"Competition over the Nile watercourse is becoming a global crisis. As population growth, economic development, and urbanization increase the demand for water in the Nile Basin while climate change threatens its supply, the region faces a looming water crisis. An effective resolution of this multifaceted issue, which impacts 11 African countries, requires detailed multidisciplinary research"--
"Competition over the Nile watercourse is becoming a global crisis. As population growth, economic development, and urbanization increase the demand for water in the Nile Basin while climate change threatens its supply, the region faces a looming water crisis. An effective resolution of this multifaceted issue, which impacts 11 African countries, requires detailed multidisciplinary research"--
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The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Index –but they have still not succeeded in closing the gender gap. This book draws a diverse and complex picture of the long, uneven, and unfinished process towards substantive equality in four Nordic countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Iceland. It presents the Nordic gender equality model's systematic use of three measures: overarching gender policies, legislation that has an explicit or implicit impact on gender relations, and gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low-threshold enforcement systems. What potentials and limitations do the Nordic gender equality and anti-discrimination law regimes have to combat individual discrimination and structural inequality? Can these regimes function as a driver of political, legal, economic, cultural, and social change and as a corrective to laws, policies, and practices that uphold existing inequalities and, if so, to what extent? Can weaknesses in the equality and anti-discrimination laws and the way they are enforced hamper efforts to close remaining gender gaps? Rather than looking at the Nordic gender equality laws and policies in isolation, the book situates their development and transformative potential within a changing European and international political and legal landscape
Cover -- Half Title: Social Work With Immigrants and Refugees -- Author Bio -- Book Title: Social Work With Immigrants and Refugees -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Springer Publishing Resources -- Part 1: Laying the Foundation of Social Work Practice With Immigrants and Refugees -- Chapter 1: History of Migration in the United States -- LEARNING OBJECTIVES -- CURRENT ISSUES IN U.S. IMMIGRATION -- HISTORY OF IMMIGRATION IN THE UNITED STATES -- IMPLICATIONS FOR SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE AND EDUCATION -- SUMMARY -- REFERENCES -- ADDITIONAL RESOURCES -- Chapter 2: Legal Classifications of Immigrants -- ENTERING THE UNITED STATES TEMPORARILY AS A NONIMMIGRANT -- ENTERING OR REMAINING IN THE UNITED STATES PERMANENTLY -- EXCLUSION FROM ENTERING THE UNITED STATES -- DEPORTATION AFTER ENTERING THE UNITED STATES -- U.S. CITIZENSHIP -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- ADDITIONAL RESOURCES -- Chapter 3: Refugees and Asylum: The Crucial Role of Service Providers -- LEARNING OBJECTIVES -- HIGHLIGHTS OF PAST AND CURRENT FORCED MIGRATIONS -- INTERNATIONAL RESPONSIBILTY SHARING FOR REFUGEES: INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL TREATISES -- DURABLE SOLUTIONS -- THE United States'S Implementation of the un Refugee Treaty: Resettlement and Asylum -- SUMMARY -- NOTES -- Appendix A: Sample Affidavit in Support of Application for Asylum -- Appendix B: Sample Affidavit in Support of Application for Asylum -- Appendix C: Sample Affidavit in Support of Application for Asylum -- FURTHER READING -- ADDITIONAL RESOURCES -- Chapter 4: Culturally Relevant, Anti-Oppression Social Work Practice -- LEARNING OBJECTIVES -- EXPERIENCES OF IMMIGRANTS -- CONCEPTUAL AND THEORETICAL RESOURCES FOR PRACTICE WITH IMMIGRANT POPULATIONS -- EMPOWERMENT THEORY -- STRENGTH--BASED PRACTICE -- ECOSYSTEMS THEORY.
The Many Paths of Change in International Law analyses drivers, conditions, and consequences of change across the different fields of international law. Tracing change processes and the conditions that facilitate and hinder their success, the book paints complex and varied picture of an international legal order in flux.
"The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes. Those changes never materialized, and the people who hoped to benefit from them have been forced to navigate a tense and contradictory policy landscape ever since, haunted by these unfulfilled promises. Legal Phantoms tells their story. After Congress failed to pass a comprehensive immigration bill in 2013, President Obama pivoted in 2014 to supplementing DACA with a deferred action program (known as DAPA) for the parents of citizens and lawful permanent residents and a DACA expansion (DACA ) in 2014. But challenges from Republican-led states prevented even these programs from going into effect. Interviews with would-be applicants, immigrant-rights advocates, and government officials reveal how such failed immigration-reform efforts continue to affect not only those who had hoped to benefit, but their families, communities, and the country in which they have made an uneasy home. Out of the ashes of these lost dreams, though, people find their own paths forward through uncharted legal territory with creativity and resistance"--
This open access book explores the intersection of property law, relocation, and resettlement processes in the United States and among communities that grapple with migration as an adaptation strategy. As communities face the prospect of relocating because of rising seas, policy makers, disaster specialists, and community leaders are scrambling to understand what adaptation pathways are legally possible. While in its ideal application, law functions blindly and without variation, the authors find that legal contradictions come to bear on resettlement processes and place certain communities further in harm's way. This book will unearth these contradictions in order to understand why successful community-based resettlement has presented such a challenge to communities that are experiencing increasing land deterioration as a result of climate change.
After the russian Federation began its aggression against Ukraine in 2022, the Ukrainian critical infrastructure system was attacked with the aim of its complete or partial destruction. In response to these attacks, the Ukrainian authorities announced the reconstruction of the infrastructure protection system based on eU legal solutions. therefore, the article discusses the issues of critical infrastructure, both at the european and Polish level. the provisions of 2007 are in force in the Polish legal system, and the 2008 directive – in the european legal system. however, legal provisions were amended in 2022 and will be implemented into national legal systems in 2024. the aim of the article was to analyze the content of the provisions of legal acts in the field of critical infrastructure in Poland and the eU. the analysis is accompanied by research questions regarding how to define basic concepts and terms in both legal systems and the mutual relations of both systems. the article refers to the document examination method that allows for the analysis of legal acts and comparative analysis. eU Member States have gained a superior position over european bodies, but growing natural and anthropological threats and the process of deepening european political integration have resulted in a gradual change in the way of thinking about critical infrastructure. the position of EU bodies under 2022 directive has been significantly strengthened vis-à-vis member states.
«This timely and important book provides a critical look at borders and belonging. It illuminates the tensions and contradictions that often exist within the logic of legal and political mechanisms that define regional and national boundaries and the reality of the lives lived within these constructions. The resulting essays are instructive, thought-provoking and sometimes very moving explorations of the making and meaning of historical and contemporary borderlands.» (Roisín Higgins, Professor of History, National University of Ireland Maynooth) «This volume is a masterful combination of analyses of feelings of belonging and identities following from changing state and cultural borders in the past and present and their challenges for living together. Its chapters analyse the intersections of people, territory, institutions and law from theoretical perspectives as well as through reflexive individual experience of social identity formation from below, often with a focus on their contestation in (re-)territorialized sub-state regions.» (Josef Marko, Professor of Comparative Public Law and Political Sciences, University of Graz) Both the Brexit process and the Covid pandemic have challenged the idealistic concept that borders in Europe and elsewhere were becoming ever more permeable. The idea that the world was becoming a global village has been seriously eroded. Meanwhile, the war in Ukraine has once again highlighted how power politics draws borders and shapes belongings. This has necessitated analyses of the nature of human-made borders and boundaries and the consequences for individuals and collectives who experience inclusion or exclusion on their feelings of belonging and their identities. Similarly, governmental policies within states have created majorities and minorities and have caused grave implications for those groups at the receiving end of legislation and state actions. This multidisciplinary volume comprises essays from researchers and academics, located in Europe and beyond, who investigate the effects of border creation, social and legal inclusivity and exclusion on individuals and collective identities in the past and today. Combining «from above» and «from below» perspectives, the volume explores macro-political processes affecting borders and senses of belonging as well as their intersections at the microlevel, including private views and individual responses to such types of processes.
The Paris Climate Agreement can be seen as illustrating the evolution of how legal norms are enforced in international law. While the Agreement benefits from a carefully thought-out enforcement mechanism in the international legal order, with techniques that encourage compliance rather than sanction non-compliance, its enforcement is also supported by domestic legal orders. Indeed, the Paris Agreement benefits from both hard and soft enforcement mechanisms. Here, all techniques and all actors have a role to play. This contribution shows that in order to discern the enforcement mechanisms attached to a legal instrument, it is sometimes necessary to take a global and complex look at all legal orders, techniques and actors, since they can act in a complementary manner.
"This edited collection sheds light on how the pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing social issues, and it stresses the importance of understanding, analyzing, and critiquing law and policy decisions during times of crisis. Specifically, it brings together a diverse array of scholarly work that highlights various legal and policy-related topics, including litigations, zoombombing, international students' experiences, violence against women, sex workers' health, governmental crisis responses, neo-vagrancy laws, and educational issues. The collection offers multi-disciplinary scholarly insights, preliminary research findings, legal and public policy analysis, and educational guidelines to address unprecedented socio-legal and psychological impacts on society that have evolved since the onset of the pandemic. Further, these chapters add to the ongoing dialogue about how North American society can improve by exploring dilemmas and highlighting opportunities for positive change. Thus, this collection sheds light on how vulnerable communities have been disproportionately impacted by governments' policies and laws since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and it aims to give a different perspective on how we can move forward and use these occurring issues to create more justice in a post-COVID society"--