Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: As part of Shanghai's rapid development, many urban residents who originally lived in the down-town areas have been relocated to housing on the outskirts of the city. Many of them are dissatisfied with this relocation and have adopted a range of measures to seek a fair
Resolution to their grievances. Primary amongst these measures is to petition the authorities using the system of letters and visits. Disputes concerning housing evictions have escalated to the point that they have been recognized as a significant problem in the city's urban redevelopment program.
In recent years, the Shanghai government has adopted a number of measures to improve its handling of housing relocation. In order to evaluate these measures and to obtain information on the views of residents who have been relocated about their experiences, we conducted a small scale survey of people who had been relocated. Our preliminary results indicate that the degree of transparency of the housing relocation process has a strong influence on people's perceptions of the fairness process, the ways in which they might complain if dissatisfied and influences their view of the law and government as a whole.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This paper explores the political discussions in Taiwan about the relocation of conventional industries to China from 1980 to 2005. By analyzing the policies, the governmental announcements, and the media reports, I argue that there is a transformation of the Taiwanese state’s attitude from regulation to DissemiNation of the relocation. I use the term “regulation” in Bryan Turner’s definition: a regime that regulates human bodies “in space” (1996). The term DissemiNation is inspired by one of Homi Bhabha’s (1994). I use DissemiNation to describe an attitude that considers the relocation of industries as a mechanism to disseminate the economic power of a nation. I also bring into view a perspective of conflict theory to discuss how the inconsistent interests of different power groups help to shape both the regulation and the DissemiNation strategies of the Taiwanese state. At an empirical level, I go beyond the contemporary economic nationalist discussion that often focuses on the high tech industries and overlooks the role of the conventional industries. At a theoretical level, this paper proposes a conflict perspective in addition to the functionalist perspective to study economic nationalism.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to provide an alternative means to understand the nature of Realism in International Relations to the dominant ?paradigmatic? reading of Realism that continues to persist in examinations of this theoretical tradition. The author uses the rhizomatic approach of Gille Deleuze and Felix Guattari to posit a pluralist conception of Realism that is based on the idea of difference rather than similarity. Wittgenstein?s notion of the word game is used also to provide a means of reconstructing realism from the atomisation that results from a rhizomatic approach to knowledge. Other aspects of Deleuze and Guattari?s work, e.g., nomadology and segmentarity will also be utilised in order to argue that Realism should return to politics augmented with the ?foreign? DNA of post-structuralism rather than remaining in the bubble of sterility represented by Neorealism.

Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: This project furthers the long term goal of supporting increased economic opportunities in rural Nebraska by enhancing the ability of rural communities to attract and retain new residents. Our primary objective for this project is to better understand the motivations, skills, interests, and level of community satisfaction of current in-migrants. This session will summarize baseline data developed by the project. With these data, we can begin to identify potentially successful strategies for residential recruitment and retention in sparsely populated rural areas in Nebraska and the Great Plains. The primary objective will be accomplished through the compilation of detailed information from households that have chosen to relocate to Nebraska’s eleven county western Panhandle, one of the Great Plains’ most rural regions.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study extends prior research on the interstate migration of U.S. immigrants by analyzing life course, human capital, social network, and economic explanations for relocating to traditional, new, and “emerging” destination states, as determined according to Singer's (2005) typology of metropolitan areas. Utilizing longitudinal individual- and family-level migration, human capital, and life course transitions data from the 1996-1999 and 2001-2003 panels and the first year of data from the 2004-2007 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation, integrated with state economic conditions and social network (i.e., co-ethnic immigrant population concentration) data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and welfare rules data from the Urban Institute, we apply a discrete-time event history approach in a nested logit model to estimate both departure decision and destination choice models of immigrants. The research builds on our prior study which tested the impact of state variations in TANF eligibility rules and individual and family life course transitions on general immigrant redistribution behavior. The goal of this paper is to go beyond prior literature using cross-sectional research strategies and aggregated Census data to understand immigrant relocation. The paper brings life course theory to bear in a longitudinal analytical framework to inform existing theories of the internal migration of immigrants to traditional, new, and emerging destination states.

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