis calves at PenĂnsula ValdĂ©s, Argentina
Complexation of Biologically Active Aromatic Compounds with DNA in the Presence of Theophylline
1H NMR measurements (500Â MHz) have been used to determine the equilibrium hetero-association constants of theophylline (THP) with various biologically active aromatic compounds (daunomycin, novantrone, ethidium bromide, proflavine, norfloxacin) and the complexation constants of THP with both single- and double-stranded oligonucleotides in solution. The results provide a quantitative estimation of the effect of THP on the binding of aromatic ligands with DNA, and a determination of the fraction of aromatic ligand removed from DNA on addition of THP