Perceived Diversity and Acceptance of Minority Ethnic Groups in Two Urban Contexts

“This paper investigates the relationship between perceived ethnic diversity at the neighbourhood level and acceptance of minority ethnic groups.” How does the qualitative perception of a diverse neighborhood  differ in tolerance from the objective actual diversity of an area; and how do these predictors measure future social behavior between these groups?

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Full Text: http://esr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/04/29/esr.jcw011

Aneta Piekut, Gill Valentine. Perceived Diversity and Acceptance of Minority Ethnic Groups in Two Urban Contexts. European Sociological Review, 2016; jcw011 DOI: 10.1093/esr/jcw011

 

 

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China’s Migrant Workers: How Far from Being Citizens?

Abstract: Hundreds of millions of farmers have become permanent urban residents. But they do not enjoy the corresponding benefits as citizens. Migration of rural population and labor mobility have become one of the primary elements driving China’s economic growth, but migrant workers have to face economic, social, political and cultural challenges and barriers before becoming real citizens. These changes and barriers include unemployment and poverty of landless farmers, labor resource integration, social inclusion and government administration and so on, among which, the reform and improvement of household registration system, land system, labor system and social security system is becoming urgent for the Chinese government. Thus the migrant workers still have a long way to go before obtaining full citizenship.

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Full Text: http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/23544/15041

Shuya Zhang, Guoliang Luo (2013) China’s Migrant Workers: How Far from Being Citizens?
Asian Social Science   ISSN 1911-2017 (Print)   ISSN 1911-2025 (Online)
DOI: 10.5539/ass.v9n1p171

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From National Identity to European Identity

Abstract. Since the Maastricht Treaty in 1992, and especially in the past few years, the European Union has been going through a mixed process of expansion and consolidation. In the last ten years alone there were two new waves of accession, the EU launched the single currency and failed attempts have been made to introduce a constitution. With all these transformations taking place, attention is more and more centred on the question whether
a European identity is emerging. This article investigates this issue examining comparatively the patterns of national identity and of European identity formation and focusing on whether the relationship between the two is a zero-sum type. The aim is to show that although national identity is not necessarily an obstacle for the development of European identity, nationalism is.

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Full Article:  http://www.e-migration.ro/jims/Vol2_no1_2008/JIMS_vol2_no1_2008_CINPOES.pdf

Cinopes, R.  From National Identity to European Identity

Journal of Identity and Migration Studies. Volume 2, number 1, 2008

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Fertility and marriage behavior in Israel: Diversity, change, and stability

Overview: We describe the fertility and marriage behavior of populations in Israel, broken down by nationality, religion, religiosity and nativity-status. Although our main focus is on a detailed presentation of fertility patterns, we also look at marriage behavior, as it is closely related to fertility in Israel..Until now, little has been documented about the basic fertility and marriage behavior of different population groups..The descriptive findings form the basis for a clearer understanding of fertility and marriage patterns in different population subgroups in Israel.

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Full Text: http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol28/17/28-17.pdf

Okum, B. (12 Mar 2013).Fertility and marriage behavior in Israel: Diversity, change, and stability.Demographic Research  (Volume 28 – Article 17 )

Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

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Open Yale Courses

Overview: Open Yale Courses (OYC) provides lectures and other materials from selected Yale College courses to the public free of charge via the Internet. The courses span the full range of liberal arts disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and physical and biological sciences.

• Registration is not required.
• No course credit, degree, or certificate is available.

The online courses are designed for a wide range of people around the world, among them self-directed and life-long learners, educators, and high school and college students. The integrated, highly flexible web interface allows users, in effect, to audit Yale undergraduate courses if they wish to. It also gives the user a wide variety of other options for structuring the learning process, for example downloading, redistributing, and remixing course materials.

Each course includes a full set of class lectures produced in high-quality video accompanied by such other course materials as syllabi, suggested readings, and problem sets. The lectures are available as downloadable videos, and an audio-only version is also offered. In addition, searchable transcripts of each lecture are provided.

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Full Course: http://oyc.yale.edu/courses

Open Yale Courses

Yale University

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Introduction to Siberia

Overview: Few parts of the world are so consistently ignored, at least in the English-language media, which  almost always focuses on the western, or European, parts of Russia, particularly Moscow, St. Petersburg, and the troubled North Caucasus. Thus, in most people’s imagination, in the West and even in Russia itself, Siberia looks like an iceberg: big, cold, mostly hidden from view, and inherently dangerous. In this series of posts, GeoCurrents aims to shed new light on this vast and significant place. If Siberia were independent, it would have the largest area of any country in the world—by a significant margin.

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Lewis, M.W.. March 21, 2012.  Introduction to Siberia, GeoCurrents

Full Text: http://geocurrents.info/place/russia-ukraine-and-caucasus/siberia/introduction-to-siberia

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Dying Alone: The Social Production of Urban Isolation

Abstract: In July 1995 over 700 Chicago residents, most of them old and impoverished, died in a short but devastating heat wave. As part of a `social autopsy’ of this disaster that goes beyond natural factors to uncover the institutional forces that made the urban environment suddenly so lethal, this article examines the social production and lived experience of everyday urban isolation. Accounts from ethnographic investigations in the affected neighborhoods and of the city agencies entrusted with dealing with the issue are used to highlight four key conditions: (1) the increase in the number and proportion of people living alone, including seniors who outlive or become estranged from their social networks; (2) the fear of crime and the use of social withdrawal and reclusion as survival strategies; (3) the simultaneous degradation and fortification of urban public space, particularly in segregated neighborhoods that have lost major commercial establishments and other attractions that entice people out of their homes; (4) the political dysfunctions stemming from social service programs that treat citizens as consumers in a market for public goods despite a growing population of residents who lack access to the information and network ties necessary for such `smart shopping’ for city support. Together, these conditions create a formula for disaster that the 1995 heat wave actualized for the city of Chicago and might yet recur in other US metropolises.

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Full Text: http://columbiauniversity.net/itc/hs/pubhealth/p6700/readings/klinenberg-dying.pdf

Klinenberg, Eric. Dying Alone: The Social Production of Urban Isolation.
Ethnography. December 2001 vol. 2no. 4 501-531
doi: 10.1177/14661380122231019E

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Should the Russian Language Be Cleansed of Foreign Words?

Summary: As the previous GeoCurrents post pointed out, languages often borrow words from one another. But just as this process is ubiquitous, it often becomes ideologically and politically fraught. Politicians and bureaucrats—though typically not the ordinary speakers of a language—often feel that foreign words violate the purity of their language..While this proposed ban may seem farcical to some people, especially given the failure of previous such attempts (as discussed below), the real reasons behind it are much deeper and more sinister than may appear.

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Full Text :https://www.languagesoftheworld.info/russia-ukraine-and-the-caucasus/russian-language-cleansed-foreign-words.html

Pereltsvaig, A.  Should the Russian Language Be Cleansed of Foreign Words?   GeoCurrents February 6, 2013

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The differential impact of mortality of American troops in the Iraq War: The non-metropolitan dimension

Overview: This study investigates the disproportionate impact of mortality among United States troops in Iraq on rural communities.,Results show that troops from non-metropolitan areas have higher mortality after accounting for the disproportionate enlistment of non-metropolitan youth, and the non-metropolitan disadvantage generally persists across military branch and rank. Moreover, most of the differential is due to higher risks of mortality for non-metropolitan African American and Hispanic military personnel, compared to metropolitan enlistees of the same race or ethnicity.

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Full text: http://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol23/2

Curtis,K,  J. Payne, C. F. The differential impact of mortality of American troops in the Iraq War: The non-metropolitan dimension
Demographic Research 06 July 2010 Volume 23, Article 2, Pages 41-62
DOI:  10.4054/DemRes.2010.23.2

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Tongue Twisting Reforms

Abstract: Wide-ranging education changes meant to end the cultural isolation of Georgia’s Azeri minority may end up forcing Azeri-language schools out of existence.

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Full Text: http://www.tol.org/client/article/23494-tongue-twisting-reforms.html

Sultanova, Shahla . Tongue Twisting Reforms Transitions Online30 November 2012

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