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  • Internal Diversity

    Iranian Germans Between Local Boundaries and Transnational Capital

    Series series Global Diversities
    This book explores the interrelation between diversity in migrants’ internal relations and their experience of inequality in local and global contexts. Taking the case of Hamburg-based Iranians, it traces evaluation processes in ties between professionals – artists and entrepreneurs – since the 1930s, examining migrants’ potential to act upon hierarchical structures. Building on long-term ... Read more

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  • Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography

    Agency, Complexity and Uncertainty in Migration Studies

    Series Book 17 - Methodos Series
    This open access book presents a ground-breaking approach to developing micro-foundations for demography and migration studies. It offers a unique and novel methodology for creating empirically grounded agent-based models of international migration – one of the most uncertain population processes and a top-priority policy area. The book discusses in detail the process of building a simulation ... Read more

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  • Atlas of Global Change Risk of Population and Economic Systems

    by Peijun Shi ...
    Series series IHDP/Future Earth-Integrated Risk Governance Project Series
    This book is open access and illustrates the spatial distribution of the global change risk of population and economic systems with the maps of environment, global climate change, global population and economic systems, and global change risk. The risks of global change are mapped at 0.25 degree grid unit. The risk results and their contribution rates of the world at national level are ... Read more

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  • Climate Change and the Health Sector

    Healing the World

    The health sector is known to be one of the major contributors towards the greenhouse gas emissions causing the climate crisis, the greatest health threat of the 21st century. This volume positions the health sector as a leader in the fight against climate change and explores the role of the health system in climate policy action. It delivers an overview of the linkages between climate change and ... Read more

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  • The Coming War In Europe: Essays On Europe's Impending Destabilization And Internal Confrontation With Islam

    The Coming War In Europe: Essays On Europe’s Impending Destabilization And Internal Confrontation With Islam is a collection of articles and essays published by Julian Langness in 2015-2017. These essays detail and analyze the situation in Europe vis a vis mass-Muslim immigration, as well as the civilizational-suicide of Europe's leaders.Examining the horrific epidemics of rape and violence ... Read more

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  • Social Exclusion in Later Life

    Interdisciplinary and Policy Perspectives

    Series Book 28 - International Perspectives on Aging
    Drawing on interdisciplinary, cross-national perspectives, this open access book contributes to the development of a coherent scientific discourse on social exclusion of older people. The book considers five domains of exclusion (services; economic; social relations; civic and socio-cultural; and community and spatial domains), with three chapters dedicated to analysing different dimensions of ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of South–South Migration and Inequality

    This open access handbook examines the phenomenon of South-South migration and its relationship to inequality in the Global South, where at least a third of all international migration takes place. Drawing on contributions from nearly 70 leading migration scholars, mainly from the Global South, the handbook challenges dominant conceptualisations of migration, offering new perspectives and insights ... Read more

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  • A model of innovation

    A model of economic development based around constant underlying innovation

    by Alex David ...
    Building on the author’s ‘Pace Change’, this book presents an empirically-grounded high productivity account of world population growth from c. 200,000 BCE (before the common era) to 2100 CE (in the common era) using a simple endogenous stochastic model based on a constant underlying rate of innovation.The statistically-tested model predicts a world population of 9.9 billion in 2050 CE and 16.9 ... Read more

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  • Diaspora, Food and Identity

    Nigerian Migrants in Belgium

    Series Book 9 - L’Europe alimentaire / European Food Issues / Europa alimentaria / L’Europa alimentare
    This book examines the connection between food and identity in the Nigerian diaspora community in Belgium. Encounters between people from different cultures do not lead to a simple adaptation of the diet, but usually give rise to some kind of fusion of new and indigenous food habits.The author questions the relationship between what Nigerian migrants in the diaspora eat, their self-perception and ... Read more

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  • External Voting

    The Patterns and Drivers of Central European Migrants' Homeland Electoral Participation

    Series series Migration, Diasporas and Citizenship
    This open access book is the first monograph that brings together insights from comparative politics, political sociology, and migration studies to introduce the current state of knowledge on external voting and transnational politics. Drawing on new data gathered within the DIASPOlitic project, which created a comparative dataset of external voting results for 6 countries of origin and 17 ... Read more

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  • The Emigrant Communities of Latvia

    National Identity, Transnational Belonging, and Diaspora Politics

    Edited by Rita Kaša, Inta Mieriņa ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access volume examines experiences of contemporary Latvian migrants, thereby focusing on reasons for emigration, processes of integration in their host countries, and – in the case of return migration - re-integration in their home country. In the context of European migration, the book describes the case of Latvia, which is interesting due to the multiple waves of excessive emigration, ... Read more

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  • Microsimulation Population Projections with SAS

    A Reference Guide

    Series series SpringerBriefs in Population Studies
    This open access book provides a step-by-step overview on how to build a microsimulation model with SAS. It shows how to convert an already existing multistate projection by age, sex, education and region into a microsimulation model. Two new dimensions are then added, either the labor force participation and the sector of activity, and/or some examples of outputs and alternative scenarios that ... Read more

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  • Migrants and Expats: The Swiss Migration and Mobility Nexus

    Edited by Ilka Steiner, Philippe Wanner ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book provides insight on current patterns of migration in Switzerland, which fall along a continuum from long-term and permanent to more temporary and fluid. These patterns are shaped by the interplay of legal norms, economic drivers and societal factors. The various dimensions of this Migration-Mobility Nexus are investigated by means of newly collected survey data: the Migration ... Read more

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  • Hohes Alter in Deutschland

    Series Book 8 - Schriften zu Gesundheit und Gesellschaft - Studies on Health and Society
    Dies ist ein Open-Access-Buch.Trotz des schnellen Wachstums des Anteils der Bevölkerung in einem Alter ab 80 Jahren an der Gesamtbevölkerung ist das Wissen über diese Bevölkerungsgruppe bislang gering. Zwar gibt es thematisch, methodisch und regional spezifische Studien, jedoch keine repräsentative Erfassung der Lebenssituation und Lebensqualität dieser Altersgruppe für den gesamtdeutschen Raum. ... Read more

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  • Die Reproduktion sozialer Ungleichheiten in der Freiwilligenarbeit

    Theoretische Perspektiven und empirische Analysen zur sozialen Schließung und Hierarchisierung in der Freiwilligenarbeit

    Series Book 67 - Forschungsergebnisse der Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien
    Paul Rameder widmet sich der Frage, in welcher Form und in welchen Bereichen die Freiwilligenarbeit einen Beitrag zur Genese und Reproduktion sozialer Ungleichheiten leistet. Durch die Aura der Freiwilligkeit und Uneigennützigkeit entziehen sich die sozial nachteiligen Effekte der Freiwilligenarbeit der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung und expliziten Kritik. Die multivariaten Analysen von Mikrozensusdaten ... Read more

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  • Pace Change

    Second Edition

    by Alex David ...
    An exploration of world economic development from a new perspective. Applying the concept of radiocarbon dating to economic analysis leads to an intriguing investigation of how the world economy may have developed from the start of specialization down to the present day. ... Read more

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  • Active Assisted Living

    Anwendungsszenarien und Lösungsansätze für ein selbstbestimmtes Leben

    Edited by Marcel Sailer, Andreas Mahr ...
    In dem vorliegenden Open-Access-Buch identifizieren Studierende und Lehrende interprofessionell Entwicklungen und Problemfelder der Assistiven Technologien. Diese halten zunehmend Einzug ins Leben versorgungsbedürftiger, häufig älterer Menschen. Nach einigen Jahren der Entwicklung kann konstatiert werden, dass der Transfer von Entwicklung zur Anwendung im Alltag infolge unterschiedlicher ... Read more

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  • Sequence Analysis and Related Approaches

    Innovative Methods and Applications

    Series Book 10 - Life Course Research and Social Policies
    This open access book provides innovative methods and original applications of sequence analysis (SA) and related methods for analysing longitudinal data describing life trajectories such as professional careers, family paths, the succession of health statuses, or the time use. The applications as well as the methodological contributions proposed in this book pay special attention to the combined ... Read more

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  • Housing Estates in the Baltic Countries

    The Legacy of Central Planning in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

    Series series The Urban Book Series
    This open access book focuses on the formation and later socio-spatial trajectories of large housing estates in the Baltic countries—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It also explores claims that a distinctly “westward-looking orientation” in their design produced housing estates that were superior in design to those produced elsewhere in the Soviet Union (between 1944 and 1991, Estonia was a member ... Read more

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  • Family Dynamics over the Life Course

    Foundations, Turning Points and Outcomes

    Series Book 15 - Life Course Research and Social Policies
    This open access book examines how families and other social institutions interact to shape outcomes over the life course. It considers how to use research evidence to reduce social disadvantage through translation of evidence to support public policies and programs. The chapters focus on key life course stages such as early child development, adolescence, emerging adulthood, parenting, marriage, ... Read more

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  • Revisiting Migrant Networks

    Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets

    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks often obscure the reality, for example confounding ties with co-ethnics and ‘strong ties’. This open access book addresses key questions about the ... Read more

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  • AMIPCI Estudio de protección de datos personales entre usuarios y empresas

    Series series Estudios AMIPCI 2011
    La Asociación Mexicana de Internet (AMIPCI) presenta su Primer estudio sobre protección de datos personales entre usuarios y empresas en México.El estudio nos servirá como referencia para conocer la percepción de los usuarios y de las empresas mexicanas respecto de la protección de datos personales y la privacidad. ... Read more

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  • 永和飲食巷弄

    「自己出版一本書」是永和社區大學課程,幫助作者能夠在有限資源自行完成個人出版發行。《永和飲食巷弄》則是第一次向外界募集故事,希望透過食物,帶出在地飲食相關的情懷、時空發展背景等。本書將持續地募集故事,不定期更新,希望從更多人的角度看到永和在多樣族群和時光淬煉下的飲食風貌,提醒大家珍視「只有在這裡」可以嚐到的美好。 ... Read more

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  • Pflegefachpersonen als pflegende Angehörige

    Eine qualitative Studie zum Erleben der Doppelrolle

    by Anke Jähnke ...
    In diesem Open-Access-Buch stehen Pflegefachpersonen im Zentrum, die zugleich pflegende Angehörige sind. Als professionell Pflegende verfügen sie über Fachwissen, pflegefachliche Kompetenzen und Kenntnisse zum Versorgungssystem. Als pflegende Angehörige sind sie persönlich betroffen. Die qualitative Studie fokussiert auf das Erleben der Doppelrolle als beruflich Pflegende und zugleich pflegende ... Read more

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