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Cultural Integration of Immigrants in Europe
The concepts of cultural diversity and cultural identity are at the forefront of the political debate in many western societies. In Europe, the discussion is stimulated by the political pressures associated with immigration flows, which are increasing in many European countries. The imperatives that current immigration trends impose on European democracies bring to light a number of issues that…
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Migrationsschule
At school, not only arithmetic and writing is taught. Pupils also learn to behave male or female, which means to be poor or rich - and to distinguish who is considered ""foreigner"" and who is not. In order to understand the significance of migration and ethnicity in everyday school life, the author accompanied and observed teachers and pupils at a new middle school in Tyrol. The resulting obse…
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- 9783903122765
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Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden
Migrants and Literature in Finland and Sweden presents new comparative perspectives on transnational literary studies. This collection provides a contribution to the production of new narratives of the nation. The focus of the contributions is contemporary fiction relating to experiences of migration. The volume discusses multicultural writing, emerging modes of writing and generic innovations.…
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- 9789518580358
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Passages Westward
The West has always been a resource for the Finns. Scholars, artists and other professionals have sought contacts from Europe throughout the centuries. The Finnish experience in Western Europe and the New World is a story of migrant laborers, expatriates and specialists working abroad. But you don’t have to be born in Finland to be a Finn. The experiences of second-generation Finnish immigran…
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Becoming Donor-Conceived : The Transformation of Anonymity in Gamete Donation
While it has been argued that anonymity in gamete donation has been brought to an end by legal changes and technological developments, Amelie Baumann suggests that this is in fact still in transformation. By focusing on the narratives of those who were conceived with anonymously donated gametes in the UK and Germany, she examines this transformative process and the role which donor-conceived pe…
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- 978-3-8394-5731-3
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- 571.845 BAU b
The Reindeer Botanist : Alf Erling Porsild, 1901-1977
This well-researched book is the first biography of one of Canadas most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator of botany at the National Museum of Canada. He collected thousands of specimens, greatly enlarging the National Herbarium and making it a superb research centre. For nearly twenty years, Porsild s…
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- 978-1-55238-588-3
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- Northern lights, 1925-2943 ; 14
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Nature, nurture and chance : the lives of Frank and Charles Fenner
Frank Fenner’s life, as it unfolds in these pages, marks a significant piece of thehistory of Australian science. His chapters are studded with the names of manyof the major players in pathology, microbiology and the rising field of virologywith whose lives he interconnected, and his mode of inserting boxed informationon these participants throughout his text provides valuable biograp…
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- 1 920942 63 7
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The Naturalist and his ‘Beautiful Islands’ : Charles Morris Woodford in t…
‘I know no place where firm and paternal government would sooner produce beneficial results then in the Solomons … Here is an object worthy indeed the devotion of one’s life’. Charles Morris Woodford devoted his working life to pursuing this dream, becoming the first British Resident Commissioner in 1897 and remaining in office until 1915, establishing the colonial state almost singl…
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- 9781925022025
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- 577.099 593 LAW n
Maverick Mathematician : The Life and Science of J.E. Moyal
There is currently a recognition of the importance of the stories ofindividual scientists (outside the pantheon of giants and leading disciplinefigures) in building the history of science. Such individuals are uniquemen and women of outstanding ability, drawn from different countriesand backgrounds, some of whose personal trajectories may move outsidethe practices and paradigms o…
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- 1 920942 59 9
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Intersections : History, Memory and Discipline
The present book comprises a selection of these shorter pieces, but it is a selection of a selection. Many of Lal’s journal articles on the indenture system in Fiji have already been republished within single covers (Chalo Jahaji: On a journey through indenture in Fiji, 2000; reissued 2006) and his more creative writings (‘faction’) have appeared in a number of volumes, beginning with Mr …
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