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The Microstates of Europe
Designer Nations in a Post-Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
The seven microstates of Europe, i.e. Andorra, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Malta, San Marino, Sovereign Order of St. John, and Vatican City are remarkable not only for their size, but their persistence. It is a sociopolitical phenomenon that has rarely been addressed, but The Microstates of Europe: Designer...
Oriental Identities in Super-Diverse Britain
Young Vietnamese in London
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Tamsin Barber addresses the experience of the British-born Vietnamese as an overlooked minority population in 'super-diverse' London, exploring the emergence of the pan-ethnic 'Oriental' category as a new form of collective consciousness and identity in Britain.
The Daily Lives of Muslims
Islam and Public Confrontation in Contemporary Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
For many in the West, Islam has become a byword for terrorism. From 9/11 to the Paris attacks, our headlines are dominated by images of violence and extremism. Now, as the Western world struggles to cope with the refugee crisis, there is a growing obsession with the issue of Muslim integration. Those...
Poor Participation
Fighting the Wars on Poverty and Impoverished Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2018
This book argues that active citizenship and poverty are inextricably linked. A common sentiment in discussions of poverty and social policy is that decisions made about those living in poverty or near-poverty are illegitimate, inadvisable, and non-responsive to the needs and interests of the poor...
German-Australian Encounters and Cultural Transfers
Global Dynamics in Transnational Lands
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
This book approaches Australo-German relations from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It maps new pathways into the rich landscape of the Australo-German transnational encounter, which is characterized by dense and interwoven cultural, historical and political terrains. Surveying an...
The Russian Management Revolution: Preparing Managers for a Market Economy
Preparing Managers for a Market Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Soviet managerial culture, however resistant to change, is in fact changing (just as Western managers have begun to grasp some of its written rules). This volume attempts to reveal the direction of those changes. It spotlights the problems that are preparing students, career managers, and the employees...
The Consequences of Mobility
Reflexivity, Social Inequality and the Reproduction of Precariousness in Highly Qualified Migration
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
This book explores various forms of highly skilled mobility in the European Union, assessing the potential for this movement to contribute to individual and societal development. In doing so, the authors illustrate some of the issues arising from the opening up of Europe’s borders, and exposing...
The Law of Employees’ Provident Funds
A Case-Law Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
This title has been written with an underlying aim in mind to document critical judicial interpretations relating to the Employees’ Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 in a wide variety of situations. The book annotates the statute section by section from the legal standpoint...
Migrant Dubai
Low Wage Workers and the Construction of a Global City
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book analyzes the everyday lives of labour migrants in a rapidly developing city-state. Using the emirate of Dubai as a case study, Migrant Dubai shows that even within highly restrictive mobility regimes, marginalized migrants find ways to cope with structural inequalities and quotidian modes of discrimination.
by Frank Parker, Patrick Lillis
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2018
An in-depth study of the events leading up to the Irish Potato Famine in the latter half of the 19th century. “This is a deeply researched and well-written book. I was expecting it to focus almost entirely on the famine years. I was pleasantly surprised to find that it covers much broader topics...
Performing Citizenship
Undocumented Migrants in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Undocumented migrants in the United States raise compelling questions about political legitimacy, obligation, and citizenship. If they are truly members of their communities, should they have a voice in the laws and policies that impact their lives? Should their interests be considered, especially...
Refugees, Capitalism and the British State
Implications for Social Workers, Volunteers and Activists
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Today, in a period of economic crisis, public sector cuts and escalating class struggle, Marxism offers important tools for social workers and service users to understand the structures of oppression they face and devise effective means of resistance. This book uses Marxism's lost insights and reinterprets...
An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion
Australia from 1788
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
An Immigrant Nation Seeks Cohesion presents Australian traditions, myths and legends in an understanding but often critical light in the belief that such devices have often been used by interested parties and even governments to maintain social solidarity and to mould a very complex people into a...
Lights in the Distance
Exile and Refuge at the Borders of Europe
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Immersive, engrossing report on the European refugee crisis
A mother puts her children into a refrigerator truck and asks, “What else could I do?” A runaway teenager comes of age on the streets, sleeping in abandoned buildings. A student leaves his war-ravaged country behind because he...