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A Tale of Two Choices: Son Preference and Reproductive Outcomes in Uzbekistan
ABSTRACT In this study, we use data from the recent round of the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) conducted between 2021 and 2022 to estimate the effect of son preference on reproductive behavior in Uzbekistan. We find strong evidence for differential stopping and spacing behavior among Uzbek women.
Khilola Dushamova +3 more
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Enlargement Goes Western Balkans-Croatian Institutions in Time [:] Sluggish Institutional Evolution, Resilience, and Shallow Europeanisation [PDF]
The overarching focus of this thesis is the institutional (and policy) consequences of European integration for the Republic of Croatia. So far, most research on ‘candidate Europeanisation’ has focused on the impact of EU conditionality on the domestic ...
Chatzigiagkou, Georgios
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Insider/Outsider/Transsiders of Transnational Migration
ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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Experiences from the Balkans. What Truly Happens When Exporting Democracy
This paper discusses the impact of the Western assistance for democracy in the Balkans (Eastern Europe), as civil society development programs. The analysis of the situation in the Balkans leads to the conclusion that the main consequence of this Western
Steve Sampson
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Little Fish in Big Ponds: The Pathways to Inclusion for Micro‐Minorities in Power‐Sharing Societies
Abstract Emergent critique of consociations has focused on how micro‐minority ‘others’ are frequently excluded from the opportunities presented by power‐sharing systems, with dominant elites shutting them out. Therefore, a key question is: how do the political elites of micro‐minorities gain more meaningful inclusion by adopting or navigating the ...
Aleksandra Zdeb, Drew Mikhael
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ABSTRACT Subfamily Leuciscinae, the largest freshwater fish group of the western Palearctic region, has been widely studied, including the phylogenetic relationships between its species and genera. However, until now, one genus completely escaped attention in this regard. Even though several works hypothesised about its evolutionary relationships based
Jasna Vukić +3 more
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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War
Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
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(Dis)trust in doctors and public and private healthcare institutions in the Western Balkans. [PDF]
Maljichi D +10 more
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Western Balkans: Between Europe and Balkanization.
Western Balkans IS an area relieving continuous fluidity inside the layers of histories and their respective products. Always in between East and West, following up the proper vocations, some of them visible and some other hidden, which in every moment in history have been translated in simple words: "Where to go?!" Today's reality in Western Balkans ...
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ABSTRACT This article reconceptualizes migrant smuggling along the Balkan Route through the lens of the smuggling assemblage, which captures the fluid, relational and context‐dependent nature of clandestine mobility. Based on multi‐sited ethnographic fieldwork between 2020 and 2023 across six countries, including 85 semi‐structured interviews and ...
Muhammed Yasir Bodur +1 more
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