Browsing by Author "Palmer, John R. B."

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  • Citizen science provides a reliable and scalable tool to track disease-carrying mosquitoes
    Palmer, John R. B.; Oltra, Aitana; Collantes, Francisco; Delgado, Juan Antonio; Lucientes, Javier; Delacour, Sarah; Bengoa, Mikel; Eritja, Roger; Bartumeu, Frederic (Nature Research, 2017)
    Recent outbreaks of Zika, chikungunya and dengue highlight the importance of better understanding the spread of disease-carrying mosquitoes across multiple spatio-temporal scales. Traditional surveillance tools are limited ...
  • Direct evidence of adult aedes albopictus dispersal by Car
    Eritja, Roger; Palmer, John R. B.; Roiz, David; Sanpera-Calbet, Isis; Bartumeus, Frederic (Nature Research, 2017)
    Whereas the Asian tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) has low active dispersal capabilities, its worldwide colonization has been rapid. Indirect evidence and informal reports have long implicated passive transportation in ...
  • Patterns of settlement following forced migration: the case of bosnians in the United States
    Palmer, John R. B. (2018)
    This article provides a descriptive analysis of the geographic distribution of Bosnian-born U.S. residents using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The data show that Bosnians remain highly ...
  • Reception and inclusion of refugees: insights for Catalonia from Canada, Portugal, and Sweden
    Palmer, John R. B.; Zapata Barrero, Ricard (Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament de Ciències Polítiques i Socials, 2017-09)
    This report documents and builds on the “International Symposium on the Reception and Inclusion of Refugees”, held on 14 June 2017 in Barcelona. Experts from Canada, Portugal, and Sweden, along with the Catalan Government, ...
  • Refugees' onward migration decisions and the EU-Turkey deal
    Tunaboylu, Muzaffer Sevda (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-09-23)
    Adopting a bottom-up approach, and taking the EU‒Turkey deal as a case study, this Ph.D. thesis provides empirical evidence about the impact of externalisation policies on refugees’ daily lives and on their onward migration ...
  • The Role of higher education in refugee integration: the case of Syrians in Turkey
    Dereli, Begüm (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2021-11-11)
    This thesis is a compilation of three articles that aim to contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of higher education in refugees’ integration by focusing on urban refugees’ experiences who settled in a neighboring ...