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Lessons from History: The Startling Rise to Power of Benito Mussolini [PDF]

, 2018
Rome-based scholar Emilio Iodice examines the circumstances that precipitated the rise of dictator Benito Mussolini in 1920s’ Italy – xenophobia, cultural bigotry, harsh governing measures, a condemned media – and draws the conclusion that some of those ...
Iodice, Emilio F
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Reconsidering the role of introduced species in the climate‐affected and highly invaded eastern Mediterranean

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Bioinvasions are considered mostly as a biodiversity and conservation hazard, but in specific situations, introduced species can bring ecological or socioeconomic benefits. We assessed the social–ecological role of marine introduced species in the eastern Mediterranean Sea—a global hotspot of bioinvasions and extirpations—and their potential ...
Stelios Katsanevakis, Jonathan Belmaker, Gil Rilov, Erez Yeruham, Andreas Konstantinidis, Maria Papazekou, Sylvaine Giakoumi, Antonios D. Mazaris   +7 more
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Political mobilisation by minorities in Britain: negative feedback of ‘race relations'? [PDF]

, 1999
This article uses a political opportunity approach to study the relationship of minority groups to the political community in Britain. The main argument is that the British race relations approach established in the 1960s had an important effect that ...
Brubaker R., Castles S., Eder K., Favell A., FitzGerald M., Geddes A., Goulbourne H., Hutnik N., Ireland P., Jones T., Koopmans R., Koopmans R., Kriesi H., Kymlicka W., Layton‐Henry Z., Mason D., McAdam D., Melucci A., Modood T., Modood T., Modood T., Modood T., Modood T., Modood T., Parekh B., Paul Statham, Poulter S., Rex J., Rex J., Rucht D., Sewell T., Shukra K., Skellington R., Solomos J., Soysal Y.N., Tarrow S., Tarrow S., Werbner P., Young I.M.   +38 more
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Las voces de Baha‐blantes: An analysis of the language learning investment of intermediate students of Spanish at the tertiary level

Foreign Language Annals, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the language learning investment of five intermediate learners of Spanish at a tertiary institution in The Bahamas. It draws on participants’ language learning journeys to consider how their previous experiences and access to language learning opportunities contributed to their investment.
Valentino Rahming
wiley   +1 more source

Problematising Civil Society- on What Terrain Does Xenophobia Flourish [PDF]

, 2010
Is there a need to reconceptualise civil society organisations (CSOs) given the fragmented, uneven, varied and sometimes contradictory responses of CSOs to the May 2008 ...
Mary Galvin, Mazibuko Jara, Patrick Bond, Trevor Ngwane   +3 more
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Two Faces of the Anti‐Inclusion Neoconservative Coin in Brazil: Neoliberalism and Far‐Right

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Brazil has recently experienced the resurgence of the far‐right, a movement that has also occurred in other countries around the world. Given this context, this article seeks to understand the factors that enabled the union among neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and the far‐right in Brazil, demonstrating that in times of economic crisis the ...
Eloisio Moulin de Souza
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Applying Conversational Thinking to the Problem of Xenophobia in Multicultural Societies

Arụmarụka, 2021
Multicultural societies are faced with the problem of xenophobia – the fear, dislike, and discrimination against strangers. Xenophobia has its root in the ontology of ‘the self’ and ‘the other’, where ‘the self’” is ‘the indigenes’ and ‘the other,’ ‘the ...
Lucky Uchenna OGBONNAYA
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No. 70: International Migrants and Refugees in Cape Town’s Informal Economy [PDF]

, 2015
This report is the most comprehensive study yet of the contribution of migrant and refugee entrepreneurs to Cape Town’s local economy. The survey of over 500 entrepreneurs engaged in trade, services and manufacturing in different areas of the city ...
Chikanda, Abel, Crush, Jonathan, Tawodzera, Godfrey, Tengeh, Robertson   +3 more
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“Working the Pages”: Entrepreneurship Strategies of Venezuelan Trans Women Refugees Who Enter Sex Work in Brazil During COVID‐19

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Venezuelan refugee crisis has displaced nearly 8 million people, with transgender and queer refugees among the most marginalized groups. This paper explores the intersecting precarity and entrepreneurship of Venezuelan trans women refugees who became sex workers in Brazil during COVID‐19.
Yvonne Su, Tyler Valiquette, David J. Kinitz, Clara de Oliveira Cunha   +3 more
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Flexible Contract, Flexible Morale? Microcredit Design and Repayment Discipline

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Flexible repayment benefits borrowers, but practitioners fear increased moral hazard. Investigating their concerns requires disentangling repayment choices from repayment capacity, which is typically infeasible in field studies. We use a lab‐in‐the‐field experiment with 645 microcredit borrowers to cleanly identify the effect of repayment ...
Kristina Czura, Anett John, Lisa Spantig
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