Listing 1 - 10 of 156 << page
of 16
>>
Sort by

Book
Evolution : the human story.
Author:
ISBN: 9781405361651 Year: 2011 Publisher: London Dorling Kindersley

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Authors: --- --- ---
ISBN: 9783709109502 Year: 2012 Publisher: Vienna Springer Vienna Imprint Springer

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In contemporary Europe and beyond, the concept of migration  has acquired multiple distinct meanings. The range of reactions to migrants depends on the country of origin, their symbolic capital  (education, professional background, language skills) as well as on aspects of gender, religion, cultural tradition, and social class. Various legal regulations on citizenship and employment are currently being debated and implemented across Europe, fuelled by a politics of fear  propagated by mainstream and populist parties alike. Counter-discourses are rare and limited. This volume incorporates contributions from the international symposium Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives  (2010), covering the following topics: peer relations among immigrant adolescents; migration, identity, and belonging; ego documents and migration histories; the concept of diffusion in the natural sciences; media coverage of migration; migration and genes.


Book
Demographic Aspects of Migration
Authors: --- --- ---
ISBN: 9783531925639 9783531165417 Year: 2010 Publisher: Wiesbaden VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

In all settings of society, migration is an important factor for the development and growth of population. To understand its consequences, it is fundamental to know the quality of the available data, the measurement instruments for analyzing migration, and to have an appropriate demographic framework for studying the demographic effects of migration. Whereas the first section focuses on analysis, the second part deals with the different demographic behaviours of migrants compared to residents. Further it demonstrates the motives and explanations for migration. The final section analyzes geographic and economic aspects. The authors combine demographic analysis, interdisciplinary research, and international illustrations to explore current trends in migration patterns and processes. This book is valuable reading for an interdisciplinary academic audience as well as for regional planners and policy makers.


Book
Lucy : onze voorouder uit de prehistorie
Year: 2012 Publisher: Averbode Averbode

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Responding to Immigrants' Settlement Needs: The Canadian Experience
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9789400726888 Year: 2012 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

While much has been written about Canada's modern settlement program and there is a growing body of research and analysis of the settlement and integration successes and challenges of recent years, there is virtually no literature that has addressed the history of settlement services since the beginning of immigration to Canada.  Some survey histories of Canadian Immigration have touched on elements of settlement policy but no history of services to immigrants in Canada has been published heretofore.  Responding to Immigrants' Settlement Needs: The Canadian Experience addresses this gap in the historiography of Canadian Immigration.  From the tentative steps taken by the pre-Confederation colonies to provide for the needs of arriving immigrants, often sick and destitute, through the provision of accommodation and free land to settlers of a century ago, to today's multi-faceted settlement program, this book traces a fascinating history that provides an important context to today's policies and practices.  It also serves to remind us that those who preceded us did, indeed, care for immigrants and did much to make them feel welcome in Canada.  The Canadian experience in integration, over the past two centuries, suggests many policy-related research themes for further exploration both in Canada and in other immigrant receiving countries.


Book
Social Justice in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Authors: --- --- ---
ISBN: 9789400741508 Year: 2012 Publisher: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands Imprint Springer

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The U.S.-Mexico Border Region is among the poorest geographical areas in the United States. The region has been long characterized by dual development, poor infrastructure, weak schools, health disparities and low-wage employment. More recently, the region has been affected by the violence associated with a drug and crime war in Mexico. The premise of this book is that the U.S.-Mexico Border Region is subject to systematic oppression and that the so-called social pathologies that we see in the region are by-products of social and economic injustice in the form of labor exploitation, environmental racism, immigration militarism, institutional sexism and discrimination, health inequities, a political economy based on low-wage labor, and the globalization of labor and capital. The chapters address a variety of examples of injustice in the areas of environment, health disparity, migration unemployment, citizenship, women and gender violence, mental health, and drug violence. The book proposes a pathway to development.


Book
Environment, Forced Migration and Social Vulnerability
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 9783642124167 9783642124150 9783642437199 9783642124174 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg Imprint Springer

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book is one of the outputs of the conference on ˜Environmental Change, Forced Migration, and Social Vulnerability' (EFMSV) held in Bonn in October 2008. Migration is one of the oldest adaptation measures of humanity. Indeed, without migration the multitude of civilizations and interactions between them - peaceful and otherwise - would be hard to imagine. The United Nations (UN)-led global dialogue on migration is a clear sign that governments and the specialized UN agencies and bodies have recognized the need to view, govern, manage, and facilitate migration; to mitigate its negative effects; and to capitalize on the positive ones. It is a common expectation among experts that environmentally induced migration will further increase in the decades to come. Hence, next to the political, economic, ethnic, social, financial, humanitarian, and security aspects of migration, the environmental component should urgently be considered in the ongoing international dialogue on migration. This need is also a challenge. Without appropriate scientific knowledge, assessment, definitions, and classifications, the intergovernmental frameworks would not be able to deal with these complex phenomena. The Five-Pronged-Approach as formulated by the United Nations University (UNU) may serve as a framework to identify the additional dimensions of this challenge next to - and actually simultaneously with - the scientific one.


Book
Wat elke professional over het geheugen moet weten
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9789036807425 9789036807432 Year: 2014 Publisher: Houten Bohn Stafleu van Loghum Imprint Bohn Stafleu van Loghum

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Wat elke professional over het geheugen moet weten geeft een overzicht over de vele verschijnselen, ideeën en verklaringen over aspecten van het geheugen. Men kan daarbij denken aan het langetermijngeheugen voor gebeurtenissen en kennis, maar ook het werkgeheugen en het leren van vaardigheden en andere vormen van leren zoals het conditioneren. De relatie met slaap en emotie, het fotografisch geheugen en ˜geheugenwonders' komen aan de orde, evenals de jaarlijks terugkerende vraag hoe voor een examen geleerd moet worden. Vervolgens worden ook de hersenstructuren besproken die betrokken zijn bij de diverse leer- en geheugenprocessen. Dat ons geheugen zo goed functioneert is belangrijk, maar dat wordt meestal pas duidelijk als het misgaat. In het dagelijks leven ervaart iedereen wel eens problemen met het functioneren van het geheugen. Daarnaast treden geheugenstoornissen op bij tal van neurologische en psychiatrische aandoeningen. Die worden in de klinische praktijk met tal van tests onderzocht. Dit alles wordt op een systematische maar puntige wijze beschreven. Tot slot worden ook voor de diverse onderdelen literatuurtips gegeven. Wij zijn ons geheugen en wij ervaren ook regelmatig dat ons geheugen ons in de steek laat. Dit boek zal voor vele professionals van uiteenlopende disciplines (artsen, (neuro)psychologen, pedagogen, enz.) inzicht bieden in de complexiteit van het geheugenproces, de diversiteit aan problemen en stoornissen, de mogelijkheden om die te inventariseren en er eventueel iets aan te doen.


Book
Afrika : de bron van ons bestaan
Authors: ---
ISBN: 9789059777798 9059777794 9789059777804 9059777808 Year: 2012 Publisher: Utrecht Omniboek

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Ruim een eeuw van onderzoek naar fossielen van mensachtigen, waarbij Afrika als onderzoeksgebied centraal staat.


Book
Non-standard Spatial Statistics and Spatial Econometrics
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 9783642160431 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Despite spatial statistics and spatial econometrics both being recent sprouts of the general tree "spatial analysis with measurement" some may remember the debate after WWII about "theory without measurement" versus "measurement without theory" several general themes have emerged in the pertaining literature. But exploring selected other fields of possible interest is tantalizing, and this is what the authors intend to report here, hoping that they will suscitate interest in the methodologies exposed and possible further applications of these methodologies. The authors hope that reactions about their publication will ensue, and they would be grateful to reader(s) motivated by some of the research efforts exposed hereafter letting them know about these experiences.

Listing 1 - 10 of 156 << page
of 16
>>
Sort by