Together, these capabilities consist of all opportunities to acquire country-specific skills and resources, and the actual ability to convert them into participation and social belonging.
With the passage of time, immigrants gain knowledge of the society, acquire country-specific skills, and are better equipped to compete for higher paying jobs (Beckhusen et al., 2013; Bodankin & Semyonov, 2016).
Integration aspirations refer to individuals' views of investing into integration as a desirable life project, and of undertaking efforts to acquire country-specific skills and resources to be able to fully take part in society – be it as a matter of social belonging, or as a mean to other personal ends.
Remarried and with a recently acquired country estate to renovate, his enthusiasm for the job has been questioned.
Unlike the Landmark Trust, however, Living Architecture couldn't just acquire old country houses and would have to create its inventory from scratch.
The innovative 'SPOCs & survey'-method works with (1) multiple choice based surveys, (2) validated by a pilot group and (3) complemented with a free text fields (and possibly upload modules) to acquire targeted country specific input.
The validated variables used in the study were age, sex, transmission setting (healthcare acquired [HA] or community acquired [CA]), country of acquisition, and purpose of travel (leisure or work related) (16 ).
In 2011, it acquired the country's largest electronic-monitoring firm, BI Incorporated, for four hundred and fifteen million dollars.
Mr. Gouveia's biggest feud with the authorities came a year ago, after he acquired the country's first civilian helicopter.
They had grown tired of city life, and "it seemed that the only practicable means of acquiring a country house would be by a pooling of efforts and resources".
Having just acquired a country house up in the Millbrook, N.Y., area, I looked inside an odd little shack on the property.
