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That sinkin’ feeling: Environmentally induced distress on a disappearing island
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Residents of Tangier Island, Virginia, a subsiding island in the Chesapeake Bay, embody psychosocial dimensions of environmental change. Analysis of ethnographic data shows islanders’ experiences and articulations of anxiety, panic, and despair as “that sinkin’ feeling,” resulting from the stress of living with the long‐term threat of imminent
Jonna Yarrington
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Selection into Mixed Marriages: Evidence from North Carolina, 1894-1906 [PDF]
, 2015 Using a novel dataset from agricultural censuses and geological sources, I examine the selec- tion into mixed marriages between whites and Cherokee Indians in North Carolina during the late nineteenth century.
Gregg, Matthew T.
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Multiculturalism, Majority Rights and the Established Culture
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent critiques of multiculturalism contend that it is the ethnic or cultural majority in Western democracies that is now most vulnerable to cultural and identity dissolution, thus entitling it to majority rights on much the same grounds that multiculturalists defend minority rights. These critiques follow and perpetuate the binary opposition
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
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Integration Before Multiculturalism
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite research which shows that, over the last 40 years, most Western states have steadily enhanced their multicultural policies, on the ground, reality tells a different story. Today, Western governments are closing their borders and reversing long‐standing programmes that welcomed newcomers, whereas immigrants continue to be targets of ...
Avigail Eisenberg
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Marrying across Borders in Latin America: Visualizing Intermarriage Flows
SociusThe authors propose an adaptation of the well-known “circular plot,” traditionally used to quantify international migration flows, to visualize patterns of intermarriage within Latin American countries.
Adriana Robles +4 more
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GephyraThe paper examines an unexpected fibula find from the Bahçelievler (in Bilecik) site, notable for its Neolithic artifacts. A bronze fibula bearing a button attachment was discovered during salvage excavations at this small yet highly significant site in ...
Emre Erdan, Erkan Fidan
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Demographic Research, 2017 Background: According to assimilation theory, the more immigrants are integrated within host countries the more likely they are to intermarry. However, status exchange theory argues instead that when integration is low, immigrants may use intermarriage ...
Davide Azzolini, Raffaele Guetto
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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply [PDF]
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on
Gevrek, Deniz +2 more
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I’ll marry you if you get me a job: cross-nativity marriages and immigrant employment rates [PDF]
, 2008 This paper tests whether marriage to a native affects the probability that an immigrant is employed. We provide a theoretical background which explains how marriage to a native may positively or negatively affect an immigrant’s employment probability ...
Furtado, D., Theodoropoulos, N.
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Identity, Nationalism and Integration in Diverse Societies
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, societies are visibly more diverse, and cultural plurality is becoming a familiar even if not always accepted feature of the public space. Paradoxically enough, democratic nations are becoming more polarized and internally divided. How do we address this issue? How can we depolarize our societies?
Gurpreet Mahajan, Anna Triandafyllidou
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