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Prejudice towards and discrimination of migrants are serious problems in our modern, globalised world. In the present doctoral thesis it was studied how negative attitudes of citizens towards asylum seekers relate to contact experiences, feelings of threat and acculturation orientations. A longitudinal field study with two measurement points was conducted with the German inhabitants (N = 70) of a neighbourhood where an asylum seekers refuge was soon to be opened. Directly before and six months after the opening of the refuge the attitudes (i.e., prejudice, negative emotions and discrimination intentions) of the locals towards the asylum seekers (and their contact experiences) were assessed with questionnaires. Several theoretical backgrounds were used for this study. First, drawing on theories from contact research, effects of three different kinds of contact were hypothesised. Improvements of attitudes towards migrants through mere contact (mere presence of the newcomers), personal contact (own contact experiences) and extended contact (knowledge of neighbours' contact experiences) were analysed and compared. Secondly, perceptions of realistic and symbolic intergroup threat were related to outgroup attitudes. While some theories take stable personality traits (such as Authoritarianism or prejudice) as causal predictors of threat perceptions, other theories, such as the Integrated Threat Model, take threat perceptions as causal antecedents of prejudice.

Prejudice towards and discrimination of migrants are serious problems in our modern, globalised world. In the present doctoral thesis it was studied how negative attitudes of citizens towards asylum seekers relate to contact experiences, feelings of threat and acculturation orientations. A longitudinal field study with two measurement points was conducted with the German inhabitants (N = 70) of a neighbourhood where an asylum seekers refuge was soon to be opened. Directly before and six months after the opening of the refuge the attitudes (i.e., prejudice, negative emotions and discrimination intentions) of the locals towards the asylum seekers (and their contact experiences) were assessed with questionnaires. Several theoretical backgrounds were used for this study. First, drawing on theories from contact research, effects of three different kinds of contact were hypothesised. Improvements of attitudes towards migrants through mere contact (mere presence of the newcomers), personal contact (own contact experiences) and extended contact (knowledge of neighbours' contact experiences) were analysed and compared. Secondly, perceptions of realistic and symbolic intergroup threat were related to outgroup attitudes. While some theories take stable personality traits (such as Authoritarianism or prejudice) as causal predictors of threat perceptions, other theories, such as the Integrated Threat Model, take threat perceptions as causal antecedents of prejudice.

"The cultural change denominated as "the new normal" goes far beyond the adaptation to habits like physical distancing, limited personal contact, teleworking, and self-isolation established with the COVID-19 pandemic. A series of significant transformations in human behavior spreads today in societies all around the world: physical contact decreases while virtual reality expands and public spaces decline while artificial intelligence grows, leading to structural reconfigurations of sex, relationships, gender awareness, and subjectivity. Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-Pandemic World explores this new cultural atmosphere through twelve interdisciplinary essays questioning global governmentality and challenging the biopolitics of the new normal, going from ars erotica to alternative pornography, from online dating to gender fluidity, from LGBTQI+ artivism to sex life cultivation, and more"--

Vorgelegt werden Ergebnisse einer 1975 durchgeführten Befragung von ca. 7400 jungen Werktätigen und ca. 2500 Studenten in der DDR im Vorfeld des 10. Parlaments der FDJ. In einem ersten Teil werden Kontakte der FDJ-Gruppen zu sozialistischen Bruderorganisationen vor allem in der Sowjetunion, der Tschechoslowakei und der Volksrepublik Polen. In einem zweiten Teil werden Ergebnisse zu Besuchen und Urlaub im sozialistischen Ausland, vor allem der Sowjetunion, diskutiert. Behandelt werden darüberhinaus die Urlaubsgestaltung 1974 und die Urlaubsplanung 1975. Abschließend wird nach Beziehungen zu Jugendlichen in sozialistischen Ländern gefragt. (ICE)

Introduction / Angela K. Smith and Krista Cowman -- Part I: Real and Imagined Spaces -- Funny Men and Charming Girls : Revue and the Theatrical Landscape of 1914-1918 / Andrew Maunder -- When Words Are Not Enough : The Aural Landscape of Britain's Modern Memory of 1914-18 / Emma Hanna -- Maisons de Tolérance : The Real and Imagined Sexual Landscapes of the Western Front / Krista Cowman -- The Delightful Sense of Personal Contact That Your Letter Aroused : Letters and Intimate Lives in the First World War / Carol Acton -- Part II: Voices -- A Certain Poetess : Recuperating Jessie Pope (1868-1941) / Jane Potter -- Ventriloquizing Voices in World War I : Scribe, Poetess, Philosopher / Margaret R. Higonnet -- Pacifist Writer, Propagandist Publisher : Rose Macaulay and Hodder & Stoughton / Lise Jaillant -- From Collusion to Condemnation : The Evolving Voice of Woodbine Willie / Stuart Bell -- Part III: Landscapes -- Camels, Catacombs and Pyramids : First World War Nursing Narratives in the Middle East / Nadia Atia -- Cars in the Desert : Claud H. Williams, S.C. Rolls and the Anglo-Sanusi War / Lisa Regan -- Murmurs of War : Grace Fallow Norton and The Red Road / Hazel Hutchison -- Landscapes of Memory in Centenary Fiction / Angela K. Smith

Intro -- Imprint -- Introduction: How this book supports you -- Add-on, press reviews and customer feedback -- Content of the book -- Structure of the book -- Information as desired and additional material to the book! -- Personal eBooks and eCourses -- Networking - career tool or nepotism: Without vitamin B, nothing works! // By Simone Janson -- If networking brings more than any application -- Ethical concerns about networking -- People are not objective! -- The boundaries between networking and nepotism are fluid -- "If you have relationships, you should also use them!" -- Employer: "Contacts not important" -- Employees: majority does not believe in objectivity -- The survey results in detail: -- Employees (563 participants): Looking for a job - Success through "Vitamin B"? -- Employers (181 participants): Searching for an applicant - Success through "Vitamin B"? -- Employee referral programs: construct advertising campaigns on your own behalf // By Anne M. Schüller -- Does it always need money to activate in-house referrers? -- Only, who recommends, is also recommended -- How employee recommendation programs work -- What is still to be considered during construction -- Each recommendation is saved recruiting budget -- Internet and Application: 2 X 10 Online Reputation Tips // By Svenja Hofert -- Good photos, bad photos -- 10 Tips for the right photo -- Networks are becoming more important -- 10 Tips for Building the Right Network: -- Find a job with an employee recommendation: Vitamin B when applying // By Simone Janson -- No chance without vitamin B? -- What do employee recommendation programs do? -- Vetternwirtschaft as an integral part of the recruiting? -- Study shows: Better opportunities with contacts -- 440.000 evaluations -- 15% less chance of acceptance without "friends" in the company -- Which employers would recommend employees?.

In this passionate yet carefully documented book, Sells draws on Balkan literature, unpublished United Nations reports, Internet postings, and personal contacts in the region to reveal for the first time the central role played by religious mythology and stereotyping in the Bosnian tragedy. Sells, himself of Serbian American descent, traces the cultural logic of genocide to the manipulation by contemporary nationalists of the ancient battle of Kosovo - in which the fallen Serb prince Lazar is viewed as a Christ figure and Muslims are portrayed as "Christ-Killers" who must be exterminated before the crucified Serb nation can be resurrected. He shows how intellectuals and clergy created a "Christoslavic" nationalism that viewed converts to Islam as traitors to the Slavic race and marked out their descendants for destruction

The first comprehensive, comparative study of the 'Jewish Councils' in the Netherlands, Belgium and France during Nazi rule. In the postwar period, there was extensive focus on these organisations' controversial role as facilitators of the Holocaust. They were seen as instruments of Nazi oppression, aiding the process of isolating and deporting the Jews they were ostensibly representing. As a result, they have chiefly been remembered as forms of collaboration. Using a wide range of sources including personal testimonies, diaries, administrative documents and trial records, Laurien Vastenhout demonstrates that the nature of the Nazi regime, and its outlook on these bodies, was far more complex. She sets the conduct of the Councils' leaders in their prewar and wartime social and situational contexts and provides a thorough understanding of their personal contacts with the Germans and clandestine organisations. Between Community and Collaboration reveals what German intentions with these organisations were during the course of the occupation, and allows for a deeper understanding of the different ways in which the Holocaust unfolded in each of these countries.

This chapter explores the role transnational networks and informal ties play for small-state-status seeking in Central and Eastern Europe. Using the example of Slovakia, I argue that since their accession to Western institutions, these states have continuously sought to carve out a place for themselves on the mental map of European and North American policymakers. Major security-policy conferences have become central nodal points for this kind of activity. They allow the foreign-policy establishment of small states to manage and shape existing status hierarchies by forging personal contacts with decision-makers from more powerful states. I illustrate this phenomenon empirically with reference to the Bratislava Global Security Forum (GLOBSEC), which began in 2005 as a student-led initiative and has since become the main outreach platform of Slovak foreign policymaking.

Irish emigration to America is one of the clichés of modern Irish history; much less familiar is the reverse process. Who were the people who chose to return to Ireland? What motivated them? How did this affect Irish society? While many European countries were somewhat Americanised in this period, the Irish case was unique as so many Irish families had members in America. The most powerful agency for Americanisation, therefore, was not popular culture but circumstantial knowledge and personal contact. David Fitzpatrick demonstrates the often unexpected ways in which the reverse effects of emigration remoulded Irish society, balancing original demographic research with fascinating individual profiles to assemble a vivid picture of a changing Ireland. He explores the transformative impact of reverse migration from America to post-Famine Ireland, and offers penetrating insights into its growing population of American-born residents.

In the early 1930s, approximately 6,500 Finns from Canada and the United States moved to Soviet Karelia, on the border of Finland, to build a Finnish workers' society. They were recruited by the Soviet leadership for their North American mechanical and lumber expertise, their familiarity with the socialist cause, and their Finnish language and ethnicity. By 1936, however, Finnish culture and language came under attack and ethnic Finns became the region's primary targets in the Stalinist Great Terror. Building that Bright Future relies on the personal letters and memoirs of these Finnish migrants to build a history of everyday life during a transitional period for both North American socialism and Soviet policy. Highlighting the voices of men, women, and children, the book follows the migrants from North America to the Soviet Union, providing vivid descriptions of daily life. Samira Saramo brings readers into personal contact with Finnish North Americans and their complex and intimate negotiations of self and belonging. Through letters and memoirs, Building that Bright Future explores the multiple strategies these migrants used to make sense of their rapidly shifting positions in the Soviet hierarchy and the relationships that rooted them to multiple places and times

"During the Cold War, thousands of musicians from the United States traveled the world under the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department's Cultural Presentations program. Using archival documents and newly collected oral histories, this study illuminates the reception of these musical events, for the practice of musical diplomacy on the ground sometimes differed substantially from what the department's planners envisioned. Performances of music in many styles--classical, rock 'n' roll, folk, blues, and jazz--were meant to compete with traveling Soviet and Chinese artists, enhancing the reputation of American culture. These concerts offered large audiences evidence of America's improving race relations, excellent musicianship, and generosity toward other peoples. Most important, these performances also built meaningful connections with people in other lands. Through personal contacts and the media, musical diplomacy created subtle musical, social, and political relationships on a global scale. Although these tours were sometimes conceived as propaganda ventures, their most important function was the building of imagined and real relationships, which constitute the essence of soft power"--Provided by publisher

Introduction, from 'German measles' to 'honorary Aryans' : an overview of Japanese-German relations until 1945 / Christian W. Spand and rolf-Harald Wippich -- The imperial Japanese Army and Germany / Sven Saaler -- Naval relations between Japan and Germany from the late nineteenth-century until the end of World War II / Berthold J. Sander-Nagashima -- Japan-enthusiasm in Wilhelmine Germany : the case of the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-5 / Rolf-Harald Wippich -- The 'yellow peril' and its influence on Japanese-German relations / Iikura Akira -- Exoticism in early twentieth-century German literature on Japan / Gerhard Schepers -- Personal contacts in Japanese-German cultural relations during the 1920s and early 1930s / Kat¿ Tetsur¿ -- Karl Haushofer re-examined : geopolitics as a factor of Japanese-German rapprochement in the inter-war years? / Christian W. Spang -- The Berlin-Tokyo axis reconsidered : from the Anti-Comintern Pact to the plot to assassinate Stalin / Tajima Nobuo -- The German Nazi party : a model for Japan's 'new order' 1940-1? / Gerhard Krebs -- Japanese-German collaboration in the development of bacteriological and chemical weapons and the war in China / Bernd Martin.n

"Classical Spies will be a lasting contribution to the discipline and will stimulate further research. Susan Heuck Allen presents to a wide readership a topic of interest that is important and has been neglected." -William M. Calder III, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Classical Spies is the first insiders' account of the operations of the American intelligence service in World War II Greece. Initiated by archaeologists in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, the network drew on scholars' personal contacts and knowledge of languages and terrain. While modern readers might think Indiana Jones is just a fantasy character, Classical Spies discloses events where even Indy would feel at home: burying Athenian dig records in an Egyptian tomb, activating prep-school connections to establish spies code-named Vulture and Chickadee, and organizing parachute drops.Susan Heuck Allen reveals remarkable details about a remarkable group of individuals. Often mistaken for mild-mannered professors and scholars, such archaeologists as Princeton's Rodney Young, Cincinnati's Jack Caskey and Carl Blegen, Yale's Jerry Sperling and Dorothy Cox, and Bryn Mawr's Virginia Grace proved their mettle as effective spies in an intriguing game of cat and mouse with their Nazi counterparts. Relying on interviews with individuals sharing their stories for the first time, previously unpublished secret documents, private diaries and letters, and personal photographs, Classical Spies offers an exciting and personal perspective on the history of World War II"--