The Refugee and Immigration Phenomenon in Lesvos (Greece) and the Attitudes of the Local Community
The Refugee and Immigration Phenomenon in Lesvos (Greece) and the Attitudes of the Local Community

Author: Nikolaos Nagopoulos

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2019-04-09

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1527532933

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The recent refugee and immigrant inflows from the Middle East, Northern Africa and Asia have become massive, and concern millions of people who attempt to be channelled into Europe through specific gateways in Southern-European areas. Among those, the Greek islands of the Eastern Aegean Sea, Lesvos and Chios, are serving as the main entrance-point for refugee and migration flows. This book highlights the attitudes of the residents of Mytilene, Lesvos, regarding the way the immigrant-refugee issue has affected their everyday lives and the economy of the island. It is based on a large-scale primary survey using statistical analysis and represented by appropriate statistical tables and figures that make the whole text engaging. As the issues investigated here are of great contemporary interest, academics, teachers, social scientists, students, policy makers, managers in the private sector, and NGOs will find the book interesting, informative and useful. The book will also prove a useful tool for a better policy implementation concerning recent massive migration flows towards Europe.

Business Development and Economic Governance in Southeastern Europe
Business Development and Economic Governance in Southeastern Europe

Author: Pantelis Sklias

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-09-21

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 3031053516

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This book addresses contemporary and modern topics around business growth and economic development in Southeastern Europe. It covers a wide range of business issues focusing on the adoption of new technologies, finance of SMEs, place marketing, value co-creation, contribution to economic growth, and internationalization. Moverover, it sheds new light on the micro- and macroeconomic developments and monetary policy issues in the Eastern European and Balkan countries. This book is a useful tool for scholars in economics and finance interested in the further economic development of the Balkans and Eastern European countries as well as to professionals in the business, financial and insurance sectors.

The Outsider
The Outsider

Author: Paul M. Sniderman

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2002-08-18

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780691094977

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"The study of prejudice has been stimulated, but also limited, by the development of competing partial theories. Prejudice and group conflict are said to be rooted in the psychological makeup of individuals, or alternatively, to spring from real competition over material goods or social status, or yet again, to follow in the wake of a quest for identity. But the principal proponents of each theory have insisted that just so far as their approach is right, then at least one of the others must be wrong, or at most of marginal importance. It is the distinctive effort of The Outsider to develop a unified theory of prejudice integrating personality, realistic conflict, and social identity approaches."--Jacket.

CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology
CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology

Author: Carlos Smaniotto Costa

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-03-01

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 3030134172

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This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies – the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outcome of the CyberParks Project, this book aims at fostering the understanding about the current and future interactions of the nexus people, public spaces and technology. It addresses a wide range of challenges and multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging phenomena related to the penetration of technology in people’s lifestyles - affecting therefore the whole society, and with this, the production and use of public spaces. Cyberparks coined the term cyberpark to describe the mediated public space, that emerging type of urban spaces where nature and cybertechnologies blend together to generate hybrid experiences and enhance quality of life.

Global Study on Smuggling of Migrants 2018
Global Study on Smuggling of Migrants 2018

Author: United Nations

Publisher:

Published: 2019-02

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9789211303506

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This study shows that migrant smuggling routes affect every part of the world. It is based on an extensive review of existing data and literature. The study presents detailed information about key smuggling routes, such as the magnitude, the profiles of smugglers and smuggled migrants, the modus operandi of smugglers and the risks that smuggled migrants face. It shows that smugglers use land, air and sea routes - and combinations of those - in their quest to profit from people's desire to improve their lives. Smugglers also expose migrants to a range of risks; violence, theft, exploitation, sexual violence, kidnapping and even death along many routes.

Contemporary Developments and Perspectives in International Health Security
Contemporary Developments and Perspectives in International Health Security

Author: Stanislaw P. Stawicki

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2021-01-07

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1838801294

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International health security (IHS) is a broad and highly heterogeneous area. Within this general context, IHS encompasses subdomains that potentially influence (and more specifically endanger) the well-being and wellness of humans. The general umbrella of IHS includes, but is not limited to, natural disasters, emerging infectious diseases (EID) and pandemics, rapid urbanization, social determinants of health, population growth, systemic racism and discrimination, environmental matters, civilian violence and warfare, various forms of terrorism, misuse of antibiotics, and the misuse of social media. The need for this expanded definition of health security stems from the realization that topics such as EID; food, water, and pharmaceutical supply chain safety; medical and health information cybersecurity; and bioterrorism, although important within the overall realm of health security, are not only able to actively modulate the wellness and health of human populations, but also tend to do so in a synergistic fashion. This inaugural tome of a multi-volume collection, Contemporary Developments and Perspectives in International Health Security, introduces many of the topics directly relevant to modern IHS theory and practice. This first volume provides a solid foundation for future installments of this important and relevant book series.

Borderscapes
Borderscapes

Author: Prem Kumar Rajaram

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published:

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1452913234

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Connecting critical issues of state sovereignty with empirical concerns, Borderscapes interrogates the limits of political space. The essays in this volume analyze everyday procedures, such as the classifying of migrants and refugees, security in European and American detention centers, and the DNA sampling of migrants in Thailand, showing the border as a moral construct rich with panic, danger, and patriotism. Conceptualizing such places as immigration detention camps and refugee camps as areas of political contestation, this work forcefully argues that borders and migration are, ultimately, inextricable from questions of justice and its limits. Contributors: Didier Bigo, Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris; Karin Dean; Elspeth Guild, U of Nijmegen; Emma Haddad; Alexander Horstmann, U of Münster; Alice M. Nah, National U of Singapore; Suvendrini Perera, Curtin U of Technology, Australia; James D. Sidaway, U of Plymouth, UK; Nevzat Soguk, U of Hawai‘i; Decha Tangseefa, Thammasat U, Bangkok; Mika Toyota, National U of Singapore. Prem Kumar Rajaram is assistant professor of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Carl Grundy-Warr is senior lecturer of geography at the National University of Singapore.

Immigration and Politics in the New Europe
Immigration and Politics in the New Europe

Author: Gallya Lahav

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-04-22

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 1107320461

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With almost a quarter of the world's migrants, Europe has been attempting to regulate migration and harmonize immigration policy at the European level. The central dilemma exposed is how liberal democracies can reconcile the need to control the movement of people with the desire to promote open borders, free markets and liberal standards. Gallya Lahav's book traces ten years of public opinion and elite attitudes toward immigration cross-nationally to show how and why increasing EU integration may not necessarily lead to more open immigration outcomes. Empirical evidence reveals that support from both elite and public opinion has led to the adoption of restrictive immigration policies despite the requirements of open borders. Unique in bringing together original data on European legislators and national elites, longitudinal data on public opinion and institutional and policy analyses, this 2004 study provides an important insight into the processes of European integration, and globalization more broadly.