Will future migration be organized and humane or deadly and chaotic? This book argues that to meet their structural labor shortages, developed countries must stop building useless walls and start co-managing migration by financing training in countries of departure.
Digitalization, Economic Development and Social Equality
This book is an outcome of the WCSA Conference “Turbulent Convergence.” It gathers research from international scholars to provide a forum for valuable discussion.
Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Punctually
This book defines sustainable development, tracing the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It maps the Millennium Development Goals to the new SDGs, classifying and assessing them. Essential for students, policy-makers, and anyone interested in our world.
Mental Health in Qatar
This is the first volume to explore mental health in Qatar, a priority area in the country’s strategic vision. Experts discuss the history of mental health systems, current challenges, and treatment for all ages and special populations, including at schools and in the workplace.
Fundamentals of Neuroscience and the Law
What can neuroscience tell us about legal concepts like intent? This groundbreaking volume explores the intersection of neuroscience and law, from voluntary movement to scientific evidence in the courtroom. A primer for all those interested in neurolaw.
Husbands Bosworth Polish Resettlement Camp (1948-58)
This study of Polish resettlement camps in post-war Britain draws on eye-witness testimony—including the author’s own childhood experiences—and rare archives. It examines the unique nationalistic culture that emerged, a vital story in the history of multicultural Britain.
The New Gendered Plundering of Africa
This ethnographic study on Nigerian street prostitution in Italy questions the impact of European and Italian migration and prostitution laws on human rights, and investigates the legal, political and socio-economic conditions that create a permissive environment for trafficking.
Contemporary Issues in Africa’s Development
This text reports on the state of crisis in Africa in the early twenty-first century. It questions ideologically protected assumptions, presenting Africa as it is, because it is only by knowing where Africa truly stands that a proper direction can be charted for it.
This volume explores how Greek texts circulated during the Roman Empire from both a literary and sociocultural point of view. Illuminating the interconnections between literary and social practices, these studies draw attention to under-researched texts and inscriptions.
Exploring gentrification in heterotopic post-industrial urban spaces, these studies illustrate, empirically, the extent to which advertising adsensory technologies have become integral to the gentrification of post-industrial urban spaces.
This third volume explores UA’s rising enrollment and new student governance. It covers the university’s rise to national academic respect, the birth of the “Crimson Tide,” the Million Dollar Band, the UA/Auburn rift, and its response to WWI and the women’s rights movement.
Revisiting Centres and Peripheries in Iberian Studies
This volume gathers fresh research from international scholars investigating the multiple tensions between the centre and periphery of the Iberian cultural system. Topics range from the situation in Catalonia to transoceanic postcolonial relations, history, memory, and fiction.
How do we manage the challenges confronting cities? This volume brings together international experts to provide stimulating new ideas and successful examples of tools being used worldwide to make the places we call home more liveable and sustainable.
This text celebrates Professor Olasope Oyelaran, bringing together papers by international scholars influenced by his work. It presents current research on the linguistic and cultural interface of Africa and its diasporas in Brazil, Cuba, and Trinidad.
Kam Women Artisans of China
Deep in southwestern China, in a village called Dimen, live several women who are masters of many cultural arts. Lee’s study presents an opportunity to learn from the past long lost in Western tradition and experience ancient culture transforming under the pressure of technology.
This book explores meaning in language, uniting linguistics, semantics, and computer science. It examines the rapid emergence of meaning in the digital world of social media and memes, using authentic corpus data to show why human language understanding is essential today.
This volume presents an analysis of China from a global perspective within a broad temporal and spatial spectrum. It reveals the early relations established between the Roman Empire and China, the development of diplomatic relations, and the rise and resolution of conflicts.
Identity Mediations in Latin American Cinema and Beyond
This book explores how the flows of music, films, and artists shape cultural identities. It analyzes these transits, mainly in the Ibero-American space but also Soviet and Asian cinema, revealing cultural networks that extend beyond national borders.
Exploring the culture, practice and business of book production, distribution, publication and reception, this anthology demonstrates that publishing needs to be understood as a social and cultural practice, and not just as a business.
Muslim Women Seeking Power, Muslim Youth Seeking Justice
This volume explores employment equity for Muslim women and the identity of Muslim youth in an age of Islamophobia. It offers a worldwide perspective on overcoming discrimination, developing the idea of peaceful resistance and patience in the face of persecution.
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