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Objective: Poverty is a major issue in Nigeria, with rising rates despite a growing youth population. Organizations struggle to fill technical and highly skilled job vacancies due to a lack of highly skilled workers. In 1946, South Korea had the same challenge, but was able to make the transition from a developing country to a developed country in the shortest timeline amongst developed countries. Hence, this research aims to provide empirical evidence on South Korea's successful strategies, offering lessons for Nigeria. A comparative analysis of policies was carried out to highlight areas for improvement for Nigerian policies; Method: The methodology adopted in this study was mixed. It involved a qualitative analysis (comprehensive literature review), and quantitative analysis (Correlation analysis). Contributions were selected from databases like SCOPUS and Google Scholar, while secondary data was collected from international organizations- such as the World Bank and the United Nations. The data was analyzed using the statistical program - Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS). This research examined three hypotheses based on studies published in conference proceedings, reports, dissertations, and manuscripts written in English; Results: The results of this study highlight the importance of geographical mobility in addressing labor shortages and promoting sustainable development. However, effective governmental intervention is crucial to harness these benefits. Policies should facilitate the repatriation of skilled natives and the integration of both high-skilled and low-skilled migrants. In addition, education and support mechanisms are essential for smooth assimilation into the workforce. This study also reveals that South Korea's visa framework is more robust than Nigeria's, focusing on attracting migrants through various channels, including research, study, and entrepreneurship. Additionally, South Korea has support programs for repatriated natives and migrants, which Nigeria does not have, leading to different outcomes in sustainable development; Originality: This pioneering study examines the complex relationships among repatriation, immigration, skilled labor, and sustainable development. By breaking new ground in socioeconomic research, it uncovers nuanced dynamics and interdependencies, aiming to inform policy formulation and decision-making. This foundational work sets a precedent for future research and comprehensive global development analyses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The review of the book titled Ziemie obiecane. Rolnictwo Dolnego Śląska w latach 1945–1956 w ujęciu ekonomicznym i historycznym [Promised Lands: Agriculture of Lower Silesia in the years 1945–1956 from the economic and historical point of view] was written by Sylwia Straszak--Chandoha and published in 2021 by the Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu [Publishing House of the Wroclaw University of Economics and Business]. The book describes the problem of settlement, which is rarely discussed in the literature on the subject, and, in particular, the organization of agricultural production in Lower Silesia in the first few years after the end of World War II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the United States, many archaeological excavations focus on precontact era Native American sites, and for the majority of American archaeology's existence, these have included a vast number of burial and sacred sites. When the human remains of Native American Ancestors, or remnants of sacred and ceremonial objects, are found, what implications does this have for the soil in which they rested? In addition to exploring questions regarding how backdirt is defined and assessed, we consider how backdirt may be interpreted as ecofact, as material culture, and even as NAGPRA-eligible funerary material or human remains. We hope to demonstrate that backdirt, as an example of some of the most insignificant archaeological material, poses interesting questions relating to interpretations of context, as well as consultation and collaboration with Indigenous communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The "Anticipatory Heritage" salons, organized by the Fellows of the American Folklore Society, considered how the heritage of the present can be employed proactively to create more just and humane futures. Participants discussed approaches for re-animating and revitalizing traditions through incorporating them integrally within community life. They include repatriation and training in archival and collecting practices that empower communities. While folklore has emphasized safeguarding traditions transmitted over generations, anticipatory heritage contends that looking to the future is also needed to advance social justice, heal through remembrance, and generate greater community cultural self-determination. As was the case for participants in all of the salons, these discussions stressed the importance of a critical approach toward heritage, including interrogating who controls heritage-making and, at times, questioned the term "heritage" itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In an ideal world, resettlement initiatives would be publicly debated, officially announced, and supported by a clear regulatory framework. This is not always the case in practice. This paper examines one resettlement initiative that has -- intentionally -- passed almost entirely under the radar: the Japanese resettlement of North Korean escapees. This initiative has focused on resettling North Korean escapees who either were previously resident in Japan, or are related to somebody who was. Despite its significance to understanding refugee flows in the region, it has attracted hardly any English-language scholarship. This paper aims to fill the gap. First, I provide a comprehensive examination of the law and policy of Japan's resettlement programme. Second, I interrogate the lack of transparency that characterises it, in particular examining Japan's motivations for keeping its resettlement programme under the radar, and the implications of doing so. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the making of "refugees" in post-liberation South Korea (1945–1950). It shows that refugees were produced as a recognized social group through various institutions that coordinated their movement and engaged in care work, including the U.S. military, grassroots relief societies, and organs of the nascent South Korean government. After August 1945, millions of repatriates from Japan, Manchuria, and other parts of the Japanese empire "returned" to Korea. They were joined by migrants from the Soviet-occupied North. These sudden and simultaneous movements had profound demographic and social consequences for the South. The influx of refugees resulted in a near twenty-percent increase in the South's population and captivated the attention of the public and U.S. occupation forces, which came to see refugees as a critical foreign policy question. Problems wrought by colonial-era war mobilization, postwar shortages, division, and occupation were visibly reflected in the refugee population, especially in Seoul, where they formed communities. The neediest subset of refugees became the new indigent class of the South. Through a focus on refugees and institutions of care, this article places South Korea in broader post-WWII history and eschews the ideological binaries of the Cold War that has guided much of historical scholarship on the period. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Considerable research has examined Turkey's discursive governance of the Syrian refugee crisis, identifying the central themes and metaphors in top officials' refugee-related messages. However, since they tend to rely on qualitative analyses based on convenience or purposive samples, prior studies have failed to assess the relative frequency of these themes and fall short of reliably gauging the shifts and continuities in the official discourse on refugees. Moreover, while several studies have noted the growing emphasis on the repatriation of Syrian refugees in recent years, no research has yet explored how the Turkish government has sought to reconcile this with its pro-refugee posturing. This paper addresses these limitations via a mixed methods analysis of 382 speeches President Erdoğan gave from September 2014 through December 2022. Quantitative findings show that Islamist and neo-Ottomanist themes have played a major role in Erdoğan's refugee discourse throughout his presidency. However, since 2018, there has been a sharp increase in Erdoğan's remarks about repatriating Syrian refugees. A critical discourse analysis of these remarks indicates that Erdoğan has appropriated the language of international law and standards on refugee returns so that he can continue to claim the moral high ground while simultaneously advocating mass repatriation of the Syrians. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article examines the repatriation narrative in postwar Japan, with a focus on the works of author Abe K¿b¿. It argues that these narratives, which address a national audience, often fail to fully acknowledge the complicity of Japanese imperialism. The article analyzes Abe K¿b¿'s works, highlighting themes of displacement, borders, and critique of Japanese imperialism. It also discusses the significance of an epitaph/epigraph in Abe's debut work, connecting the narrative to real experiences and anchoring it in the history of Japanese imperialism. The text explores the relationship between reading and writing in Abe's novel "Owarishi michi," as well as themes of love, loss, and identity. It emphasizes the importance of remembering and reconstructing the past, particularly in the context of postwar Japan and its imperial history. The article also mentions the popular repatriation narrative in Japanese literature, exemplified by Fujiwara Tei's "Nagareru hoshi," which assimilates the memory of empire into discourses of national victimhood. It discusses two novels, "Owarishi michi" by Fujiwara Tei and "Kemonotachi wa koky¿ o mezasu" by Abe K¿b¿, and their engagement with repatriation and the legacy of Japanese imperialism. These novels challenge traditional narratives by presenting non-linear understandings of the past and foregrounding the reader's responsibility to recognize and repudiate imperial violence. They also [Extracted from the article]

The idea of 'national heritage' is inseparable from the emergence of the nation-state, democracy, and citizenship. Nationalisation of heritage involved the nation stepping in on behalf of the cultural rights of citizens, and acquiring the ownership of material history from its previous domains of ownership such as monarchy, religion, and colonialism. This paper studies the process of the acquisition of objects for the National Museum of India, New Delhi in the decade that followed India's independence in 1947, in order to trace the varied ways in which a nascent nation-state worked out its equations with pre-existing centres of power. Relying mainly on the archive of the official documents pertaining to the process, this paper tries to understand how the then Government of India negotiated with the erstwhile princely rulers, provincial sentiments, and the British for the ownership of material history. The paper proposes that the project of the National Museum in India was, by extension, a project of nationhood. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on advocating for a human rights approach to international repatriation of cultural property, especially in the context of Indigenous Peoples. It highlights the challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples in repatriating their cultural property, such as human remains and sacred objects, which has often been appropriated during colonial periods. It further emphasizes the importance of applying universal human rights principles.

The article discusses the Parthenon Marbles case, a famous and long-standing cultural heritage dispute between Greece and the UK. It provides historical background on the case, including the removal of the Parthenon Marbles by Lord Elgin in the early 19th century. It also explores the arguments presented by both Greece and the UK regarding the ownership and repatriation of these marbles.

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Formed in the mid-1990s, the Popular Services Committees (PSC) in West Bank refugee camps have played a dual role: on the one hand, they are a liaison body between the camps and UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority (PA), and on the other, they perceive themselves as a political body and guardian of the right of return. In this article, Ala Alazzeh ethnographically historicizes the formation and position of the PSCs within the Palestinian political field. The author shows the role of the camp Youth Centers in the formation of PSCs, the post-Oslo tension between camp residents and the PA, and the camp residents' capitalization on the PLO's legacy and authority. He also points out the tension between self-representation of PSCs as a political body versus their de facto practice as municipallike mediators between refugee camp communities and UNRWA, and the PA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Japanese end of empire migration led to the emergence of a repatriate figure (hikiagesha) in post-war Japan. In its earliest incarnation, the repatriated figure appeared as a female fleeing from violence in Manchuria. This article examines how former colonial residents who came from a different part of the empire (Karafuto, present-day southern Sakhalin) and who were not part of the official repatriation adapted to the Manchurian repatriate figure. It argues that new forms of self-identification for male former colonial residents emerged in response to widespread images of the female hikiagesha. The article therefore suggests that researchers should further examine how and why fragmented end of empire narratives subsequently coalesced into a dominant narrative of repatriation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Originating communities have long contested the ownership, conservation, and care of cultural heritage in museums. From cultural sensitivity to repatriation, human remains to sacred belongings and everyday items to regalia, caring for these collections involves varying levels of controversy. This article focuses on the conservation frameworks in the United States and France, whose legal and administrative aspects differ tremendously. This has a major influence on the application of preservation procedures. The existing literature and some notable projects aimed at resolving such tensions between museums and so-called source communities will be briefly reviewed, directing the reader to previously published sources. The final section presents past and present conservation projects that deal with Native American collections in US and French museums, and assesses commonalities and variations in approaching these issues on either side of the Atlantic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, Jalal Al Husseini analyzes the relations UNRWA maintained over three decades (1950-80) with the Arab Development Society (ADS), a Palestinian philanthropic nongovernmental institution specialized in agricultural development and vocational/technical training operating in Jericho, West Bank. Based on ICRC and UNRWA archives, it first provides a novel insight into the internal debates that unfolded among Palestinians, both refugees and non-refugees, about how to envisage refugee socioeconomic status between, one the one hand, minimal integration in the name of the right of return for refugees (as championed by camp refugees), and quasi-assimilation (as promoted by local assistance institutions, UNRWA, and their international donors) on the other. It also highlights the ideological and operational commonalities between UNRWA and the ADS that allowed for joint working partnerships. Assessing the modalities of such partnerships, the author shows how financial, operational, and political challenges (mainly the refugees' opposition to any initiative likely to threaten their right of return and interim refugee status) limited their outcomes before finally bringing them to an end. Overall, this article explains why, despite UNRWA's embeddedness in the local context, its ties in the local institutional context have remained limited. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The expansion of the British Empire facilitated movement across the globe for both colonisers and colonised. This article focuses on the experiences of travelling ayahs (servants and nannies) who travelled with colonial families both within and outside the British Empire. This study expands on the previous literature to focus on the experiences of ayahs in Britain and the rest of Europe under unusually difficult situations of waiting brought about by events at both global and individual levels: at the global level, the outbreak of the world wars and at the individual level, the actions of irresponsible employers who abandoned their ayahs in foreign countries. In so doing, the article contributes to a nuanced understanding of how the ayahs navigated waiting as gendered subjects, and simultaneously, how they actively attempted to craft their repatriation in the context of the highly gendered expectations attached to women of South Asian descent on the move. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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• Historicizing border externalization from Europe to Africa defies Eurocentrism. • Migration governance actors reinvent colonial models of indirect rule. • Historicizing border externalization should go beyond the colonial frame. • Multiple social histories of migration management coproduce border externalization. This article challenges Eurocentric and presentist understandings of border externalization from Europe to Africa. It describes how techniques of migration governance concretely reinvent legacies of colonial rule, while also pushing research beyond the colonial frame by heeding the plural histories of migration control that co-constitute border externalization on the ground. The article investigates in particular the Gambian node of a EU-IOM joint initiative aiming to repatriate and reintegrate West African migrants from transit countries along the Mediterranean routes to Europe. Postcolonial dependencies between the Gambia and Europe, together with the post-authoritarian transition in the Gambia since 2017, have allowed the EU-IOM venture to rapidly expand and operate autonomously. At the same time, externalized repatriation depends on and seeks to integrate local state, community and family actors in order to control returnees and prospective migrants. This results in a form of "indirect migration management" that has colonial and postcolonial roots. Powerful organizations such as IOM may exploit societal institutions of mobility and simultaneously conceal or delegitimize them. Speaking of "indirect migration management" thus urges us to study border externalization within a heterogenous landscape of postcolonial governance in Africa, including the alternative histories and geographies of mobility control that become entangled in and through externalized bordering. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines how museum practice around decolonisation is reflected in conservation practice. It reviews changing conservation attitudes through guidelines and seminal publications. It charts changes in conservators' approach, especially regarding the treatment of artefacts belonging to Indigenous and underrepresented groups, mainly in the UK and English-speaking world. I suggest that current changes to conservation practice are not radical but are part of a slow and considered trajectory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper probes how temporality is integral to the health examination regime that aims to protect citizens from infectious diseases in Taiwan. The paper finds that migrant workers in less-skilled occupations are examined more frequently than foreign professionals. Analyzing such differentiation, this paper argues that a hierarchy of sanitization is built on and increases the inequality between them and perpetuates instability in migrant workers' circumstances. Applying a temporal approach to the study of health examination opens new inroads into our understanding of how a "migration state" achieves the exclusion of migrant workers by making them outsiders subject to permanent intrusion into their bodies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

During World War II, the Hungarian settlements in Bosnia, Slavonia, and Croatia--due to their location--were often exposed to guerrilla warfare by the partisans, the Chetniks, and the Ustaša. Due to the constant fighting, Hungarian settlements turned to Hungarian authorities for help. The idea of a large-scale population exchange between Zagreb and Budapest came up several times. After the repatriation of the Szeklers from Bukovina, Budapest saw the next opportunity in the Hungarians in Croatia, where it attempted to create a coherent ethnic space in the territories regained by the territorial revision. The planned population movement would primarily have served to increase the Hungarian population in the Bácska/Bačka. At the same time, the two parties hoped to settle the tense relationship caused by the fate of Muraköz/Međumurje with the population exchange. According to the plans, the Bunjevci from Hungary would have taken the place of the Hungarians in Croatia. In addition to presenting the history of the Hungarian communities on the territory of Croatia, and illustrating the history of repatriation, this study focuses on the ideas and concepts behind these actions, which drew significantly from international practices after World War I. The goal of the paper is to place the ideas and plans of Hungarian governments about repatriation, as well as the organized partial repatriation of Hungarians living in Croatia, in the international and Hungarian contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Following the promulgation of the 1925 Palestinian Citizenship Order-in-Council, British Mandate authorities regularly denied Palestinian citizenship to thousands of Palestinian migrants across the diaspora (mahjar) - mainly the Latin American mahjar, where the largest Palestinian communities resided. In response, Palestinians in Palestine formed the Committee for the Defense of the Rights of Palestinians in Foreign Countries in 1927. A group of nationalists, including Musa Kazim al-Husayni, submitted petitions to the Government of Palestine and the League of Nations demanding justice for migrants barred from their rights to Palestinian citizenship - and thus, to their right to return to Palestine as Palestinians. Importantly, the editors of Filastin newspaper called on Palestinian leaders to reform and unite, doing away with divisive rivalries, in order to defend the rights of Palestinian migrants. In entry after entry, Filastin decried the state of the current Palestinian leadership, stressing the interconnectedness of Palestinian migrants' struggle to secure their rights to Palestinian citizenship and the struggle to reform the faltering Palestinian nationalist movement. These efforts of Palestinians in Palestine to protest British citizenship policy and to reform the Palestinian nationalist movement through solidarity with Palestinian migrants demonstrate that Palestinian political consciousness in the interwar period formed and developed transnationally. Through their activism, Palestinians in Palestine brought Palestinian migrants' voices home, and contributed to the emergence and consolidation of a Palestinian diaspora, and to the amplification of Palestinian voices transnationally. The Palestinian struggle for a right of return began well before 1948. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emigrants from Kerala, India, were among the international migrants affected by the displacing consequences of COVID-19 — job losses, decreasing wages, inadequate social protection systems, xenophobia and overall uncertainty — which led to large-scale return migration to India. Returning home due to exogenous shocks calls into question the voluntary nature of return, the ability of returnees to reintegrate and the sustainability of re-embedding in the home country. The role of return migrants in the development of their societies of origin is also unclear. In this commentary, we explore the circumstances of return migration since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic by focusing on a case study of Kerala and provide insights on the future of emigration from this corridor along with policy suggestions. The role of return migrants in the development of their societies of origin requires further research and policy interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nearly 5-6% of the Hungarian refugees in 1956 were under 18, who left their homeland without parents. The two transit countries, Austria and Yugoslavia, were interested in the onward journey of the refugees to reduce the financial costs of refugee care. Whether leaving Austria and Yugoslavia in the direction of another host country or to Hungary for them was of secondary importance. The Austrian and Yugoslavian authorities were aware of the sensitive legal and humanitarian issue, so minors were treated separately. Yugoslav-Hungarian cooperation was smoother, which was also reflected in the high number of repatriations (17-20%). Between Austria and Hungary, on the other hand, there was a three-year diplomatic exchange of notes on this issue. The Austrian authorities were playing to gain time so that the young people concerned would turn 18 and decide for themselves on their future home country. About 8% of single refugees under the age of 18 returned to Hungary from Austria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Restitution is an important aspect of current collaborative projects between museums and communities of origin. The articles in this chapter examine the topic from the perspective of a lawyer (Thielecke) and an ethnologist and museum director (Koch). Thielecke explains the background of various restitutions from the Ethnological Museum Berlin in the last five years and concludes that at least for now, decision about restitutions are always individual and museums are still in a process of learning and developing strategies in mutual exchange with the communities of origin. Using the history of the Benin Bronzes as an example, from the collection’s origins in a colonial context to the current restitution from the Ethnological Museum to Nigeria, Koch examines the questions and opportunities emerging within restitutions processes for the museum itself as well as for the communities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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More than three hundred Japanese Red Cross nurses, deployed in field hospitals in the Japanese Army during the Second World War, remained overseas for several years after the Japanese defeat. They were part of a large group of Japanese citizens whose repatriation was delayed by the Chinese and Korean wars, and by the geopolitical tensions of the Cold War. The span of their professional lives sheds light on the breaks and continuities of one of the world's largest national Red Cross organisations, the Japanese Red Cross. The Japanese Red Cross sent these nurses to the front as part of its support for Japan's war effort, but after defeat, was able to use their repatriation as a way to highlight its humanitarian character and its apolitical stance, and to distance itself from its participation in the war. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mapping the history of the repatriation movement in Australia, this article will argue that the movement to repatriate Ancestral Remains was an expression of Aboriginal nation-building and self-determination. Indigenous remains were collected in Australia over at least 180 years in the name of discovery, in the purported interest of science and anthropology, as 'trophies of empire' or as 'curios' of a supposedly 'dying race'. The demand for the return of Ancestral Remains has been led by Indigenous peoples. Their abiding interest to recover Ancestors held in institutions in Australia and overseas has been a long campaign. Aboriginal organisations were a critical interface advocating the return of Ancestral Remains to government and institutions, challenging museums and applying political pressure. As Indigenous rights claims developed, the newly emerging Aboriginal forms of government made repatriation of Ancestral Remains a central focus. In asserting Indigenous power, identity reclamation and responsibility to the dead, these claims posed significant provocations to the history, role and purpose of collecting institutions. Legislative, institutional and political responses to Aboriginal claims for repatriation in Australia will be explored, as well as the current proposal to establish a National Resting Place to provide a long-term, Indigenous-centred response to the care of Ancestral Remains. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Four ugui portraits of kings of the Okinawan kingdom of Lūchū (Ryūkyū) were returned to Okinawa in March 2024 along with sixteen other artifacts stolen by American soldiers during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. These are the first such royal portraits to be confirmed extant, and the first such royal treasures to be recovered since 1953. This essay describes the repatriated portraits, as well as the theft and search for the royal treasures looted in 1945 and their cultural and emotional significance for a people who lost a great volume of their tangible heritage in World War II. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]