Dès l’antiquité, les Cités grecques voyaient leurs héros, entre deux éditions des Jeux Olympiques, passer d’une ville à l’autre. Le début du XXème siècle, avec l’émergence du mouvement sportif, allait voir se poser des questions ponctuelles autour de la nationalité, comme l’un des éléments fondamentaux de la construction du système sportif. Des que...
Published in Tourism Management
• A gap in the pairing of ‘tourism and shopping’ concerning International Residential Tourists (IRT). • Studies on tourist shopping motivations are descriptive, not discussing background variables. • A SEM of the influence of socio-demographics and acculturation on IRT shopping motivations is tested. • Nationality has a decisive role when defining ...
Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundIn light of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have flagged racial and ethnic differences in health outcomes in western countries as an urgent global public health priority. Kuwait has a unique demographic profile with two-thirds of the population consisting of non-nationals, most of which are migrant workers. We aimed to explore whether there i...
Published in Preventive medicine reports
Cervical cancer is preventable through human papillomavirus vaccination and cervical cancer screening. However, possibly due to systemic, individual (e.g. low socio-economic staus) and socio-cultural barriers, it is likely that non-natives, especially non-westerns, are more prone to attend neither vaccination nor screening (combined non-attendance)...
Published in The Science of the total environment
Previous climate change temperature-related health studies have been performed mostly in western countries with relatively cooler temperatures than the Gulf region. Regions that are inherently hot, like Kuwait, are witnessing soaring temperatures unlike ever before. Meanwhile, Kuwait and other Gulf countries are unique in their demographic profiles...
The aim of this study was to identify if digital games could be used as a method to study Cosmopolitan Democracy. Using a mixed methods approach, players of the Final Fantasy XIV (FFXIV) community were asked to answer a questionnaire concerning the importance of age, gender and nationality of other players, in order to see if their values aligned w...
Fondé sur une enquête ethnographique menée dans la région du Trentin, cet article analyse ce qu’être citoyen européen veut dire pour les Argentins et les Chiliens d’origine italienne qui émigrent en Italie, donc en Europe, grâce à la nationalité italienne qu’ils ont hérité de leurs ancêtres. Il analyse les différents usages et les représentations a...
Published in Journal of immigrant and minority health
Mental health status may vary by nationality among expatriate workers; no conclusive data is available in Saudi Arabia. We invited expatriate nurses employed in governmental hospitals in Al-Qassim, Saudi Arabia to fill out an electronic survey that contained questions on demography (including nationality), lifestyle, job, depression, anxiety, and s...
Le propos de cette thèse, est de discuter les rapports entre les dynamiques de transformation sociale de communautés d’expérience et de subjectivation d’acteurs émergeant dans différentes circonstances et qui tentent d’infléchir leur contexte d’action. Comment l’action de l’acteur engagé dans un parcours de subjectivation à la rencontre de l’autre ...
The First World War confronted German politicians with a range of unprecedented, vital questions in the spheres of domestic as well as foreign policy. As the fortunes of war shifted, so did borders, populations and national allegiances. In a period of acute and almost constant political crisis, the German government faced issues concerning citizens...
