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Migrating and Settling in a Mobile World:Albanian Migrants and Their Children…
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VATHI, Zana

This open access book draws on award-winning cross-generational research comparing the complex and life-changing processes of settlement among Albanian migrants and their adolescent children in three European cities: London (UK), Thessaloniki (Greece), and Florence (Italy). Building on key concepts from the social sciences and migration studies, such as identity, integration and transnationalis…

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978-3-319-36635-7
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XI
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IMISCOE Research Series
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Ethics, Economics and Social Institutions
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PANDIT, Vishwanath

The book highlights the ethical aspects and issues that are inherent to economics in the context of today’s prominent social institutions. It reviews a range of problems concerning dominant social institutions, namely markets, government agencies, corporate entities, financial networks, and religious systems. Further, in each case, the book takes a detailed look at the economic problems as th…

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978-981-10-0899-3
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4 illustrations in colour
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Mutual Insurance 1550-2015
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LEEUWEN, Marco H. D. Van

In the modern Western world, we tend to be insured by the state or for-profit insurers. We have privileged this system over mutual or micro-insurance, whose long and rich history we tend to forget. Yet, mutual and micro-insurance is becoming increasingly important, both in the Western and in the non-Western world and bears re-examination. This book traces the track record of mutual insurance…

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978-1-137-53109-4
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XIII, 321
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Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance
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The Sociology of Shari’a: Case Studies from around the World
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POSSAMAI, Adam

This edited volume offers a collection of papers that present a comparative analysis of the development of Shari’a in countries with Muslim minorities, such as America, Australia, Germany, and Italy, as well as countries with Muslim majorities, such as Malaysia, Bangladesh, Turkey, and Tunisia. The Sociology of Shari’a provides a global analysis of these important legal transformations a…

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978-3-319-09605-6
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