Refugees: Perspectives on the Experience of Forced Migration

The growth of the world's refugee population has been a major phenomenon of the late-20th century. This volume brings together senior authors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds to analyze key forces shaping the contemporary experience of forced migration. It considers global, social and personal dimensions of displacement, demonstrating their close interrelationship in forging the experience of refuge. Recurrent themes include the importance of valuing the resources, capacities and meanings indigenous to refugee communities, and the intimate linkage of the personal and political in the lives of refugees. In addition to providing deeper insight into the challenges and tensions of the refugee experience, the text seeks to provide a foundation for more informed debate on refugee assistance and asylum policies and practice.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pinter Pub Ltd

Starting Research: An Introduction to Academic Research and Dissertation Writing

Preece, Roy

This new edition of the best-selling An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael Halliday and his colleagues. An approach which views language as a strategic, meaning-making resource, systemic linguistics focuses on the analysis of authentic, everyday texts, and asks both how people use language to make meanings, and how language itself is organized to enable those meanings to be made. The book offers both an overview of systemic theory and illustrations of how systemic techniques can be applied in the analysis of everyday texts. Written for students who may have little or no formal knowledge of linguistics, it covers most of the major concepts in systemic linguistics. In addition, it introduces readers to Halliday's functional grammatical analysis of English clauses, and presents the essentials of the systemic analysis of cohesive patterns in text.

An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics

Reference

Eggins, Suzanne

Foreign Language Study & Reference

An accessible review of the main approaches in the study of public policy, this text argues that most writers who seek to explain how policy varies and changes use one of the five frameworks: institutional, group/network, socio-economic, rational choice and ideas-based. It describes these methods in detail, offers constructive criticisms and explores their claims in the light of American, British and French examples.

Analysing Public Policy

JOHN, PETER

Politics & Government

Thoroughly revised, this new edition incorporates recent research and developments and contains two new chapters on research in education and effective classroom strategies. Professor Child covers all areas of education, including classroom management, teaching styles, motivation, special educational needs and assessment. Special attention has been paid to current thinking, policy and practice.

Psychology and the Teacher

CHILD, Dennis

Sociology

By viewing Islamic fundamentalism as a reactive challenge to modern civilizations and political structure, Dr. Choueiri presents a striking analysis of how and why Islamic values have become such a potent contemporary political force, and sheds new light on a much-misunderstood situation.This book offers a rigorous definition of Islamic fundamentalism by linking its connotations to the historical background of Muslim traditions.

Islamic Fundamentalism

Religion & Spirituality

Choueiri, Youssef M.

Christian Books & Bibles

University and industry, up to now relatively separate and distinct institutional spheres, are assuming tasks that were formerly largely the province of the other in the development of new technologies. A new social contract is being drawn up between the university and the larger society, in which public funding for the university is made contingent upon a more direct contribution to the economy. Has economic development become a function of the university in addition to teaching and research? As the university crosses traditional boundaries through linkages to industry, it must devise ways to make its multiple purposes compatible with each other. The impetuses include: the industrial activities of individual academics in forming firms, which take on a collective force as they become Increasingly common; the organisational inititiatives of academic administrators in establishing procedures and administrative offices for university-industry relations; and conflict of interest controversies over linkages with industry. A new spiral model of innovation is required to capture multiple reciprocal linkages at different stages of the capitalization of knowledge. How do these developments in the knowledge infrastructure affect the intellectual organisation of the disciplines? Is there a co-evolution between new technologies and developments in their cognitive and institutional environments? Among the effects, the degree to which academic-industrial collaboration changes the role of the university as a source of disinterested expertise is also examined.

Universities And The Global Knowledge Economy: A Triple Helix Of University-Industry-Government Relations (Continuum Collection)

Business & Money

Economics

Afghanistan: Politics, Economics and Society: Revolution, Resistance, Intervention (Marxist Regimes Series)

Bhabani Sen Gupta

Questionnaire Design, Interviewing and Attitude Measurement

302p large paperback fresh and clean copy, never used, very light library markings, New Edition

Oppenheim, A.N.

"Since the end of the cold war, international migration has come to be seen as one of the most pressing issues facing Europe in the 1990s. This study takes as its starting-point the growing concern among policy-makers and the public throughout Western Europe over the issue of migration. The author places the current migration debate within a comparative perspective, in its global and historical context, outlining current broad trends in 'economic' migration, and providing some pointers to how these trends have affected Western Europe in recent decades." "The analysis highlights elements of continuity and change in states' involvement in the migration process, a theme expanded in the context of the migration and migrant 'integration' policies pursued by both sending and receiving states. This provides a backdrop for a critical examination of current moves towards the harmonization of migration policy within the EC and wider groupings in Western Europe. The author raises questions about possible future responses to the migration challenge and asks, ultimately, what is the nature of that challenge?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Europe and International Migration

Collinson, Sarah

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