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Worldwide labor migration has transformed and reshaped various
fields of government policy and professional practices. Labor
migration is associated with the non-economic social phenomena that
scholars have increasingly paid attention to in both sending and
receiving destinations. For practitioners in the field of
education, medicine, nursing, social work, mental health, public
health, and other professional practices, the human face of labor
migration migrant workers and their families daily challenges often
reveals the human cost of migration behind the image of economic
gain and benefits. Migrant workers and their families are facing
vexing challenges ranging from basic needs to psychosocial
well-being, despite who they are and where they come from.
Traditional ways of thinking and knowing cannot address these
challenges adequately; rather, established divisions of
professions, systems, disciplines, and/or areas of practice might
just be the factor that constrains the ability to clearly
articulate compelling problems and adds an additional layer of
complexity to problem solving. This book focuses on country
policies and practices, and draws on theoretical ideas that provide
the intellectual basis. In addition, it offers vivid examples of
how migrant workers manage to work, pursue economic security,
strive and adjust in new communities, define and negotiate self and
identity, and seek health and well-being. While the book
illuminates shared challenges and experiences for each group of
migrant workers (i.e. low-skilled workers, internal migrants and
other types of migrating laborers), it also synthesises the
intersectionality across all migrant workers, as they remain
committed to bettering the lives of their families and communities
in their origin countries as well as new host countries and
communities. This volume reflects the efforts of interdisciplinary
research and collaboration. Based on empirical studies and policy
analysis, the researchers draw broader implications for
evidence-based practice and policy in migration studies, and offer
practical suggestions for policy and service delivery design,
including formal and informal mechanisms of support which can
inform the professional reader.
This book uses the discourse of religious liberty, often expressed
as one favoring a separation between church and state, to explore
racial differences during an era of American empire building
(1750-1900). Discussions of religious liberty in America during
this time often revolved around the fitness of certain ethnic or
racial groups to properly exercise their freedom of conscience.
Significant fear existed that groups outside the Anglo-Protestant
mainstream might somehow undermine the American experiment in
ordered republican liberty. Hence, repeated calls could be heard
for varying forms of assimilation to normative Protestant ideals
about religious expression. Though Americans pride themselves on
their secular society, it is worth interrogating the exclusive and
even violent genealogy of such secular values. When doing so, it is
important to understand the racial limitations of the discourse of
religious freedom for various aspects of American political
culture. The following account of the history of religious liberty
seeks to destabilize the widespread assumption that the dominant
American culture inevitably trends toward greater freedom in the
realm of personal expression.
"Les Lieux de memoire" is perhaps one of the most profound
historical documents on the history and culture of the French
nation. Assembled by Pierre Nora during the Mitterand years, this
multivolume series has been hailed as "a magnificent achievement"
("The New Republic") and "the grandest, most ambitious effort to
dissect, interpret and celebrate the French fascination with their
own past" ("The Los Angeles Times"). Written during a time when
French national identity was undergoing a pivotal change and the
nation was struggling to define itself, this unprecedented series
consists of essays by prominent historians and cultural
commentators which take, as their points of departure, a "lieu de
memoire": a site of memory used to order, concentrate, and secure
notions of France's past.
The first volume in the Chicago translation, "Rethinking France, "
brings together works addressing the omnipresent role of the state
in French life. As in the other volumes, the "lieux de memoire"
serve as entries into the French past, whether they are actual
sites, political traditions, rituals, or even national pastimes and
textbooks. "Volume I: The State" offers a sophisticated and
engaging view of the French and their past through widely diverse
essays on, for example, the chateau of Versailles and the French
history of absolutism; the "Code civil" and its ordering of French
life; memoirs written by French statesmen; and Charlemagne and his
place in French history. Nora's authors constitute a who's who of
French academia, yet they wear their erudition lightly. Taken as a
whole, this extraordinary series documents how the French have come
to see themselves and why.
Contributors:
Alain Guery
Maurice Agulhon
Bernard Guenee
Daniel Nordman
Robert Morrissey
Alain Boureau
Anne-Marie Lecoq
Helene Himelfarb
Jean Carbonnier
Herve Le Bras
Pierre Nora
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer
Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfangen des Verlags
von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv
Quellen fur die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche
Forschung zur Verfugung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext
betrachtet werden mussen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor
1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen
Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.
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