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Gives an overview on the important group of clandestine Chinese workers in France: the reasons why they left their home country, their labour force participation in specific areas such as restauration, garments, domestic work, and prostitution. Reviews French legislation, esp. legal enforcement relating to undocumented migrants

Cet article a pour objectif de mettre en valeur certains témoignages sur la situation des Chinois nouvellement arrivés en France (depuis moins de quatre ans), sans statut juridique, et de faire la lumière sur une zone extrêmement sensible du parcours migratoire : le voyage entre la Chine et le pays de destination (dont on sait depuis Douvres qu'il peut s'apparenter à du transport de chair humaine), et la période de remboursement de la dette durant laquelle le migrant, dans certains cas, peut travailler dans des conditions s'apparentant aux nouvelles formes d'esclavage.

Abstract Environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions are becoming significant environmental issues in China, thus the sustainable development and revival of the country is impossible using the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment. In response to the global warming, the prices of the traditional energy rise considerably, and a series of environmental problems, China must improve its own mode of economic development. Hundreds of Chinese cities have billions of square meters of buildings and most industry and the annual energy demand is an astronomical figure. China's government is facing increasing pressure in the low carbon international backdrop, and the low carbon city becomes the inevitable developmental direction of Chinese city in the foreseeable future. The description is first centered on energy structure/energy consumption per unit/urbanized status, and urban energy consumption status, and then concerned with the efforts and measures of Chinese government, to realize the energy saving. Finally, we present the developmental prospect and barriers and the promotion measures related to the low carbon city under the government policy, financial incentives and funding supports, etc.

This groundbreaking book exposes the hidden world of Chinese irregular migrants in three European countries: France, Italy and the United Kingdom.

AbstractUntreated sewage sludge potentially contains a wide range of enteric pathogens that present a risk to human health. Mesophilic anaerobic digestion (MAD) is the most‐favoured process for sewage sludge treatment in the United Kingdom. It is a well‐established approach to sludge stabilisation, but the mechanisms responsible for pathogen removal are poorly understood. Operational data collected by Thames Water from conventional MAD sites were statistically scrutinised to examine the effects of primary and secondary digestion on the removal of the enteric indicator bacteria, Escherichia coli, by using the IBM SPSS statistical software package for ANOVA, post‐hoc and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that the process temperature conditions at the MAD plants were equivalent to or exceeded the minimum estimated by the analysis necessary to comply with the 2 log10 removal standard for E. coli. The results also showed that primary digestion conditions (specifically temperature) sublethally damaged E. coli and increased decay in secondary digestion and therefore over the whole digestion process.