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The distinctive incorporation of sociological neoinstitutionalism into Japanese sociology and its theoretical insights for the discipline

open access: yesJapanese Journal of Sociology, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 206-223, March 2025.
Abstract Although sociological neoinstitutionalist thought has made indelible imprints across the social sciences in Japan, its incorporation into Japanese sociology at large has been relatively limited, and its broader applications to analyses of global social phenomena using World Society Theory are even less prominent.
Ralph I. Hosoki
wiley   +1 more source

UNHCR and responses to statelessness [PDF]

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2009
UNHCR and other actors have stepped up efforts to address statelessness. However, the global impact of statelessness is not yet sufficiently understood and far more needs to be done.
Mark Manly, Santhosh Persaud
doaj  

The Scottish Industrial Relations System: A Hybrid System Shaped by State Policy in Nation Building to Challenge the UK Liberal Market Economy Approach

open access: yesIndustrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines Scotland's industrial relations system, highlighting divergence from Westminster's neoliberal model. It emphasizes the role of the State in shaping Fair Work and skills policies that prioritise trade union voice, legitimacy, and partnership working. Nonetheless, limited enforcement, weak employer coordination, and political
Melanie Simms
wiley   +1 more source

Territory, values, and health law in a devolved United Kingdom: examining the role of the gift in opt‐out organ donation

open access: yesJournal of Law and Society, EarlyView.
Abstract Devolution since 1998 has seen administrations in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales gain distinct powers over a range of policy fields, with health prominent among them. This poses two pressing questions for socio‐legal scholarship that we address in this article: to what extent are changing territorial arrangements significant ...
MATTHEW WATKINS   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Statelessness determination: the Swiss experience

open access: yesForced Migration Review, 2017
While a detailed law on statelessness determination is recommended by UNHCR and others, Swiss practice in statelessness determination has evolved without one. Despite this, Swiss practice has been shown to be rather progressive, at least in some areas of
Karen Hamann
doaj  

Looking Beyond Invisibility: Rohingyas’ Dangerous Encounters with Papers and Cards

open access: yesTilburg Law Review, 2019
State registration and identity documents are often promoted as a way to lift an individual out of the condition of statelessness and begin to redress their deficit of rights.
Natalie Brinham
doaj   +1 more source

Journey to the Centre of the State: Catalans in Madrid and Scots in London

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In recent years, comparative studies between Scotland and Catalonia have grown substantially, especially those dealing with the territorial embeddedness of these territories in the United Kingdom and Spain. Despite this, comparative research on the integration of Catalans and Scots in the decision‐making of central state institutions is ...
Javier Antón‐Merino
wiley   +1 more source

Home‐Making Through Deathscapes or How to Circumvent the Contradictions of Nationalism: The Case of Polish Far‐Right Activists in Britain

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using the case of Polish far‐right activists in Britain, this paper explores how migrants joining far‐right groups in countries of residence reconcile their own transnational lives with nativist attachment to the national soil. The paper adopts an anthropological framework on discursive and performative strategies used to navigate this ...
Rafal Soborski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transnational Nationalisms Reflections on Nationalism and Territory in Globalization

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transnational practices redefine nationalism: a nonterritorial sense of belonging for groups and extraterritorial sovereignty for states. Territory is at the core of the analysis in both cases. For groups and communities' transnationalism leads to a new imagined community guided by an “imagined geography” that is not territorial.
Riva Kastoryano
wiley   +1 more source

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