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A Seat at the Table: Five Steps to Making Latin American Politics More Diverse [PDF]

, 2017
The story of political representation is not unlike many narratives in Latin America. Progress has been made, with some notable success cases, but the region is still home to stark contrasts and there is much work to be done.
Andrew Downie
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Demographic development in North and South - global trends and challenges for education [PDF]

, 2012
After looking at today\u27s demographic situation, this paper will attempt to demonstrate the need for lifelong learning. It will briefly review the current world situation in terms of ageing, health, poverty and hunger, urbanisation and migration.
Carlsen, Arne
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Negros apoyos. Milicianos afrodescendientes, transición política y cambio de estatus en la era de las independencias (capitanías de São Paulo y Pernambuco, Brasil, 1790-1830)

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2014
We analyzed in this article afro-descendants militiamen of Pernambuco and São Paulo, captaincies of the Portuguese America. We examine the ways in which these people lived and represented the transition process from a society of the old or oligarchic ...
Luiz Geraldo Silva, Fernando Prestes de Souza   +1 more
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Immigrants and body modifications in the consumer society [PDF]

, 2018
This article presents the results of the research project “Identity process, immigration and plastic surgeries”. The investigation took place from 2013 to 2014 in Portugal and Spain.
Ennes, Marcelo, Ramos, Natália
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Afro-Brazilian Returnee Festivals: From Brazilian Bumba-Meu-Boi to Contemporary Lagos Carnival

Genealogy
Drawing upon the works of Kazadi wa Mukuma, Gerhard Kubik, Carlos de Lima, Vivian Gotheim, Wilson Nogueira, Temitope Fagunwa, and Alaba Simpson, this study traced the evolution of Bumba-Meu-Boi from its regional origins in Maranhao, Brazil, to its ...
Niyi Afolabi
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Land Rights and Socio-Economic Development of Afro-Brazilian Communities [PDF]

, 2010
Law students and recent graduates who spent the Spring 2010 semester studying the land rights of Afro-Brazilian communities have submitted their final report to community leaders and Brazilian government officials, institutions, and non-government ...
Browne, Noah, Dana, Anne, Shea, Katherine   +2 more
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Afrodescendientes e indígenas en Uruguay

Caravelle
This article explores samples of research on the developments in Uruguay over the past twenty-five years regarding the recognition of its historical ethnic and racial multiculturalism.
Mónica Olaza
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Cinematic and Literary Representations of Africans and Afro-descendants in Contemporary Portugal: Conviviality and conflict on the margins

Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2012
This article offers an analysis of feature films and literary fiction related to sub-Saharan African immigrants and their descendants in contemporary Portugal.
Fernando Arenas
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To What Extent do Latin Americans Trust and Cooperate? Field Experiments on Social Exclusion In Six Latin American Countries [PDF]

This paper explores the extent to which individuals trust, reciprocate, cooperate and pool risk by using a battery of field experiments containing the trust game, the voluntary contributions mechanism and the risk pooling game; applied in six capital ...
Alberto Chong, Hugo Ñopo, Juan Camilo Cardenas   +2 more
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Social Preferences Among the People of Sanquianga in Colombia [PDF]

The afro-descendent people of the Sanquianga region in the Colombian Pacific Coast live under particularly extreme poverty conditions. Although highly integrated to markets through very frequent interactions, their access to basic social services and ...
Juan Camilo Cárdenas
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