BACKGROUND As the number of immigrants to Japan increases, the health problems of foreign nationals also have an increasing impact on Japanese medical institutions. The aim of this study was to clarify the Japan-specific health problems related to both the physical and psychological symptoms of foreign nationals from the viewpoint of psychosomatic medicine. The second aim was to clarify the mea...

Insurgencies that recruit foreign nationals to join rebel groups in various civil wars around the globe are a source of growing concern to policymakers. Despite attention focused on recent Islamist groups, foreign fighters are a phenomenon that is neither new nor uniquely Islamic. In conflicts from the Spanish Civil War to the Afghanistan War, insurgencies consistently recruited foreigners by f...

We assessed the risk of overweight and obesity for six large migrant groups in Switzerland. We used population-based survey data form the Swiss Migrant Health Survey 2010 and the Swiss Health Survey 2007. The sample comprised permanent residents aged 17 64 years (n = 14,637). Multivariate logistic regressions have been used to estimate odds ratios (OR). Compared with Swiss nationals, the odds o...

Abstract This analysis of Swiss Federal Supreme Court judgements shows the coupling welfare and migration control. Foreign nationals depending on social assistance might face withdrawal their residence permits. We show how conveyed legal logics create conditionality rights a differentiation (non-)citizens. The individualise dependence follow neoliberal logic economic participation. They establi...

The purpose of this study is to analyze the land rights over apartment units related right ownership apartments that can now be owned by foreign nationals. Ownership flats does not fully adhere horizontal principle as stated in UUPA. Because these all flats. Flats given anyone who qualifies a holder. research shows there are many nationals and legal entities own (apartments) Indonesia. Both for...

BACKGROUND International recruitment is a common strategy used by high-income countries to meet their medical workforce needs. Ireland, despite training sufficient doctors to meet its internal demand, continues to be heavily dependent on foreign-trained doctors, many of whom may migrate onwards to new destination countries. A cross-sectional study was conducted to measure and analyse the factor...

The crime of document fraud committed by Malaysian foreign nationals is charged with Article 126 letter c and 127 Law Number 6 2011 concerning Immigration. form immigration was passport forgery so that the perpetrator sentenced to 1 year in prison a fine IDR 1.000.000. However, sentence considered too low it does not provide deterrent effect perpetrators crimes. Supposedly, judge can decide on ...

Abstract This article examines, within the frame of international criminal law, Iran’s arbitrary detention foreign and dual nationals for leverage over detainee’s (other) country nationality. It provides an overview pattern conduct since 2010, involving at least 66 victims, analyses this in terms hostage-taking crimes against humanity. First, we argue that constitutes meaning International Conv...