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Citizen-making processes in European and Asian countries are compared in this interdisciplinary text which adopts an original approach by focusing upon the concept of citizenship as an effect of the educational enterprise.

This article examines the magnitude and determinants of migration from east to west (Europe) following the collapse of communism, and from south (Africa) to north (Europe).Special attention is given to assessing numbers and characteristics (including illegal) of the flows, and also to reasons for and success of bilateral agreements and cooperative projects by the governments of Italy and Spain designed to check and control the flows.Notwithstanding tighter controls on visas for Third World nationals, migration to western Europe does not seem to have abated. In Italy, illegal migration from the east (Albania in particular) is connected, directly or indirectly, with the criminal underworld.The inventory of legal texts and agreement protocols between Spain and Morocco designed to resolve many issues relating to migration, reflect long‐standing relations between the two countries. Political and economic relations between Italy and Albania, on the other hand, have developed only within the framework of recent policies.While the presence of Moroccans in Spain and Albanians in Italy is not yet demographically significant, the authors predict that, in the absence of further appropriate political and economic measures, numbers will increase.

This book investigates the diffusion of gender equality norms in and between the European Union (EU), South America and Southern Africa. It offers an in-depth analysis of the trajectories of norms on gender-based violence and gender mainstreaming of aid and trade. The study proposes a novel theoretical framework that enables scholars to grasp the constant renegotiation of gender equality norms in the dynamics between transnational, national and (inter)regional actor constellations. Moving beyond the predominant 'global-local' approach, it conceptualizes norm diffusion as a multidirectional and polycentric process. The empirical chapters show how new geometries of transnational activism have developed. Last but not least, the text explores how the landscapes through which norms travel impact on the norms as well as on their diffusion, revealing the underlying logics that explain the differences in the strengths of gender equality norms as well as the differences between the EU, Mercosur, Organization of American States and Southern African Development Community.

Machine generated contents note: Part I -- 1.Regional Governance, Gender and Transnationalism: A First Exploration / Anouka van Eerdewijk -- 2.Gender Equality Norm Diffusion and Actor Constellations: A First Exploration / Conny Roggeband -- Part II -- 3.EU and the Export of Gender Equality Norms: Myth and Facts / Anna van der Vleuten -- 4.Gender Mainstreaming in EU Development Policy towards Southern Africa and South America / Petra Debusscher -- 5.Gender Mainstreaming in Mercosur and Mercosur--EU Trade Relations / Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann -- 6.Latin American Advocacy on Violence against Women and the OAS Convention / Conny Roggeband -- 7.Gender Mainstreaming in SADC and SADC--EU Trade Relations / Merran Hulse -- 8.Violence against Women and Southern African Advocacy on the SADC Gender Protocol / Joni van de Sand -- Part III -- 9.Reconceptualizing Gender Equality Norm Diffusion and Regional Governance: Logics and Geometries / Anna van der Vleuten

This volume presents colonial and postcolonial discourses, opinions, and experiences in the field of architectural heritage conservation and the use of site-specific practices based on representative case studies presented by art historians, architects, anthropologists, and conservationists from Germany, Nepal, India, China, and Japan. With more than 180 illustrations and a collection of terminologies in German, English, Sanskrit, Hindi, Nevari and Nepali, classical Chinese and standard Mandarin, and Japanese, these cross-cultural investigations document the processual re-configuration of the notion of authenticity. They also show that approaches to authenticity can be specified with key analytical categories from transcultural studies: appropriation, transformation, and, in some cases, refusal