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Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe
Issue Mapping for an Ageing Europe is a seminal guide to mapping social and political issues with digital methods. The issue at stake concerns the imminent crisis of an ageing Europe and its impact on the contemporary welfare state. The book brings together three leading approaches to issue mapping: Bruno Latour's social cartography, Ulrich Beck's risk cartography and Jeremy Crampton's critical…
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- 9789048524457
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- 300 ROG i
Islam, Civil Society and Social Work
The thesis analyses the role of Muslim voluntary welfare associations in Jordan from the perspective of their religious discourse and the related social activities, to assess whether they contribute to empowerment or reinforce dependency
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- 9789053569955
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- 297 HAR i
Irregular Migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands: Aspirations and Incorporation
In Irregular Migrants in Belgium and the Netherlands, Masja van Meeteren studies the different ways in which irregular migrants live in Belgium and the Netherlands. The book offers an empirically grounded theoretical critique of the dominant research practice that focuses on 'survival strategies', relies on comparisons of migrant communities and overemphasizes structural explanations. Instead, …
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- 9789048523085
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- 300 MEE i
The integration of The Second Generation in Germany: Results of The Ties Surv…
This report on the German results of the Integration of the Second Generation in Europe (TIES) survey looks at the integration process for secondgeneration inhabitants of Turkish and Yugoslavian backgrounds living in Berlin and Frankfurt. Examining the TIES results, Inken Sürig and Maren Wilmes discuss diverse topics such as educational outcomes, segregation and housing, ethnic and cultural or…
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- 9789089648426
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The Integration of Descendants of Migrants from Turkey in Stockholm: The TIES…
This timely book, which is based on the results of the Integration of the Second Generation in Europe survey, presents the disturbing results of a recent study in Stockholm that examines the experiences of residents descended from Turkish migrants. Focusing on three different ethnonational groups “Turks, Kurds, and Syriacs" the contributors explore issues such as identity, family situation,…
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- 9789048526956
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Innovative Concepts for Alternative Migration Policies
Based on the strengths of combined ideas from migration researchers, policy experts, and representatives of international organisations, this timely volume provides eight basic principles for the design of innovative migration policy. Presents new proposals for innovative migration policies.
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The Impact of Losing Your Job: Unemployment and Influences from Market, Famil…
Losing a job has always been understood as one of the most important causes of downward social mobility in modern societies. And it's only gotten worse in recent years, as the weakening position of workers has made re-entering the labour market even tougher. The Impact of Losing Your Job builds on findings from life course sociology to show clearly just what effects job loss has on income, fami…
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- 9789048526352
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- 300 EHL i
Immigration and Social Systems
Popular science
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- 9789089644534
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Working Together in Vanuatu Research Histories, Collaborations, Projects and…
This collection is derived from a conference held at the Vanuatu National Museum and Cultural Centre (VCC) that brought together a large gathering of foreign and indigenous researchers to discuss diverse perspectives relating to the unique program of social, political and historical research and management that has been fostered in that island nation. While not diminishing the importance of ind…
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- 9781921862359
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Immigrant Performance in the Labour Market: Bonding and Bridging Social Capital
To what extent can different forms of social capital help immigrants make headway on the labour market? An answer to this pressing question begins here. Taking the Netherlands and Germany as case studies, the book identifies two forms of social capital that may work to increase employment, income and occupational status and, conversely, decrease unemployment. New insights into the concepts of b…
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