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Effects of quinidine and lidocaine on action potential and membrane currents of frog ventricles.
No full textRetracing Their Steps: The Onward Migration of Italian-Bangladeshi Families to the UK and Their Return to Italy
No full textAccording to the Bangladeshi embassy in Italy, in 2015, there were approximately 6,000 Italian households of Bangladeshi origin (approximately 25,000 persons) who left the Italian peninsula and moved to London. (Della Puppa and King, 2019) The Italian National Institute of Statistics reports that, in 2016 alone, among the 29,000 Italians with a non-European country background who left Italy, over 2,500 were of Bangladeshi origin and that 92% of Italians of Asian origin moved to the UK (Istat 2016).
In the context of migration studies, a growing body of literature has dealt with this phenomenon, which can be defined in terms of “onward migration” (Ahrens et al., 2016; Della Puppa et al. 2021; Haandrikman and Hassanen, 2014; Kelly, 2013; King and Della Puppa, 2020; King and Newbold, 2007; King and Karamoschou, 2019; Mas Giralt, 2017; McIlwaine and Bunge, 2019; Ramos, 2018; Stewart, 2012; van Liempt, 2011), that is, for example, migrants originating from non-EU countries, who, once they have acquired EU citizenship in one EU country, move to another (Della Puppa et al. 2021; Della Puppa and Sredanovic, 2017).
This has been analysed for different nationalities of migrants in Europe (Ahrens et al., 2016; Della Puppa et al. 2021; Haandrikman and Hassanen, 2014; Kelly, 2013; King and Newbold, 2007; King and Karamoschou, 2019; Mas Giralt, 2017; McIlwaine and Bunge, 2019; Ramos, 2018; Stewart, 2012; van Liempt, 2011) and many contributions have been produced on the specific case of the intense onward migration of Italian-Bangladeshi to the UK (Della Puppa, 2021; Della Puppa and King, 2019; King and Della Puppa, 2020; Morad and Sacchetto, 2020). Thus, many dimensions of this specific “new migration” have been analysed: the reasons behind it, its modalities, the gap between expectations and real conditions of social and work integration in the British context (Ibidem), the role of emotions and the gender gap in expectations towards this new mobility (Della Puppa, 2019), and even the coping strategies for the Brexit scenario (Sredanovic and Della Puppa, 2020).
However, little or nothing has been written about those who decided to give up their new migration and life project in the UK, retraced their steps and returned permanently to Italy, although it is a growing phenomenon. Therefore, this contribution will focus precisely on the Italian-Bangladeshi families who, after having relocated from Italy to the UK, have returned to Italy. Specifically, it will investigate the reasons for return migration and its modalities.
The chapter is based on two multi-site qualitative pieces of research, carried out in both poles of onward migration. Empirical data consist of 76 in-depth interviews conducted between 2015 and 2019. Specifically, 35 Bangladeshis with Italian citizenship who were planning to move to the UK were interviewed in Vicenza, Venice, Bologna, and Padova. The remaining 41 interviews were conducted in London, Bradford, and Birmingham with Italian-Bangladeshis who had already relocated to the UK.
The respondents report their frustration because of the social downgrading and professional deskilling suffered during their relocation to the UK; the burden of job insecurity and the excessive flexibility of work shifts which resulted in antisocial hours, a reduction in the possibilities of socializing and time to spend with friends and family outside of work, and a general deterioration in the quality of life; the higher cost of living in the UK for a lower salary, compared to Italy; the dependence on welfare, which they had to rely on to face the high cost of living in the UK, and the consequent biopolitical and social control by the State; their disillusionment with the housing conditions they had access to in England compared to those left in Italy; their children’s dissatisfaction with the new national and life context
Lacerated minds, stolen dreams: Experiences of Bangladeshi women migrants in Saudi Arabia
Full text linkMigration movements from Bangladesh are primarily male-dominated and national policies, as well
as the cultural construction in Bangladeshi society are not deemed women-friendly. However,
between 1991 and 2021, a total of 921,732 Bangladeshi women have migrated to the so-called
‘Middle Eastern’ countries, especially in Saudi Arabia, to work as domestic workers (maids,
babysitters, nurses, caregivers, etc.) and support their families left behind. These female migrant
workers experience harsh working conditions and suffer violence and abuse, in Saudi Arabia,
by employers and job agencies, including physical and psychological torture, beating, and sexual
violence. Based on in-depth interviews with migrant female workers, who were employed in the
domestic sector in Saudi Arabia, this article concludes on their labour and social experiences in
the country of destination; highlighting the challenges they face there, the violation of human and
social rights they suffer, as well as the coping strategies they adopt
SHATTERED DREAMS AND THE RETURN HOME: BANGLADESHI MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL COUNTRIES DURING COVID-19|Razblinjene sanje in povratek domov: bangladeški delavci migranti v Svetu za sodelovanje v Zalivu med pandemijo bolezni Covid-19
No full textBangladesh is one of the main labour source countries for the Gulf Cooperation Council. Since the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic, a large number of Bangladeshis have returned home while many others are about to be repatriated. Drawing on qualitative research conducted with Bangladeshi migrants who returned from the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, this article analyses the experiences of Bangladeshi labourers overseas during the pandemic in order to develop a better understanding of why these migrants returned to their home country. The main research questions here are twofold: How did COVID-19 affect the normal socio-economic lives of Bangladeshi workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council and to what extent is their return migration related to the COVID-19 Pandemic
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
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