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
Migration; History, general; Cities, Countries, Regions; Demography
This book is the product of a collaborative effort involving partners from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America who were funded by the International Development Research Centre Programme on Women and Migration (2006-2011). The International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam spearheaded a project intended to distill and refine the research findings, connecting them to…
Migration; Social Structure, Social Inequality; Childhood, Adolescence and Society; Sociology, general
Migration; Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns); Political Science
Migration; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law
Migration; Knowledge - Discourse; Public Policy
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
The periodic emergence of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation in Amazonia have given rise to sensational media reports and heated academic debate. In this chapter we describe briefly the historical and contemporary relations between indigenous peoples in and out of isolation in the Guiana Shield region of North-eastern South America and discuss the role of indigenous missionaries i…