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Using a causal inference in a cross-country regression design made possible by the coincidence that the 2016 US Presidential election occurred during the fieldwork period of the European Social Survey (ESS8), we test whether Donald Trump's unexpected win increased the willingness to report racist attitudes. The election significantly increased the gap between the opposition to different-race immigration, which did not change, vs. same-race immigration, which significantly decreased. The finding, robust to a large set of checks, is shown to be substantially shaped by socioeconomic and partisan identities. In particular, the causal effect of Donald Trump's unexpected win on the willingness to report racist attitudes is stronger among old men living in urban areas. Moreover, the aggregate effect is driven by extreme right-wing units with high level of political interest. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published

Malaysia is one of the most rapidly growing economies in Asia and is blessed with foreign workers inflow to sustain the economic growth process. However, the strong national sentiments among the local community, which harbors ill perception towards the foreign workers, lead to regrettably vague policies concerning foreign workers. As far as this issue is concerned, Malaysia needs to reform the policy regulations so that foreign workers will be able to integrate into the economic transformation of the country. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the current regulations regarding foreign workers policy in Malaysia. Arguably, foreign worker regulations can be improved by referring to Malaysia's past experience and copy the models of other foreign-workers-friendly countries. A process-oriented methodology was adopted in this study to understand the issues associated with foreign workers, community transformation, and policy implementation. The result of this study shows that superior implementation and enforcement of foreign labor regulations would lead to harmonization and transformation of the community.

This article examines the linguistic landscape of Manila during a protest march in November 2016 in response to the burial of deposed president Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Heroes' Cemetery). This article is situated among linguistic landscape of protest research (Kasanga, 2014; Seals, 2011; Shiri, 2015) where data is composed of mobile posters, placards, banners, and other "unfixed" signs, including texts on bodies, t-shirts, umbrellas, and rocks. Following Sebba (2010), this article argues that both "fixed" linguistic landscape and "mobile" public texts are indices of the linguistic composition of cities, linguistic diversity, and ethnolinguistic vitality (Landry & Bourhis, 1997). Through a qualitative analysis of selected pictures produced during the protest march and uploaded onto social media, the multilingual nature of Manila is rendered salient and visible, albeit temporarily, and strategies of dissent are reflective of the language of the millennials who populated the protests.

Basierend auf der Beobachtung, dass Konsumphänomene jenseits der Wegwerfkultur an Bedeutung gewinnen, prüft der Autor die Anschlussfähigkeit dieser Phänomene an unterschiedlichen Theorien und Positionen aus den Feldern der Konsumsoziologie und -psychologie. Hierzu stellt er den
Dingbegriff in das Zentrum seiner Überlegungen und kommt zu der Erkenntnis, dass bereits frühe Kritiker industrieller Massenproduktion die nachlassende
emotionale Bindung von Konsumenten zu Massenprodukten feststellten. Aktuell erfolgreiche, scheinbar "handgemachte" Dinge versuchen, diesen Eindruck der "Seelenlosigkeit" industrieller Produktionszusammenhänge
und die geringe Qualitätsanmutung von Wegwerfprodukten durch
ein Zurück der Verwendung von Symboliken des traditionellen Handwerks zu vermeiden. In Anlehnung an praxistheoretische Positionen lässt sich der "wahre" Charakter von Dingen, zwischen industriell-produziertem Wegwerf und in Handarbeit gefertigtem Qualitätsprodukt, einerseits über die kritische Analyse der realen Produktionspraktiken und andererseits über das praktische Wissen von Konsumenten identifizieren und bewerten.

"Padlocking" is a quite recent phenomenon observable in many major cities in Europe and throughout the world. Couples engrave their initials or names on a padlock, fix it in a public place, preferably bridges, and throw the keys away. Locations like the Hohenzollern Bridge in Cologne, Germany, have become a hotspot for this practice, with thousands and thousands of padlocks covering the grids of the banisters. But what kind of practice is it that we are dealing with here? With an objective-hermeneutic approach, the symbolic meaning of the "love lock" and the practice involved is disclosed. Compared to common, legal practices of institutionalizing couple relationships, padlocking seems to explicitly accommodate the fragility of romantic attachments. In this, it is an attempt to perpetuate the feeling of being in love. (author's abstract)

O texto apresenta uma visão global sobre a forma como a ficção cinematográfica portuguesa, produzida durante o Estado Novo de Salazar e Caetano, refletiu sobre o império colonial entre o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial e a queda do regime (1974). A investigação baseia-se em onze obras produzidas entre 1945 e 1974, foi organizada de forma a permitir uma perceção global, conduzindo ao aparecimento de três núcleos temáticos fundamentais, a conquista, a colonização e o regresso do império. Desse percurso resultou uma conclusão fundamental, sintetizada na expressão uma África, dois impérios, cujo entendimento essencial passa por uma dupla conceção, luminosa e sombria, sobre o Império Colonial Português entre 1945 e 1974.

Neue Ereignisformate der letzten Jahre - seien dies populärkulturelle Events, private Feste und Feiern, politische Ereignisse, wissenschaftliche Konferenzformate etc. - zeichnen sich oftmals aus durch eine gezielte Kombination und Durchmischung von Ereignissen verschiedener kultureller Bereiche. Diesen hybriden Phänomenen widmeten sich die Referierenden im Rahmen der internationalen Tagung "Hybridisierung inszenierter Ereignisse. Zur Diskussion zeitgeistiger Veranstaltungen", ausgerichtet am 8. und 9. April 2016 in Dortmund. Theoretisch-konzeptuelle Überlegungen fanden dabei ebenso Eingang wie Betrachtungen aus historischer und zeitgenössischer Perspektive. Schwerpunkte waren unter anderem die Hybridisierung in Szenen und des virtuellen Raums sowie die Neudeutung traditionaler Rituale und Anlässe. Neben deren Zusammenfassung zeichnen wir in diesem Tagungsbericht den während der Diskussionen geführten Versuch nach, das weite und diverse Feld uneindeutiger, durchmischter Ereignisse einzugrenzen und eine Definition auszuloten.

This article presents a methodological approach to the study of nation-building in everyday life in the post-Soviet region. Although bottom-up and informal mechanisms of creating identity have been acknowledged in the literature and methodology of nationalism studies, they have seldom been applied to studies in the post-Soviet countries. This article discusses the strengths and limitations of such an approach, using the example of two studies - on consumption and national identity in Ukraine and on music and nationbuilding
in Estonia.

Left-right self-placement on a unidimensional scale is a standard question in many social and political surveys to measure respondents' ideological orientation in a minimalist way.Although the left-right scale is a standard question, the scale design is not standardized across surveys. One aspect of scale design is the offer of a midpoint. This paper is about design effects on central left-right scale placement in a cross-national context. How do respondents answer if there is no true midpoint: Do respondents who want to express a middle position, in the case of a 10-point scale, use scale middle categories as a substitute for a true midpoint? Are findings consistent across countries? Offering a midpoint is much debated among researchers and quite often, a midpoint might serve as a hidden "don't know" or a missing attitude. Does nonresponse increase when non-attitudes cannot be expressed by choosing the neutral midpoint to hide nonresponse? If middle categories in the 10-point scale work as substitute for a true midpoint in the 11-point scale, nonresponse will not differ. We tested these questions in a split-half experiment where either a 10-point or an 11-point scale was asked in an experimental web survey fielded in six countries. Our results seem to confirm the idea that respondents who favor choosing a scale middle find a virtual center in the 10-point scale. However, results are inconsistent in cross-national perspective.

"Art of Hosting" (AoH) ist nicht nur ein Beteiligungskonzept in der Bildungsarbeit mit Erwachsenen, es ist auch eine Grundhaltung, Menschen zu begegnen und sie durch Bildung in ihrer Lebensgestaltung zu unterstützen.

This article examines the experiences of Chinese elite university students abroad through the lens of temporality. In the struggle to get ahead, elite students are expected to carefully deploy their time. Studying abroad, it is argued, has become one more step in a culturally idealised temporal arrangement of how one is expected to go about advancing. The downside to this ethics of striving is shown to be a pervasive sense of restlessness (浮躁, fuzao). The article shows how relocating to a different life environment allowed a group of elite students to respond to their temporal predicament in existentially creative ways that registered socially as personal maturation. It is argued that these responses were set in motion by the students' inhabiting an expanse of not-yet-purposeful time. Treating the temporal experience of Chinese elite students as a pronounced inflection of an increasingly global temporal mode of striving, the article enquires into the temporality of the present human condition. (JCCA/GIGA)

This article uses Mahler and Pessar's (2001, 2006) model of "geography of power" to interrogate how the general dynamic of Chinese student migration generates a variety of experiences at the individual level. Each Chinese student-migrant embarks on their journey from a different position vis-à-vis the flows and interconnections of the international education market. Some of them set out to achieve concrete goals, while others are motivated by a more intangible mission to become cosmopolitan subjects. As they move around, their shifting position in the hierarchies of nationality, class, gender, and generation influences their decision-making and their experiences. These power systems function simultaneously on multiple geographical scales, exemplified by the contradictory ways gender operates in the family, education, work, and marriage. To further develop the connection this model makes between personal characteristics, cognitive processes, and various power systems, I draw attention to the politics of ordinary affects. (JCCA/GIGA)