Social Policy category: 9249 books
Participatory Democracy and Civil Society in the EU
Agenda-Setting and Institutionalisation
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
This book is about both the symbolic and the real struggles for the control of the EU's agenda on participatory democracy in the last fifteen years. The book analyzes how civil society organizations contributed to an agenda which has implications for the regulation of interest groups to the institutions and for the democratic legitimacy of the EU.
Values Deliberation and Collective Action
Community Empowerment in Rural Senegal
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
This book describes how a program of values deliberations–-sustained group reflections on local values, aspirations, beliefs and experiences, blending with discussions of how to understand and to realize human rights--led to individual and collective empowerment in communities in rural Senegal....
Human Rights in the Middle East
Frameworks, Goals, and Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2011
The authors provide a systematic analysis of looking beyond the abuses of human rights in the Middle East with a view toward problematizing traditional doctrinal thinking and concepts in the region, ascertaining comparative and historical roots of human rights abuses in the Middle East.
Imperial Migrations
Colonial Communities and Diaspora in the Portuguese World
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
This volume investigates what role colonial communities and diaspora have had in shaping the Portuguese empire and its heritage, exploring topics such as Portuguese migration to Africa, the Ismaili and the Swiss presence in Mozambique, the Goanese in East Africa, the Chinese in Brazil, and the history of the African presence in Portugal.
by Joanne Westwood
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
How do you apply the principles, structures and processes of the law to everyday practice? Drawing on a wealth of contemporary case examples, this handy pocket book demystifies the legislation on children in need and demonstrates the practical duties and responsibilities of professionals within both the statutory and voluntary sectors.
Fertility of Immigrants
A Two-Generational Approach in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2009
This volume, “Fertility of Immigrants: A Two-Generational Approach in Germany” by Dr. Nadja Milewski, is the sixth book of a series of Demographic Research Monographs published by Springer Verlag. Dr. Milewski is now working for the University of Rostock, but at the time she wrote the book, she...
by S.H. Preston, I.T. Elo, Mark E. Hill
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The authors of this work use a novel strategy that combines record linkage and demographic/statistical analysis to produce an internally consistent and robust set of estimates of the African-American population during the period 1930-1990. They interpret the record that emerges, with special reference...
A Morbid Democracy
Old and New Populisms
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The crisis of democracy in Europe and the inability of the political parties and élites to adequately meet the challenges of globalisation exposes the increasingly fragmented middle classes to the temptations of Euroscepticism, and, in some cases, xenophobia. This appears to be a portrait of contemporary...
Equality in Asia-Pacific
Reality or a Contradiction in Terms?
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
In 1948, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, stating every human being’s right of equality in dignity and right. However, notwithstanding recognition by the international community of its importance and codification in numerous national and sub-national...
Europeanization, Care and Gender
Global Complexities
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
This collection addresses the complexity of care arrangements in contemporary Europe, developing new insights into debates about the care crisis, gender equality, the division of work and the reconciliation of care and work.
Politics and Bureaucracy in the Norwegian Welfare State
An Anthropological Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
The book aims to explain the emergence of the Norwegian—and to some extent, the Scandinavian—welfare state in historical and anthropological terms. Halvard Vike argues that particular forms of political grassroots mobilization contributed heavily to what he calls “a low level of gravity state”—a...
Childhood and Biopolitics
Climate Change, Life Processes and Human Futures
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Will the future be a climate disaster? Will biotechnologies bring huge improvements to lifespan? Predictions vary, but children's status as human embodiments of the future puts them at the centre of attempts to shape the world and the discipline of childhood studies can therefore make a critical and creative contribution to future-making.
Scarce Women and Surplus Men in China and India
Macro Demographics versus Local Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
This volume documents how families, communities and some groups (single men, young ‘scarce’ women, parents) adapt and adjust to recent demographic shifts in China and India. It discusses how demographic change interacts with other processes of change, including changes with respect to economic...
Human Rights in Prisons
Comparing Institutional Encounters in Kosovo, Sierra Leone and the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2015
Drawing on participatory action research conducted in Sierra Leone, Kosovo and the Philippines, Human Rights in Prisons analyses encounters between rights-based non-governmental organisations and prisons. It explores the previously under-researched perspectives of prison staff and prisoners on their lives and relationships.