[pt] Desde o início do século XX, os países da União Europeia tem sido o destino de milhares de crianças e adolescentes que chegam desacompanhados, isto é, sem a proteção de um adulto responsável por elas. Eles vêm prioritariamente da África e do Oriente Médio, através de três rotas principais, que levam à Espanha, através do Estreito de Gibraltar (Mediterrânea Ocidental), à Itália (Mediterrânea Oriental), e à Grécia e Bálcãs (Fronteira Ocidental). O principal objetivo do presente estudo é analisar as políticas públicas de acolhimento e proteção de menores migrantes que chegam desacompanhados à Espanha e à França e sua conformidade com os principais instrumentos internacionais e europeus de proteção às crianças e aos imigrantes. Também é analisado o papel da sociedade civil tanto no suporte ao acolhimento e integração de menores imigrantes desacompanhados, como na defesa seus direitos através de campanhas de advocacy. / [en] Since the beginning of the 20th century, European Union countries have been the destination of thousands of children and adolescents who arrive unaccompanied without the protection of an adult. They come primarily from Africa and the Middle East through three main routes, which lead to Spain, across the Straits of Gibraltar (Western Mediterranean), Italy (Eastern Mediterranean), and Greece and the Balkans (Western Border). This study aims to analyse public policies for the reception and protection of migrant minors who arrive unaccompanied in Spain and France and their compliance with international and European principles for protecting children and immigrants. The role of civil society in supporting unaccompanied minors reception and integration and defending their rights through advocacy campaigns is also explored.

[pt] A partir do aumento no fluxo migratório venezuelano para o Brasil no início de 2017, a mobilidade venezuelana passou a ser veiculada na mídia e reproduzida nos discursos de autoridades governamentais brasileiras tanto como um problema e um risco a ser controlado quanto como um imperativo para o acolhimento e proteção dessa população vulnerável. Tais representações e discursos foram reforçados em março de 2018 com a criação da chamada Operação Acolhida, operação logística governamental constituída para gerenciar o fluxo das centenas de milhares de venezuelanos adentrando as fronteiras nacionais. A fim de questionar como os discursos de perigo e controle das fronteiras coexistem com uma lógica de acolhimento e defesa dos direitos humanos, a dissertação analisa as práticas discursivas que participam da construção da governança humanitária do fluxo migratório venezuelano no Brasil, especialmente através da Operação Acolhida. Partindo de uma análise de discurso pós-estruturalista, argumenta-se que a Operação Acolhida, ao articular uma lógica específica de engajamento com o outro venezuelano, funciona (re) produzindo uma representação específica do Estado e da nação brasileira. Enquanto uma prática de construção de fronteiras e identidades, a Operação Acolhida apresenta-se, assim, como propõe David Campbell (1992), como, uma prática de política externa e de construção de fronteiras. Nessa perspectiva, a representação da identidade estatal não se refere a um relato objetivo sobre como o Estado realmente é – leitura esta dominante nos estudos de Política Externa no Brasil, mas sim como uma representação de uma subjetividade instável, provisória e continuamente reformulada. Assim, a dissertação contribui para pensar como as práticas de representação do eu e do outro, do dentro e do fora, do nacional e do internacional articuladas na Operação Acolhida, especialmente por seus atores militares, não apenas (re) produzem o que é o problema dos refugiados venezuelanos no Brasil –e como ele deve ser gerenciado– quanto funcionam estabilizando, provisoriamente, uma imagem – precária e contestada - de um Brasil benevolente, acolhedor e amigo. / [en] Since the increase in the Venezuelan migratory flow to Brazil in early 2017, Venezuelan mobility has been portrayed in the media and reproduced in the discourses of Brazilian government authorities both as a problem and a risk to be controlled and as an imperative for the reception and protection of this vulnerable population. Such representations and discourses were reinforced in March 2018 with the creation of the so-called Operation Acolhida, a government logistics operation constituted to manage the flow of the hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans entering the national borders. In order to question how the discourses of danger and border control coexist with a logic of reception and defense of human rights, the dissertation analyzes the discursive practices that participate in the construction of humanitarian governance of the Venezuelan migratory flow in Brazil, especially through Operation Acolhida. Starting from a post-structuralist discourse analysis, it is argued that Operation Acolhida, by articulating a specific logic of engagement with the Venezuelan other, functions (re) producing a specific representation of the Brazilian state and nation. As a practice of border and identity construction, Operation Acolhida presents itself, as David Campbell (1992) proposes, as a practice of foreign policy and border construction. From this perspective, the representation of state identity does not refer to an objective account of how the state really is - a dominant reading in Foreign Policy studies in Brazil, but rather as a representation of an unstable, provisional and continuously reformulated subjectivity. Thus, the dissertation contributes to think how the practices of representation of self and other, of inside and outside, of national and international articulated in Operation Acolhida, especially by its military actors, not only (re) produce what is the problem of Venezuelan refugees in Brazil - and how it should be managed - but also function by temporarily stabilizing an image - precarious and contested - of a benevolent, welcoming and friendly Brazil.

This dissertation takes as its subjects East European Jewish women who sold sex in their homelands and/or abroad and situates their engagement in sex work within the broader structures these women navigated – labor markets, state laws on residence and migration, community and family. This project turns working-class Jewish women, who migrated within and from Eastern Europe and sold sexual services, into protagonists in their own story and writes them back into modern Eastern European Jewish economic and migration histories. Between 1870 and 1939, Eastern European Jews suffered from consistent official and unofficial anti-Jewish discrimination in the labor market. This discrimination, combined with ongoing economic changes and crises, hindered Jewish socio-economic advancement and instead drove more and more Jews into poverty. Both married and single women were pressed financially to find gainful employment but encountered a labor market with too few opportunities. In these circumstances, the state-sanctioned sex industry, which was Jewish madams and pimps had their part, provided them with economic prospects and facilitated their physical mobility, which was a privilege in this period. By 1914, Jews, especially women, found it almost impossible to leave the Russian Empire legally. After the Great War, immigration restrictions became a virtually global phenomenon, again severely limiting the options of Jews for leaving Eastern Europe. In the interwar years, anxieties about trafficking turned into laws restricting single women's movement and preventing immigration to popular destinations, such as the United States or Argentina. Despite these challenges, some Eastern European Jewish women who sold sex turned out to be particularly mobile. They moved within Eastern Europe, crossing borders between empires, and regularly circulated across seas and oceans to the Middle East and the Americas. By viewing these women as economic actors and labor migrants, this dissertation seeks to reconceptualize prostitution as one of the ways in which Eastern European Jews from the working poor navigated the transformative and increasingly challenging period between 1870 and 1939. This rewriting of Jewish prostitution as a rich social history of Eastern European Jewish women from the lower classes relies on a wide range of sources that, on the one hand, provide access to the women’s voices (though rarely unmediated) and, on the other, expose how class-biased and moralistic interpretation has been imposed on their life stories. Unlike most of the previous studies on this topic, this project looks at Jewish prostitution from the Eastern European perspective and uses materials produced by this Jewish population and the surrounding society – Jewish and non-Jewish press in Polish, Yiddish, and Hebrew; Habsburg, Russian, and Polish state-produced labor and prostitution reports as well as ministerial and police records.

En Belgique, à l’instar d’autres populations d’origine immigrée, les populations d’origine africaine subsaharienne font face à une relative impuissance. Cette dernière peut-être déterminée en fonction de critères tels que l’accès à l’emploi, au logement, à l’enseignement, ou encore le statut juridico-politique. Dans ma thèse, je m’intéresse aux stratégies mises en place par ces populations afin d’améliorer collectivement leur sort. J’articule la question des conséquences sociales et culturelles de la migration en termes de dialectique de l’identification, focalisée notamment sur l’utilisation couramment synonymique des catégories ethno-raciales « africain », « subsaharien » et « noir », avec celle des formes de l’action collective dégagées dans le cadre des social movement studies. Ma réflexion part d’une proposition théorique formulée de façon synthétique par Pnina Werbner et suggérant que, malgré le climat concurrentiel que la formation et l’expansion d’associations ethniques peut générer, leur développement et leur mise en relation constituerait les prémices incontournables d’éventuelles actions collectives protestataires. Pour Pnina Werbner, cette mise en réseau des associations, si elle s’assortit d’un processus de « convergence idéologique », peut donner lieu à des mobilisations. J’ai enrichi cette proposition de deux manières :d’une part, en affinant la notion de convergence idéologique au moyen de la littérature sur le cadrage et le processus d’alignement des cadres dans la mobilisation collective, et, d’autre part, en articulant dans mon analyse les trois courants théoriques centraux des recherches sur des mouvements sociaux – structure des opportunités politiques, mobilisations des ressources, cadres de l’action collective.<p><p>J’ai ainsi montré que le système politique belge était globalement à la fois favorable à l’expression de potentiels mouvements sociaux issus de l’immigration et peu ouvert à leur reconnaissance officielle. J’ai également mis en évidence que les niveaux infra-nationaux et supra-nationaux véhiculaient des opportunités politiques spécifiques. Je me suis ensuite penchée sur la façon dont les différentes opportunités et contraintes politiques mises à jour ont été saisies par deux associations « africaines » soucieuses de former un groupe d’intérêt représentant l’ensemble de la collectivité d’origine africaine subsaharienne, et sur les conséquences organisationnelles de ces choix. Ces études de cas m’ont permis de mettre en exergue le répertoire d’action accommodateur dans lequel ces organisations s’inscrivent, et la relation de leurs membres avec la structure des opportunités politiques. J’ai souligné comment certaines de ces opportunités, dans la façon dont elles ont été réappropriées par les leaders associatifs, ont eu un impact négatif sur la cohésion interne de leurs associations. Aussi, en me penchant plus spécifiquement sur la façon dont les différentes parties prenantes de ces organisations donnent sens aux activités de celles-ci, j’ai montré que les objectifs de ces associations étaient, de façon générale, investis de sens fort différents par les acteurs, y compris au sein des collèges d’administrateurs. Dans la lignée des travaux de Michael Herzfeld, les résultats de ma recherche soulignent la relation disémique inévitable entre la volonté de représentation communautaire officielle et les pratiques internes à la collectivité. Depuis quelques années, les entrepreneurs de représentation de cette collectivité tâchent d’amenuiser cette disémie en engageant leurs associations respectives, rebaptisées « panafricaines », dans des actions collectives. L’analyse de ces actions rend compte de la construction d’un « répertoire symbolique commun » qui se décline autour du référent panafricain et de politiques identitaires pragmatiques. Enfin, j’ai identifié les formes de sociabilité plutôt élitaires du réseau associatif « panafricain » comme une limite de son extension.<p><p>Ces développements empiriques montrent tout l’intérêt d’observer largement « l’espace des mouvements sociaux », c’est-à-dire la trajectoire des organisations et des acteurs susceptibles de donner forme à l’action collective. Ce faisant, mon travail contribue à décloisonner des études sur les mouvements sociaux trop souvent cantonnées aux actions protestataires directement menées contre l’autorité publique. / Doctorat en Sciences politiques et sociales / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

The aim of this thesis is to investigate how discussions in archaeology and genetics influence the consensus on human origins and migrations in the South Pacific. By analyzing the genetic research on chicken- and sweet potato-DNA, I present a general overview of how genetics and archaeology shape the understanding of how humans have colonized the Pacific. By deconstructing a review on how the Pacific was settled based on aDNA, I analyze a geneticist’s perspective on archaeological problems. Through this analysis I suggest how archaeology should be approached on a theoretical level in order to be relevant in understanding human migrations in the Pacific. I propose that archaeology’s strength lie in interpreting material culture through an agency perspective in order to reach a dimension not obtainable by biological perspectives / Syftet med denna uppsats är att undersöka hur diskussioner i arkeologi och genetik påverkar hur vi ser på mänskliga migrationer i Oceanien. Genom att analysera den genetiska forskning som gjorts på kyckling och sötpotatis ges en övergripande bild av hur genetik och arkeologi formar den förståelse som finns för hur människan koloniserat Söderhavet. Genom att dekonstruera en sammanställning av den genetiska forskning som gjorts på mänskligt DNA i Oceanien analyseras en genetikers synsätt på arkeologiska problemställningar. Genom analysen i denna uppsats föreslår jag hur arkeologi borde arbeta på ett teoretiskt plan för att vara relevant i hur vi förstår Oceaniens migrationsmönster. Jag föreslår att arkeologins styrka ligger i att tolka den materiella kulturen genom ett agency-perspektiv för att komma åt en dimension av migrationsproblematiken som inte går att nås genom biologiska perspektiv.

In this thesis, I draw on the particular experiences of Indian hi-tech immigrants arriving in a growing Canadian technological cluster, the Waterloo Region, located in south-western Ontario. This bilateral pattern of international labour migration between India and Canada reflects both nationsʼ efforts to enhance their economic competitiveness in a global knowledge economy: India as a global exporter and Canada as an importer of knowledge professionals. The stereotypical association of Indian nationals with technology work brings both restrictions and opportunities for Indian hi-tech immigrants navigating a racialised as well as gendered technology labour market in the Waterloo Region. My main aim is to reveal a microcosm of gendered negotiations involving individual economic migrants, their skilled spouses, their employers and the welfare state, particularly in the guise of officials regulating migration and access to childcare. The complex set of individual behaviours, ideologies, attitudes and practices all contribute to the emergence and maintenance of, as well as challenges to, particular gendered divisions of productive and reproductive work among these new entrants to Canada, as they lose the significant employment, social and familial networks and supports that typically are available in India. These Indian newcomer families view their responsibilities to their family to be as significant as their engagement in the Canadian labour market, as well as the advancement of their individual careers. In practice, however, familial responsibilities remain a more significant aspect of womenʼs lives, reproducing gendered divisions of both paid and unpaid work that mirror traditional gender roles and ideologies. The labour market participation of this particular group of Indian hi-tech immigrants, and especially professional immigrant mothers, is limited by the non-recognition of foreign credentials and cultural and/or racial discrimination but perhaps to an even greater extent by the lack of sufficient provisions for reproductive work under Canadaʼs liberal welfare state.

Ce mémoire présente, dans une première partie, une analyse détaillée des flux migratoires entre les différentes régions administratives du Québec entre 1991 et 2006. Nous avons utilisé quelques indicateurs permettant de quantifier l’importance de ces mouvements à la fois sur la région d’origine et sur la population d’accueil. Afin de réaliser ce travail, nous avons eu recours aux matrices de flux migratoires entre les 17 régions administratives québécoises, matrices qui sont publiées par l’Institut de la Statistique du Québec à l’aide du fichier de la Régie de l’assurance-maladie du Québec (RAMQ). Les méthodes d’analyse utilisées nous ont permis de mesurer l’intensité de ces flux, leur concentration spatiale, l’orientation spatiale des émigrants, les hiérarchies des régions administratives ainsi que l’efficience des migrations interrégionales du Québec. Nous avons analysé comment les régions administratives du Québec sont affectées par la migration interrégionale. Dans une deuxième partie, nous avons porté notre attention sur la migration interrégionale en fonction de certains groupes d’âge. L’étude des migrations en fonction du groupe d’âge a permis de mieux saisir les conséquences démographiques de ces mouvements pour les régions d’origine et de destination, particulièrement en ce qui concerne la structure de la population résultant de ces flux. Finalement, dans une troisième partie, nous avons analysé les mouvements migratoires entre l’île de Montréal et les Municipalités Régionales de Comté des quatre régions qui l’entourent afin de comprendre la part de l’étalement urbain dans l’émigration des Montréalais. Les résultats obtenus nous permettent de conclure en dégageant certaines tendances. D’abord, nous avons établi que les migrations dans la province de Québec se font des régions éloignées vers les régions du centre. Ces régions gagnantes renferment ou avoisinent les grands centres urbains de la province : Québec, Montréal et Ottawa. Nous assistons donc à une redéfinition du paysage québécois : le nord se déserte, le centre a une faible croissance et la grande région de Montréal, plus particulièrement les régions en banlieue de l’île de Montréal, est en nette croissance. Ensuite, l’analyse par groupe d’âge a illustré que les régions excentrées ont très rarement des soldes positifs et que les jeunes sont très nombreux à quitter ces régions. Pour l’île de Montréal, ce sont les jeunes qui arrivent en grand nombre. Cependant, après la trentaine, les gens désertent l’île pour d’autres régions de la province. Ces départs profitent aux régions adjacentes, qui font d’énormes gains chez les jeunes travailleurs. Finalement, l’analyse des échanges migratoires entre l’île de Montréal et les MRC des quatre régions adjacentes nous a permis de constater que ces MRC sont très souvent gagnantes dans leurs échanges migratoires. Particulièrement lors de la période 2001-2006, où seulement deux territoires sont perdants dans leurs échanges migratoires avec les autres régions du système, soit l’île de Montréal et la MRC de Longueuil. / This thesis presents in its first part a detailed analysis of migratory flows between Quebec’s different administrative regions between 1991 and 2006. We used a few indicators which enabled us to quantify the importance of these movements on both the region of origin and the host population. In order to accomplish this task, we used the migratory flow matrices between the 17 administrative regions of Quebec that are published by the Institut de la Statistique du Québec, who makes use of the file of the Régie de l’assurance-maladie du Québec (RAMQ). The methods of analysis we used allowed us to measure the intensity of these flows, their spatial concentration, the spatial orientation of the emigrants, the hierarchies of the administrative regions, as well as the efficiency of Quebec’s interregional migrations. We analyzed how Quebec’s administrative regions are affected by interregional migration. In the second part of this thesis, we directed our attention to interregional migration as a function of certain age groups. The study of migrations as a function of the age group allowed us to better understand the demographical consequences of these movements for the regions of origin and of destination, particularly on the population structure resulting from these flows. Finally, in the third part, we analyzed the migratory movements between the island of Montreal and the Regional County Municipalities of its four surrounding regions to understand the role of the urban spread in the emigration of Montrealers. The results obtained allow us to deduce a few tendencies. Firstly, we have established that migration in the province of Quebec happens from remote regions to central regions. These winning regions contain the important urban centres of the province, or are adjacent to them: Quebec, Montreal and Ottawa. We are therefore witnessing a redefinition of Quebec’s landscape: the North is being deserted, there is weak growth in the centre, and in the Montreal metropolitan area, especially in the regions in the suburbs of the island of Montreal, there is a clear growth. Next, the analysis as a function of the age group illustrated that the non-central regions very rarely present positive net migrations, and that youth leave these regions in great numbers. For the island of Montreal, it is the youth that arrive in great numbers. However, people over thirty abandon the island and head for other regions of the province. These departures are beneficial for the neighbouring regions, who receive huge growths in young workers. Finally, the analysis of the migratory exchanges between the island of Montreal and the RCMs of its four neighbouring regions allowed us to notice that these RCMs very often win in their migratory exchanges. This is particularly true for the 2001-2006 period, when only two territories lose in their migratory exchanges with the other regions in the system, namely the island of Montreal and the Longueuil RCM.

This doctoral thesis is submitted in the form of science publications with impact factor and presents human biological variation in two different ways. The first part is the study of phenotype variation focused on the degree of limb bones bilateral asymmetry. Besides genetic and hormonal factors asymmetry may develop as a response to biomechanical and to environmental factors influencing the individual/population. Therefore this trait can be considered as a measure of person's living conditions, health or environmental stress of different origin or exa- mine the effects of behavioral distinctions as sexual division of labor and diffe- rences in subsistence strategy. The submitted publication (Kujanová et al., 2008) is based on samples of two diachronic populations (medieval and recent) from Bohe- mia with different expected levels of health/environmental stress. The study is fo- cused especially on these aspects that may be indicative of various stresses, such as malnutrition or other nonspecific factors influencing health of persons living in the studied populations. According to the results we propose that bilateral asymmetry observed in the diachronic populations showed some differences supporting the theory that the medieval population was not subjected to as highly stressful condi- tions as the...

Les Thaïs dont il est question dans cette thèse ont été détachés et cédé avec l'ancien territoire siamois de Patchan Khirikhet ou Ko Kong à la colonie française du Cambodge en 1904. En conséquence, des Thaïs sont restés dans le territoire cambodgien de Ko Kong jusqu'à présent. À plusieurs époques, toutefois, les Thaïs-Ko-Kong ont choisi de traverser la frontière afin de rentrer définitivement dans la terre patrie de Thaïlande ; l'époque des Khmers Rouges tout particulièrement a provoqué la plus grande de ces immigrations et une nouvelle dispersion des Thaïs de Ko Kong. La majorité des immigrants thaïs-Ko-Kong a trouvé refuge dans le district de Khlong Yai, dans la province frontalière de Trat. Aujourd'hui, le district thaïlandais de Khlong Yai et la province cambodgienne de Ko Kong sont ainsi l'espace transfrontalier principal des Thaïs-Ko-Kong. Cette recherche a pour le but de répondre à trois questions principales sur l'ethnogenèse des Thaïs-Ko-Kong, les identités dynamiques des Thaïs-Ko-Kong et l'hégémonie des frontières des Thaïs-Ko-Kong. Les Thaïs-Ko-Kong ne sont pas un groupe ethnique, ils sont une « ethnie-frontières », un pseudo groupe ethnique, qui s'est formé par une histoire commune liée à la délimitation des frontières et par l'expérience des immigrations depuis le Cambodge. / The Thai people studied in this research have been separated with the ancient Siamese territory of Patchan Khirikhet or Ko Kong and given to the French colony of Cambodia in 1904. Consequently, they constitute nowadays a Thai ethnic minority in Ko Kong province of Cambodia. From generation to generation, at many occasions the Thais of Ko Kong have decided to cross the borderline to go back to their ancestor's homeland. But the main immigration, the dispersion and the disappearance of many Thais from Ko Kong occurred during the Khmers Rouges period. A majority of the Thai migrants from Ko Kong province have settled down at Khlong Yai district at the extreme East of Trat province, in Thailand. At the present time, Khlong Yai district of Thailand and Ko Kong province of Cambodia are therefore a core trans-boundary area for the Thais of Ko Kong. The aims of this research are at answering three mains questions concerning the ethnogenesis, the dynamic identities of the Thais of Ko Kong and their hegemonic controls of the borderlines and border areas. The Thais of Ko Kong are not an ethnic group. They are an « border ethnic group », a pseudo-ethnic group, who have been formed by their common history of the delimitation of frontiers in 1904 and their migration experiences from Cambodia.

L’objectif général de ce travail est d’expliquer la nature des relations particulières entre une région française d’Amérique du Sud, la Guyane, et le Brésil, que l’histoire coloniale a rendus frontaliers, au moment où dans un contexte général d’intégrations continentales s’amorce entre eux un rapprochement institutionnel mettant un terme à quatre siècles de rivalités et d’ignorance réciproque. Mais la Guyane subit une forte pression migratoire et environnementale de la part d’un Brésil particulièrement dynamique, ainsi que les contraintes d’une appartenance française et européenne perçue comme étouffante en dépit des avantages qu’elle procure. En pleine quête identitaire, elle aimerait s’intégrer à un environnement géopolitique que le Brésil cherche de son côté à organiser à son profit dans sa stratégie d’affirmation continentale. Au moment où se construit un pont sur l’Oyapock entre les deux voisins, les récents accords de coopération régionale visent à une "continentalisation" de la Guyane, dans une Amérique du Sud dans laquelle elle était jusque là peu intégrée, mais elle doit se débattre entre de multiples enjeux régionaux, nationaux voire supranationaux qui la dépassent. / The overall objective of this paper is to explain the nature of the special relationship between a French region of South America, French Guiana, and Brazil that colonial history made neighbors, at the time when in a general context of continental integration these two countries are starting to knit closer institutional links putting an end to four centuries of rivalry and mutual ignorance. But French Guiana is undergoing high migration and environmental pressure on the part of a particularly dynamic Brazil, as well as the constraints of a french and european membership felt as choking in spite of the benefits it provides. In the midst of its search for its own identity quest, French Guiana would like to integrate into a geopolitical environment than Brazil on its side seeks to organize to its benefit, as part of its strategy for continental assertion. At the time when a bridge over the Oyapock river between the two neighboring is being built, recent regional cooperation agreements are aimed at "continentalization" French Guiana, in South America which it has so far been little integrated, but it must struggle between of multiple regional, national or supranational issues, which it is far too small.