Reeling in Newcomers: Urban Competition around Migrant Reception in Brussels

A Rural Migrant Community in Urban Beijing

Migrant Intra-urban Residential Mobility in Urban China

Migrant housing and mobility patterns are affected by both the unique institutional factors related to migration and a common set of socio-economic characteristics shared by urban residents. China’s unprecedented waves of internal migration are accompanied by long-standing rural–urban and local–nonlocal divides that have been institutionalized through the household registration system. This pap...

Brussels Ev Experiment Anno X: Electric Vehicles in Urban Transport

Brussels Free Universities (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Université Libre de Bruxelles) started in 1979 with the development of a new urban transport system based on electric vehicles. A fleet of electric vehicles built by PGE has been set up since 1980. During the development of the project a considerable evolution of the viewpoint has taken place due to the observation of vehicle technology...

Reeling in Outsourcing

Companies who sought outsourcing as a panacea to cost pressures and global demand have begun to re-evaluate their outsourcing strategies in light of increased fuel and distribution costs, quality problems, security risks and current economic conditions. This concept paper reviews the literature on reversing supply chain outsourcing and outlines the basis of a model for reshaping outsourcing str...

Sources of migrant housing disadvantage in urban China

The increasing level of labor mobility in China challenges the current population-management structure. In particular, recent reforms in urban housing provision seem largely to overlook the needs of the migrant population. In this paper I examine the sources of migrant housing disadvantage in cities. Specifically, I analyze the institutional and socioeconomic factors underlying migrant housing ...