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Temporary migration is a human response to uncertain economic,
ecological, political and socio-cultural environments. This book
provides an important contribution to the literature on the rights,
lived experiences and trajectories of temporary migrants. It
focuses on the precarity of temporary migrants at different scales
in urban settings, varying from the household, institution, and
neighbourhood to the city. Temporary migrants experience
oscillations in precarity that vary with their categorization as
skilled (professionals with valued skill sets, international
students) or unskilled (domestic workers, labourers), their
ambiguous legal status and the locales in which they reside and
work. Individual chapters use case studies from around the world
(USA, Canada, Ireland, Turkey, Singapore, China) to show how
temporal and scalar precarity intersect and are mediated by
national and local policies, civil society, as well as the personal
and social attributes of migrants themselves such as gender, race,
and country of origin. Although often overlooked due to their
transitory status, the chapters demonstrate how temporary migrants
are embedded in urban life and resist their categorisation as
disposable through individual and collective efforts. This book
will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of
Sociology, Politics, Human Geography, Urban Studies, and Social and
Cultural Anthropology. It was originally published as a special
issue of the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
This richly evocative study of photography has two major emphases,
that the language of description (be it title, caption, or text) is
deeply implicated in how a viewer looks at photographs, and that
the use of a photograph determines its meaning.
Working with families, carers, groups and communities is something
all social work students must prepare for. Written to guide you
through these varied and complex groupwork situations, this book
explores the knowledge, skills and values required for groupwork
practice. Divided into two parts, the first provides an
understanding of groupwork, its concepts and contexts, while the
second takes you step-by-step through groupwork practice, from
planning and preparation, to starting out, facilitating and finally
ending work with a group. Different service contexts including work
with children, with users who have learning disabilities, in mental
health settings, and more, are covered throughout the book, with
case studies, activities and reflective opportunities helping you
to understand the complexities of these contexts. This text is a
comprehensive and contemporary guide to groupwork in social work
today.
This richly evocative study of photography has two major emphases.
The first is that the language of description (be it title,
caption, or text) is deeply implicated in how a viewer looks at
photographs. The more detailed the description, the more precisely
the viewer's observation is directed. This leads to the second
emphasis, that the use of a photograph determines its meaning. For
example, a newspaper photograph with a caption may be later
exhibited in an art gallery with additional or different
information. The news photograph will look as it did originally,
but instead of being seen as news may be seen in terms of history,
sociology, or art. The author first engages the problem of defining
the value of a photograph, not in terms of its commercial or
monetary value but of its actual or potential use. Walter
Benjamin's influential writings on photography are discussed,
notably his complex metaphor of "aura" as applied to both handmade
art (such as painting and sculpture) and the photograph, with the
author challenging Benjamin's contention that works of art do not
require titles, whereas photographs do. Actual descriptions of
photographs are used to show that the descriptions modify and
enlarge interpretation and often establish the use of photographs.
The author then investigates the many definitions of the photograph
that invoke the metaphor of the "mask", followed by a look at the
history of reflective images (mirror, water) and Benjamin's uses of
aura, the returned gaze, and memory. The imaginative use of
photographs as metaphor is further explored in works of literature
by Marcel Proust, Robert Lowell, Roland Barthes, and Robert Musil.
The author concludes that although nophotograph has the sacred aura
of the unique work of art, many photographs have a secular aura
constituted by use, familiarity, description, and interpretation.
Immigration today touches the lives and economies of more people
and places than ever before. Yet the places that are
disproportionately affected by immigrant flows are not countries
but cities. This remarkable collection examines contemporary global
immigration trends and their profound effect on specific host
cities. The book focuses not only on cities with long-established
diverse populations, such as New York, Toronto, and Sydney, but
also on lesser known established gateway cities such as Birmingham
(UK) and Amsterdam, and the emerging gateways of Johannesburg,
Washington, D.C., Singapore, and Dublin.The essays gathered here
provide a global portrait of accelerating, worldwide immigration
driven by income differentials, social networks, and various state
policies that recruit skilled and unskilled laborers. Gateway
cities vary in form and function, but many are hyper diverse,
globally linked through transnational networks, and often
increasingly segregated spaces. Offering penetrating analyses by
leading scholars in the field, ""Migrants to the Metropolis""
redirects the global narrative surrounding migration away from
states and borders and toward cities, where the vast majority of
economic migrants settle.
Accelerated Reader is a program based on the fact that students
become more motivated to read if they are tested on the content of
the books they have read and are rewarded for correct answers.
Students read each book, individually take the test on the
computer, and receive gratification when they score well. Schools
using the Accelerated Reader program have seen a significant
increase in reading among their students.
These titles for reluctant readers highlight the possible
consequences of drug use, including the dangers of addiction,
damage to mind and body, and increased likelihood of violent
behavior.
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