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__Abstract__ Professor of Migration and Integration Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam Valedictory lecture delivered on September 27, 201

Individualized Landing Flare Training Using Both Flight Performance and Psychophysiological Measures

In this paper, we propose the analysis of various measures of eye and heart-rate data in addition to the flown trajectories and landing result, to get a better understanding of a trainee’s learning phase and optimize the time spent on and exercises used for the flare training. A problem often experienced is that the trainee knows what to do and tries to a level that (s)he even believes to be doing just that, without actually doing it. Objective, visual feedback can be used to provide the trainee with tangible points to focus on, instead of the often heard comments like “a little too early” or “a little stronger”. We present the outcomes of a series of experiments we carried out with students as well as experienced pilots in our fixed base flight simulator

The role of migration in enhancing resilience to climate change:How non-financial remittances through domestic migration corridors make the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta more resilient

Migration out of areas affected by climate change has long been considered a common adaptation strategy. More recent studies, however, claim that migration should not exclusively be seen as an escape from areas under threat, but that it can also be understood as a powerful strategy towards change and innovation in those areas. This article examines the relationship between environmental stress and migration in the Vietnamese Mekong River Delta, one of the global hotspots of climate change. Based on an extensive survey among households and interviews with key actors, our study shows that indeed environmental stress is an important factor - though not the only one - behind the development of migration corridors, particularly to Ho Chi Minh City. Low-income households are more likely to have experienced migration than high-income ones. Low-income households also account for the largest group of recipients of financial remittances, which are mainly spent on basic household needs and health care, and not on longer-term investments. Our research also shows the important role of non-financial remittances in supporting climate resilience among vulnerable (low-income) households. Actually, in the Mekong Delta case, the transfer of knowledge and skills proves to be more prominent than the sending of cash. Such skills are brought along by returning migrants, and then passed on to others, leading to a diversification of local economies so that these become more resilient to environmental degradation.</p

Terug naar Curaçao?

In Nederland volgen thans zo’n 3.500 tot 4.000 studenten met een Antilliaanse achtergrond hoger onderwijs. Velen van hen zijn in Nederland geboren en/of getogen, maar ieder jaar ko-men ook een 250 tot 300 studenten rechtstreeks van Curaçao of de andere eilanden in het Ca-ribische deel van het Koninkrijk met de ‘bursalenvlucht’ naar Nederland om daar te studeren. Nederland biedt nu eenmaal veel meer keuze in beroeps- en universitaire opleidingen dan Curaçao en de overige Antilliaanse eilanden. Bovendien hebben de betrokkenen in Nederland recht op studiefinanciering

Construction of an Immigrant Integration Composite Indicator through the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Model K-Means

Integration is a multidimensional process, which can take place in different ways and at different times in relation to each of the single economic, social, cultural, and political dimensions. Hence, examining every single dimension is important as well as building composite indexes simultaneously inclusive of all dimensions in order to obtain a complete description of a complex phenomenon and to convey a coherent set of information. In this paper, we aim at building an immigrant integration composite indicator (IICI), able to measure the different aspects related to integration such as employment, education, social inclusion, active citizenship, and on the basis of which to simultaneously classify territorial areas such as European regions. For this application, the data collected in 274 European regions from the European Social Survey (ESS), Round 8, on immigration have been used