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Introduction : migration and ethnic challenges for the circumpolar north / Nafisa Yeasmin, Waliul Hasanat, Jan Brzozowski andStefan Kirchner -- The impact of superdiversity on the educational system : a mirror image of utopia or dystopia? / Nafisa Yeasmin andSatu Uusiautti -- Syrian students at the Arctic Circle in Iceland / Kheirie El Hariri, Hermína Gunnþórsdóttir, Markus Meckl -- Immigrant youth perspectives : understanding challenges and opportunities in Finnish Lapland / Ria -Maria Adams -- Migrant integration in Finland : learning-processes of immigrant women / Nafisa Yeasmin and Stefan Kirchner -- An integral assessment of relevant perspectives of legal pluralism and the family laws of immigrants / Waliul Hasanat, Nafisa Yeasmin and Timo Koivurova -- Living in nowhere / Juha Suoranta and Robert FitzSimmons -- Embodying transience : indigenous former youth in care and residential instability in Yukon, Canada / Amelia Merhar -- Cold temperature health risks and human rights / Stefan Kirchner and Susanna Pääkkölä -- Mixed embeddedness of immigrant entrepreneurs and community resilience : lessons to the Arctic / Jan Brzozowski -- Migration and sustainable development in the European Arctic / Stefan Kirchner.

Exploring the negative social impact of cyber-attacks, this book takes a closer look at the challenges faced by both the public and private sectors of the financial industry. It is widely known amongst senior executives in both sectors that cybercrime poses a real threat, however effective collaboration between individual financial institutions and the public sector into detecting, monitoring and responding to cyber-attacks remains limited. Addressing this problem, the authors present the results from a series of interviews with cybersecurity professionals based in Canada in order to better understand the potential risks and threats that financial institutions are facing in the digital age. Offering policy recommendations for improving cybersecurity protection measures within financial institutions, and enhancing the sharing of information between the public and private sector, this book is a timely and invaluable read for those researching financial services, cybercrime and risk management, as well as finance professionals interested in cybersecurity.

Higher education has long been contested terrain. From student movements to staff unions, the fight for accessible, critical and quality public education has turned university campuses globally into sites of struggle. Whether calling for the decommodification or the decolonisation of education, many of these struggles have attempted to draw on (and in turn, resonate with) longer histories of popular resistance, broader social movements and radical visions of a fairer world. In this critical collection, Aziz Choudry, Salim Vally and a host of international contributors bring grounded, analytical accounts of diverse struggles relating to higher education into conversation with each other. Featuring contributions written by students and staff members on the frontline of struggles from 12 different countries, including Canada, Chile, France, India, Mexico, Nigeria, Occupied Palestine, the Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, the UK and the USA, the book asks what can be learned from these movements' strategies, demands and visions

Foreword - William BrownContributorsFigures, tables and boxesAbbreviationsPreface1 Introduction: An internationally comparative approach to employment relations - Nick Wailes, Chris F. Wright, Greg J. Bamber and Russell D. Lansbury2 Employment relations in the United Kingdom - Jeremy Waddington3 Employment relations in the United States - Harry C. Katz and Alexander J.S. Colvin4 Employment relations in Canada - Daphne G. Taras and Scott Walsworth5 Employment relations in Australia - Chris F. Wright and Russell D. Lansbury6 Employment relations in Italy - Lucio Baccaro and Valeria Pulignano7 Employment relations in France - Patrice Laroche8 Employment relations in Germany - Berndt K. Keller and Anja Kirsch9 Employment relations in Denmark - Jorgen Steen Madsen, Jesper Due and Soren Kaj Andersen10 Employment relations in Japan - Hiromasa Suzuki, Katsuyuki Kubo and Kazuya Ogura11 Employment relations in South Korea - Byoung-Hoon Lee12 Employment relations in China - Fang Lee Cooke13 Employment relations in India - Anil Verma and Shyam Sundar14 Conclusions: Beyond varieties of capitalism, towards convergence and internationalisation? - Chris F. Wright, Nick Wailes, Russell D. Lansbury and Greg J. BamberNotesReferencesIndex

"This critical book focuses on two dominant reform agendas - managerialism and politicisation - to examine the condition of Anglophone countries after 40 years of reform to public sector management and governance. Comparing four countries using the Westminster system - Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom - John Halligan explores the changes resulting from distinctive reform agendas, exposing performance shortfalls and unintended consequences, such as bureaucratisation. Offering a broad overview of the implementation and outcomes of key administrative developments, Halligan unpacks those traditions and conventions of governance in Anglophone countries that have been disrupted by unrestrained political executives, producing dramatic imbalances in management and governance systems. Judicious and incisive, this book will be crucial reading to postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students of public policy seeking an in-depth understanding of both historic and contemporary reforms to public management and governance. Halligan's comparative approach to public management systems will also benefit government practitioners and specialists working closely with governments."

"World Health Systems is arranged in five parts: the first part presents, from multidisciplinary perspectives, outlines of various health systems throughout the world, as well as current trends in the development and reform of world health systems. The second and third parts expound on the health systems in developed countries, discussing the government's role in the health service market and basic policies on medication administration and expenses, before analyzing the health systems of Britain, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany, France, Japan, Poland, USA, Singapore, Hongkong (China), and Taiwan (China). The fourth and fifth parts discuss health systems in less developed countries and areas, typically the BRICS and other countries in Asia (Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Armenia, and Kyrghyzstan), Africa (Egypt, Morocco), Europe (Hungary, Czech Republic, and Bulgaria) and South America (Cuba, Chile, and Mexico), summarizing their past experiences, while making assessments of their current efforts to shed light on future developments"--

Proportionality in Action presents an empirical and comparative exploration of the proportionality doctrine, based on detailed accounts of the application of the framework by apex courts in six jurisdictions: Germany, Canada, South Africa, Israel, Poland and India. The analysis of each country is written and contextualized by a constitutional scholar from the relevant jurisdiction. Each country analysis draws upon a large sample of case law and employs a mixed methodological approach: an expansive coding scheme allows for quantitative analysis providing comparable and quantifiable measurements, which is enriched by qualitative analysis that engages with the substance of the decisions and captures nuance, contextualizing the data and providing it with meaning. The book concludes with a comparative chapter that synthesizes some of the most interesting findings. Focusing on deviations of the practice of proportionality from theory, the authors conclude their argument in support of an integrated approach to the application of proportionality.

"Migration Crises in 21st Century Africa" explores the ever-expanding crises of migrations from various regions of Africa to other parts of the world; notably the pattern that utilizes the pre-existing trans-Saharan trade route via North Africa and the Mediterranean to Europe's southern fringes. Dr. Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran explores key interrelated factors in astonishing depth, examining the nature of mobility in pre-modern African society; the impact of governance structures, demographics and economics; and the roles of both state and non-state actors. Adeniran additionally interrogates possible interventions and considers what the future of mobility within and beyond the boundaries of Africa might look like in an increasingly mobile world. Dr. Adebusuyi Isaac Adeniran is Associate Professor in sociology, migration and development studies at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria. He is also Visiting Scholar at The Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, Canada and a Research Consultant to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.

The French missionary-linguist Émile Petitot (1838–1916) spent twenty years near the Arctic Circle in Canada, publishing numerous works on First Nations languages and practices. Over time, however, he descended into delirium and began to summon imaginary persecutions, pen improbable interpretations of his Indigenous hosts, and burst into schizoid fury. Delving into thousands of pages in letters and memoirs that Petitot left behind, Pierre Déléage has reconstructed the missionary's tragic story. He takes us on a gripping journey into the illogic and hyperlogic of a mind entranced with Indigenous peoples against the backdrop of repressive church policies and the emergent social sciences of the nineteenth century. Apocalyptic visions from the Bible and prophetic movements among First Nations peoples merged in the missionary's deteriorating psyche, triggering paroxysms of violence against his colleagues and himself. Whoever wishes to understand the contradictions of living between radically different societies will find this anthropological novella hard to put down.

"This book examines adult organized criminal gangs, a major North American crime problem responsible for the drug trafficking epidemic plaguing Mexico, the United States and Canada. In addition, North American AOCS are involved in a wide range of other trafficking and organized crime enterprises. Early chapters define different types of gangs-street-based, prison-based and outlaw motorcyle gangs-and illustrate the specific gangs (MS-13, Hells Angels, Bloods and Crips, etc.), giving many examples of gang activities in the news. Also explored are how different gangs sometimes work together, illustrated in events like Operation Joker's Wild which shed a light on cooperation between the Florencia 13 street gang and the Mexican Mafia prison gang and led to drug-trafficking and murder charges. Later chapters look more closely at the drug-trafficking business models of various gangs, and how this leads to RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Coorupt Organizations Act) charges and convictions"--

Foreword / Manfred Nowak -- Assessing unconventional applications of the 'terrorism' label / Sudha Setty -- Separatist, not terrorist : case studies from Southeast Asia / Nadirsyah Hosen -- The 'refugee warrior' in an age of revolutionary violence / Satvinder S. Juss and Jeni Mitchell -- The ISIL jihadists of Saudi Arabia / Abdullah K. Al-Saud -- The criminal law implications of the 'war on terror' & the status of foreign fighters : a Swiss perspective / Roberta Arnold -- Disrupting terrorist activity : what are the limits to criminal methods of disruption? / Stuart Macdonald and Lord Carlile -- The evolving common law jurisprudence combatting the threat of terrorism in Canada / James Simeon -- Human rights & anti-terror laws in Australia / George Williams -- The legacy of apartheid and South Africa's struggle to contain contemporary form of terrorism and violent extremism / Martin Ewi and Willem Els -- India and the global war on terror : Indian counterterrorism and the influence of the global war on terror / Harsh V. Pant and Ivan Lidarev.

"Providing a systematic overview of large-scale housing projects, Massive Suburbanization investigates the building and rebuilding of urban peripheries on a global scale. Offering a universal inter-referencing point for research on the dynamics of "massive suburbia," this book builds a new discussion pertaining to the problems of the urban periphery, urbanization, and the neoliberal production of space. Conceptual and empirical chapters revisit the classic cases of large-scale suburban building in Canada, the former Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, and the United States and examine the new peripheral estates in China, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the Philippines, South Africa, and Turkey. The contributors examine a broad variety of cases that speak to the building or redevelopment of large-scale peripheral housing estates, tower neighbourhoods, Grands Ensembles, Groβwohnsiedlungen, and Toplu Konut. Concerned with state and corporate policy for building suburban estates, Massive Suburbanization confronts the politics surrounding local inhabitants and their "right to the suburb.""--

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Multiculturalism as a distinct form of liberal-democratic governance gained widespread acceptance after World War II, but in recent years this consensus has been fractured. Multiculturalism in the British Commonwealth examines cultural diversity across the postwar Commonwealth, situating modern multiculturalism in its national, international, and historical contexts. Bringing together practitioners from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the legal, political, and philosophical issues involved, these essays address common questions: What is postwar multiculturalism? Why did it come about? How have social actors responded to it? In addition to chapters on Australia, Britain, Canada, and New Zealand, this volume also covers India, Malaysia, Nigeria, Singapore, and Trinidad, tracing the historical roots of contemporary dilemmas back to the intertwined legacies of imperialism and liberalism. In so doing it demonstrates that multiculturalism has implications that stretch far beyond its current formulations in public and academic discourse

"Ubuntu is a Bantu term meaning humanity. It is also a philosophical and ethical system of thought, from which definitions of humanness, togetherness, and social politics of difference arise. Devi Dee Mucina is a Black Indigenous Ubuntu man. In Ubuntu Relational Love, he uses Ubuntu oratures as tools to address the impacts of Euro-colonialism while regenerating relational Ubuntu governance structures. Called "millet granaries" to reflect the nourishing and sustaining nature of Indigenous knowledges, and written as letters addressed to his mother, father, and children, Mucina's oratures take up questions of geopolitics, social justice, and resistance. Working through personal and historical legacies of dispossession and oppression, he challenges the fragmentation of Indigenous families and cultures and decolonizes impositions of white supremacy and masculinity. Drawing on anti-racist, African feminist, and Ubuntu theories and critically influenced by Indigenous masculinities scholarship in Canada, Ubuntu Relational Love is a powerful and engaging book."--

"The language of young people is central in sociolinguistic research, as it is seen to be innovative and a primary source of knowledge about linguistic change and the role of language. This volume brings together a team of leading scholars to explore and compare linguistic practices of young people in multilingual urban spaces, with analyses ranging from grammar to ideology. It includes fascinating examples from cities in Europe, Africa, Canada and the US to demonstrate how young people express their identities through language, for example in hip-hop lyrics and new social media. This is the first book to cover the topic from a globally diverse perspective, and it investigates how linguistic practices across different communities intersect with age, ethnicity, gender and class. In doing so it shows commonalities and differences in how young people experience, act and relate to the contemporary social, cultural and linguistic complexity of the twenty-first century"--