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The Geography of Georgia
This book discusses the political and economic history and geography of Georgia, the problems it has faced, and how it has overcome and is still overcoming them. In most countries, at the end of the 20th century the successful resolution of social-economic, political, demographic and ecological problems was largely dependent on effectively protecting the population and economic assets from natu…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-05413-1
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- XVIII, 228, 37 b/w illustrations, 150 illustrations in colour
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- World Regional Geography Book Series
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Citizenship in Question : Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness
Citizenship is often assumed to be a clear-cut issue— either one has it or one does not. However, as the contributors to Citizenship in Question demonstrate, citizenship is not self-evident; it emerges from often obscure written records and is interpreted through ambiguous and dynamic laws. In case studies that analyze the legal barriers to citizenship rights in over twenty countries, the con…
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- 978-0822362913
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- 312 halaman
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- 320 CIT
Contested Childhoods : Growing up in Migrancy : Migration, Governance, Identi…
This open access book explores specific migration, governance, and identity processes currently involving children and ideas of childhood. Migrancy as a social space allows majority populations to question the capabilities of migrants, and is a space in which an increasing number of children are growing up. In this space, families, nation-states, civil society, as well as children themselves ar…
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- 9783319446080
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- XIV, 193 halaman
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- IMISCOE Research Series
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- 362 CON
The Criminalisation of Migration in Europe
This is the first monograph providing a comprehensive legal analysis of the criminalisation of migration in Europe. The book puts forward a definition of the criminalisation of migration as the three-fold process whereby migration management takes place via the adoption of substantive criminal law, via recourse to traditional criminal law enforcement mechanisms including surveillance and detent…
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- 1
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- 978-3-319-12658-6
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- IX, 110
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- SpringerBriefs in Law
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Migration, equality & racism
"Migration, Equality and Racism trigger ever more salient societal debates. More than 80 VUB academics and co-authors joined forces for this book. Philosophers, lawyers, psychologists, health scientists, sociologists, geographers, criminologists, communication and political scientists … look at migration, equality and racism from different disciplinary angles. Together they aim to contribute …
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- 9789461171160
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Migration and Hybrid Political Regimes Navigating the Legal Landscape in Russia
While migration has become a vital issue worldwide, mainstream literature on migrants’ legal adaptation and integration has focused on cases in Western-style democracies. We know relatively little about how migrants adapt in the ever-growing hybrid political regimes that are neither clearly democratic nor conventionally authoritarian. This book takes up the case of Russia—the third largest …
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- 9780520971257
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Transnational Solidarity in Times of Crises Citizen Organisations and Collec…
This open access collection is devoted to an in-depth, qualitative analysis of practices of cross-national solidarity in response to the current political and social crises, from citizens’ initiatives to networks of cooperation among civil society actors. The book analyses existing informal groups at the grassroots, furthering transnational solidarity in three thematic areas: disability, unem…
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Migration at Work Aspirations, Imaginaries & Structures of Mobility
"Migration and Labour Mobility The willingness to migrate in search of employment is in itself insufficient to compel anyone to move. The dynamics of labour mobility are heavily influenced by the opportunities perceived and the imaginaries held by both employers and regulating authorities in relation to migrant labour. This volume offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the structur…
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- 9789461663450
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Applied Multiregional Demography: Migration and Population Redistribution
This book shows the effectiveness of multiregional demography for studying the spatial dynamics of migration and population redistribution. It examines important questions in demographic analysis and shows how the techniques of multiregional analysis can lead to answers that sometimes contradict conventional wisdom. The book reconsiders conclusions reached in the literature regarding several…
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-22318-6
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- XV, 114
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- SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
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- 304.6 ROG a
The Tagore-Gandhi Debate on Matters of Truth and Untruth
Between 1915 and 1941, Tagore (1861-1941) and Gandhi (1869-1948) differed and argued about many things of personal, national, and international significance---satyagraha, non-cooperation, the boycott and burning of foreign cloth, the efficacy of fasting as a means of resistance and Gandhi’s mantra connecting “swaraj” and “charkha”. The author tracks the development of this dialogue an…
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- 978-81-322-2116-6
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