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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Family financial assistance with home ownership has attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. However, the role of culture and ethnicity, transnational ties, and migration in this practice remains significantly under‐addressed.
Julia Cook
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Pravo, 2010 Irregular migration is a movement that takes place outside the regulatory norms of the sending, transit and receiving countries. the united Nations Convention against transnational Organized Crime, along with its Protocols, considers human trafficking ...
Antonela Arhin
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article rethinks meritocratic ideology as practical knowledge that transforms through biographies of social and geographical mobility. Drawing on 37 interviews with Black and Muslim Italians living in Britain or returned to Italy, the article shows that meritocracy is rarely invoked as a coherent ideology but works as practical, embodied ...
Simone Varriale, Michela Franceschelli
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Black Lives Matter! Nigerian Lives Matter!: Language and Why Black Performance Matters
Genealogy, 2019 This essay explores performance as a language by looking at its appropriation by other cultures, and the associated history of the crafted phrases that are borrowed along.
Abimbola A. Adelakun
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A “Tech First” Approach to Foreign Policy? The Three Meanings of Tech Diplomacy
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Scholars have recently argued that international politics is plagued by instability as the world rapidly transitions from one crisis to another. This state of “Permacrisis,” or permanent crises between states, is driven by technological innovations which create new kinds of crises and drive competitions between adversarial states.
Ilan Manor
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Nsukka Journal of Religion and Cultural StudiesThe study of the religion of the Yoruba, discusses key religious concepts based on presumed existence of Olódùmarè (God). Such discussions do not ask whether Olódùmarè exists or how he came to be.
Akinmayowa Akin-Otiko
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Construction of home by Polish and Lithuanian migrants in the UK [PDF]
, 2006 Researchers across the social sciences and humanities have sought to understand the nature of people's affiliation with a particular place, to understand the emotional and symbolic ties that bind people to a place and make them feel at home.
Parutis, V.
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Norwegian Blues? Rethinking the Idea of Middle Powers in an Era of Fuzzy Bifurcation
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Unsuccessful efforts to update the middle power concept for the contemporary international system have prompted calls for the concept to be “historicized”—to be retired from common use and treated as a purely historical term. The problem with this proposal is that “middle power” has become increasingly popular in the 2020s in analysis ...
Kim Richard Nossal
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Foreign Aid at a Crossroads: How Funding Cuts Reshape Global Development Cooperation
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent aid budget reductions among major donor countries have reignited debates over the future of international development cooperation, with several commentators warning of an impending collapse of the aid sector. Engaging with historical and critical development literature on aid cycles, donor motives, and the evolution of Official ...
Steffi Hamann
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The Beginnings of Polish Jewry: Reevaluating the Evidence for the Eleventh to Fourteenth Centuries
Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, 2021 Alexander Kulik, Judith Kalik
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