In this book, an international team of urban anthropologists, sociologists, and ethnographers argue that politics, intergroup relations, and development in cities cannot be understood without reference to the local contexts that endow each city with specific characteristics.
This book departs from existing studies by focusing on the impact of international influences on the society, culture, and language of both North and South Korea.
This book provides solid empirical evidence into the role that countries and communities of origin play in the migrant integration processes at destination.
This book illustrates how diasporic media can re-create conflict by transporting conflict dynamics and manifesting them back in to diaspora communities.
This book challenges the rhetoric linking 'war on terror' with 'war on human trafficking' by juxtaposing lived experiences of survivors of trafficking, refugees, and labor migrants with macro-level security concerns.
This book explores the connections between migration and terrorism and extrapolates, with the help of current research and case studies, what the future may hold for both issues.
This book investigates community interpreting services as a market offering that satisfies the needs of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) members of the Australian community, with an additional chapter on the Turkish context.
At a time when diversity is taking an increasingly prominent place in public and academic debate, Situational Diversity offers a new perspective by understanding diversity framed in the local context, characterised through different forms of social differentiation.
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.
The main focus of this book is to help better understand the multidimensionality and complexity of population displacement and the role that reconstruction and recovery knowledge and practice play in this regard.
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.
Das vorliegende Lehrbuch setzt sich mit den theoretischen Hintergründen von Migrationsphänomenen sowie den gegenwärtigen Forschungsfeldern von Migrationsstudien auseinander.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
Die empirische Studie fokussiert zentrale Mechanismen der Tabuisierungen pädagogischer Professioneller, die das Sprechen über Rassismus an Schulen strukturell behindern.
Eberhard von Einem geht in diesem essential der Frage nach, wie es Politik und Zivilgesellschaft schaffen können, alle Flüchtlinge, die sich nach Deutschland retten konnten, nicht nur in Notunterkünften, sondern in bezahlbaren Wohnungen des ‚normalen‘ Wohnungsmarktes unterzubringen.
Um Ausstieg und Deradikalisierung von Mitgliedern extremistischer Formationen auslösen, begleiten und unterstützen zu können, bedarf es eines fundierten Wirkfaktoren- und Prozessverständnisses.
Das Forschungsinteresse dieser Studie richtet sich auf das Zusammenspiel von Biografie und Professionalisierungsprozessen von Akteurinnen in Migrantinnenselbstorganisationen (MSO) bei der Ausübung ihrer Bildungs- und Beratungsarbeit.
