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Above all, this book focuses on the application of sociodemographic survey questions. Based on theoretical foundations, it addresses the operationalization of variables and presents socio-demographic questionnaire modules for within- and across-country comparative...
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Springer
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2018-06-13
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This edited volume examines child exploitation in the Global South. It introduces several case studies and interviews articulated around two features: exploitation within the family and exploitation in relation to social contexts. The research shows that both of the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-06-13
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This book examines forced migration of two refugees groups in South Asia. The author discusses the claims of “belonging” of refugees, and asserts that in practice “belonging” can extend beyond the state-centric understanding of membership in South Asian states. She...
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Springer
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2018-06-13
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This book reveals the structures of poverty, power, patriarchy and imperialistic health policies that underpin what the World Health Organization calls the “hidden disease” of vaginal fistulas in Africa. By employing critical feminist and post-colonial perspectives, it...
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Springer
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2018-06-13
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This book develops a detailed, disaggregated theoretical and empirical framework that explains variations in mass killing by authoritarian regimes globally, with a specific focus on Pakistan, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Using a combination of game-theoretic, statistical,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-06-13
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War die Ehescheidung noch vor wenigen Jahrzehnten gesellschaftlich stark stigmatisiert und eher eine Ausnahmeerscheinung, gehört sie inzwischen für einen Großteil der einmal Verheirateten zur Normalbiografie. Erheblich gewandelt haben sich im 20. Jahrhundert auch die...
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Springer VS
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2018-06-13
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Maya Halatcheva-Trapp forscht über Elternschaft aus der Perspektive der Wissenssoziologischen Diskursanalyse. Die Studie präsentiert eine empirische Rekonstruktion von Deutungsmustern im Diskurs der Trennungs- und Scheidungsberatung und leistet einen Beitrag zur...
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Springer VS
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2018-06-13
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Theorie und Praxis der Diskursforschung
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An empirical account of one of India’s largest indigenous populations, this book tells the story of the Gonds—who currently face displacement and governmental control of the region’s forests, which has crippled their economy. Rather than protesting and calling for state...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-06-13
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Screens have been with us since the eighteenth century, though we became accustomed to staring at them only after the appearance of film and television in the twentieth century. But there was nothing in film or TV that prepared us for the revolution wrought by the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-06-12
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This book explains why there is a pronounced disjuncture between R2P's habitual invocation and its actual influence, and why it will not make the transformative progress its proponents claim. Rather than disputing that R2P is a norm, or declaring that norms...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-06-12
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This book takes up the problems of social policy, state intervention and support in the hard times of austerity introduced by the Coalition government 2010-15, and continued under the Conservative government today. At a time when the economy is growing and pay...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-06-12
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This 2nd edition of the Handbook explores how to conceptualize new realities of race and ethnic relations. Now that the decade of the 1960s, the pivotal moment of mobilization against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related tolerance is behind us, we are...
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Springer
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2018-06-11
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This book investigates the relationship between the self and screen in the digital age, and examines how the notion of the self is re-negotiated and curated online. The chapters examine the production of the self in postmodernity through digital platforms by employing...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-06-11
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Distributive justice has come to the fore in political philosophy in recent decades: how should we arrange our social and economic institutions so as to distribute fairly the benefits and burdens of social cooperation? Thirty-two leading figures from philosophy and...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-06-11
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There is widespread concern today about the “radicalization” of young muslim men, and the deprived areas of Western cities are believed to have become breeding grounds of home-grown extremism. But how do young Muslims growing up in the cities of the West really live?...
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Polity
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2018-06-11
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Das Buch versammelt grundlegende Beiträge zur Soziologie Georg Simmels. Der Philosoph und Mitbegründer der zeitgenössischen Soziologie wird heute allseitig wiederentdeckt. Seine unerreichte Originalität machte ihn um 1900 zum öffentlichen Intellektuellen. Was er damals...
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Springer VS
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2018-06-11
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This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field. They show that anthropologists have contributed to understanding the three great questions of modern economic history: development, socialism and...
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Polity
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2018-06-11
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Drawing insights from nearly a decade of mixed-method research, Stephen R. Barnard analyzes Twitter’s role in the transformation of American journalism. As the work of media professionals grows increasingly hybrid, Twitter has become an essential space where information...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-06-09
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Migration has been a basic fact of Nepali life for centuries. Over the last thirty years, migration from Nepal has increased diaspora communities across the world. In these diverse contexts, to what extent do Nepalis reproduce their culture and pass it on to subsequent...
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OUP India
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2018-06-09
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This book describes children and youth on the one hand and parents on the other within the newly configured worlds of transnational families. Focus is put on children born abroad, brought up abroad, studying abroad, in vulnerable situations, and/or subject of...
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Springer
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2018-06-08
Collection :
International Perspectives on Migration
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