This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and how they have since become a vibrant diaspora community, namely the Indo-Trinidadians.
This book advocates the application of holistic and humanistic approaches in elderly care and services to achieve the goal of ageing with dignity in Hong Kong and Asia.
This book discusses the urbanization of China and identifies four major features of ethnic minority mobility partners over the last twenty years: the three-stage peripheral-to-core transition pattern; the escalating decline of the urban minority population in the central region of China, particularly since 2000; the city agglomerations located in the eastern region of China, which have begun playing a leading role in minority urbanization, especially in the Yangtze and Pearl River Delta; and lastly, the continuous beneficiaries of supportive policies that have led metropolises, such as provincial capitals, to be shaped into important regional minority population concentrations in both China's western region and its autonomous areas.
This book offers a new standpoint to understanding tolerance to human diversity by approaching it from the perspectives of cognitive, developmental and prosocial psychology.
This book offers a new standpoint to understanding tolerance to human diversity by approaching it from the perspectives of cognitive, developmental and prosocial psychology.
The book examines the extent to which the sustained population growth of Australia's heartland regional centres has come at the expense of demographic decline in their own hinterlands, and, ultimately, of their entire regions.
This book focuses on the health impacts of air pollution in China, especially the epidemiology-based exposure-response functions for the mortality, morbidity, and hospital admissions for respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, and mental health related to pollution.
In one of the only works drawing on interviews with both Uyghurs and Han in Xinjiang, China, and postcolonial perspectives on ethnicity, nation, and race, this book explores how forms of banal racism underpin ideas of self and other, assimilation and modernisation, in this restive region.
Ein feministisches Pladoyer fur die Anerkennung weiblicher Wut von Platz-1-SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin Tara-Louise Wittwer alias @wastarasagt Seit Jahrhunderten werden Frauen unterdruckt.
2 Freunde, 16 Lander, 344 Tage WeltreiseAls der schwerbehinderte Alex seinem besten Freund Lovis vorschlagt, nach dem Studium gemeinsam ein Jahr lang auf Weltreise zu gehen, ist auch der bald Feuer und Flamme von der Idee.
This book analyzes the process of leaving school, commonly referred to as 'transition' for young adults with severe, complex, and multiple disabilities.
Die Tagung, deren Beiträge in diesem Band vorgestellt werden, stand unter einer dreifachen Zielsetzung: Erstens sollte sie den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern die Gelegenheit bieten, sich der Herausforderungen der Einwan derungsgesellschaft, d.
This book emphasizes the critical need for a multi-dimensional approach to tackling energy poverty, advocating for an integrated strategy that addresses three interconnected dimensions: availability, accessibility, and affordability.
This book investigates both early as well as recent accounts of journeys by women and families in African, Asian, East European, North and Latin American contexts.
An important purpose of The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry is to aid the understanding of distribution and chemical reaction processes which occur in the environment.
Gute Kenntnisse in der jeweiligen Landessprache werden in der Integrationspolitik immer wieder als grundlegende Voraussetzung für eine gelingende Positionierung von Zugewanderten verhandelt.
Ähnlich wie vor etwas mehr als einem Jahrzehnt die Begriffe "global" und "Globalisierung" scheinen heute die Termini "transnational" und "Transnationalisierung" zu viel gebrauchten Modebegriffen zu werden.
Noch immer begegnet man vielfältigen und einseitigen Stereotypen, wenn von Geschlechterverhältnissen und den damit verbundenen Einstellungen zu Geschlechterrollen von Männern und Frauen mit Zuwanderungsgeschichte die Rede ist.
Innerhalb der außenpolitischen Interaktion zwischen den USA und den Ländern Lateina- rikas gibt es keinen vergleichbaren Fall, der die Differenzen, die ideologische Konfronta- on, aber auch die kulturelle Annäherung und gegenseitige Einflussnahme so facettenreich widerspiegelt wie die Beziehungen zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und Kuba.
