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Poverty and precarity
Refugees and political asylum
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Social forecasting, future studies
Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or
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  • Inside Immigration Law Inside Immigration Law
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    Inside Immigration Law

    Inside Immigration Law analyses the practice of implementing immigration law, examining the different political and organisational forces that influence the process. Based on unparalleled academic access to the German migration management system, this...
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  • HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia
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    HIV/AIDS in Russia and Eurasia

    Russia and a few other Eurasian countries have been home to the fastest growing epidemics of HIV in the world over the last several years. This volume offers country-specific accounts, authored by the leading players in the analysis of the situation and...
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  • Mental Health User Narratives Mental Health User Narratives
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    Mental Health User Narratives

    Following extensive research in the UK, Bruce Cohen allows mental health users to tell their own stories (or 'narratives') of illness and recovery. Institutional and home treatment care is covered alongside controversial self-coping techniques such as...
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  • Limits of European Citizenship Limits of European Citizenship
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    Limits of European Citizenship

    Maarten Vink explores change and resilience of citizenship under pressure from European integration. To assess the meaning of national and European citizenship the book analyzes parliamentary immigration debates from the 1990s in the Netherlands. The...
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  • Revisioning Women and Drug Use Revisioning Women and Drug Use
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    Revisioning Women and Drug Use

    This 'landmark' text by one of the most respected researchers in drug use considers the issues surrounding the gendering of drug use, and within this looks critically at two approaches - the classical and postmodern. Ettorre examines the idea of a...
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  • Gender, Identity & Reproduction Gender, Identity & Reproduction
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    Gender, Identity & Reproduction

    Gender, Identity and Reproduction draws on a variety of perspectives relevant to an understanding of reproduction across the life-course. Through a consideration of the representation of reproductive identities and experiences, the book highlights...
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  • International Migration and Sending Countries International Migration and Sending Countries
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    International Migration and Sending Countries

    Drawing on case-studies from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia, International Migration and Sending Countries demonstrates how sending countries are emerging as complex and significant actors in migration politics. It shows how a more nuanced...
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  • Motherhood and Disability Motherhood and Disability
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    Motherhood and Disability

    This book explores the intersection between motherhood and physical disability. It is based on a study that focused on the lived experiences of women with physical disabilities, mothers and non-mothers. What meaning does motherhood have for these women?...
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  • Migration, Citizenship and the Challenge for Security Migration, Citizenship and the Challenge for Security
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    Migration, Citizenship and the Challenge for Security

    This study focuses on the field of security studies through the prism of migration. Using ethnographic methods to illustrate an experiential theory of security taken from the perspective of migrants and asylum seekers in Europe, it effectively offers a...
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  • Diversities Old and New Diversities Old and New
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    Diversities Old and New

    Diversities Old and New provides comparative analyses of new urban patterns that arise under conditions of rapid, migration-driven diversification, including transformations of social categories, social relations and public spaces. Ethnographic findings...
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  • Social Transformation and Migration Social Transformation and Migration
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    Social Transformation and Migration

    This book examines theories and specific experiences of international migration and social transformation, with special reference to the effects of neo-liberal globalization on four societies with vastly different historical and cultural characteristics:...
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  • Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe
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    Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe

    Based on the author's fieldwork and readings of media, government reports, and historical and contemporary records, this book explores how Muslim migrants in Europe contribute to a changing European landscape, focusing on Muslim Moroccan migrants.
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  • Pandemics, Science and Policy Pandemics, Science and Policy
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    Pandemics, Science and Policy

    Pandemics, Science and Policy analyses the World Health Organisation's (WHO) management of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic. Abeysinghe illustrates the ways in which the WHO's account was vulnerable to contestation, and ultimately how uncertain risks can affect...
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  • Making Global Health Care Innovation Work Making Global Health Care Innovation Work
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    Making Global Health Care Innovation Work

    Global Health involves, among many things the intensified travelling of people, resources, technologies, knowledge, standards, and ideas. This book describes what happens when innovations are transferred to new settings: What work is needed to make them...
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  • Spirituality and Sustainable Development Spirituality and Sustainable Development
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    Spirituality and Sustainable Development

    Looking beyond the materialistic boundary of the conventional development paradigm, this book identifies our spiritual underdevelopment which is being reflected as self-centeredness and greed, as the root cause of conventional development's failure to...
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  • Birthplace, Migration and Crime Birthplace, Migration and Crime
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    Birthplace, Migration and Crime

    An historical and contemporary account of migrant crime in Australia, this book explores a range of issues from mental health and victimology to immigration policy and legal analysis, arguing that it is birthplace, not race, which impacts upon crimes...
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  • Care Professions and Globalization Care Professions and Globalization
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    Care Professions and Globalization

    This volume presents an extended reflection on human dependency and the need to 'care' and be 'cared for'. Philosophers, theologians, social theorists, economists, and professional caregivers to discuss the challenges of professional caregiving,...
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  • Au Pairs' Lives in Global Context Au Pairs' Lives in Global Context
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    Au Pairs' Lives in Global Context

    Far from being the preserve of middle-class women from Northern Europe, au pairing is now booming worldwide. This collection, the first dedicated entirely to examining the lives of au pairs, traces their experiences across five continents showing how...
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  • Bioscience, Governance and Politics Bioscience, Governance and Politics
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    Bioscience, Governance and Politics

    Through case studies, theoretical research and interviews with leading players in science and governance, this book introduces a new understanding of change in governance of bioscience research. In particular it examines change as it is shaped by...
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  • Migrants, Work and Social Integration Migrants, Work and Social Integration
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    Migrants, Work and Social Integration

    Exploring recent contemporary debates on gender and migration, this book scrutinizes the relationship between women's work in ethnic economies and social integration, arguing that women in Britain zigzag their way to social integration.
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  • The City in Urban Poverty The City in Urban Poverty
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    The City in Urban Poverty

    The contributors respond to the absence of critical debate surrounding the ways in which spaces of the city do not merely contain, but also constitute, urban poverty. The volume explores how the spaces of the city actively produce and reproduce urban...
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  • Transnational Partnerships Transnational Partnerships
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    Transnational Partnerships

    Why are some transnational public-private partnerships (PPPs) highly effective, while others are not? The contributors compare 21 transnational PPPs that seek to provide collective goods in the field of sustainable development.
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  • Greed, Bondage, Corruption and Abuse Greed, Bondage, Corruption and Abuse
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    Greed, Bondage, Corruption and Abuse

    The author shares from life and study insights on issues that confront many in the African American community and documents the answer to spiritual complexities to help others travelling the same road. The Christian life can be challenging for any...
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  • Women and Violence Women and Violence
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    Women and Violence

    This edited collection explores the agency of women who do violence and have violence done to them. It contributes to the philosophical and theoretical debate, as well as offering practical, social and political responses to the issues examined...
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  • Escorting for Jesus Escorting for Jesus
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    Escorting for Jesus

    In parts scholarly work, memoir, and polemic, Escorting for Jesus: Why Religious Fundamentalists Need to Crawl Back to Their Caves recounts the circus adventures of a volunteer escort at a family planning clinic. The inevitable collision among...
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    Un Pape Au Moyen Age

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
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  • Guide to the United States for the Jewish Immigrant Guide to the United States for the Jewish Immigrant
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    Guide to the United States for the Jewish Immigrant

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...
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  • Possibilities in Parenting Possibilities in Parenting
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    Possibilities in Parenting

    Most people with children would tell you that parenting is the most difficult job they've ever had. What if it didn't have to be either of those things, difficult or a job? Each of the 19 authors (Jennifer Chabot, Sadie Lake, Jennifer Cramer Windsor,...
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  • Shattered to Shining Shattered to Shining
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    Shattered to Shining

    ‘It began with fluttering excitement, joy and a world full of possibilities. There was a slow chiselling away of me. I felt disbelief and foggy confusion, before the ugly reality of abuse dawned on me.’How do you live through the shattering...
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  • The Yoga Manifesto The Yoga Manifesto
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    The Yoga Manifesto

    Yoga's glorious past, astonishing present-and breathtaking future.The Yoga Manifesto answers two questions: Why Yoga? Why now?It summarizes the very long and remarkable history of Yoga from its Indian origins to its global present, its entanglement with...
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  • Born to Bloom Born to Bloom
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    Born to Bloom

    Sanja Tesic, a child refugee, who says:"The war didn't kill me, it made me stronger", takes the reader through her life journey of being surrounded by the gun fire to immigrating to a country in which she could not speak nor understand the...
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  • The New Friars The New Friars
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    The New Friars

    Have you been called by God to stick out, act out, speak out? Are you ready to set aside comfort and privilege for meaning and impact? Scott Bessenecker profiles young Christians who have done just that, making radical commitments to seek justice and...
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  • Beyond Racial Gridlock Beyond Racial Gridlock
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    Beyond Racial Gridlock

    Sociologist George Yancey critiques four models of race (colorblindness, Anglo-conformity, multiculturalism and white responsibility), and introduces a new model (mutual responsibility). He offers hope that people of all races can walk together on a...
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  • Standing with the Vulnerable Standing with the Vulnerable
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    Standing with the Vulnerable

    The world has needs. But God is greater than those needs, and he works through his people to accomplish healing and transformation. This ten-session curriculum from World Relief is designed to mobilize the church to engage the great causes of our day,...
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  • Preaching about Racism Preaching about Racism
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    Preaching about Racism

    Equipping pastors to address racism faithfully from the pulpit.Of all the activities that come with being a minister, sermon preparation can loom largest - especially when racism is the subject. You’ve got to address racism with your white...
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  • Transnational Desires Transnational Desires
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    Transnational Desires

    Migrant sex workers are commonly cast as victims, moved by desperation to flee poverty and hopelessness in their home country. The Brazilian erotic dancers Suzana Maia presents in Transnational Desires, however, are women from the Brazilian middle...
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  • Ghosts Over the Boiler Ghosts Over the Boiler
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    Ghosts Over the Boiler

    From a donated typewriter that frequently breaks down, people on Alabama's death row have literally cut and pasted together a newsletter, On Wings of Hope, for the last three decades to educate the public about the death penalty. This newsletter, a labor...
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  • Bodies in Transition in the Health Humanities Bodies in Transition in the Health Humanities
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    Bodies in Transition in the Health Humanities

    In recent years, the transitioning body has become the subject of increasing scholarly, medical, and political interest. This interdisciplinary collection seeks to enable productive dialogue about bodily transformation and its many potential meanings and...
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  • Black Indian Black Indian
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    Black Indian

    Black Indian, searing and raw, is Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Alice Walker's The Color Purple meets Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony-only, this isn't fiction. Beautifully rendered and rippling with family dysfunction, secrets, deaths, alcoholism, and...
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  • Jamestown People to 1800 Jamestown People to 1800
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    Jamestown People to 1800

    In this volume Martha W. McCartney gives us a detailed look at the people associated with Jamestown from its founding in 1607 to 1800. Based on government records and private archives, it provides historical biographies of several distinct groups of...
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  • Domestic Violence Offenders Domestic Violence Offenders
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    Domestic Violence Offenders

    Women's shelters and safe houses were a good first step, but they only address part of the problem. Learn what else must be done to address the problem of domestic violence! Domestic Violence Offenders presents recent research, current interventions, and...
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  • Between the Social and the Spatial Between the Social and the Spatial
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    Between the Social and the Spatial

    Since the beginning of the 1990s, the gradual widening of scientific and policy debates on poverty from a narrow focus on income poverty to a more inclusive concept of social exclusion, has made poverty research both more interesting and more complicated...
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  • "It's Of No Consequence" "It's Of No Consequence"
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    "It's Of No Consequence"

    Three generations of women born from the same ancestral line; yet separated by vastly different and inequitable life experiences.  Beverley, the youngest, was raised in the U.S. during the late 40’s and 50’s in a relatively stable...
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  • Tarnished Gems Tarnished Gems
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    Tarnished Gems

    An accident in the middle of Sydney, Australia, cause six women to became entangled in the outcome. Each woman's reaction brings forth changes, as past secrets explain their current behaviours. Eventually their lives change irrevocably. Several...
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