Developing a typology of diaspora tourists: return travel by Chinese immigrants in North America

This paper examines the role played by tourism in affecting cultural identity and place attachment among members of the North American Chinese diaspora who travel to China. Previous literature portrays diaspora tourists as homogeneous and suggests that home return travel engenders broadly similar impacts on the individual. This study reveals diasporic communities are quite diverse and complex. Five types of diaspora tourist are identified, each having distinct travel motives, experiences, migration backgrounds, cultural identities and place attachments. The consequences of diaspora tourism particularly in terms of place attachment and cultural identity are further discussed, as home return travel induces positive, neutral and negative reactions

Pesticide residues in soils

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Effects of place attachment on home return travel: a spatial perspective

Recent studies on place-mobility relationships suggest an increasing possibility that people can have multiple place attachments at varied spatial scales. Yet our understanding of how place attachment in different spatial scales affects mobility remains limited. This study investigates home return visits by Chinese diaspora tourists from North America who have made multiple trips to China. A total of 27 in-depth interviews with repeat home return travellers was conducted. Four different types of return movements were identified: local; dispersed; local & dispersed; and second-migration locale focused. A relationship was found between the participants’ sense of place, place identity and home return travel. The findings suggest that home return travel is more complex than previously thought. More focused sense of place and strong personal connection to ancestral homes may lead to more localized return, while a more generic sense of place (i.e. to ‘China’) and collective personal identity would result in a more dispersed travel pattern. Family migration history and strong attachment to family’s first migration destination also leads to focused return to the place. The study highlights the fact that place and place attachment are deeply personal and can evolve over time and space

Depression & Anxiety Representation on T.V. Shows and What Misperceptions They Create

The goal of this study was to research what is a good depiction of depression and anxiety on T.V.shows, as well as the effects it has on people who consume the depictions. Another purpose was to conclude whether my initial thoughts of if people could decipher a realistic depiction or not was supported

Alien Registration- Mckercher, M. Anne (Sanford, York County)

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Newer Concepts of Viruses and Viral Diseases

Over the past 15 or 20 years our ideas concerning viruses and virus diseases have undergone some rather fundamental changes. In the past the term virus disease immediately implied an infection manifested by distinctive clinical signs and, in the n10re extreme interpretation, one characterized by an acute, and frequently fatal course. However, in the light of recent knowledge concerning latency and subclinical infection and the growing evide11ce that the host-parasite relationship is not static but an ever-changing complex, the old definition of a virus disease is true only in part

Phosphorus containing organic compounds in Saskatchewan soils

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Travel as learned behaviour: Western migrants in Hong Kong and Macau

This paper examines travel by western migrants who have moved to the Hong Kong or Macau Special Administrative Regions of China. Previous research suggests travel patterns are a form of learned behaviour. New migrants initially exhibit patterns learned from their home countries, but over time their patterns change and reflect more those of residents of their new countries as they learn and adopt new behaviours. This situation was not observed among western migrants. Instead, they exhibited patterns that were internally consistent, regardless of the migrant's origin, but different from those of the local Chinese populace. The paper argues that western migrants, who generally live in a parallel expatriate bubble to those host community, have learned travel patterns from others who also live in that bubble

Effect of excessive soil moisture on the phytotoxicity of Triallate

Non-Peer ReviewedThe growth response of oat (Avena sativa L.) was used to detect triallate (S-(2,3,3-trichloroallyl) diisopropylthiocarbamate) residues in soil incubated at different moisture levels. When the soil was incubated at saturation moisture condition, triallate retained some activity for 30 days even at the lowest rate of application (0.15 kg/ha). Triallate degradation seemed rapid at field capacity moisture levels. Extreme soil moisture conditions favored triallate persistence