building bridges or barriers? human mobility: threat or opportunity for development?
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Building bridges or barriers?
Human Mobility: threat or opportunity for development?
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• Pontifex means "Bridge Builder " (pons + facere). In ancient Rome, Pontifex was the employer incharge of the bridge over the river Tíber. Later on the expression acquired different meenings and started to be use to identify the highest-ranking priests of ancient Rome – the College of Pontiffs
In Wikipedia
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• Saint Bénézet, the Bridge-builder (1163-1184), - Saint of the Catholic Church who is considered to be the founder of the Bridge-
Building Brotherhood. Christian tradition states the he had a divine inspiration to built the bridge over the Rhône River at Avignon.
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Saint Bénézet Bridge, Avignon (before the destruction in the XVII century)
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Saint Bénézet Bridge, Avignon
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Human Mobility: Threats and
opportunities for development.
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Migrant
Economic
Social
Cultural
Empoverty cicle
Price to get into the market
Employment
> Salary
+ Saivings
Cultural shockAculturation
Intolerance
Exclusion
Culture as a resource for integration
Co-ethnic networks
Treaths and opportunities
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Migrant Country of Origin
Economic
Social
Cultural Cultural shock
Aculturation
Intolerance
Exclusion
Brain-drain
Co-ethnic networks
Brain-gain
Lost of Social CapitalFamilies
fragility
Remittances
“Estrangeirados”
Cultural difusion and language
The role of Diasporas
Price to get into the market
Empoverty cicleEmployme
nt> Salary
+ Saivings
Culture as a resource for integration
Treaths and opportunities
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Migrant Country of Origin
Host Country
Economic
Social
Cultural
Guetization
Creative Diversity
Complementary WF
Demografic equilibrium
+ competetivity
Dumping (irr.)
Informal economy reinforcement
(irr.)
Social Security balance“Clash of
Civilizations”
Xenofobia
Treaths and opportunities
Price to get into the market
Empoverty cicleemployme
nt> Salary
+ Saivings
Intolerance
Exclusion
Co-ethnic networks
Cultural shock
Aculturation
Culture as a resource for integration
Brain-drain
Brain-gain
Remittances
Lost of Social CapitalFamilies
fragility
The role of Diasporas
“Estrangeirados”
Cultural difusion and language
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Migrant Country of Origin
Host country
Economic
Social
Cultural Cultural shock
Aculturation
Brain-drain
Lost of social capital
Guetization
“Estrangeirados”
Dumping (irr.)
“Clash of Civilizations”
Treaths
Xenofobia
Price to get into the market
Intolerance
Empoverty cicle
Exclusion Families fragility
Informal economy
reinforcement (irr.)
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Migrant Country of Origin
Host Country
Economic
Social
Cultural
employment
> Salary
+ Saivings
Culture as a resource for integration
Co-ethnic networks
Brain-gain
Remittances
Cultural difusion and
language
Creative Diversity
Complementary WF
Demografic equilibrium
+ Competitivity
Social Security
contributions
The role of Diasporas
Opportunities
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Migrant Country of Origin
Host Country
Economic
Social
Cultural
Guetization
Creative Diversity
Complementary WF
Demografic equilibrium
+ competetivity
Dumping (irr.)
Informal economy reinforcement
(irr.)
Social Security balance
“Clash of Civilizations
”
Xenofobia
Treaths and opportunities
Price to get into the market
Empoverty cicleemployme
nt> Salary
+ Saivings
Intolerance
Exclusion
Co-ethnic networks
Cultural shock
Aculturation
Culture as a resource for integration
Brain-drain
Brain-gain
Remittances
Lost of Social CapitalFamilies
fragility
The role of Diasporas
“Estrangeirados”
Cultural difusion and language