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Hanna Vonk - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • smart refugees how syrian asylum migrants use social media information in Migration Decision making
    Social media and society, 2018
    Co-Authors: Rianne Dekker, Godfried Engbersen, J Klaver, Hanna Vonk
    Abstract:

    Social media are increasingly popular channels of information on which migrants base their Decisions on whether to migrate and the destinations where to settle. While social media offer a relatively cheap, easily accessible, and media-rich means of communication, their use is not without challenges for asylum migrants. Various studies describe issues with access and evaluation of the truthfulness of available information for this specific group of migrants. This article discusses social media use by asylum migrants prior to and during Migration. This study is based on in-depth interviews with 54 Syrian asylum migrants who recently obtained refugee status in the Netherlands. Syrians were the largest group of migrants applying for asylum in European Union (EU) member states in 2015 and 2016. The findings show that the majority of Syrian asylum migrants have access to social media information before and during Migration, often through the use of smartphones. Besides uneven access to technologies, fear of gov...

  • smart refugees how syrian asylum migrants use social media information in Migration Decision making
    Social media and society, 2018
    Co-Authors: Rianne Dekker, Godfried Engbersen, J Klaver, Hanna Vonk
    Abstract:

    Social media are increasingly popular channels of information on which migrants base their Decisions on whether to migrate and the destinations where to settle. While social media offer a relatively cheap, easily accessible, and media-rich means of communication, their use is not without challenges for asylum migrants. Various studies describe issues with access and evaluation of the truthfulness of available information for this specific group of migrants. This article discusses social media use by asylum migrants prior to and during Migration. This study is based on in-depth interviews with 54 Syrian asylum migrants who recently obtained refugee status in the Netherlands. Syrians were the largest group of migrants applying for asylum in European Union (EU) member states in 2015 and 2016. The findings show that the majority of Syrian asylum migrants have access to social media information before and during Migration, often through the use of smartphones. Besides uneven access to technologies, fear of government surveillance restricts the smartphone use of asylum migrants. The results of this study indicate that Syrian asylum migrants prefer social media information that originates from existing social ties and information that is based on personal experiences. Generally, this information is considered more trustworthy. Asylum migrants use various strategies to validate rumors that are present on social media and come from unknown sources. These strategies include checking the source of information, validating information with trusted social ties, triangulation of online sources, and comparing information with their own experience.

Yaohui Zhao - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • leaving the countryside rural to urban Migration Decisions in china
    The American Economic Review, 1999
    Co-Authors: Yaohui Zhao
    Abstract:

    This paper employs a simple theoretical model of labor allocation within rural households given existing land arrangements in an attempt to explain why rural Chinese do not fully participate in labor Migration. It first explores the mechanisms by which individual household and community characteristics affect the Migration Decision. Empirical results are then presented to substantiate the derived hypotheses. The paper further explores the question of whether the Migration Decision is permanent by analyzing the responses of household consumption to income from Migration. (EXCERPT)

Steven Garasky - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • where are they going a comparison of urban and rural youths locational choices after leaving the parental home
    Social Science Research, 2002
    Co-Authors: Steven Garasky
    Abstract:

    Abstract The Decision for adolescents and young adults to leave their parents and their home community is complex and difficult. This study of youth Migration focuses on the geographical location to which urban and rural youths relocate upon exiting their parental household. Little is known about destination choices of youths, especially how they differ for youths from urban and rural areas. A multinomial logit model of Migration destination choices that incorporates individual, household, and community-level factors is estimated with data from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results indicate that while the local economy and labor market are important to the Migration Decision, the magnitudes of these effects are generally small. Non-economic individual, household, and community factors play an important role in the Migration process, as well. The magnitudes of non-economic factor effects generally are greater for rural youths compared to urban youths.

Rianne Dekker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • smart refugees how syrian asylum migrants use social media information in Migration Decision making
    Social media and society, 2018
    Co-Authors: Rianne Dekker, Godfried Engbersen, J Klaver, Hanna Vonk
    Abstract:

    Social media are increasingly popular channels of information on which migrants base their Decisions on whether to migrate and the destinations where to settle. While social media offer a relatively cheap, easily accessible, and media-rich means of communication, their use is not without challenges for asylum migrants. Various studies describe issues with access and evaluation of the truthfulness of available information for this specific group of migrants. This article discusses social media use by asylum migrants prior to and during Migration. This study is based on in-depth interviews with 54 Syrian asylum migrants who recently obtained refugee status in the Netherlands. Syrians were the largest group of migrants applying for asylum in European Union (EU) member states in 2015 and 2016. The findings show that the majority of Syrian asylum migrants have access to social media information before and during Migration, often through the use of smartphones. Besides uneven access to technologies, fear of gov...

  • smart refugees how syrian asylum migrants use social media information in Migration Decision making
    Social media and society, 2018
    Co-Authors: Rianne Dekker, Godfried Engbersen, J Klaver, Hanna Vonk
    Abstract:

    Social media are increasingly popular channels of information on which migrants base their Decisions on whether to migrate and the destinations where to settle. While social media offer a relatively cheap, easily accessible, and media-rich means of communication, their use is not without challenges for asylum migrants. Various studies describe issues with access and evaluation of the truthfulness of available information for this specific group of migrants. This article discusses social media use by asylum migrants prior to and during Migration. This study is based on in-depth interviews with 54 Syrian asylum migrants who recently obtained refugee status in the Netherlands. Syrians were the largest group of migrants applying for asylum in European Union (EU) member states in 2015 and 2016. The findings show that the majority of Syrian asylum migrants have access to social media information before and during Migration, often through the use of smartphones. Besides uneven access to technologies, fear of government surveillance restricts the smartphone use of asylum migrants. The results of this study indicate that Syrian asylum migrants prefer social media information that originates from existing social ties and information that is based on personal experiences. Generally, this information is considered more trustworthy. Asylum migrants use various strategies to validate rumors that are present on social media and come from unknown sources. These strategies include checking the source of information, validating information with trusted social ties, triangulation of online sources, and comparing information with their own experience.

Frank Leymann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • clouddsf the cloud Decision support framework for application Migration
    European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, 2014
    Co-Authors: Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Alexander Darsow, Dimka Karastoyanova, Frank Leymann
    Abstract:

    Migrating existing applications to cloud solutions is a multi-dimensional problem that spans beyond technical issues and into the financial, security and organizational domains. The existing works in the field form a picture of a maturing but still incomplete research area, requiring the introduction of comprehensive solutions for the Migration of enterprise systems and applications to cloud solutions. As part of this effort, in this work we focus on supporting Decision makers in evaluating the need for Migration, and guiding them along the Decisions that need to be made before the actual Migration process. For this purpose we build on existing work to provide an elaborated Decision support framework that is available as a Web application. We discuss the evaluation of the framework by experts, identify its deficiencies and outline our future steps. {keywordsApplication Migration, Decision support, Decision visualization.

  • Supporting the Migration of Applications to the Cloud through a Decision Support System
    2013 IEEE Sixth International Conference on Cloud Computing, 2013
    Co-Authors: Vasilios Andrikopoulos, Zhe Song, Frank Leymann
    Abstract:

    The motivation for this work is the necessity to be able to select an appropriate Cloud service provider offering for the Migration of existing applications, based on cost minimization. While service providers offer pricing information publicly, and online tools allow for the calculation of cost for various Cloud offerings, the selection of which offering fits better the application requirements is left to application developers. For this purpose, this work proposes a Migration Decision support system that incorporates both offering matching and cost calculation, combining features from various approaches in the State of the Art. The proposed approach is then evaluated against existing tools.