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Europe --- citizenship --- civic education --- education --- intercultural communication --- multicultural society --- multiculturalism --- Slovakia --- Kosovo (Republic)
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Slovakia --- Kosovo (Republic) --- Europe --- citizenship --- civic education --- education --- intercultural communication --- multicultural society --- multiculturalism
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Slovakia --- Kosovo (Republic) --- Europe --- citizenship --- civic education --- education --- intercultural communication --- multicultural society --- multiculturalism
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Since the Middle Ages, Africans have lived in Germany as slaves and scholars, guest workers and refugees. After Germany became a unified nation in 1871, it acquired several African colonies but lost them after World War I. Children born of German mothers and African fathers during the French occupation of Germany were persecuted by the Nazis. After World War II, many children were born to African American GIs stationed in Germany and German mothers. Today there are 500,000 Afro-Germans in Germany out of a population of 80 million. Nevertheless, German society still sees them as "foreigners," assuming they are either African or African American but never German.
In recent years, the subject of Afro-Germans has captured the interest of scholars across the humanities for several reasons. Looking at Afro-Germans allows us to see another dimension of the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ideas of race that led to the Holocaust. Furthermore, the experience of Afro-Germans provides insight into contemporary Germany's transformation, willing or not, into a multicultural society. The volume breaks new ground not only by addressing the topic of Afro-Germans but also by combining scholars from many disciplines.
Patricia Mazon is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Reinhild Steingrover is Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.
Blacks --- Race identity --- History. --- Germany --- Race relations. --- History --- Race relations --- Black people --- Ethnology --- Black persons --- Negroes --- African American GIs. --- African Colonies. --- Afro-German Experience. --- Afro-Germans. --- Contemporary Germany. --- Cultural Transformation. --- German Society. --- Holocaust. --- Multicultural Society. --- Nazi Persecution. --- Patricia Mazon. --- Race Ideas. --- Racial Ideas. --- Racism. --- Reinhild Steingrover. --- World War II.
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In pursuit of societal harmony: Reviewing the experiences and approaches in officially monolingual and officially multilingual countries contains a selection of papers on language legislation that were presented at the International Conference on Language Policy in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings, Mandalay, Myanmar, 8-11 February 2016. The editors, both members of the International Academy of Language Law / Académie internationale de droit linguistique, brought together presentations that deal with language legislation and practices in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. The contributions show that the post-communist trend in language policy has been vastly represented by attempts to eliminate the language, and even the cultural legacy, of the formerly hegemonic nation/s in countries emerging after the collapse of the system. In doing so officials in these countries tend to link the harmonisation of a diverse society with the idea of homogenising its population, and prioritising the cultural legacy of the titular nation. In contrast, some post-colonial countries are more tolerant of the language of their colonisers but consequently do not sufficiently promote the institutionalisation of their indigenous languages. Furthermore, the absence of visible efforts to follow any legal pattern in this regard often result in a communication gap between government and the various communities.
Historical & comparative linguistics --- Education & the law --- Language --- Language Rights --- Multicultural society --- Policy --- Post-colonial and comparative perspectives --- language legislation --- Ukraine --- South Africa --- Language policies --- access to information services --- Ontario --- Burkina Faso --- Macau --- multilingual language policy --- Malaysia --- Post-Soviet and Post-Communist studies --- Linguistic landscape in Azerbaijan --- Nation building and bilingualism in Latvia --- ideologies of language --- Croatia --- Lithuania --- conference proceedings --- national cultural heritage --- ethnic composition
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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Ireland appears to be in the process of a remarkable social change, a process which has dramatically reversed a hitherto seemingly unstoppable economic decline. This exciting new book systematically scrutinises the interpretations and prescriptions that inform the 'Celtic Tiger'. Takes the standpoint that a more critical approach to the course of development being followed by the Republic is urgently required. Sets out to expose the fallacies that drive the fashionable rhetoric of Tigerhood. An esteemed list of contributors deal with issues such as immigration, the role of women, globalisation, and changing economic and social conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development. --- 1996 Refugee Act. --- Celtic Tiger. --- Gaeltacht. --- Immigration Bill of 1999. --- Irish culture. --- Irish history. --- Irish immigration policy. --- Irish modernity. --- Irish people. --- class polarisation. --- cosmopolitan society. --- democratic autonomy. --- macroeconomic environment. --- multicultural society. --- nation state. --- national identity. --- public expenditure. --- racist stereotypes. --- social solidarity. --- utopianism.
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This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. Fariba Zarinebaf maps the history of crime and punishment in Istanbul over more than one hundred years, considering transgressions such as riots, prostitution, theft, and murder and at the same time tracing how the state controlled and punished its unruly population. Taking us through the city's streets, workshops, and houses, she gives voice to ordinary people-the man accused of stealing, the woman accused of prostitution, and the vagabond expelled from the city. She finds that Istanbul in this period remains mischaracterized-in part by the sensational and exotic accounts of European travelers who portrayed it as the embodiment of Ottoman decline, rife with decadence, sin, and disease. Linking the history of crime and punishment to the dramatic political, economic, and social transformations that occurred in the eighteenth century, Zarinebaf finds in fact that Istanbul had much more in common with other emerging modern cities in Europe, and even in America.
Crime --- Punishment --- History --- 18th century. --- civic. --- crime historians. --- crime history. --- crime. --- criminals. --- criminology. --- early modern history. --- economic history. --- government and governing. --- historians. --- historical analysis. --- istanbul. --- mediterranean. --- middle east scholars. --- middle east. --- multicultural society. --- murder. --- nonfiction. --- political history. --- prostitution. --- retrospective. --- revisionist history. --- riots. --- social change. --- social sciences. --- theft. --- transgressions. --- turkey. --- turkish society. --- world history.
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This thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi- cultural society. Arguing that the mono-cultural regime built during the 1950's is over, Baruch Kimmerling suggests that the Israeli state has divided into seven major cultures. These seven groups, he contends, have been challenging one other for control over resource distribution and the identity of the polity. Kimmerling, one of the most prominent social scientists and political analysts of Israel today, relies on a large body of sociological work on the state, civil society, and ethnicity to present an overview of the construction and deconstruction of the secular-Zionist national identity. He shows how Israeliness is becoming a prefix for other identities as well as a legal and political concept of citizen rights granted by the state, though not necessarily equally to different segments of society.
National characteristics, Israeli. --- Jews --- Religion and state --- Israeli national characteristics --- Identity. --- Israel --- Social conditions --- Ethnic relations. --- National characteristics, Israeli --- Identity --- Ethnic relations --- Jews - Israel - Identity --- Israel - Social conditions - 20th century --- Israel - Ethnic relations --- 20th century. --- citizen rights. --- cross cultural. --- cultural history. --- demographic study. --- ethnicities. --- historians. --- israel. --- israeli military. --- israeli society. --- israeli state. --- judaism. --- middle east. --- modern history. --- multicultural society. --- national identity. --- nationalism. --- nonfiction. --- political analysts. --- political science. --- political. --- resource distribution. --- secular zionists. --- social scientists. --- social studies. --- sociological study. --- sociologists. --- thought provoking.
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Migrants in Translation is an ethnographic reflection on foreign migration, mental health, and cultural translation in Italy. Its larger context is Europe and the rapid shifts in cultural and political identities that are negotiated between cultural affinity and a multicultural, multiracial Europe. The issue of migration and cultural difference figures as central in the process of forming diverse yet unified European identities. In this context, legal and illegal foreigners-mostly from Eastern Europe and Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa-are often portrayed as a threat to national and supranational identities, security, cultural foundations, and religious values. This book addresses the legal, therapeutic, and moral techniques of recognition and cultural translation that emerge in response to these social uncertainties. In particular, Migrants in Translation focuses on Italian ethno-psychiatry as an emerging technique that provides culturally appropriate therapeutic services exclusively to migrants, political refugees, and victims of torture and trafficking. Cristiana Giordano argues that ethno-psychiatry's focus on cultural identifications as therapeutic-inasmuch as it complies with current political desires for diversity and multiculturalism-also provides a radical critique of psychiatric, legal, and moral categories of inclusion, and allows for a rethinking of the politics of recognition.
Ethnopsychology --- Immigrants --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural assimilation --- Anthropology --- Socialization --- Acculturation --- Cultural fusion --- Emigration and immigration --- Minorities --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Cross-cultural psychology --- Ethnic groups --- Ethnic psychology --- Folk-psychology --- Indigenous peoples --- National psychology --- Psychological anthropology --- Psychology, Cross-cultural --- Psychology, Ethnic --- Psychology, National --- Psychology, Racial --- Race psychology --- Psychology --- National characteristics --- Mental health --- Psychological aspects. --- contemporary italy. --- cultural differences. --- cultural identity. --- cultural translation. --- eastern european immigrants. --- ethno psychiatry. --- ethnographers. --- ethnography. --- europe. --- european identity. --- foreign migration. --- italy. --- mental health. --- migrant experience. --- modern history. --- multicultural society. --- multiculturalism. --- multiracial. --- national identity. --- north african immigrants. --- political identity. --- political refugees. --- religious values. --- social historians. --- sub saharan african immigrants.
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