Protest mobilization and outcome; Political participation; Emotions and social ties; Deportation nation; Refugees; Pro-migrant protest; Anti-migrant protest
employment; social policy; care; decentralization; service users; vouchers; welfare reform
Modern information and communication technologies, together with a cultural upheaval within the research community, have profoundly changed research in nearly every aspect. Ranging from sharing and discussing ideas in social networks for scientists to new collaborative environments and novel publication formats, knowledge creation and dissemination as we know it is experiencing a vigorous shift…
Social Policy, Politics and Economics of Welfare, Business and Management, Innovation, Sociology, Economic Sociology, Politics, Citizenship, Social Policy and Welfare
Politics, International Relations, Sociology, Asian Studies, Asian Politics and Law, Development, Migration, Ethnicity and Identity, General
Public administration of asylum applications in Europe; Determining refugee status in street-level bureaucracy; Individual-institution interaction; Institutional ethnography; Theory of social practices; Immigration in Europe
This book argues that the expansion of administrative activities in today’s working life is driven not only by pressure from above, but also from below. The authors examine the inner dynamics of people-processing organizations—those formally working for clients, patients, or students—to uncover the hidden attractions of doing administrative work, despite all the complaints and laments abo…
In the context of Turkey's accession to the EU, the issue of potential migration from Turkey and its impact upon European labor markets became one of the concerns of the EU, considering Turkey's growing population and young labor force. In 2011, half a century after the bi-lateral agreement between Turkey and Germany on labor recruitment in 1961, migration plays a key role in relations of Turke…
Mark Erlich wrote With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts during an extraordinarily creative period in U.S. labor studies. The late 1970s saw the National Endowment for the Humanities and its state councils sponsoring ambitious public projects focused on labor unions, working-class culture, and community history. Two years after a display commemorating the centennial of the Uni…
Economic Transformation Audit 2005 – Conflict and Governance interrogates the manner in which South Africa’s economy is transforming the country’s political and social landscape. It scrutinises the data for directions of development and pointers for future policy. This edition mobilises acknowledged experts in these areas to apply high-calibre political and statistical analysis to the exi…