The Causes of Emigration from Singapore: How Much Is Still Political?

ABSTRACT:

Efforts to maintain a robust Singaporean economy have had to confront the serious challenge of substantial brain drain from the city-state. To address the negative effects of this problem, Singapore's ruling People's Action Party (PAP) has adopted a policy of increasing reliance on a foreign labor force. Meanwhile, the PAP appears to ignore the continued loss of human and intellectual capital. This study examines the main determinants of emigration from Singapore, specifically the political factors. The analysis is based on two primary data surveys that investigated what Singaporeans think about emigration: the 2006 Asian Barometer and the 2000–2002 Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. Contrary to some previous empirical literature, data from these surveys indicate that anti–PAP and pro-democratic ideas strongly influence the decision of native Singaporeans to leave the island state. These findings likewise suggest that democratization and an expansion of business and technical education would be more effective in preserving economic growth than a policy of importing labor in the face of popular xenophobia.     

Women's Organisations and the Politics of Gender in Cuba's Urban Insurrection (1952–1958)

This article sheds new light on Cuba's urban insurrection to oust Fulgencio Batista by focusing on two all‐women's anti‐Batista groups. It charts the origins and developments of the groups, explores their conceptions about the importance of women's political action and examines the impact that participating in the insurrection had on group members. The article complicates long‐standing assumptions about women's low levels of participation in the insurrection and the absence of demands for gender equity among those who did participate by noting that some older women militants had histories with the feminist movement of the 1930s, and that many younger women were forced by the circumstances of the insurrection to confront and challenge contemporary gender norms.     

论一国两制下的粤港澳人口迁移

从粤港澳人口流动及其管理的历史、现状及其发展趋势考虑,为了实现两制下三地人口合理的长期流动和共同发展,需要充分加强政府合作和政策对接,调整赴港澳定居人口的素质比例,深化深圳、珠海特区职能,同时,采取相应的户籍管理政策,保证新移民在内地继续生活、工作的环境。     

将迁徙自由重新定入宪法的思考

将迁徙自由重新写入宪法无论从公民基本权利的应然角度还是从社会主义市场经济的实然角度已势在必行。而澄清人们对迁徙自由认识上的几个误区则有利于促进这一问题的解决。     

Back to the Suitcase? Emigration during the Great Recession in Spain

The complex and multidimensional economic crisis experienced by Spain since 2008 significantly altered migration patterns in this country. Large scale unemployment contributed to slow down migrant inflows and accelerated out-migration flows in Spain. The media coverage of these processes created a distorted image of the patterns of migration affecting Spain during the crisis. Although the incipient economic recovery has not had a major impact in terms of modifying the migration dynamics triggered by the crisis, the media attention to this issue has substantially decreased without questioning its previous approach to the phenomenon. This article presents extensive data from a wide range of sources covering the period 2008–2016 to extract detailed information about the reality of crisis-era migration flows in Spain, and discusses the extent to which the media treatment of the issue has contributed to a partial and misleading view of the causes and consequences of the new Spanish emigration.     

浙南跨国移民潮的历史变迁

浙南跨国移民活动有着悠久的历史，其移民潮的兴衰变迁在中国华侨华人史中具有典型的代表意义。本文侧重于梳理历史上及当代浙南跨国移民潮的历史变迁，分析各阶段移民潮的成因及特点，在此基础上进一步分析当代浙南新移民潮的成因及其发展趋势，以期对中国华侨华人史研究、区域史研究以及当代侨务工作有所裨益。     

浅析贵州乡村民族旅游开发--郎德、天龙、中洞模式比较

以人为本,经济、社会与人的全面、协调与可持续发展是科学发展观的核心内容.本文通过天龙、郎德与中洞三种开发模式的分析阐明,天龙模式的股份公司制有利于乡村民族旅游开发的经济可持续性,郎德模式的社区共管有利于乡村民族旅游资源的保护,而中洞模式的需求主导型开发则在经济和人的全面发展方面均存在天然缺陷.并进一步指出,市场运作是乡村民族旅游开发获得经济可持续的有力保障,正式和非正式制度设计能促进社会和环境的可持续发展,生态移民则是游离于现代文明之外的乡村社区的必然选择.     

三峡库区农村老年移民状况调查

本文主要通过对三峡库区农村老年移民状况的调查做简单分析,以便引起人们对库区农村老年移民这一特殊群体的关注,为进一步研究库区农村老年移民问题提供借鉴.     

Gender differences and patterns of arrest across two generations of Cuban immigrants in the United States

The present study is based on a secondary-data analysis of a subsample of Cuban immigrants residing in the United States. While there are no significant differences in arrest rates between U.S. natives of Cuban descent and their foreign-born counterparts, life transitions have a differential impact on behavioral outcomes when young men and women of Cuban ancestry are compared. Job instability increases the risk of arrest for men, while being a single parent increases the risk of arrest for women. Growing up in a two-parent family and marriage have crime protective effects for men, while religiosity decreases the probability of arrest for women. In both subsamples, having a family member arrested was the strongest predictor of one’s arrest status in early adulthood.     

The New Chum girl: Upending Colonial Clichés in Lilian Turner's Emigration Novel

This essay analyses Lilian Turner's Three New Chum Girls (1910) to show how settler authors played with colonial clichés as part of a critical reaction to shifting imperialist and nationalist ideologies at the turn of the century. In particular, Turner redefines the derogatory colonial term “new chum”—commonly used to describe a recent emigrant in the settler colonies—to suggest what the welcome of new arrivals ought to be like. Yet if her deliberate reworking of stereotypes consequently contains an element of wish-fulfilment, the narrative also offers a startlingly stark portrayal of settler life. Emigration, Turner contends in the novel, is neither easy nor a solution to problems at home. Nor does settler Australia provide a convenient space for fortune-seeking sojourns. Turner thus dismantles two clusters of common clichés: emigration as a pat ending in fiction and settlers' return to the homeland as an equally expedient plot twist. The self-irony that runs through much of her intertextual rewriting of both metropolitan fiction and male-coded settler writing reveals how emigration and return were being imagined and written about differently in the settler colonies and how Turner was utilising the exposure of false expectations to promote her vision of a welcoming settler community.