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Politics requires collective deliberation, but what happens when people cannot agree on how to deliberate? Anthropologists and other social scientists have urged us to look beyond the hegemonic liberal ideal of public reason, in order to recognize a plurality of publics, each held together by distinctive forms of reason.
Farhan Samanani
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In the first part the paper discusses the immigration of various peoples to Sweden, Swedish immigration policy and reforms, the level of knowledge of the Swedish language among immigrants and the incorporation of immigrants into the political life of ...
Avguštin Budja
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DESCRIPTIVE ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION PHENOMENON IN ROMANIA BETWEEN 1991 AND 2008 [PDF]
Migration represented and represents a very important phenomenon at global level, taking into consideration besides its demographic implications, its extremely diverse implications such as socio-economic, socio-cultural, territorial, or environmental ...
Bac Dorin Paul +2 more
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Introduction: Labor Migration in Ukraine and the Post-Soviet Space
This themed section of Dve domovini / Two Homelands illuminates significant contemporary migration and labor migration trends in the post-Soviet space.
Zhanna Bolat
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Migration and Economic Growth: a 21st Century Perspective [PDF]
While there is extensive literature on the determinants of migration and its microeconomic effects, the New Zealand theoretical or empirical literature specifically examining the effects of migration on economic growth is not as comprehensive.
Cat Moody
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Turkey: Change from an emigration to an immigration and now to a transit migration country [PDF]
In the post Second World War period Turkey was an emigration country for a long time. But things have changed since. After the end of the Cold War and the breakup of the Soviet Union, immigration from the neighborhood to Turkey increased substantially. A
Elitok, Secil Pacaci, Straubhaar, Thomas
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Disability, Gender and Segregation in the Britain–Australia Convict System
ABSTRACT This article assesses the gendered experiences of disability and segregation among prisoners in colonial (1830s) New South Wales. I use the distinction between impairment and disability from the ‘social model of disability’ to show that the disabling capacities of impairments varied depending on wider social structures and beliefs, and on each
Emily Cock
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Remittances, lagged dependent variables and migration stocks as determinants of migration from developing countries [PDF]
In regressions for net immigration flows of developing countries we show that (i) savings finance emigration and worker remittances serve to make staying rather than migrating possible until a certain value, beyond which the opposite holds; (ii) lagged ...
Ziesemer, Thomas
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ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate if the reduced likelihood of reproducing among women born small for gestational age (SGA), preterm (PT) or with low birth weight (LBW) persists towards the end of their reproductive era and to evaluate their use of medically assisted reproduction (MAR). Design Population‐based register study. Setting Sweden.
Susanne Liffner +3 more
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