Remembering African Labor Migration to the Second World

This open access book is about Mozambicans and Angolans who migrated in state-sponsored schemes to East Germany in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. They went to work and to be trained as a vanguard labor force for the intended African industrial revolutions. While they were there, they contributed their labor power to the East German economy.

English as a Medium of Instruction in Higher Education

This book presents the multiple facets of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education across various academic disciplines, an area that is expected to grow constantly in response to the competitive global higher education market. The studies presented were conducted in various EMI classrooms, with data collected from observing and documenting the teaching activities, and from i…

The Geology of Kuwait

This open access book contains a set of chapters covering all aspects of geosciences related to Kuwait and adjacent regions, including Iran, Saudi Arabia and the Arab Gulf states. It covers basic information about the geology including a wide range of geoscientific disciplines such as marine geology, structural geology, hydrogeology and geophysics related to the region. This book is aimed at re…

Understanding Globalization, Global Gaps, and Power Shifts in the 21st Century

This book aims to help readers make sense of our changing world by sharing the views of global thought leaders on some of the most important issues of our time, from US-China relations and global governance to climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. The ten dialogues in this book were part of the “China and the World” series of online discussions hosted by the Center for China and Glob…

Made-to-Measure Future(s) for Democracy?

This open access volume analyses the development of democracy at different levels of governance (from local to global). The Basque search for an institutional and democratic model that adapts to its social needs and solves its problems offers an interesting perspective for analyzing the way in which democracy is seeking new forms of materialization from the local to the global. The volume is di…

Design for Electromagnetic Compatibility--In a Nutshell

Reto B. Keller works as principal development engineer at Roche Diagnostics International Ltd., Switzerland and has over 15 years of experience in product development and Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC). He holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Applied Sciences Rapperswil, Switzerland and is president of the Academy of EMC, which delivers free education …

Migrants, Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ Integration in European Labour Markets

This open access book discusses how, and to what extent, the legal and institutional regimes and the socio-cultural environments of a range of European countries (the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Italy, Switzerland and the UK), in the framework of EU laws and policies, have a beneficial or negative impact on the effective capacity of these countries to integrate migrants, refugees …

Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-29286-7

Collation

Springer Cham

Series Title

5 b/w illustrations, 13 illustrations in colour

Call Number

XVII, 329

Corporate Liability for Transboundary Environmental Harm

This open access book aims to elaborate on the legal prerequisites to establish the liability of corporations for transboundary environmental harm, not only by identifying existing liability rules, principles and standards but also by analysing their potential for further legal development. The authors consider international and transboundary liability law to currently be an underutilised tool …

The Independent Variable Problem

This open access publication deals with the operationalisation of the welfare state as an independent variable. To study how welfare states affect social inequality, individual behaviour, attitudes and more in different countries, an empirical operationalisation of the welfare state or specific elements of social policy is required. However, this operationalisation is fraught with some impor…