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This thesis examines the immigration process and adjustment patterns of recent Taiwanese immigrants to Canada. Using data derived fiom participant interviews with Taiwanese immigrants living in Vancouver, Victoria, and Nanaimo, the experiences of the immigrants challenge existing literature that groups Chinese immigrants fiom Taiwan, Hong Kong and The People's Republic of China under the same umbrella. The thesis also looks at Canada's immigration policies, how they influenced the type of immigrant Canada seeks and how they contribute to 'backlash racism', and examines Canada's multiculturalism policy and its ability to defend against 'backlash racism'. The findings of this exploratory study, while not able to give definitive answers, are also used to question the validity of recent international migration theories.

The Department of Defense (DoD) is the largest user of energy in the nation. DoD utilizes the Defense Energy Support Center (DESC) to procure a large portion of its natural gas. In this study it will be determined if the current buying approach utilized by DESC or an alternative approach present a better method to reduce the pricing risks associated with market timing and volatility. In order to determine how market timing and volatility affect purchasing, historical data for actual monthly prices of the current program and data from market pricing indices for a statistical model were analyzed. The data for the current model and the statistical model were compared using averages prices and standard deviation to determine which model provided better overall results. The analysis proved that by entering the market to purchase natural gas more frequently and using firm fixed price contracts results in an overall lower average price with less variability than using the current method of purchasing. This study recommends that DESC consider a pilot program, beginning in the northeast region, where the current purchasing model produces the most volatility in pricing, to develop a procurement program which will support stabilized pricing for its DoD customers.

Thesis (M.M. (Public Policy))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, 2013. / The study aimed to understand and analyse the ways in which the NFVF as the institution mandated by government to implement its vision for the film industry, interpreted and executed this mandate in its inception years. Using a combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches to policy implementation, this study applied the 5-C protocol developed by Brynard and de Coning (2006) to analyse film policy. The study assesses the process of implementation and the key factors that shaped how the NFVF carried out its policy mandate between 2000 and 2005 largely from the perspective of ‘street-level bureaucrats’ who were the main policy implementation officials. Implementation scholars suggest that in order to understand policy, one is required to follow its journey as it moves through the implementation process, changing its environment, and in turn being influenced by the environment within which it is located. The study’s findings are discussed under various themes that emerged from the interviews and document review. The focus is on the NFVF’s policy content and implications this had on the clarity of its role and mandate. The themes that emerged from the discussion on the NFVF’s policy context indicated that the governance and institutional arrangements for implementation as well as the lack of policy coherence and co-ordination contributed to a difficult operating and implementation environment. Under policy commitment, the discussion pointed to the NFVF’s leadership and institutional style between 2000-2005. The NFVF’s capacity to implement policy was analysed in terms of its available financial resources. Finally, the last section of the study considers the NFVF’s policy clients and coalitions and how they responded to the NFVF‘s implementation of policy.

A research report submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in International Relations University of the Witwatersrand 2015 / As radicalised Muslim converts gain ever greater attention within the War on Terror (WoT) and the media, an investigation into their portrayal and the associated discourses becomes ever more relevant. This study aims to shed more light on the representation of these extremist individuals in the Western media, specifically white converts to Islam who become radicalised, exploring whether there is indeed a difference between the portrayal of female and male extremists, at the same time seeking to reveal any related social or national anxieties. The findings indicate that there is indeed a difference: while women extremists are stripped bare of all political agency, the men, though exposed to rhetoric condemning their treachery as well as often depicted as capitulating to mental illness, remain largely intact as agents. This comes down to men being located in the international sphere, while women are fixed within the domestic equivalent. In terms of the link to social and national anxieties, it becomes evident that not only has the domestic fear surrounding the “homogenous Islamist terrorist enemy” (Samiei 2010, 1149) led to the terrorist (and by extension the white Muslim convert) being equated with the foreigner, but that as a result, terrorism/extremism and immigration have come to be situated within the same framework, where the slippery slopes of counter-terrorism and anti-immigration meld together.

Thesis (M.M. (Public Policy))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Commerce, Law and Management, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, 2013. / The South African population comprises largely of young people who make up 41.2% of the population (NYDA, 2011). The youth of the country are faced with many challenges such as unemployment; poverty; lack of skills to access the job market; limited access to education and social challenges related to HIV/AIDS; teenage pregnancies; substance abuse and crime. Since the new democratic government youth development has been a key priority for the country. The government made a concerted effort to respond to youth development by establishing the National Youth Commission (NYC) in 1996, the Umsobomvu Youth Fund (UYF) in 2001, and the National Youth Development Agency (NYDA) in 2009 which resulted as a merger of the NYC and UYF. The focus of the study was to assess youth development from the NYC to NYDA and whether the NYDA will be more effective in advancing youth development in the country. The study was of a qualitative nature and used semi-structured face to face and telephonic interviews to gather data. Secondary data was also gathered from policy documents, reports, and articles related to the topic. The key findings of the research indicated that the majority of the respondents or participants felt it was the right policy decision by government to merge the NYC and UYF to form the NYDA. It was also indicated that the funding allocated to support the NYDA was not sufficient for it to fulfil its mandate according to the NYDA Act of 2008 to facilitate, coordinate and implement youth development programmes. The majority of the respondents also felt that the NYDA needed to play a more active role to better coordinate and mainstream youth development in all spheres of government.

陳根錦. / "2004年9月". / "2004 nian 9 yue". / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-319). / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Chen Genjin. / 聲明 --- p.iii / 論文摘要 --- p.iv / 致謝 --- p.vii / 圖表 --- p.xi / Chapter 第一章 --- 香港職業傷病問題的性質及嚴重性 / Chapter 一. --- 香港職業傷病問題的分析角度 --- p.1 / Chapter 二. --- 香港職業傷亡及疾病的槪況 --- p.3 / Chapter 三. --- 職業傷病的社會影響 --- p.7 / Chapter 四. --- 小結 --- p.13 / Chapter 第二章 --- 文獻回顧 / Chapter 一. --- 職業健康及安全政策的性質 --- p.15 / Chapter 二. --- 社會福利政策的政治經濟學 --- p.17 / Chapter 三. --- 國家體系及福利政策體系的槪念 --- p.21 / Chapter 四. --- 職業健康和安全政策的政治經濟學 --- p.26 / Chapter 五. --- 職業健康和安全政策體系理論 --- p.38 / Chapter 六. --- 政策體系的結果 --- p.53 / Chapter 七. --- 小結 --- p.54 / Chapter 第三章 --- 香港職業健康和安全政策體系的分析架構 / Chapter 一. --- 硏究意義和範疇 --- p.55 / Chapter 二. --- 槪念架構的定義 --- p.57 / Chapter 三. --- 方法論的討論 --- p.58 / Chapter 四. --- 小結 --- p.77 / Chapter 第四章 --- 硏究方法 / Chapter 一. --- 硏究的性質：探索性硏究 --- p.78 / Chapter 二. --- 硏究取向：質性硏究 --- p.79 / Chapter 三. --- 硏究方法 --- p.80 / Chapter 四. --- 硏究的操作 --- p.85 / Chapter 五. --- 資料搜集 --- p.86 / Chapter 六. --- 資料的分析 --- p.87 / Chapter 七. --- 硏究的效度和信賴度 --- p.91 / Chapter 八. --- 小結 --- p.92 / Chapter 第五章 --- 香港職業健康和安全政策體系的整全個案分析 / Chapter 一. --- 香港職業健康和安全政策體系的形成與發展階段 --- p.94 / Chapter 二. --- 香港職業健康及安全政策體系的歷史推動力 --- p.122 / Chapter 三. --- 香港職業健康及安全政策體系的依附軌跡 --- p.135 / Chapter 四. --- 香港職業健康及安全政策體系的結果 --- p.152 / Chapter 五. --- 小結 --- p.161 / Chapter 第六章 --- 香港建造業健康和安全政策體系的潛嵌單位分析 / Chapter 一. --- 香港建造業職業健康及安全政策體系的形成與發展 --- p.163 / Chapter 二. --- 香港建造業職業健康及安全政策體系的歷史推動力 --- p.183 / Chapter 三. --- 香港建造業職業健康及安全政策體系的依附軌跡 --- p.195 / Chapter 四. --- 香港建造業職業健康及安全政策體系的結果 --- p.207 / Chapter 五. --- 小結 --- p.211 / Chapter 第七章 --- 香港職業健康及安全政策體系的整全個案與建造 業健康及安全政策體系潛嵌單位的歷史推動力、 依附軌跡及結果 / Chapter 一. --- 香港的職業健康和安全政策體系，包括建築業職業健康和安全 政策體系的歷史推動力（整全單位和潛嵌單位的比較） --- p.213 / Chapter 二. --- 香港職業健康及安全政策體系，包括建造業職業健康及安全政 策體系的依附軌跡 --- p.223 / Chapter 三. --- 造成建築業職業健康和安全的表現較香港整體職業健康和安全 爲差的體系因素 --- p.235 / Chapter 四. --- 小結 --- p.253 / Chapter 第八章 --- 討論、總結與政策建議 / Chapter 一. --- 討論總結 --- p.255 / Chapter 二. --- 硏究限制 --- p.271 / Chapter 三. --- 未來的硏究領域及課題 --- p.274 / Chapter 四. --- 政策啓示與改革建議 --- p.280 / Chapter 五. --- 小結 --- p.289 / 參考書目-英文 --- p.291 / 參考書目-中文 --- p.315

This dissertation is a collection of three essays on misallocation and firm regulations. The first chapter investigates how size-dependent firm regulation policies can mitigate misallocation. The second chapter uses the same framework as the first to explore the intuition of a theoretically more subtle concept of misallocation. The third chapter analyzes a more specific firm regulation that targets at financial dealers. In chapter 1, I study the welfare implications of size-dependent firm regulation policies (SDPs) in the presence of entrepreneurial risks. Although SDP has been considered a source of misallocation, I show that, once entrepreneurial risks are taken into account, SDP might improve efficiency. Quantitatively, I show that, based on French data, removing the SDP leads to output and welfare loss by 1.5% and 1.3%, respectively, in opposition to the output gain reported by the previous literature that abstracts from risks. Qualitatively, I solve an optimal non-linear SDP problem and show that the observed SDP shares certain features with the optimal SDP. The analysis uncovers a novel trade-off between the inefficiencies of the intensive and extensive margins. In extension, it is shown that (1) whether SDPs improve efficiency depends on the level of financial development and (2) capital accumulation and consumption-smoothing motive further justify SDPs. In chapter 2, which is a joint work with Misaki Matsumura, we use the same competitive entrepreneurship model to investigate the economic intuition of constrained inefficiency caused by uninsurable risks. Although the constrained efficiency of various models has been studied in the literature, the economic intuition of why the constrained planner's intervention yields an improvement is usually not available. The competitive entrepreneurship model is particularly suitable for seeing the logic of constrained inefficiency since the structure of the market equilibrium is characterized by the indifference condition instead of the marginal condition. To illustrate this point, we contrast the competitive entrepreneurship model with simple versions of the Aiyagari model and the Krebs model. In chapter 3, which is also a joint work with Misaki Matsumura, we build a general equilibrium model to analyze the impact of the Volcker rule, a dealer regulation imposed after the financial crisis, on price quality (informativeness and volatility) and its implications on the welfare of market participants. We argue that although price informativeness, volatility and the dealer's profitability all deteriorate, against conventional wisdom, other market participants are better off due to the dealer's risk-shifting motive. A static model is used to clarify the main intuition, and the robustness of the welfare results as well as the fragility of the conventional wisdom about price quality are discussed by incorporating dynamics and endogenizing information acquisition.

After the Japanese colonization of Taiwan in 1895, colonial and diplomatic officials sought to encourage, regulate, and surveil the movement of individuals from Taiwan to the south China treaty-ports by conferring upon those who traveled there the legal designation Taiwan sekimin, or “registered Taiwanese.” Japanese officials and sekimin alike fashioned the Taiwan’s inhabitants, their capital, their socio-economic networks, and Taiwan’s colonial institutions as the basis for expanding the Japanese empire’s political and economic influence. This legal status afforded sekimin the extraterritorial protection of local Japanese consulates and subjected them to consular oversight. Over time, the category of Taiwan sekimin was expanded to include local and overseas Chinese whose support Japanese officials sought to garner. This dissertation charts the transformation of Taiwan sekimin as a juridical and social category and argues that it was central to Japanese colonial policy in Taiwan and imperial ambitions in south China. By tracing these changes, this dissertation shows how efforts by Japanese and Chinese officials, as well as by sekimin themselves, drew upon and reshaped the existing social and commercial networks that linked Taiwan to the south China treaty-ports and conditioned Japanese imperial and Chinese imperial and national state formation in south China. Taiwan sekimin ranged from wealthy elites, petty merchants, and doctors and other professionals trained in colonial Taiwan, to young anti-colonial activists drawn to China, criminal elements who formed gangs, and disreputable proprietors of opium and gambling establishments. Diverse though the category was, the status of Taiwan sekimin became, at times, the basis of individuals’ appealing for Japanese consular protection, and at others, the basis of Japanese officials’ laying claim to exercising jurisdiction over individuals considered Japanese subjects. By exploring how Taiwan sekimin individuals both supported and challenged the ideologies and institutions of the Japanese empire at its margins, this dissertation reveals their role in entrenching a Japanese imperial sphere across and beyond the region between 1895 and the start of the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. The legal and spatial bounds of Taiwan sekimin as a juridical and social category were central to intra-imperial and inter-imperial contestations for power in south China. Contention over the Japanese empire’s economic and political ambitions led to contestation over the legal boundaries of Taiwan sekimin between Japanese colonial officials in Taiwan and local consular officials, who sought to regulate the mobility of people, ideas, and capital between Taiwan and the treaty-ports. Over time, Japanese officials also sought to channel the support of sekimin through new institutions. These institutions expanded the spatial scope of jurisdictional contests within and beyond the treaty-ports and thus the scope of imperial power; these institutions also rendered Japanese imperial ambitions more contingent on the support of the sekimin. Chinese local, national, and diplomatic officials also actively challenged the legality of sekimin status and the inclusion of individuals these officials considered Chinese nationals under its purview, particularly after the rise to power of the Chinese Nationalist Party (Guomindang) in the late 1920s. In the 1930s, the concept of Taiwan sekimin was increasingly at odds with Chinese national conceptions of social and economic order. This dissertation shows that, in this context, conflicts involving sekimin were not just local scuffles to be resolved on the interpersonal level but laden with ideological import, leaving the sekimin caught between the logics of empire and nation. This dissertation draws on Japanese- and Chinese-language materials from Japan, Taiwan, and China. It reads official sources “along the grain” to reveal the logic that organized knowledge production about the sekimin and “against the grain” to reconstruct a history largely beyond the purview of bureaucratic institutions. By exploring the competing inter- and intra-imperial claims to authority over Taiwan sekimin, this dissertation argues that jurisdictional contestation had legal and spatial implications in linking Chinese national and Japanese imperial state formation in south China.