1. Introduction -- 2. Globalization and its Impact on the Italian Fashion Industry -- 3. The Migrant Pathway of Emplacement in Prato -- 4. The Global Low-End Fashion Center -- 5. The Mobile Regime -- 6. The Foundations of the Mobile Regime: Global Restructuring of Social Reproduction and Ethnicization of the Workplace -- 7. "My City Brought to its Knees": The Downscaling of Prato and the Crimin…
Introduction -- Part I: Demographic Information for Decision-Making: Case Studies -- 1. Demographic-Based Market Analysis, China and India -- 2. Health Trend Drivers in the UK -- 3. Projecting VA Benefit Use in Texas -- 4. Fire Injuries in Anchorage.-5. Projecting the Need for Courtroom Service Provision in Australia -- 6. Projecting Assisted Living in Us -- 7. Projecting the Elderly in Austral…
1: Introduction -- 2: Reintegration Strategies -- 3: Structural and Cultural Environment of Female Return Migration to Ethiopia -- 4: Overview of Female Return Migration to Ethiopia: Professionals, Students, and Domestics -- 5: Reintegration Dimensions of the Analytical Groups -- 6: Reintegration Strategies of Female Return Migrants to Ethiopia -- 7: Conclusion.This book critically examines and…
Perspective of Resilient Cities: Introduction and Overview -- Smart Cities: Milestone of New Era -- The Status of Research on Smart Cities: A Review -- Prospect of Faridabad as a Smart City: A Review -- Planning for Healthy and Sustainable Urbanization: A Case Study of NCT, Delhi -- City Size and its Growth Rate: A Case Study of Kerala, India -- Level of Basic Infrastructure in the Slums: A cas…
Lara Jüssen takes the case of Latin American household and construction workers in Madrid to show how ir/regular labour migrants make citizenship available for themselves through emplacements, embodiments and enactments of citizenship. After describing the sociopolitical context of crisis and resistance in Spain, citizenship is anthropologized in order to approach it through the workplace: the…
Three Approaches to the Political Involvement of Migrants -- Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in Berlin and Paris -- Religion as an Organisational Resource: Religious Self-Organisation of Migrants from Sub-Saharan Africa in Berlin and Paris -- “Jesus was a Revolutionary”: Religion as Structural and Symbolic Political Resource.Miriam Schader shows that migrants can use religion as a resource…
1. Introduction -- 2. Theories of Migrancy and Media -- 3. Memory -- 4. Race -- 5. Green Movement -- 6. Conclusion.This book explores how the children of Iranian immigrants in the US utilize the internet and develop digital identities. Taking Los Angeles—the long-time media and cultural center of Iranian diaspora—as its ethnographic field site, it investigates how various web platforms are …
Transnational Family Life -- Urban Sociology -- European Sociology.The authors focus on families who organize their lives in transnational social spaces within and at the outer borders of Europe, to offer a new perspective on transnational family life and to advance the knowledge on borders drawn by social inequality, discrimination and political exclusion. They also discuss social mobility as …
Introduction from the Editors -- Part I. Community Well-Being: General Considerations for the Work -- Chapter 1. Rethinking Diversity, Inclusion, and Inclusiveness: The Quest to Better Understand Indicators of Community Enrichment and Well-being; Craig A. Talmage and Richard C. Knopf -- Chapter 2. Community Well-Being or Quality of Place?: A Few Notes and Their Application in Czech Republic; Fr…
Foreword; John Solomos; Chapter 1. Asylum Screening from Within -- Chapter 2. Asylum Seeking and the Threatened State -- Chapter 3. Subcultures of Social Control -- Chapter 4. Trained to Spot the Truth -- Chapter 5. Deconstructing asylum seekers’ narratives -- Chapter 6. A Subculture of Disbelief -- Chapter 7. Pulling Back the Screen.This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum…