The Northern region of Ghana has a disadvantaged position compared to other regions in Ghana. It is falling behind in economic growth, poverty alleviation and literacy levels. Its main economic sector is agriculture. ...

In the first half of the year 2009 a study about the correlation between ethnic residential segregation and socio-cultural integration of persons with a Turkish background in Berlin has been conducted. I had been provided ...

This dissertation utilises Bourdieu’s framework on forms of capitals and Young’s vision on equality and marginalisation to analyse a new form of compensational projects for refugees in the Netherlands, namely study-work ...

This research was set out to contribute to understanding of informal urbanism by researching this from the theory of complex adaptive assemblage in the context where it unfolds; people’s lived everyday. The focus has been ...

Mongolia is urbanizing exponentially. Domestic migrants now account for 31,6 percent of the adult population of Mongolia and nearly half of those have moved to Ulaanbaatar (World Bank, 2011). The population of Ulaanbaatar ...

The contemporary scenario where corporations adopt a wider outlook and take responsibility for their impact upon society engenders the need to assess this impact. Nevertheless, the research on the social and environmental ...

Processes of globalisation and transnationalism greatly transformed the way we study migration and migrants’ – or refugees’ – attachments to their homelands, as well as to the receiving country they have migrated, or ...

This thesis focuses on motivations that lead migrants to invest remittances in their countries of origin. Remittances are an important economic resource for developing countries, three times bigger than the Official ...

Historically, mining is one of the oldest documented kinds of human activity. Up until today people have benefited from the natural riches of the earth (Dubinski, 2013). However, mining the materials that is needed to ...