This 2007-2008 edition of the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean comes 60 years after the first session of ECLAC, when the Executive Secretary of the Commission was mandated by the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the countries attending the session to undertake "the collection, evaluation and dissemination of [...] economic, technological and statistical informati…
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
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…