This book aims to provide a scholarly account of recent understandings and reflections on some of the prevalent and emerging issues in urban and regional China, such as urbanization, inequality, hukou (household registration) reforms, labor relations, not-in-my-backyard protests and environmental governance.
The Yuanpei program is an institution wide curriculum innovation, modeling on the core curriculum in Harvard which is committed to carrying out general education.
Duecks anregende und provozierende Analyse des Menschen, seiner Wege und Ziele und der Bedingungen, unter denen er sein Leben lebt, hat große Resonanz ausgelöst.
This book on mobility of health professionals reviews, analyses and summarises published information and data as well as collected interview data from stake holders, including politicians, policy makers, health service managers and migrant health workers.
In Anbetracht der hochaufgeladen geführten öffentlichen Debatte über kulturelle Zugehörigkeit und einer demgegenüber theoretisch avancierten Diskussion in den Sozialwissenschaften über Interkulturalität, ist es erstaunlich, wie wenig empirische Forschung darüber weiß, was passiert, wenn interkulturelle Konzepte pädagogisch praktisch werden.
In einer empirischen Untersuchung zeigt Caroline Düvel, welche Bedeutung junge russische Migranten dem Mobiltelefon und dem Internet zuschreiben und in welcher Beziehung die Mediennutzung zu ihrer kulturellen Verortung steht.
Anfang des Jahres 2008 demonstrierten vor allem junge Kalkerinnen und Kalker mit Migrationshintergrund über mehrere Tage gegen ihre Benachteiligung in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft.
Der Band greift die aktuelle Diskussion um Multikulturalismus in Form eines interdisziplinären Streitgesprächs zwischen Soziologie, Kulturtheorie und Pädagogik auf und ergänzt sie durch neue theoretische Perspektiven.
In den sozialwissenschaftlichen Diskursen um die Konstruktion sozialer Ungleichheitsverhältnisse berühren Fragestellungen der Intersektionalität traditionell den Dreiklang von Ethnizität, Geschlecht und Klasse.
Die Beiträge des Bandes fragen nach Möglichkeiten und Grenzen von Migrationsforschung, die sich kritisch auf Macht- und Herrschaftsdimensionen der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse beziehen.
Das vorliegende Lehrbuch setzt sich mit den theoretischen Hintergründen von Migrationsphänomenen sowie den gegenwärtigen Forschungsfeldern von Migrationsstudien auseinander.
This study suggests how traditional language-rich narrative histories of the Pale of Settlement can benefit from drawing on the large vocabularies, questions, theories and analytical methods of human geography, economics and the social sciences for an understanding of how Jewish communities responded to multiple disruptions during the nineteenth century.
This book analyses the circular migration of care workers in Central Europe using the example of Slovak carers in 24-hour care provision for the elderly in Austria.
This comparative study examines the processes of development and the configurations of export industries in northern Morocco and on the northern border of Mexico.
This book investigates the transnational experiences of Chinese Singaporeans who lived in one of four global cities: Hong Kong, London, New York, or Singapore.
This book contains empirical research from established and emerging scholars who draw upon interdisciplinary perspectives of space and place in order to investigate young people's sense of identities and belongings in diverse international contexts.
This book examines the nature of transnational organized crime and gangs, and how these diverse organizations contribute to violence, especially in so-called fragile states across Central and Latin America.
Violence, deception, fraud and abuse have always been commonplace occurrences for migrants, not only in their final country of destination but also in their countries of origin and countries of transit.
This book combines media studies and linguistics with theories of national and supranational identity to offer an interdisciplinary approach to the study of European identity/ies and news discourses.
In the context of the most significant influx of migrants in European history, the objective of this book is to provide healthcare professionals with essential knowledge and skills to effectively treat and prevent cardiovascular diseases in ethnic minorities.
This book aims to account for the reception, treatment and sometimes, eventual deportation, of asylum seekers in Ireland, by analysing how they are framed and dealt with by the Irish state.
This book addresses the 'three moments' in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) asylum seekers' and refugees' efforts to secure protection: The reasons for their flight, the Refugee Status Determination process, and their integration into the host community once they are recognized refugee status.
