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Paper Government: How the State Governs Migration Through Extending Rights: A Study of Colombian Immigration Policy, 2016–2024
No full textThe question of how states interact with irregular or undocumented immigrants is a key issue of contemporary politics and the social sciences. A large proportion of studies focuses on traditional destination states which engage irregular immigrants through coercion and exclusionary measures. This study examines how states govern irregular migration through the extension of rights rather than coercion and exclusion and how these rights extension affect immigrant incorporation, their lives, and that of their families. This dissertation is a case study of what might be considered an “anomalous case” (Seawright and Gerring 2008) or a case of “positive deviance” (Cammett 2022). As Colombia rapidly became an immigrant destination country due to mass Venezuelan displacement, some of its highest officials decided to implement a 10-year work and residence permit with a pathway to citizenship, documenting 2.4 out of 2.8 million foreign-born in its territory. Additionally, Colombia maintained an exceptionally low level of deportation and border enforcement.
As Colombia implemented one of the world’s most expansive regularization programs, granting work and residence permits to Venezuelans and providing a pathway to citizenship, it maintained exceptionally low levels of deportation and border enforcement. This response defies dominant theories of migration governance, including the presumed trade-off between rights and numbers and expectations that liberalization is driven by business interests, electoral incentives, or left-wing governments, among others. Conceptually, the study advances the notion of the documenting state, arguing that large-scale regularization can function as a strategy of state-building by using rights-based governance to increase bureaucratic legibility and state capacity. Empirically, it combines elite interviews with policymakers, legal and documentary analysis, public records requests, ethnographic fieldwork, and in-depth interviews with Venezuelan migrants of varying legal status. This mixed qualitative approach bridges top-down analyses of policy design with bottom-up accounts of immigrant incorporation.
Chapter one introduces the concept of the documenting state, arguing that large-scale regularization of undocumented immigrants can function as a strategy of state-building. Through analysis of Colombia’s 2021 Estatuto, the chapter shows how documentation reshapes the relationship between immigrants and the state. Chapter two develops the concepts of paperwork gaps and documentation bridges to explain how the Colombian state adapted legal and bureaucratic requirements to expand access to legal status among Venezuelan migrants. It demonstrates that regularization was not a one-off policy but an ongoing state project. The chapter also illustrates how these concepts travel beyond Colombia. Chapter three examines the effects of documentation on immigrant incorporation by comparing documented and undocumented Venezuelans and centering the immigrant family as the unit of analysis. It finds that legal status constitutes a critical life-course juncture, improving access to employment, healthcare, and empowerment—even in Colombia’s low-deportation, high-informality context. Chapter four analyzes the interaction between documentation and informality in the labor market and in housing, arguing that informality can facilitate immigrant incorporation when migrants retain the option to exit it through legal status. Drawing on ethnographic evidence and Hirschman’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty framework, the chapter distinguishes between compulsory and non-compulsory informality and shows how strategic non-enforcement operates as a form of migration governance. Chapter five studies the mass denationalization of 43,000 Venezuelan-Colombians as a counterfactual case, demonstrating that Colombia possessed the capacity for coercive exclusion but chose not to deploy it broadly. Through comparative analysis, including cases such as the UK’s Windrush scandal, the chapter shows how citizenship itself can be undermined through bureaucratic immigration enforcement, highlighting the fragility of even the most stable legal rights
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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