Social and ethical issues

Migration has become, since the nineties, the subject of growing international discussion and cooperation.

Unfree labor has not disappeared from advanced capitalist economies.

In this edited book, we provide foundational tenets of Gandhian perspective, and present examples of social organizations that are aiming to insulate themselves by adopting community and village-centered approaches to restructuring socially-embedded economic activities that align with Gandhian principles.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19 is the first comprehensive research guide for researchers and students who seek to study and evaluate the complex relationship between gender and COVID-19.

Among the political institutions inherited from Canada's British past is the system by which people are elected to office.

After fleeing homophobia and threats to her life in her native El Salvador, 'Carla' was detained for two years inside the Buffalo Federal Detention Center.

What impact on the safety of incarcerated individuals does race, gender, and sexual orientation have?

Drawing on a corpus of 113 narratives told by migrant workers who have returned to their home country, Ladegaard details Indonesian and Filipina (domestic) migrant workers' experiences of homecoming after years of work abroad, separated from their loved ones.

What is the moral of the human trafficking story, and how can the narrative be shaped and evolved?

This book untangles the components of police education and advocates a robust community-based training model with significant civilian oversight.

Thirty-years of economic transformation has turned China into one of the major players in the global capitalist economy.

What is feminist transdisciplinary research?

CNBC anchor Trish Regan takes you behind the scenes of America's thriving pot industry, to show readers things only drug dealers know about this secret world.

This book addresses an issue of international, national and local importance-HIV/AIDS-an issue where the predominant attention is on the humanitarian and developmental catastrophe that it is accused of leading to, particularly in the developing world.

In today's workplaces we work harder and longer, labouring under the illusion that this will bring us more wealth.

Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor?

The South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans.

This book analyses the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on three ethnic minorities in three European cities: Bangladeshi in London, Turks in Stuttgart and Peruvians in Milan.

Risk Society and School Educational Policy explores the impact of risk society on policy in the US, UK and Australia through both practical and theoretical perspectives.

Britain's work camp systems have never before been studied in depth.

Long before most school programs begin anti-bullying campaigns, young girls are getting a full education in social aggression.

Fast jeder hat Erfahrungen mit Siri, Alexa oder anderen Chatbots.

Settlers at the end of empire traces the development of racialised migration regimes in South Africa, Rhodesia (present-day Zimbabwe) and the United Kingdom from the Second World War to the end of apartheid in 1994.

Arnovis couldn't stay in El Salvador.

The Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in response to the widespread decline of manufacturing and heavy industry from the 1980s onward.

This book explores an increasingly important issue for legal systems across the world.

The book's main focus is on extremist ideologies and structural capabilities of violent non-state actors that employ terrorist means.

Unemployment, poverty and the role of the state were themes which structured the discourse of social theory and the developing social legislation in Britain at the end of the Victorian period and the early twentieth century.

Exacerbated by the Great Recession, youth transitions to employment and adulthood have become increasingly protracted, precarious, and differentiated by gender, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status.

First published in 1982, this book considers the position of young Afro-Caribbean people in Britain, in the 1980s.

This title was first published in 2001.

Transnational surrogacy the creation of babies across borders has become big business.

This go-to resource on substance abuse supplies the broad background knowledge and historical information needed to understand this important sociological issue and provides readers with a range of additional sources for continuing their study of the topic.

This book conceptualises the role of charity to people who are poor in wealthy countries and outlines a set of practical and conceptual ideas for how it could be reimagined.

The only textbook to provide a wide-ranging analysis of war and organised violence from a sociological perspective.

Going beyond a discussion of political architecture, Walled Life investigates the mediation of material and imagined border walls through cinema and art practices.

Enhancing Human Capacities is the first to review the very latest scientific developments in human enhancement.

Sexualisierte Gewalt stellt ein Phänomen und ein Problem dar, welches in den Medien zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit gewinnt, aber dennoch weiterhin ein Thema darstellt, über welches häufig geschwiegen wird.

This book is one of four volumes on a major empirical migration study by leading Thai migration specialists from Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok) for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

First published in 1999, this volume examines how, in the middle of the nineteenth century, Dr John Snow is reputed to have wrenched the handle from a street pump in central London, forcing people in the neighbourhood to change their drinking habits and so preventing them from contracting cholera from the dirty water.

Over the last thirty years, social entrepreneurship has boomed in the People's Republic of China.

This book explores the interaction between anthropology and humanitarianism, focussed on the organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).

This book outlines social and moral guidelines to combat violent, hateful, and illegal activity on the Internet.

Psychological entitlement, or a sense that some individuals or groups are inherently worthier of certain privileges, is an overlooked but essential feature of the persistent inequality that resists social progress and oppresses those in the margins.

Eine scharfsinnige und humorvolle Analyse unserer Entschuldigungskultur von Bestseller-Autorin Tara-Louise Wittwer alias @wastarasagtWir entschuldigen uns ständig: »Sorry, dass ich störe «, »sorry, ich muss mal durch«, aber ist das wirklich notwendig?

This book depicts the evolution of Singapore's family and population landscape in the last half a century, the related public policies, and future challenges.