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Comment se construit l’identité des migrants à Singapour?
Get PDFRésumé :Malgré sa petite taille, Singapour est une ville reconnue pour sa grande population migratoire, en majorité des travailleurs migrants qui font fonctionner la petite cité État. Cette situation s’explique par un modèle migratoire qui est à la fois ouvert et limité au sein duquel chaque migrant occupe un rôle très précis en fonction de ses compétences. Le système permet l’entrée libre des travailleurs les plus désirables aux yeux du gouvernement et limite le nombre ainsi que l’influence des travailleurs les moins désirables (mais les plus nécessaires). La question devient alors : quel est l’impact d’une politique ou d’un modèle migratoire sur les perceptions de ces migrants? Cet article vise à comprendre l’impact que le modèle migratoire peut avoir sur la construction de l’identité d’un migrant dans le contexte singapourien.Abstract:Despite its small size, Singapore is recognized for its large migrant population, mostly composed of migrant workers who keep the small city-state running. This is due to a migration model that is both open and limited, in which each migrant plays a very precise role depending on their skills. The system allows free entry to the workers most desirable to the government and limits the number and influence of the least desirable (but most needed) workers. The question then becomes: what is the impact of a policy or migration model on the perceptions of these migrants? This articles aims to understand the impact that this migration model can have on the construction of a migrant’s identity
The De-Territorialisation of Australia’s Asylum Practices
Get PDFAbstract:In border theory, borders can be conceived as being two things concurrently: the “discursive landscapes of social power” and “the technical landscapes of control”.1 Borders are “powerful machineries of the state”, as much physical structures on maps as the policy and imagined lines one encounters in daily practice. Asylum seekers encounter both incarnations of the border, in traditional locales and in more fluid spaces. Australia, as a signatory to the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees and the accompanying protocol, has certain obligations under international law to provide asylum to those arriving upon its territory seeking such protection. However, since 2001 there have been various incarnations of policies aimed at deterritorialising and strengthening the border, and in turn the technical landscapes of control. These measures have included extending Australia’s reach through regional cooperation frameworks allowing for the detention, processing, or settlement of asylum seekers and refugees in neighbouring countries. These agreements have come in various forms and under various names as per each successive government, but each contain essential elements of de-territorialisation of the nation’s borders and asylum practices. More importantly, each have served as a product of, and a catalyst for, stronger and more prominent discursive landscapes of power. Australia’s decisions to re-instate offshore processing in 2012, and to extend this to off-shore settlement in 2013, were taken in spite of significant costs and legal opposition to these practices, and as a result of heightened political rhetoric and political motive. The de-territorialisation of asylum practices has strengthened the “discursive landscapes of power”2 faced by asylum seekers in and around Australia, through increased visibility, criminalisation of asylum seeking, and burden shifting, endangering asylum seekers’ rights.Résumé :Dans la théorie des frontières, les frontières peuvent être conçues comme étant deux choses en même temps: des «paysages discursives du pouvoir social» et «des paysages techniques de contrôle». Les frontières sont tout autant des «mécanismes puissants de l'État», des structures physiques présentes sur les cartes, des politiques et des lignes imaginaires qu’on subit dans la vie quotidienne. Les demandeurs d'asile vivent l’expérience des deux incarnations de la frontière, dans des endroits traditionnels et dans des espaces plus fluides. L’Australie, en tant que signataire de la Convention relative au statut des réfugiés de 1951 et de son protocole d'accompagnement, a certaines obligations en vertu du droit international afin d'accorder l'asile à ceux et celles qui arrivent sur son territoire et qui demandent une telle protection. Cependant, depuis 2001, il y a diverses politiques visant à deterritorialiser et à renforcer la frontière, tout en changeant son paysage technique de contrôle. Ces mesures incluent des cadres de coopération régionale permettant la détention, le traitement ou le règlement des demandeurs d'asile et des réfugiés par l’Australie dans des pays voisins. Ces accords prennent diverses formes et différents noms, mais ils ont tous en commun certains éléments essentiels de la déterritorialisation des frontières et des pratiques d'asile. De plus, ces accords représentent et renforcent des paysages discursifs de la frontière de plus en plus forts. La décision par l'Australie de rétablir le traitement hors-frontière en 2012, et de l'étendre a été prise en dépit de l'opposition légale et des coûts associés, mais en raison d’une rhétorique et des motivations politiques importantes. La déterritorialisation des pratiques d'asile du cas australien a renforcé les «paysages discursives du pouvoir» rencontrés par les demandeurs d'asile, notamment via une visibilité accrue de la frontière, une criminalisation de la demande d'asile et des délais administratifs mettant en danger les droits des demandeurs d'asile
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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