The Meritorious ‘Other’: The Interconnection of Merit and Race in EU Migration and Asylum Law
Abstract Adopting a law‐in‐context approach, this article suggests that merit‐based migrant selection in the European Union (EU) is implicitly shaped by racial dynamics. With a focus on EU law and more specifically on cases from the Netherlands and Germany, it argues that the growing emphasis on merit enables a limited number of ‘racialised others’ to ...
Sarah Ganty +3 more
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The anthropomorphization of AI and the concept of Buddhist compassion in human-machine interaction. [PDF]
Miao F.
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Beyond protective factors and normal IQ in preterm children: More executive disorders than expected
Abstract Executive functions (EF) are vulnerable in preterm children. Owing to methodological issues, inconsistent findings have left some questions unresolved. This study implemented a theory‐guided, integrative EF assessment in preterm children. We also examined the impact of perinatal and sociodemographic features on EF disorder.
Olivier Cadeau +9 more
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Were camptodactyly and boutonniere deformity considered pathological in late fifteenth century Italy? Evidence from the sculptures of Francesco di Simone Ferrucci (1437-1493). [PDF]
Albury WR, Weisz GM.
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Working at Boimondau: A Community Experience
Abstract In the 1940s and 1950s, France witnessed the emergence of labor communities whose ambition was to escape capitalism and abolish wage labor. This article focuses on Boimondau, the best‐known community at the time. In terms of work, the central activity in the life of the community, two main tensions lastingly structured the collective and ...
Michel Lallement
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Exploring the Expression and Perceived Relational Correlates of Perfectionism in Higher Education: A Multicenter Study. [PDF]
Marchetti A +5 more
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Neoplatonic Symbolism by Michelangelo in Sistine Chapel's Separation of Light from Darkness. [PDF]
Suk I, Tamargo RJ.
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ABSTRACT Despite their very diverse interests, the classical sociological thinkers were concerned with analyzing the dramatic social transformations in the wake of colonialism, slavery, and modern industrial capitalism as well as the multiple revolutions, particularly in relation to the new forms of social inequalities and power disparities.
Zaheer Baber
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What are 'biohackers' hacking? Identifying motivations and meaning-making frameworks. [PDF]
Lorrimar V.
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Kant on Bullshit Jobs—Mere Means and True Means
ABSTRACT Following David Graeber's Bullshit Jobs, there has recently been academic and public discussion about useless work. Immanuel Kant maintains that we ought to be means for others and that there is a duty to be useful. Graeber and Kant are both concerned with a form of harm often overlooked in contemporary ethics and political philosophy, namely,
Martin Sticker
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