International Migration, Remittances and Brain Drain

This book provides an analysis of theoretical and empirical researches on the effects of remittances and brain drain on the development of less developed countries (LDCs). It analyzes the most recent global, regional and national data as well as the arguments for and against the emigration of highly skilled personnel and remittances, thereby highlighting policies aimed at optimizing the link be…

Invisible Borders

This book analyses residency, a form of municipal membership that plays a strategic role in administrative processes in Italy. Residency is a two-faced juridical status: a means for exercising rights and moving freely within a state territory and, at the same time, a tool of control that operates through identification and registration. Gargiulo investigates residency both historically and theo…

Visual Securitization

This open access book offers an innovative account of how relief organizations’ visual depiction of Syrian displacement contributes to reproduce and reinforce a securitized account of refugees. Through visual analysis, the book demonstrates how the securitization process takes place in three different ways. First of all, even if marginally, it occurs through the reproduction of mainstream med…

Migration and Discrimination

This open access short reader provides a state of the art overview of the discrimination research field, with particular focus on discrimination against immigrants and their descendants. It covers the ways in which discrimination is defined and conceptualized, how it is measured, how it may be theorized and explained, and how it might be combated by legal and policy means. The book also present…

Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean

This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales an…

The Global Old Age Care Industry

This book focuses on the emerging global old age care industry developing as a response to tackle the “old age care crisis” in richer countries. In this global industry, multiple actors are involved in recruiting, skilling and placing migrant care workers in different spheres of the receiving country's old age care system. This book delves into the analysis of these actors and the multiple …

Dealing with Disasters

Providing a fresh look at some of the pressing issues of our world today, this collection focuses on experiential and ritualized coping practices in response to a multitude of environmental challenges—cyclones, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, earthquakes, warfare and displacements of peoples and environmental resource exploitation. Eco-cosmological practices conducted by skilled healing practit…

Multiplitism

This book presents a set theoretical approach to sociological research. It revisits existing sociological approaches and discusses their limitations, before suggesting an alternative. While the existing canonical approaches of Positivism, Conflictualism, and Pragmatism are based on biology, history, and physics, respectively, the set theoretical approach is based on mathematics. Utilising its p…

Development, Governance and Gender in South Asia

This book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive approach to understand the trends and issues of development, governance, and dynamics of gender in the South Asian region. It familiarizes the reader with the quantitative as well as qualitative aspects of governance and development. Contributing authors pay close attention to the socio-political and economic developments in South Asia in t…

Debordering Europe

This contributed volume analyzes in depth how a border area is constantly reshaped as migration policies harden, and what kind of social, political and economic impacts are produced at local and international level. The study is focused on Ventimiglia, an Italian town located 6 km away from the French-Italian border on the gulf of Genoa with a long story of commerce, custom and smuggling activi…

Ways Out Of Social Isolation For Older People In The Context Of New Media

The book introduces the concept of encounter CONNECT-ED from the practice of working with the elderly to impart media skills and presents empirical data on the social participation and quality of life of the participants. The research results show the potential of the Internet for older people and open up perspectives for gender- and age-sensitive advanced training opportunities.

Rethinking Georg Simmel's Social Philosophy

This textbook examines interaction, reciprocity, dualism, conflict, and personality in the work of Georg Simmel. These themes, which made Simmel the founder of relational sociology, are presented uniquely in the light of intimate relations. According to Simmel, intimate relations rather than the individual constitute the fundamental stratum of human culture. By relating objective social facts t…

Social Networks - The Modern-Day Family

Social networks have created a plethora of problems regarding privacy and the protection of personal data. The use of social networks has become a key concern of legal scholars, policy-makers and the operators as well as users of those social networks. This pathbreaking book highlights the importance of privacy in the context of today's new electronic communication technologies as it presents c…

INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES VOLUME

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Taking Sides : Clashing Views on Controversial Legal Issues

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Eighth Edition

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0-697-39144-2

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376 p. 22 cm.

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THE POLITICS OF BEINGMORTAL

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0-8131-1643-0 T

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Handbook of Research Methods for Studying Daily Life

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978-1-60918-747-7

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xxvii, 676 p.; 23 cm.

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Handbook of The Sociology of Gender

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0-387-32460-7

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xiii, 630p.; ill.; 25cm

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Handbook of Sociology and Social Research

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Uniquely Human; THE EVOLUTION OF SPEECH, THOUGHT, AND SELFLESS BEHAVIOR

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0-674-92182-8

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222 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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Social Studies for Children in a Democracy, Sixth Edition

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6th

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0-13-818872-6

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516 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

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LEARNING SOCIAL SKILLS VIRTUALLY: Using Applied Improvisation to Enhance Team…

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978-1-03-200107-4

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xiv, 99 p. ; 20 cm

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ICT AND INTERNATIONAL LEARNING ECOLOGIES: Representation and Sustainability A…

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978-0-36-36367-3

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xii, 213 p. ; 23 cm

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SOCIAL MARKERS IN SPEECH: EUROPEAN STUDIES IN SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

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0-521-22321-0

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xi, 412 p. ; 23 cm.

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INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES VOLUME 5

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INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES VOLUME 11

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