Browsing by Author "Allen, Michael H., 1952-"

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    Beyond Borders: Growth and Transformations in International Tertiary Students' Choice of Destinations
    (2024) Foster, Jacob Seiji; Allen, Michael H., 1952-
    The landscape of international educational migration is undergoing a significant transformation, shifting from traditional migration patterns towards more diverse destinations, including emerging regional hubs. This evolution is influenced by various factors elucidated through the lens of Push-Pull Theory. While once-popular destinations like the US and the UK may be losing some allure due to concerns over immigration status, political instability, and high costs, smaller and less West-centric regions are emerging as attractive alternatives. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this trend by highlighting existing challenges and opportunities in international education. Looking forward, regions experiencing substantial population growth, such as Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, are likely to become prominent education centers. Despite this, top destinations will continue to attract a significant number of students due to their prestige and opportunities, albeit with a decreased global share. The increasing diversity of destinations signifies a shift in students' preferences and a growing awareness of alternative educational opportunities beyond traditional Western models.
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    Let’s Clear the Air: Keys to Successful International Environmental Agreements
    (2017) Horwitz, Aaron; Allen, Michael H., 1952-
    Climate change poses a real threat to our future. Because climate change affects the globe regardless of borders, it requires more than the action of a single nation. Multilateral international environmental agreements thus have the greatest potential to impact climate change. Understanding elements to successful agreements should inform our future decisions. While the mainstream social sciences have been divided in their approach to the problem and solutions, the keys to successful agreements will need to be interdisciplinary. This work, through a research method of testing the current mainstream social sciences’ theories and finding their inaccuracies against the Montreal Protocol and Kyoto Protocol, seeks to find the keys to successful multilateral environmental agreements. These keys are participation, distinction of parties, funding, incentive mechanisms, specificity, transparency, reporting, and the definition of a social cost. This paper will add to and refine similar scholarship that has been done.
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    Muñeca Limé: A two-part Analysis of Gendered Blackness in the Dominican Republic
    (2021) López-Bell, Aszana LilaRosa; Elamin, Nisrin; Allen, Michael H., 1952-
    Muñeca Limé is two-part exploration of gendered Blackness in the Dominican Republic, my senior thesis created in partial fulfillment for the International Studies degree. I started my project by focusing on conceptions of Dominicanidad, Blackness, and Womanhood throughout various eras in the history of the Dominican Republic (DR), including the Colonial Era, Occupational Era, and Trujillo Era. Ialso looked towards various forms of media and artwork– I watched Paris is Burning and Daughters of the Dust, looked back through Alexander McQueen's collections, and sorted through the artwork of Dominican Black women throughout the ages, among other things. After finishing the writing component of my thesis, I created a dress, to further analyze my research and to promote the legitimacy of non-traditional sources of knowledge. This dress is the summary of my findings and analysis, a physical embodiment of the Dominican Black Woman. In creating this embodiment I seek not to create a monolith of all Dominican Black women, but rather of possibility of what she could be, and how she could be viewed, as a Dominican Black woman myself.
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    Prospects for Development in Jamaica
    (1992) Toyloy, Henry Ashyn; Allen, Michael H., 1952-
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    Reciprocity in Mexico-U.S. Immigration Legislation: The Theory of Reciprocity as a Guiding Principle of Mexico's 2011 Immigration Legislation
    (2014) Cullen, Anne; Allen, Michael H., 1952-
    In 2011, Mexican President Felipe Calderón took a bold step, modifying Mexico's long‐standing and outdated immigration policies with several new pieces of ostensibly more liberal legislation. This thesis aims to demonstrate that Mexico modified these policies abiding by the international relations theory of reciprocity; Mexico modified their policies in order to provide an impetus for a reciprocal move from the United States that would provide benefits to Mexican expatriates that Mexico's new legislation aims to provide domestically. Through a liberalization of their previously extremely restrictive policies, which have maintained a harshly negative image in the United States, the Mexican government can enhance their standing with the U.S., which may allow them more credibility in U.S. policymaking and thus the ability to provide incentive for the U.S. to act reciprocally. Therefore the impetus for this legislative overhaul lies not in protection of migrants in Mexico but rather Mexican migrants in the United States.
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    Recognizing Oligarchic Structures of Power: A Comparison of the United States and South Korea
    (2017) Auer, Alexis; Allen, Michael H., 1952-
    In the United States we live under the common misconception that power is equally shared amongst citizens thanks to the democratic system that guides our political processes. In reality, this could not be farther from the truth: power is not equally shared among citizens, but is in fact concentrated among an oligarchic network of corporate executives. By comparing the patterns of power concentration in the United States to a well-known oligarchy, South Korea, I will show how Industrial policy and ideals have effectively enabled these patterns to form.
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