Navigating the migration industry: migrants moving through an African-European web of facilitation/control

ABSTRACT

This paper approaches the African-European migration industry as a complex web of relations in which different actors liaise, objectives oppose each other, and roles overlap. Starting from this notion, the question emerges: How do migrants navigate this fuzzy web of migration facilitation/control? To answer this question, this paper uses a ‘trajectory ethnography’ that follows the im/mobility processes of migrants from West – and Central Africa to, and inside, Europe. In so doing, it particularly focuses on two practices that are related to the concept of social navigation. First, it concerns débrouillardise, a term that points to the power of improvisation, creativity and hustling. Second, it regards social negotiation, a term referring to the process of how migrants ‘massage’ their relations with important actors in the field. The findings stress the relational dimension of the migration industry in the sense that the functioning of one actor depends so much on the intentions and efforts of others. I conclude that we could enhance our knowledge on migration industries with studies that constantly shift between the perspective of the migrant, the social network, the facilitator and controller. Such a dynamic approach unpacks further the multiple efforts that produce migrant im/mobility.     

旅游开发与民族传统文化保护的主体

随着西部地区民族旅游业的发展 ,民族传统文化的衰退和变迁问题日益突显。文章就保护民族传统文化 ,从保护的意义、对象、主体及动力四个方面进行了探讨     

塔尔寺文化旅游资源的开发与利用述论

藏传佛教诸教派中影响最大的格鲁派寺院——塔尔寺,在国内外享有较高的声誉,被树为鲁沙尔镇、湟中县乃至青海省发展旅游业的特色品牌,在实现“旅游兴青富民”的发展战略中占据重要地位。因此,开发和利用塔尔寺蕴藏的丰厚文化资源,具有突出的经济效益和社会效益。     

试论少数民族对北京传统民俗文化的影响

从辽代开始 ,北京逐渐成为北方乃至全国的政治、军事和文化中心 ,也成为边疆少数民族文化与中原汉族文化的交汇之地。北京的传统民俗文化 ,特别是服饰、饮食、居住、竞技娱乐、岁时节日等民俗文化 ,都曾深受少数民族 ,尤其是蒙、回、满等民族文化的影响 ,是多元一体中华民族文化的结晶与代表。     

少数民族地区旅游开发条件比较研究--以甘肃省肃南县和贵州省黎平县为例

文章通过特尔菲法建立少数民族地区旅游开发条件评价的指标体系 ,利用该指标体系对甘肃省肃南县和贵州省黎平县进行单项评分和综合评价 ,并依据分析结果对两地旅游业的发展提出建议。     

攀西地区特色产业扶贫发展经验研究——以攀枝花市米易县为例

攀西地区得天独厚的气候条件孕育着特色产业发展的巨大优势,该地区充分利用其特有的气候条件,依托独特的资源优势,实施特色产业扶贫战略,积极走现代化、标准化、规模化的生态发展之路,大力发展早、稀、特、优等现代特色产业,加快产业结构调整,积极带动农民增收致富,农村经济实力和农业发展活力不断增强,农业增产增效、农民持续增收,为当地群众脱贫发展做出了积极贡献。本文以攀西地区米易县为研究案例,积极探索该区域特色产业脱贫发展经验,对类似气候条件下特色产业扶贫发展提供一个可供参考的研究个案,以便能充分地开发利用特殊气候下的自然资源,实现长效扶贫,促进当地群众脱贫致富积极创造条件。     

Managing Quality in a Heterogeneous Contract Manufacturing Environment

The outsourcing of production is a prominent strategy across industries. While the strategy can have many benefits, the popular press reports numerous examples of quality issues originating with contract manufacturers (CMs). Observing these quality issues, multiple scholars call for the quality management (QM) literature to be extended to explicitly address the challenges of managing quality in an inter‐organizational context. Additionally, QM researchers recognize the need to consider contextual contingencies for the effectiveness of specific QM practices. Responding to these calls, we focus on the potential contingent factor of CM heterogeneity (i.e. the degree of product and process diversity at the CM plant). We first test the direct relationship between CM manufacturing heterogeneity and CM quality conformance performance, as reported by the CM's customers, brand‐owning firms. Next, we evaluate the effectiveness of multiple practices that these brand‐owning firms can employ to mitigate the anticipated negative effect of heterogeneity on their CM's conformance quality. We utilize paired dyadic data on 106 contract manufacturing relationships in the food, drug, and medical device industries to test our hypothesized model. The results of our analysis reveal a negative association between heterogeneity at CM facilities and their conformance quality performance. Our results also identify cooperative relationships, contractual coordination provisions, and formal performance assessment programs as practices that brand‐owning firms can employ to largely eliminate the negative impact of heterogeneity on CMs’ conformance quality performance.     

现代服务业是否有助于推动城镇化？——基于产城融合视角的PVAR模型分析

目前中国的城镇化现象难以完全用"工业决定论"来解释,服务业在城镇化过程中扮演着越来越重要的角色。流通业和旅游业作为现代服务业的主导产业,具有较强的集聚功能和就业吸纳能力,还具有较强的城市经济功能和服务功能,成为城镇产业体系和公共服务体系的必要组成部分。首先对服务业与城镇化之间的互动作用机制进行理论分析;然后建立PVAR模型,通过格兰杰因果检验、脉冲响应分析和方差分解分析变量之间的因果关系;最后构建耦合协调评价模型,从全国、区域及行业层面对系统间的相互作用强度与协调发展水平进行实证分析,并归纳协调发展模式。研究发现：以流通业、旅游业为主导产业的现代服务业与城镇化之间存在因果关系和稳定均衡关系,能够推动城镇化发展;早期由工业化推动的城镇化水平高于流通业和旅游业,后期两者逐渐缩减与城镇化的差距,系统间的耦合协调发展水平不断提升,但存在区域差异;耦合协调发展模式归纳为演化趋同型和发展同步型,发展同步型组合内各系统发展水平相对一致,有助于快速提升耦合协调发展水平。     

国际化学院的课程体验调查分析

北京航空航天大学中法工程师学院通过中外合作的办学模式以实现国际化人才的培养,其重要途径之一就是通过对课程体系进行的改革,而人才培养的质量很大程度上也取决于所授课程的质量。运用一种在国际上普遍采用的课程质量调查方法———大学生课程体验调查,结合国际化学院的特殊背景修订问卷,对北航中法工程师学院与普通学院的学生进行课程体验的调查。调查发现,北航中法工程师学院学生对课程的满意程度高于普通学院学生,特别在良好教学与资源获取方面明显好于普通学院学生,但在课程收获和学业负担方面仍需改进。     

京津冀三地创新绩效比较研究

京津冀地区是中国重要的经济区域,但近年来三地发展水平出现分化,京津两市与河北省的差距拉大,有出现“极化”效应的可能。通过构建创新效率的评价体系,对京津冀三地3年的技术创新投入和产出作DEA方法分析,结果表明河北省的创新效率明显低于京津两市。京津冀三地在综合发展水平、劳动力素质、R＆D活动经费投入和外商投资企业的技术溢出水平上的差异,是这种技术创新效率产生差异的原因。