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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Les apiculteurs chinois, ces pauvres hères
Sociopoétiques, 2023 In China, beekeepers generally remain in the shadows. Most are transhumant, and their rustic lifestyle and rudimentary tasks place them at odds with contemporary social norms, between the plant and animal world and the human community, strangers among ...
Caroline GRILLOT
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A strike for democracy? Migration, the bigot's veto, and the electoral use of force
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Politicians and philosophers alike have warned that the spread of anti‐migrant bigotry in the Western world requires a tragic trade‐off regarding immigration policy: Although millions of asylum‐seekers might be owed admission to Western democracies, there are many cases where they nonetheless ought to be denied entry, because their admission ...
Shmuel Nili
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Modern problems and peculiarities of the resettlement policy of the Russian Federation
Статистика и экономика, 2017 For the effective management of migration processes, maximizing the positive outcomes and minimizing the negative consequences, in 2012 the Russian Federation adopted the Concept of the state migration policy for the period up to 2025, which defined the ...
E. F. Aydynbekov
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American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
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Infection and Drug Resistance, 2023 Lei Yue, Haiying Liu Clinical Laboratory, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Haiying Liu, Clinical Laboratory, The Affiliated Brain Hospital of Guangzhou Medical ...
Yue L, Liu H
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An Ethnographic Study of the Friendship Patterns of International Students in England: an Attempt to Recreate Home through Conational Interaction [PDF]
, 2009 This paper reports findings from an ethnographic study into the adjustment experience of a group of postgraduate international students at a university in the South of England.
Brown, Lorraine
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The Mobility Politics of Hong Kong's High‐Speed Rail
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Human geography scholarship has revealed how powerful and marginalised actors alike may use (im)mobility to exert authority, and it has recognised the ability of infrastructure to either consolidate or undermine state power. This paper uses new evidence to demonstrate how Hong Kong's express rail link (XRL) to Mainland China was implicated in ...
Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto
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International education: a force for peace and cross-cultural understanding? [PDF]
, 2009 This paper discusses the notion that the international sojourn has the potential to transform sojourners into cultural mediators who carry the power to improve global relations.
Arora R. +35 more
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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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