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Dreams and Schemes in Queens, New York: Immigrant Struggles to Find Work and Get Status in the Face of Consumer Fraud [PDF]
This report documents the systemic nature of consumer frauds committed against immigrants and offers solutions for improved laws, policies, and enforcement mechanisms to better protect immigrants.
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Abstract Kurdish smugglers have been targeted and killed by security forces in Turkey's Van borderlands systematically and with impunity. In response, the killed smugglers’ families and their lawyers conducted what I call vernacular counterforensics—the forensic examination both of the killings and of the legal authorities’ failure to investigate them ...
Fırat Bozçalı
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The collation of biodiversity datasets with broad taxonomic and biogeographic extents is necessary to understand historical declines and to project – and hopefully avert – future declines. We describe a newly collated database of more than 1.6 million biodiversity measurements from 78 countries representing over 28,000 species, collated from existing ...
Lawrence N. Hudson +242 more
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Abstract This paper explores selective aspects of the historical processes of organization of the kichwa peasantry in the Andes of Ecuador. Based on the analysis of two representative cases of confrontation between peasants and landowners over access to land in the province of Chimborazo, it discusses the relevance of the concept of “gamonalismo” as ...
Víctor Bretón
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Acquired Dyslexia in Spanish: A Review and Some Observations on a New Case of Deep Dyslexia
Readers and writers of Spanish use an orthography that is highly transparent. It has been proposed that readers of Spanish can rely on grapheme‐phoneme correspondences, alone, to access meaning or phonology from print. In recent years, a number of case studies have yielded evidence inconsistent with this idea.
Robert Davies, Fernando Cuetos
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Los Derechos Humanos se conquistan en la lucha: Igualdad racial, activismo jurídico y la defensa de las causas colectivas en el sur de Brasil [PDF]
This article analyzes the relation between the defense of collective causes related to race and professional performance based on judicial expertise in southern Brazil. It focuses on a group of lawyers who act professionally in defense of racial equality
Rios Petraca, Fernanda
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Abstract In recent years, several ERP studies have investigated whether the early computation of agreement is permeable to the emotional content of words. Some studies have reported interactive effects of grammaticality and emotionality in the left anterior negativity (LAN) component, while others have failed to replicate these results.
Lucia Vieitez +4 more
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Estrategia de exigibilidad jurídica de los Derechos Económicos, Sociales y Culturales en Colombia mediante acciones jurídicas en el plano nacional e internacional [PDF]
Nuevas contextos exigen nuevas estrategias. Pero no puede hablarse de una estrategia de exigibilidad si ésta carece de una sostenibilidad de actores, de organizaciones, de sujetos sociales que se reconozcan como sujetos, como titulares de derechos y, por
Colectivo de Abogados José Alvear Restrepo
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Abstract This article aims to contribute to aligning the legal regimes for energy transition minerals with sustainability and justice. The focus of the article is on effectively embedding the human right to a healthy environment into the design of these regimes.
Ana Elizabeth Bastida
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E-justicia en Ecuador: inclusión de las TIC en la administración de justicia
Las nuevas tecnologías irrumpieron con fuerza y nos han situado en lo que se conoce como la 4.0 revolución industrial; han tenido incidencia directa en cada aspecto de nuestras vidas privadas así como en la administración pública, inclu-yendo a la ...
María Carolina Sacoto Romo +1 more
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