Mae M. Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press), 2004. 400 pages. $49.95
In: Human rights review: HRR, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 289-292
ISSN: 1874-6306
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In: Human rights review: HRR, Band 8, Heft 3, S. 289-292
ISSN: 1874-6306
In: Research in Race and Ethnic Relations; Hispanic Migration and Urban Development: Studies from Washington DC, S. 133-153
In: Qualitative social work: research and practice, Band 20, Heft 5, S. 1339-1355
ISSN: 1741-3117
This article describes a pilot qualitative research study, exploring the impact of bereavement experiences, on pre-qualifying social work students in two UK Universities with diverse demographics. The research study took place in the context of general concern about the mental health of UK University students and suggests that social work students may be at particular risk of developing emotional wellbeing issues linked to bereavement. Interviews followed a free association narrative technique, with analysis of the data highlighting four main themes. Firstly, bereavement is associated with practical problems which may trigger wellbeing issues. Secondly, there is an increased need for specific bereavement training and support to be embedded within social work programmes, alongside skills and knowledge of cultural diversity and the part this plays in the bereavement process. Lastly, the study demonstrated that bereavement experiences are not isolated but linked to other losses and therefore students may need effective support to process these before they can effectively support others. The study appears to be distinctive in its focus on the impacts of bereavement on social work students and has significant implications for the ways in which students are supported by social work education programmes, as well as paving the way for further research in this area.
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Band 47, Heft 20, S. 4597-4614
ISSN: 1469-9451
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Band 47, Heft 20, S. 4758-4778
ISSN: 1469-9451
In: Journal of ethnic and migration studies: JEMS, Band 47, Heft 7, S. 1631-1648
ISSN: 1469-9451
In: Communications: the European journal of communication research, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 155-172
ISSN: 1613-4087
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This study examined the recall of car and food advertisements within either a car or food television program to investigate the relationship between recall, program content, and viewer involvement. The participants, 92 (52 male, 40 female) sixth-form (high school) students, aged between 16–17 years, were randomly assigned to one of four conditions. As predicted, advertisements placed within a program of dissimilar content were recalled significantly better than if placed within a program of similar content. A gender bias in recall was found with females recalling female-orientated products significantly better than males. Viewer-involvement ratings factored onto three factor clusters: enjoyable, cheerful, and humorous. Negative correlations were shown between cheerfulness and recall in the car program, and positive correlations were shown between cheerfulness and recall in the food program. Finally, implications of the results were considered.
In: International journal of urban and regional research, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 945-959
ISSN: 1468-2427
Immigration to major cities is an important dimension of cultural globalization, one that has been largely ignored in the global cities literature. Rates of immigration to major world cities are an important indicator of global city status and should be included in determining urban hierarchy indexes. Our study considers immigration in more than 100 metropolitan areas, using data from national censuses from more than 50 countries. We rank major cities of immigration and compare them to well‐known global city hierarchies. Using immigration data, we create an urban immigrant index. The index considers four factors of immigration: (1) the percentage of foreign‐born, (2) the total number of foreign‐born, (3) the diversity of the foreign‐born stock, and (4) whether immigrants are from neighboring countries or non‐neighboring countries. This is the first time that an international urban immigrant data set and index have been created. The study explains the empirical challenge of acquiring comparable international metropolitan data and the limits of this research. Some of the cities that rank highly in the index are commonly cited as world cities (London, New York and Frankfurt); others such as Toronto, Amsterdam and Dubai seldom appear so highly ranked.L'Immigration vers les grandes villes est une dimension importante de la mondialisation culturelle, dimension largement ignorée dans la littérature sur les villes planétaires. Les taux d'immigration vers les grandes villes mondiales sont un indicateur significatif du statut de ville planétaire et devraient être pris en compte pour établir des répertoires de hiérarchie urbaine. Cette étude, qui couvre l'immigration dans plus de cent zones métropolitaines, utilise les données de recensements nationaux provenant de plus de 50 pays. Elle classe les principales villes d'immigration et les compare aux hiérarchies de villes planétaires reconnues. A partir des données sur l'immigration, est créé un répertoire des immigrants urbains, lequel se réfère à quatre facteurs d'immigration: (1) le pourcentage néà l'étranger, (2) l'effectif total néà l'étranger, (3) la diversité de la population née à l'étranger et (4) si les migrants viennent de pays voisins ou non. C'est la première fois qu'un fichier de données et un répertoire d'immigrants urbains internationaux sont créés. L'étude expose le défi empirique pour récupérer des données métropolitaines internationales comparables, ainsi que les limites de cette recherche. Certaines des villes placées en tête du répertoire sont fréquemment citées comme villes mondiales (Londres, New York et Frankfort), d'autres comme Toronto, Amsterdam et Dubaï apparaissent rarement à ce niveau de classement.
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Band 29, Heft 4, S. 945-959
ISSN: 0309-1317
In: The Brookings review, Band 20, Heft 1, S. 34
In: Studies in comparative international development: SCID, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 58-87
ISSN: 1936-6167
In: Studies in comparative international development, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 58-87
ISSN: 0039-3606
This article examines three common generalisations from the literature on Latin American environmentalism. The validity of these generalisations, structured as hypotheses, is tested with four case studies from Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela, and Brazil. It is found that Latin American environmentalism is highly diverse, presenting many faces in different time periods and different countries. Developing one general theory of environmentalism in Latin America is impossible. (DSE/DÜI)
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