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When U.S. war resisters turned to Canada as refuge during the Vietnam War and the Afghanistan/Iraq Wars, they not only hoped to forestall deployment to a combat zone but also to build new lives and make a new home abroad. In her empirical study, Sarah J. Grünendahl...
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Springer VS
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2022-08-31
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This book presents an original empirical study on the linguistic repertoires of post-2008 Italian migrants living in London. The author interrogates how migrants’ trajectories and their relation with their homeland’s migration history are displayed through the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-31
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This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants – return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants – from a comparative perspective. It explores the motivations, ageing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2022-08-31
Collection :
Global Diversities
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This edited book empirically discusses stratification in contemporary Japanese society. It is unique for its examination of social inequality in relation to declining fertility and an aging population. Japan is the most aged society in the world: according to the...
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Springer
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2022-08-31
Collection :
Economy and Social Inclusion
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This book provides a comparative and contemporary account of social stratification in the Central European states of Czechia, Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia (the Visegrad Four – V4 group), and also by contrast with Austria. It looks at the shared history of these...
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Springer
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2022-08-31
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Der vorliegende Sammelband leistet einen Beitrag zur Konturierung des Konzepts sozialer Innovationen. Das große Interesse, das sozialen Innovationen schon seit einigen Jahren entgegengebracht wird, hat bislang nicht zu einem einheitlichen Begriffsverständnis geführt....
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Springer VS
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2022-08-31
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For 200 years, industry mastered iron, fire, strength and energy. Today, electronics shape our everyday objects, integrating chips everywhere: computers, phones, keys, games, household appliances, etc. Data, software and calculation frame the conduct of men and the...
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Wiley-ISTE
Parution :
2022-08-31
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This training book is designed to help professionals enhance their knowledge of community quality-of-life indicators, and to develop viable community projects. Chapter 1 describes the theoretical concepts that guide the formulation of community indicator projects....
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-08-30
Collection :
Community Quality-of-Life and Well-Being
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Die Publikation präsentiert Ergebnisse eines transdisziplinären BMBF-Forschungsprojektes zur Integration besonders benachteiligter Gruppen in städtische Wohnungsmärkte und Quartiere und ergänzt diese mit Befunden zu Diskriminierung von Zuwanderer*innen sowie zu...
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Springer VS
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2022-08-30
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This book explores men's attraction to violent extremist movements and terrorism.
Drawing on multi-method, interdisciplinary research, this book explores the centrality of masculinity to violent extremist recruitment narratives across the religious and political...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-30
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Too often, cultural competence training has led to the inadvertent marginalization of some individuals and groups and the reinforcement of existing stereotypes. This text explores the concept of cultural humility, which offers an exciting way forward for those engaged...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-08-30
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This open access book argues for allyship masculinity as an open-ended, intersectional model for feminist men. It provides a roadmap for navigating between toxic masculinity on one side, and feminist androgyny on the other. Normative visions for what men should be take...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-30
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This book defines tojisha manga as Japan’s autobiographical comics in which the author recounts the experience of a mental or neurological condition in a unique medium of text and image. Yoshiko Okuyama argues that tojisha manga illuminate otherwise “faceless”...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-30
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This book offers an original framework on how to investigate, understand and translate sense of place at a regional scale. The book explores contemporary sense of place theory and practice, drawing upon the Western District of Victoria, in Australia, being the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-30
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This edited collection explores the role of digital inclusion in the welfare and social inclusion of vulnerable people. With interdisciplinary contributors from six continents, working in diverse fields such as digital media studies, social computing, community...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-30
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In seiner großen Geschichte der ‚exotischen‘ populären Musik beschreibt Claus Schreiner den transatlantischen Weg all der uns heute vertrauten Musikstile von ihren Ursprüngen nach Europa und Deutschland. Er berichtet im ersten von drei Bänden, wann und wie es zu ersten...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-08-30
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Wie erzählen und beschreiben Kinder sich selbst und ihre Lebenszeit? Die Studie untersucht diese Frage anhand vergleichender Rekonstruktionen von zwölf biographischen Interviews mit Zehn- bis Elfjährigen. Im Ergebnis werden vier verschiedene Identitätstypen...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2022-08-30
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This is a story of a school in the walled city of Old Delhi - the Anglo-Arabic Senior Secondary School. The school has its origins in Madrasa Ghaziuddin established in 1692. Using archival data and personal accounts this book offers a fascinating insight into an...
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OUP India
Parution :
2022-08-30
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Das vorliegende Buch beschäftigt sich mit der Problematik der Substanzabhängigkeit bzw. stoffgebundenen Sucht beim weiblichen Geschlecht. Die Studien zeigen, dass Frauen sich von Männern im Hinblick auf die Ursachen von Sucht, die Konsummuster, die Konsummotive und die...
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Springer VS
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2022-08-29
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This book foregrounds the figure of the perpetrator in a selection of British, American, and Canadian comics and explores questions related to remembrance, justice, and historical debt. Its primary focus is on works that deliberately estrange the figure of the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-08-29
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
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