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Lena Sterzer analysiert die Handlungsspielräume einkommensschwacher Haushalte auf einem angespannten Wohnungsmarkt und die Herausforderungen, vor welchen die Haushalte bei ihrer Wohnstandortwahl stehen. Die Wohnungssuche und der darauf folgende Einbettungsprozess am...
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Springer VS
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2018-11-27
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Studien zur Mobilitäts- und Verkehrsforschung
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Dieses Buch analysiert den grundrechtlichen Schutzbereich der Garantien der Meinungsäußerungsfreiheit in den Grundrechtskatalogen der EMRK, des Grundgesetzes und der Grundrechtecharta der EU. Das Werk untersucht, inwieweit Hassreden und vergleichbare...
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Springer
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2018-11-26
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Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und Völkerrecht
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How can colorblindness – the idea that race does not matter – be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind racism: how dismissing or downplaying the realities of race and racism can perpetuate inequality and violence. Drawing on a range of...
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Polity
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2018-11-26
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Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an illness like any other, treatable by drugs? Can...
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Polity
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2018-11-26
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Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today. At the time of his death, Bauman was working on this short book, a conversation with...
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Polity
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2018-11-26
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The majority of citizens in the world today do not trust their political representatives, the mainstream political parties, the established political institutions or their governments. This widespread crisis of legitimacy underlies a series of dramatic changes that have...
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Polity
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2018-11-26
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This book addresses the problem of religiously based conflict and violence via six case studies. It stresses particularly the structural and relational aspects of religion as providing a sense of order and a networked structure that enables people to pursue quite...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-11-23
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In recent years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes have received more media attention than ever before. Declining levels of homophobia across the Western world has facilitated a greater acceptance of LGBT athletes among heterosexual teammates,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-11-23
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This book discusses how human wellbeing is constructed and transferred intergenerationally in the context of international migration. Research on intergenerational transmission (IGT) has tended to focus on material asset transfers prompting calls to balance material...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2018-11-23
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This book examines the increasing retention and use of previous criminal record information, within and beyond the criminal justice system. There remains a misconception that once an offender has served the penalty for an offence, his or her dealings with the law and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-11-23
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This book explores everyday identity change and its role in transforming ethnic, national and religious divisions. It uses very extensive interviews in post-conflict Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the early 21st century to compare the extent and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-11-23
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Developmental and life-course criminology are both concerned with the study of changes in offending and problem behaviors over time.Developmental studies in criminology focus on psychological factors that influence the onset and persistence of criminal behavior, while...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-23
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With an introduction by Kamila Shamsie‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.’GEORGE ORWELL is one of the world’s most famous writers and social commentators. Through his writing he exposed the unjust sufferings...
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Vintage Digital
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2018-11-22
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Criminal disenfranchisement-the practice of restricting electoral rights following criminal conviction-is the only surviving electoral restriction of adult, mentally competent citizens in contemporary democracies. Despite the strong devotion to the principle of...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-22
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This open access book analyses migration and its relation to socio-political transformation in Switzerland. It addresses how migration has made new forms of life possible and shows how this process generated gender innovation in different fields: the changing division...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
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2018-11-21
Collection :
Palgrave Studies in Migration History
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This study transcends the homogenizing (inter-)national level of argumentation (‘rich’ versus ‘poor’ countries), and instead looks at a sub-national level in two respects: (1) geographically it focuses on the rapidly growing megacity of Hyderabad; (2) in socio-economic...
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Springer
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2018-11-20
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While overall unemployment has declined, the unemployment rate remains nearly twice as high for young people 16 to 19 years of age and nearly three times as high for those aged 20 to 24. Rates of unemployment and underemployment are nearly two to three times higher for...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-20
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In 2000, the first social agenda in the history of the European Union was launched, and the endeavor to combat poverty came increasingly to the forefront as a specific area for EU policy cooperation and coordination. Regrettably, however, little progress has been...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-20
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Victor Kempf konfrontiert in seiner sozialphilosophischen Studie zwei konträre Paradigmen der Kapitalismuskritik. Dem populären Exodus aus den normativen Vermittlungsformen der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft stellt er den beiseitegelassenen Versuch einer emanzipatorischen...
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Springer VS
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2018-11-20
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America is in the midst of a rental housing affordability crisis. More than a quarter of those that rent their homes spend more than half of their income for housing, even as city leaders across the United States have been busily dismantling the nation's urban public...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-20
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