The article is devoted to the analysis of migration nature and specifics as a socio-economic phenomenon in context current state prospects development agrarian economy Russian Federation conditions new social reality. research objectives: international rules for policy implementation food crises; assessment rural labor Federation; determination regional development. authors reveal contradiction...

It is very clear – as many journalists covering the unfolding migration and refugee crisis have pointed out – that geography lies at the heart of the events taking place in Europe and the Mediterranean. It is a story of borders and routes, of distance and proximity, and of location and accessibility. The role of (re-)bordering has been fundamental in states’ attempts to ‘manage’ and ‘control’ t...

Drawing on research on narrative theory (Baker, 2006, 2014) in translation and interpretation studies, on the interdisciplinary relationship between translation studies and the visual and performing arts, and on the principal diversities between media discourse representations and aesthetic constructions on the topic of the migration crisis, this study addresses the issue of transferring cultur...

Can we see migration? At every instant our sense of sight receives an infinite number visual impressions from ordinary surroundings. These make up the dimension everyday li...

BACKGROUND Physician migration from poor to rich countries is considered an important contributor to the growing health workforce crisis in the developing world. This is particularly true for Africa. The perceived magnitude of such migration for each source country might, however, depend on the choice of metrics used in the analysis. This study examined the influence of choice of migration metr...

High levels of irregular or unauthorized migration have accompanied the rise of intraregional migration in Southeast Asia. During the period of economic expansion, irregular migrants moved to the more prosperous economies to take up jobs vacated by the local population and were generally tolerated. The recession in the mid-1980s brought out concerns about the negative impacts of irregular migra...

This dossier focuses on the framing of migratory phenomena as a crisis, with particular focus what discourses crisis do to reception. It brings together contributions from researchers various disciplines, who investigate both discursive constructions migration and migration.

The 'crisis in human resources' in the health sector has been described as one of the most pressing global health issues of our time. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the world faces a global shortage of almost 4.3 million doctors, midwives, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. A global undersupply of these threatens the quality and sustainability of health systems worl...