Seafarers sail the high seas around the globe. In case of illness, they are protected by international regulations stating that the employers must pay all expenses in relation to repatriation, but very little is known about the cost of these repatriations. The objective of this study was to estimate the financial burden of repatriations in case of illness. We applied a local approach, a micro-c...

When Australian soldiers returned from World War I they were of ered the chance to settle on ‘land i t for heroes’. Promotional material painted a picture of prosperous farms and contented families, appealing to returned servicepeople and their families hoping for a fresh start. Yet just 20 years after the inception of these soldier settlement schemes, fewer than half of the settlers remained o...

A species of Galápagos tortoise endemic to Española Island was reduced to just 12 females and three males that have been bred in captivity since 1971 and have produced over 1700 offspring now repatriated to the island. Our molecular genetic analyses of juveniles repatriated to and surviving on the island indicate that none of the tortoises sampled in 1994 had hatched on the island versus 3% in ...

This article focuses on the repatriation policy of Polish state toward co-ethnics residing in some post-Soviet countries. Its main goal is to answer question: Why has this been unsuccessful? Based existing literature, legislation and official documents, draws upon approach laid down by Olga Zeveleva (2014), exploring two spheres within program: ideological practical. The key argument that failu...

The Maisons Tropicales are three prefabricated housing structures designed by Jean Prouvé. Fabricated in France, they were transported to and assembled Brazzaville Niamey, then part of the French colonies, around 1950. Their design was tied closely belief so-called civilizing enlightening power European modernist and, thereby, also colonial agenda. In early 2000s, an American collector, Robert ...

This paper examines the role of reconstruction assistance in Cambodia from 1990 to 1994. In terms of international cooperation, the case of Cambodia in the restoration period after a long civil war was an unprecedented success as a whole. This is mainly due to the continuous and consecutive runs of assistance, continuum of effective aids, which was appropriate for each stage from humanitarian a...