The immigration issue in Assam and conflicts around it

Assam, the northeastern state of India, has experienced strong anti-outsider sentiment for more than half a century now. What makes the Assam case unique is that it has faced both internal as well as illegal international migration in massive scales giving rise to intense existential fear and apprehension among its smaller indigenous communities. Their lack of the required political authority and the indifferent attitude of the Indian Union government in addressing the issue have only multiplied its magnitude. The article explicates the politico-economic dynamics of the immigration issue in Assam and the social tension and conflicts around it in a historical perspective and suggests that a multi-pronged approach backed by strong political will is imperative to negotiate the challenges of immigration in the state in an effective manner.     

1991年以来俄罗斯的中国移民构成分析

苏联解体后,俄罗斯境内的中国移民规模逐渐增大,随着俄罗斯经济社会的变化,中国移民的构成也变得更加多样和复杂。对俄罗斯边境地区四个州的中国移民情况调查表明,中国移民群体在移民类型、目的、法律地位、地区来源和去向、技术水平和行业分布等构成方面呈现出一定的特点。虽然中国的劳动移民在整体上还没有对俄罗斯劳动力市场和人口就业领域产生关键性的影响,但在俄罗斯东部,特别是在贸易、建筑业和农业等领域,移民的作用日益重要。     

“Gone to work to America”: Irish step-migration through south Wales in the 1860s and 1870s

Why did the Irish-born population of Wales decline so sharply in the decade 1861–1870? This paper argues that during the 1850s and 1860s, large numbers of Irish men and women travelled to south Wales in order to finance emigration to the USA. Using the US Federal Census, this paper shows how Irish step-migration through Wales led principally to the Pennsylvania coalfields. This type of migration is termed the Knight’s-move: a sideways move from agriculture into heavy industry, in order to advance forward across the Atlantic. The Knight’s-move challenges previous assumptions about immigration into the south Wales coalfield during the nineteenth century.     

The Use of Simulation to Reduce the Domain of “Black Swans” with Application to Hurricane Impacts to Power Systems

Recently, the concept of black swans has gained increased attention in the fields of risk assessment and risk management. Different types of black swans have been suggested, distinguishing between unknown unknowns (nothing in the past can convincingly point to its occurrence), unknown knowns (known to some, but not to relevant analysts), or known knowns where the probability of occurrence is judged as negligible. Traditional risk assessments have been questioned, as their standard probabilistic methods may not be capable of predicting or even identifying these rare and extreme events, thus creating a source of possible black swans. In this article, we show how a simulation model can be used to identify previously unknown potentially extreme events that if not identified and treated could occur as black swans. We show that by manipulating a verified and validated model used to predict the impacts of hazards on a system of interest, we can identify hazard conditions not previously experienced that could lead to impacts much larger than any previous level of impact. This makes these potential black swan events known and allows risk managers to more fully consider them. We demonstrate this method using a model developed to evaluate the effect of hurricanes on energy systems in the United States; we identify hurricanes with potentially extreme impacts, storms well beyond what the historic record suggests is possible in terms of impacts.     

Estimation of parameters of SDE driven by fractional Brownian motion with polynomial drift

ABSTRACT

Strongly consistent and asymptotically normal estimators of the Hurst index and volatility parameters of solutions of stochastic differential equations with polynomial drift are proposed. The estimators are based on discrete observations of the underlying processes.     

胶东方言音韵结构特征与地理、政区和移民关系

胶东方言的音韵结构与自然地理和人文地理之间有着密不可分的关系。半岛地域几近封闭,很少受第二方言的接触感染和冲击,其方言内部结构特征一致性强。方言间的主要差异与古代政区的划界相吻合,而来自不同方言区的驻军世代定居隶籍胶东,对胶东方言的发展产生了独特的影响。     

黑、白、红三色词在中英文化中内涵的差异

对颜色的认知,是人类最基本的认知范畴之一。本文通过对黑、白、红三色词在中英文两种语言中所表现出的语用不同,对其文化内涵差异作进一步的探究。     

泉男生移民唐朝史事疏正

泉男生在高句丽末期的历史中是一个重要人物,作为盖苏文的继承者,权倾一时,其因内讧投唐,从而催化了高句丽的灭亡。同时,泉男生本人也成为高句丽灭亡前后移民唐朝内地的高句丽人的代表,并且在唐期间以自己的方式为唐朝做出了特殊贡献。     

《郭店楚墓竹简·缁衣》初探

1998年文物出版社出版了《郭店楚墓竹简》。本文通过《郭店楚墓竹简·纟甾衣》和《礼记·纟甾衣》的比较 ,讨论了西汉初年经籍的古文写本问题 ,竹简本 (古文本 )与礼记本 (今文本 )的关系 ,并从“今古文”角度对竹简本的若干文字进行了校读与疏证 ,从而对先秦到汉代经籍文本的演变和儒家思想的承传 ,进行了新的探索     

本土性:中亚陕西村移民的经济发展模式

中亚陕西村移民是陕甘回民起义失败后民间自发的一次大规模境外生存移民,其移民经济在发展过程中呈现鲜明的本土性：陕西村早期的农业开发沿用了关中地区的农垦模式,畜牧经营也保留了在陕时农牧结合的传统,手工业商业经营饱含关中传统工艺特点和民族特色,对外经济文化交流深怀浓重的故土情结,主要同中国、特别是陕西进行交流往来,整个移民经济发展呈现浓郁的陕西关中特色。