Social and ethical issues

This book provides essential background information on the protracted displacement of several ethnic groups along the Thai-Myanmar border before turning to an examination of whether Myanmar has now shifted into a post-conflict society, the expected challenges involved in reintegrating returnees to Myanmar, and the possibility of voluntary and sustainable repatriation.

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that delves beneath the media headlines about the "e;migration crisis"e;, Brexit, Trump and similar events and spectacles that have been linked to the intensification and proliferation of stereotypes about migrants since 2015.

Few issues have aroused more heated public debate than that of day care for children of working parents.

Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies.

This volume makes a signal contribution to understanding and treating couples' abuse.

Why are Americans so bad at marriage?

Die renommierte Historikern Stefanie Schüler-Springorum stellt erstmals die westdeutsche Nachkriegsgesellschaft aus Sicht der Menschen dar, die im Nationalsozialismus verfolgt wurden.

This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field.

Der Band untersucht den Salafismus als Phänomen einer spezifischen Jugendkultur - die nicht nur auf Jugendliche mit Migrationshintergrund zielt und befasst sich mit ihrer Attraktivität sowie ihrer medialen und subkulturellen Mustern.

Economy, Work and Education: Critical Connections addresses effects of neoliberal capitalism in particular regard to work and education.

How most presidents avoid upsetting the racial status quoand why those who do pave the way for lawless, norm-violating successorsWhen Barack Obama won the White House in 2008, becoming the nation's first Black president, the stage was set for Donald Trump's eventual rise to power.

Gossip and reputation are core processes in societies and have substantial consequences for individuals, groups, communities, organizations, and markets.

Without a doubt, structural and institutionalised racism is still present in Britain and Europe, a factor that social work education and training has been slow to acknowledge.

"Er ist ein völlig haltloser, seinen widernatürlichen Trieben gegenüber machtloser Verbrecher, bei dem von Freiheitsstrafen kein erzieherischer oder abschreckender Erfolg mehr zu erwarten ist.

This innovative study examines the development of institutional childcare from 1878 to 1929, based on a comparison of two "e;sister"e; orphanages in Pittsburgh: the all-white United Presbyterian Orphan's Home and the all-black Home for Colored Children.

In recent years, celebrity philanthropy and activism has attracted much attention from the media, sparking a great deal of public interest.

Parental Incarceration makes available personal stories by adults who have had the childhood experience of parental incarceration.

Narrative inquiry is growing in popularity as a research methodology in the social sciences, medicine and the humanities.

What to Do About AIDS: Physicians and Mental Health Professionals Discuss the Issues, edited by Leon McKusick, brings together leading clinicians and researchers at a pivotal moment in the history of the epidemic.

This book provides an ethnography of street-level policing in the United States and offers an analysis with valuable lessons for today's law enforcement officers.

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training).

In Home Rule Nandita Sharma traces the historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants as "e;colonial invaders.

This book illustrates how diasporic media can re-create conflict by transporting conflict dynamics and manifesting them back in to diaspora communities.

Hegemonic Masculinity, Caste, and the Body investigates the intricate interplay between masculinities, space, and identity within Indian Punjab's Jat Sikh community.

This volume examines the biocultural dimensions of obesity from an anthropological perspective in an effort to broaden understanding of a growing public health concern.

Despite great ethnic and racial diversity, ethnicity in Brazil is often portrayed as a matter of black or white, a distinction reinforced by the ruling elite's efforts to craft the nation's identity in its own image-white, Christian, and European.

Services for People with Learning Disabilities provides a broad review of available services for people with learning disabilities.

The lives of wealthy people have long held an allure to many, but the lives of wealthy Russians pose a particular fascination.

For decades, experts and the public have been at odds over the nature and magnitude of risks and how they should be mitigated through policy.

Improving Industrial Relations (1985) presents and discusses the findings of research into the advisory function of the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (ACAS).

This book considers the global response on governance after the pandemic while sociologically addressing the effects of COVID-19 on life and work experience.

For much of its history, psychoanalysis has been strangely silent about sudden ruptures in the analytic relationship and their immediate and far-reaching effects for those involved.

This title undertakes an impartial, authoritative, and in-depth examination of the moral arguments and ideas behind the laws and policies that govern personal, corporate, and government behavior in the United States.

This comprehensive history examines the varied manifestations of political violence in Europe''s extremely violent twentieth century.

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Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "e;democracy.

Dieser Sammelband beschäftigt sich mit Werte-, Normen- und Einstellungswandel in unserer durch zunehmende kulturelle Differenz geprägten Gesellschaft.

This outstanding resource guide for students and young adults provides an introduction to the history of prescription drug abuse that explains how this problem has arisen and examines the social, political, economic, and health issues associated with prescription drug abuse in modern society.

This issue focuses on "e;radical interactionism,"e; which recent emergence as an alternative perspective to conventional symbolic interactionism has sparked fierce debate in both North America and Europe.

This book examines the Japanese diaspora from the historical archaeology perspective-drawing from archaeological data, archival research, and often oral history-and explores current trends in archaeological scholarship while also looking at new methodological and theoretical directions.

This book discusses the ways civil society initiatives open communities to newcomers and why, how, and under what circumstances some are more welcoming than others, exploring the importance of transgressive cosmopolitanism as a basis for creating more inclusive and pluralistic societies.

This edited volume investigates the effects of shifting configurations and conceptualizations of the experience and meaning of home as it is embodied in early childhood care and education (ECCE).

Philosophical controversy over non-human animals extends further back than many realize -- before Utilitarianism and Darwinism to the very genesis of philosophy.

A leading scholar explores what it means to dehumanize others-and how and why we do it.

Based on qualitative research carried out with young people aged from 18 to 30 in five European countries, Young Europeans, Work and Family examines young people's pathways to adulthood, and their perspectives on their future work and family lives.

This volume takes a deep dive into the lasting legacy of stigma from the COVID-19 Pandemic.