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One of the first areas severely hit by the Covid-19 pandemic was international travel. In March/April, with commercial flights coming to a near halt, the governments were struggling to help their stranded citizens to return home. Extra flights and ferry trips were organised, and the opportunity to return was used by many emigrants worried about the uncertainty and the possible future development of the pandemic. This paper containing both data collected through survey and in-depth interviews with people aged 50+ in Latvia, is the first to explore the reactions of the society to repatriation policy implemented by the government of Latvia, and to explore how the Covid-19 situation has affected the attitudes towards return migrants in general. Importantly, it demonstrates how education moderates these attitudes. The results show that most of the population consider returning migrants as a significant source of infections, and many had doubts if they follow self-isolation and other rules responsibly. Those with the higher education were in general more supportive of the repatriation policy demonstrating the importance of education and explaining difficult decisions in order to reduce tension and fear.

Anti-immigrant disinformation plays a central role in populist and far-right discourses, but it remains a complex object of study. In addition to the definitional challenges posed by disinformation, populism and far-right extremism, it can be difficult to disentangle the intricate overlap of factors that enable the promotion of anti-immigrant disinformation and render audiences receptive to it. To understand these dynamics, this chapter outlines disinformation as a process that engages different actors, platforms, and audiences. It provides an up-to-date analysis of the diverse range of actors who promote anti-immigrant disinformation, explores how platform structures enable anti-immigrant manipulation tactics, and, finally, it contextualises audience receptivity in terms of attitudes towards immigrants and social change. Ultimately, we suggest that efforts to counter anti-immigrant disinformation require multiple overlapping actions that reduce exposure to disinformation while also addressing more deep-seated issues surrounding the crisis of legitimacy within democracy and declining trust in institutions.

The paper deals with the recent emigration of the population from the Republic of Croatia. The entry of the Republic of Croatia into the European Union, on 1 July 2013, increased emigration to many countries of the European Union with simplified procedures of emigration. Attractive and repressive factors stimulate and trigger new emigrant waves outside Croatia towards European Union. Most of the emigrates are young people, whole families, people of fertile age, working active population, highly educated and people with professional qualifications, i.e. anyone who can find employment outside Croatia. Permanent emigration already leads to imbalances and shortages of workers in some sectors of activity such as hospitality, transportation, medical profession etc. Although employment growth has been registered in January 2018, unemployment remains high. Employment growth does not mean a simultaneous drop in unemployment. It is to be assumed that high unemployment remains one of the consequences of emigration that takes on worrying proportions. The media discourse emphasises that people emigrate for personal reasons, in cases when they either have no job or cannot progress in their jobs, along with other known factors of emigration that are a key problem for the Croatian society. The loss to Croatian society resulting from the permanent emigration of the population can best be described as inadmissible in the broadest social context. The 'brain drain' has always been present. The most educated, most ambitious will always look for opportunities for advancement and training in their profession. Experience has shown that highly educated and qualified specialists are a type of modern nomad because they move to improved working conditions and use the opportunities for advancement. The consequences of emigration are long-term for the Croatian society and predictions for the future are not optimistic if something is not changed as soon as possible. The facts related to and consequences of this last wave of emigration for ...

This paper argues that ethical responsibilities in refugee studies have focused on fieldwork, yet ethics ought to be applied to the research problematic—the aims, questions, and concepts—as potentially implicated in the production of harm. Using an example from Tanzania, I argue that policy has largely shaped the language, categories investigated, and interpretive frames of refugee research, and this article advocates greater attention to historical and contemporary processes underpinning humanitarian principles and practices, and how they might contribute to exclusion and ontological anxieties among refugees in the Global South. By expanding our conceptualization of ethical responsibilities, researchers can better explore the suitability, and the implications for the refugee communities, of the approach that they have adopted and whether they contribute or challenge the and dehumanization of people seeking refuge. ; Cet article soutient que les responsabilités éthiques dans les études sur les réfugiés se sont concentrées sur le terrain de recherche alors que l'éthique devrait également s'appliquer à la problématique de recherche - les objectifs, les questions et les concepts pouvant potentiellement causer préjudice. À partir d'un exemple issu de la Tanzanie, cet article soutient que les politiques publiques ont largement façonné le langage, les catégories étudiées ainsi que les cadres interprétatifs de la recherche sur les réfugiés, et préconise de porter une plus grande attention aux processus de racialisation historiques et contemporains qui sous-tendent les principes et pratiques humanitaires, ainsi qu'à la manière dont ils peuvent contribuer à l'exclusion et aux anxiétés ontologiques chez les réfugiés du Sud global. En élargissant la conceptualisation des responsabilités éthiques, les chercheurs sont mieux à même d'explorer la pertinence et les implications de l'approche qu'ils ont adoptée pour les communautés de réfugiés, et dans quelle mesure ils contribuent àla racialisation et la déshumanisation des ...

We are seeing an influx of out-of-state buyers into Tennessee, and the Tri-Cities area specifically. As a major emerging housing market in the US, the Tri-Cities is being inundated by people from all states and walks of life seeking a better life in Appalachia. Although the reasons vary by person, many agree that political alignment, taxation levels, and the quietness of this area lends itself to population growth. While most members of the housing industry have noticed this uptick in out-of-state buyers, few have taken the time to analyze their own records or review the empirical evidence that is present from the past 24-36 months to see where opportunities lie. Through cooperation with a local real estate attorney, I have obtained records that have been scrubbed of personal details for academic research. Using that information I have run some tests for proportions and changes from 2020 to 2021 to determine the major hot-spot states and regions from which people are moving to Tennessee. After analyzing this data, I have then compared it to input from two real estate agents in the Tri-Cities area regarding what they believe are the largest motivating factors for these out-of-state buyers. I have concluded that the West Coast Region (and California in particular) are showing the most decisive and conclusive increases in Tennessee home buying. Overall out-of-state buyers are quickly becoming a large demographic of our market, with a statistically significant 7.56% difference in proportion from just last year to this year (2021).

Piero Coppo (1940-1921), psichiatra, psicoterapeuta, ha contribuito con i suoi studi e con le sue ricerche a un significativo avanzamento teorico e metodologico delle poten- zialità applicative dell'etnopsichiatria. Il suo dialogo continuativo con l'antropologia culturale ha evidenziato inoltre "antenati comuni e parentele segrete" tra le due disci- pline. Ma soprattutto Coppo ha incoraggiato, nell'ultimo decennio, il riconoscimento di una etnopsichiatria "radicale" (e immediatamente politica), sensibile alle trasfor- mazioni della globalizzazione, aperta a nuove sponde di ascolto e di intervento, valida in ogni lavoro diagnostico, in ogni progetto terapeutico, a qualsiasi latitudine, qui e altrove. Il contributo tenterà di mettere in luce alcuni risultati del suo impegno e della sua appassionata avventura intellettuale in questi ultimi quarant'anni. ; Piero Coppo (1940–1921), psychiatrist, psychotherapist, contributed with his studies and research to the theoret- ical and methodological advancement of ethnopsychia- try and to the recognition of its applicative potential. His continuous dialogue with cultural anthropology shed light on common ancestors and overlooked affini- ties among the two disciplines. During his whole career and especially in the last decade, Coppo encouraged the foundation of a "radical" ethnopsychiatry (aware of and deeply connected with its political implications), sensi- tive to the transformation brought by globalization and open to new possibilities of listening and intervening, devised to be used in case conceptualization and treatment planning in different cultural contexts, "here and elsewhere". This paper aims at show- ing the results of the work of Piero Coppo retracing his forty-year-long intellectual journey.