IOM/PAHO to address at the health of mobile populations

2004 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Populations

COVID-19 Certificates as a New Form of Mobility Control

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Jouni HÄKLI
Keyword(s):  
Air Traffic ◽  
Mobility Control ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Mobile Populations ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
Travel Restrictions ◽  
Place Of Origin ◽  
New Form ◽  
International Border

The global volume of travel has grown steadily for decades and hence the border closures and travel restrictions in response to COVID-19 have created an unforeseen impact on the number of international border crossings. In air traffic alone the data show a striking 75.6% decrease in the number of scheduled international passengers. We might hasten to think that the strict travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 crisis have in principle treated mobile populations equally – for once we have all been banned from travelling. We could even consider the recent initiatives to introduce “vaccination certificates” as a fair and democratic way to reintroduce safe international travelling. In reality, the idea of a COVID-19 certificate is but a new layer in the broader landscape of highly uneven global mobility where travellers’ citizenship and place of origin truly matter. This article discusses some of the major inequalities embedded in the global mobility regime and argues that the idea of the COVID-19 certificate as an equaliser remains completely disconnected from these underlying realities. To conclude, the article discusses problems related to uneven access to digital travel documents, such as the proposed COVID-19 certificate.

scholarly journals A multilevel investigation supported by multivariate analysis for tomato product formulation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatma Boukid ◽  
Elena Curti ◽  
Agoura Diantom ◽  
Eleonora Carini ◽  
Elena Vittadini
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Treatment ◽  
Color Change ◽  
Water Molecules ◽  
Thermal Treatments ◽  
Industrial Processing ◽  
H Nmr ◽  
Mobile Populations ◽  
Product Formulation ◽  
Tomato Product ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIndustrial processing of tomato includes its cutting and mincing, thermal treatments, and the addition of ingredients, which might induce changes in physicochemical properties of the final products. In this frame, the impact of texturing/thickening [xanthan gum (X) or potato fiber (F)] on the macroscopic, mesoscopic and molecular properties of tomato double concentrate (TDC) was investigated to determine if F can efficiently substitute X, in association with small solutes (sugar and salt) and thermal treatment (cold and hot). At a macroscopic level, multivariate statistics (MANOVA) underlined that color change (ΔE) was increased by X and F addition contrary to heating and the addition of salt and sugar. MANOVA revealed that texture was greatly enhanced through the use of F over X. 1H NMR molecular mobility changes were more controlled by texturing agents (F and X) than thermal treatment and small solutes. Particularly F increased the more rigid population indicating stronger interaction with water molecules resulting in shear-thinning flow. However, adding X contributed into the increase of the dynamic and mobile populations. Therefore, F can be a valid “clean label” substitute of X in modulating tomato products properties.

scholarly journals Turkey’s governance of irregular migration at European Union borders: Emerging geographies of care and control

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 849-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beste İşleyen
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Border Crossing ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Unsuccessful Attempt ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Critical Studies ◽  
Mobile Populations ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
And Control

Combining insights from critical studies on humanitarianism and scholarly work emphasising everyday practices, this study examines Turkish policing of human mobility at European Union borders in two border cities: Edirne and İzmir. Through a focus on the central understandings, justifications and operational responses by Turkish border officials, the article highlights the intertwinement of care and control as inherent to humanitarianism in the daily governance of mobile populations at Turkey’s western borders. In so doing, the findings draw attention to discursive articulations and practices, while pointing to their moral, emotional and cultural elements. The article advances the literature by underlining the centrality of geography in impacting on the logics and practices of governing mobility within the territory of the nation state. The findings also underscore variations in border practices and the embodiment of humanitarianism between the two border cities under investigation as well as across the country. In addition, the article adds to debates on the emerging spaces of humanitarianism by bringing into focus the operation of humanitarian border policing in Turkey before departure and/or after the unsuccessful attempt of border crossing.

‘Smelling’ diasporic: bargaining interactions and the problem of politeness

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Family Member ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Not Given ◽  
Linguistic Practice ◽  
Communicative Skills ◽  
Mobile Populations ◽  
Religious Speech ◽  
The Right ◽  
Tension Analysis

Abstract While post-migrant generation Moroccans from Europe often are able to converse competently enough in Moroccan languages to bargain in shops during visits to Morocco, many report that they are not given the ‘local’, ‘right’ prices because they are ‘smelled’ as outsiders. During fieldwork following these diasporic visitors in Morocco, several participants strategically shopped for goods with a ‘local’ friend or family member who might negotiate on their behalf for the ‘right’ price. This strategy was seen as a way to circumvent or ameliorate the ways the diasporic client might be negatively categorized as an outsider, especially in terms of his or her language use. Yet, examining these events in recorded detail indicates that diasporic clients are often bargaining for themselves as competent speakers, but are sometimes not able to skillfully bargain politely. In these moments, proxy bargainers intervene when debate and tension increases during bargaining and diasporic visitors do not adequately perform politeness – specifically by deploying religious speech – to soften and minimize tension. Analysis of these interactions indicates how diasporic branching of linguistic practice contrasts communicative skills of mobile populations with subtle, place-based competences, and how the mismatch between these can negatively mark diasporic visitors.

Refugees or Migrants

2017 ◽  
pp. 21-47
Author(s):  
Anastasia Pitsou
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Member States ◽  
Mobile Populations ◽  
The Stability

As refugees / immigrants are forced to cross the border, the member states of European Union are trying to manage mobile populations or the new labor force in various ways. Under the over-accumulation crisis, what kind of policies are drawn; or are denizens be punished as they question the stability of borders, state sovereign and supranational policies? When social contradictions are intense, in bourgeois democracy human rights are shrunk and the process of fascistisation is activated. Ultimately, maybe it is noticeable to understand that refugees /migrants become mutatis mutandis an allegorical figure of Muselmanner.

Bifacial Cores and Flake Production Efficiency: An Experimental Test of Technological Assumptions

2007 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 334-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary M. Prasciunas
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Experimental Test ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Cutting Edge ◽  
Cutting Efficiency ◽  
Mobile Populations ◽  
Core Technology ◽  
Size Threshold

Many researchers assume that the greater flake tool production efficiency of bifacial versus amorphous cores helps explain the prevalence of bifacial core technology among mobile populations. This paper describes experiments that test whether bifacial cores are more efficient carriers of flake cutting edge than amorphous cores. The first experiment established a size threshold of flake cutting efficiency. The second experiment reduced ten bifacial and ten amorphous cores to exhaustion and calculated the amount of usable and total flake edge produced by each core type, excluding flakes beneath the size threshold. Results indicate that bifacial cores are not significantly more efficient producers of usable or total flake edge than amorphous cores. Bifaces do produce flakes with significantly higher edge-to-weight ratios than do amorphous cores, but more of the weight of bifacial cores is lost to waste during the flake production process. Flake production efficiency therefore does not explain the use of bifacial cores among mobile populations.

The social and educational effects of student mobility: implications for teachers and guidance officers

1997 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
pp. 45-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry A. Fields
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Work Place ◽  
Western World ◽  
Educational Impact ◽  
Demographic Feature ◽  
Mobile Populations ◽  
The Social

Australia has one of the most highly mobile populations in the Western World and yet there is very little awareness or appreciation of the social and educational impact of the phenomenon in this country. School personnel are particularly culpable in this regard, maintaining an image of schooling as a system focussed on relatively stable class groups. The available data, however, paint a very different picture, and one which compels not only the attention of educators but a variety of individuals from the helping professions and welfare agencies.This article explores the nature of student mobility and its effects on children. Particular attention is given to support programs for mobile children with the focus on policy development, remedial instruction, and counselling.The dynamic nature of Australia's population is a significant demographic feature of Australian life and yet it is not widely recognized or appreciated by the community at large or by the country's policy makers. As with other highly mobile populations in developed countries around the world, there exists an illusion of stability in both the work-place and in domestic life (Settles, 1993).

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