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Hong, Moon Suk – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2021
This ethnographic research examines the sociocultural and educational experiences of migrant youth living in liminality in urban Yangon. Their liminality exemplifies the interplay between poverty, social-choice of dropping out of school and the militant culture of schooling. The research argues that narratives provide comprehensive understandings…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Migrant Workers, Migration Patterns, Urban Youth
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Chen, Shuang; Adams, Jennifer; Qu, Zhiyong; Wang, Xiaohua; Chen, Li – International Review of Education, 2013
In the context of China's increasing rural-urban migration, few studies have investigated how parental migration affects children's experience in school. The high cost of schooling, taken together with the institutional barriers in destination cities, have compelled many rural parents in China to migrate without their children, leaving them in the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Rural Areas, Migrant Workers, Foreign Countries
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Ferro, Anna – Journal of Education and Work, 2006
Among the aspects discussed within the globalisation process, the international mobility of professional workers assumes considerable relevance. This paper focuses on migratory aspirations among knowledge workers within the context of economic globalisation and market restructuring in Romania. Due to a lack of literature dealing with these issues,…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities, Information Technology
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Gabaccia, Donna – OAH Magazine of History, 1999
Discusses the migration of Italians who left Italy to search for work and migrated in multiple directions around the world forming a global network of social connections to their homeland. Explains that Italian men migrated much more often than women to work in construction, mining, industry, and on plantations or do other forms of agriculture.…
Descriptors: Employment, Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Italian Americans
Mutwarasibo, Fidele – Adult Learner: The Irish Journal of Adult and Community Education, 2005
Within the course of a decade Ireland has emerged from being a country of emigration to a country of immigration. Since the mid-1990s, Ireland has undergone rapid economic expansion with the recent economic growth resulting in approximately 252,000 migrants entering Ireland over the last 6 years, according to the Irish Times (2003). While a large…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Migrant Workers, Foreign Countries, Immigration
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Green, Paul E. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2003
Partly because of mobility, but mostly because of poverty, migrant children are systematically denied their right to equal educational opportunity. This review covers migrant families' immigration and illegal immigration, migration patterns, poor living conditions, impact of migrant workers on the U.S. economy, children as migrant workers, impact…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Access to Education, Child Labor, Economic Impact
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Kanaiaupuni, Shawn Malia – Social Forces, 2000
Analysis of data on approximately 14,000 individuals in 43 Mexican villages examined how gender relations and expectations differentiate male and female patterns of Mexico-to-U.S. migration. Education and migration were related positively for women but negatively for men. Age, marital status, and social networks also had differential effects on…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Family Influence, Females, Human Capital
Tomasi, Lydio E., Ed. – Migration World Magazine, 1995
Presents data on international migration and its effects in and between various countries in North America, Europe, and Africa. Discussions include refugee, immigrant, and migrant worker flows; the legal, political, and social problems surrounding immigrants; alien terrorism and law enforcement problems; and migrant effects on education, social…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Foreign Countries, Immigrants, International Relations