Eric Renshaw
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199575312
- eISBN:
- 9780191728778
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199575312.003.0002
- Subject:
- Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Biology
This chapter explains the basic principles which underlie the concept of stochastic population dynamics by considering some simple types of population structure. Suppose that individuals develop ...
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This chapter explains the basic principles which underlie the concept of stochastic population dynamics by considering some simple types of population structure. Suppose that individuals develop completely independently from each other, and may either enter a population (i.e., immigrate) randomly at rate α 〉 0, depart (i.e., emigrate) at rate β, reproduce at rate λ or die at rate μ. Then combining these different types of behaviour generates a variety of interesting processes, each with its own characteristics. The chapter examines six specific combinations in roughly increasing order of mathematical complexity. It covers simple Poisson process, pure death process, pure birth process, simple birth-death process, simple immigration-birth-death process, simple immigration-emigration process. Batch events are also considered.Less
This chapter explains the basic principles which underlie the concept of stochastic population dynamics by considering some simple types of population structure. Suppose that individuals develop completely independently from each other, and may either enter a population (i.e., immigrate) randomly at rate α 〉 0, depart (i.e., emigrate) at rate β, reproduce at rate λ or die at rate μ. Then combining these different types of behaviour generates a variety of interesting processes, each with its own characteristics. The chapter examines six specific combinations in roughly increasing order of mathematical complexity. It covers simple Poisson process, pure death process, pure birth process, simple birth-death process, simple immigration-birth-death process, simple immigration-emigration process. Batch events are also considered.
Susan C. Pearce, Elizabeth J. Clifford, and Reena Tandon
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814767382
- eISBN:
- 9780814768266
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814767382.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
The popular debate around contemporary U.S. immigration tends to conjure images of men waiting on the side of the road for construction jobs, working in kitchens or delis, driving taxis, and sending ...
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The popular debate around contemporary U.S. immigration tends to conjure images of men waiting on the side of the road for construction jobs, working in kitchens or delis, driving taxis, and sending money to their wives and families in their home countries, while women are often left out of these pictures. This book is a national portrait of immigrant women who live in the United States today, featuring the voices of these women as they describe their contributions to work, culture, and activism. Through an examination of U.S. Census data and interviews with women across nationalities, we hear the poignant, humorous, hopeful, and defiant words of these women as they describe the often confusing terrain where they are starting new lives, creating architecture firms, building urban high-rises, caring for children, cleaning offices, producing creative works, and organizing for social change. Highlighting the gendered quality of the immigration process, the book interrogates how human agency and societal structures interact within the intersecting social locations of gender and migration. The book recommends changes for public policy to address the constraints these women face, insisting that new policy must be attentive to the diverse profile of today's immigrating woman: she is both potentially vulnerable to exploitative conditions and forging new avenues of societal leadership.Less
The popular debate around contemporary U.S. immigration tends to conjure images of men waiting on the side of the road for construction jobs, working in kitchens or delis, driving taxis, and sending money to their wives and families in their home countries, while women are often left out of these pictures. This book is a national portrait of immigrant women who live in the United States today, featuring the voices of these women as they describe their contributions to work, culture, and activism. Through an examination of U.S. Census data and interviews with women across nationalities, we hear the poignant, humorous, hopeful, and defiant words of these women as they describe the often confusing terrain where they are starting new lives, creating architecture firms, building urban high-rises, caring for children, cleaning offices, producing creative works, and organizing for social change. Highlighting the gendered quality of the immigration process, the book interrogates how human agency and societal structures interact within the intersecting social locations of gender and migration. The book recommends changes for public policy to address the constraints these women face, insisting that new policy must be attentive to the diverse profile of today's immigrating woman: she is both potentially vulnerable to exploitative conditions and forging new avenues of societal leadership.
Raúl A. Ramos
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832073
- eISBN:
- 9781469604657
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807888933_ramos.8
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter discusses the Seguin–Austin friendship, which shows how cultural brokerage took place. Austin's brother James spent several months learning Spanish in Seguin's household. Austin himself ...
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This chapter discusses the Seguin–Austin friendship, which shows how cultural brokerage took place. Austin's brother James spent several months learning Spanish in Seguin's household. Austin himself learned Spanish and became very adamant about the need for colonists to know the language while living in Mexico. He would goad his brother to keep working on his Spanish, even writing to him in Spanish. The next year, James stayed with their sister in the United States, but Austin continued to encourage him with his Spanish. On other occasions, Seguin's son Juan Nepomuceno spent time learning English with Austin at his home northeast of Bexar. These contacts reveal the personal nature of cultural exchange between elite families centrally involved in both sides of the immigration process.Less
This chapter discusses the Seguin–Austin friendship, which shows how cultural brokerage took place. Austin's brother James spent several months learning Spanish in Seguin's household. Austin himself learned Spanish and became very adamant about the need for colonists to know the language while living in Mexico. He would goad his brother to keep working on his Spanish, even writing to him in Spanish. The next year, James stayed with their sister in the United States, but Austin continued to encourage him with his Spanish. On other occasions, Seguin's son Juan Nepomuceno spent time learning English with Austin at his home northeast of Bexar. These contacts reveal the personal nature of cultural exchange between elite families centrally involved in both sides of the immigration process.
David C. Brotherton and Luis Barrios
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199669394
- eISBN:
- 9780191748752
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199669394.003.0012
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology, Human Rights and Immigration
This chapter analyzes the immigration/deportation process through the concept of social bulimia. Drawing on life history interviews with Dominican deportees conducted in the Dominican Republic and ...
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This chapter analyzes the immigration/deportation process through the concept of social bulimia. Drawing on life history interviews with Dominican deportees conducted in the Dominican Republic and the United States during the years 2002–2010, as well as in situ field observations of deportees and archival research related to Dominican deportation and the settlement of that community, the chapter focuses on three stages of the bulimic cycle: the seduction of the American Dream, Integration, and Othering; blurred boundaries, drifting, and pathways to crime; and the vindictiveness of prison and deportation.Less
This chapter analyzes the immigration/deportation process through the concept of social bulimia. Drawing on life history interviews with Dominican deportees conducted in the Dominican Republic and the United States during the years 2002–2010, as well as in situ field observations of deportees and archival research related to Dominican deportation and the settlement of that community, the chapter focuses on three stages of the bulimic cycle: the seduction of the American Dream, Integration, and Othering; blurred boundaries, drifting, and pathways to crime; and the vindictiveness of prison and deportation.
Dalia Abdelhady
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814707333
- eISBN:
- 9780814705452
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814707333.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This concluding chapter reflects on the importance of multiple attachments and identifications and examines the meaning of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary global world, stressing the utility of ...
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This concluding chapter reflects on the importance of multiple attachments and identifications and examines the meaning of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary global world, stressing the utility of diaspora as a framework for understanding immigration processes that is applicable to diverse populations and adaptable to different national contexts of reception. By exploring the everyday narratives of immigrants' diasporic lives and expressions, this study contributes to the analytical discussions that constitute the current knowledge of the patterns and dynamics of contemporary immigration in a globalized world. Contemporary immigration flows are creating common patterns of integration as more nations are receiving large numbers of “new immigrants.” This analysis argues, based on its empirical and comparative methodology, for the need to move beyond assimilation and ethnic pluralism as modes of understanding contemporary immigration.Less
This concluding chapter reflects on the importance of multiple attachments and identifications and examines the meaning of cosmopolitanism in the contemporary global world, stressing the utility of diaspora as a framework for understanding immigration processes that is applicable to diverse populations and adaptable to different national contexts of reception. By exploring the everyday narratives of immigrants' diasporic lives and expressions, this study contributes to the analytical discussions that constitute the current knowledge of the patterns and dynamics of contemporary immigration in a globalized world. Contemporary immigration flows are creating common patterns of integration as more nations are receiving large numbers of “new immigrants.” This analysis argues, based on its empirical and comparative methodology, for the need to move beyond assimilation and ethnic pluralism as modes of understanding contemporary immigration.
