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A Philosophical examination of social justice and child poverty
This book examines child poverty as a topic of social justice. The authors develop a theory of social justice for children based within the capability approach, apply it to the injustice of child poverty and propose a theory of the responsibilities of different agents towards children living in poverty. Das Buch behandelt Kinderarmut als Thema der sozialen Gerechtigkeit. Ausgehend von einer…
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- 9781137426024
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- 206 p.; 22 cm.
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- 362.70869942 SCH p
Inter-group relations and migrant integration in European cities : changing n…
This open access book presents a comparative analysis of intergroup relations and migrant integration at the neighbourhood level in Europe. Featuring a unique collection of portraits of urban relations between the majority population and immigrant minorities, it examines how relations are structured and evolve in different and increasingly diverse local societies. Inside, readers will find a co…
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- 9783319230962
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- vi, 216p. : ill.
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- 304.8 INT i
Place, (In) equality and gender
This mapping presents a selected overview of existing research on gender, education and population flows in the Nordic peripheral areas. These areas are faced with a series of challenges that cannot be analyzed nor solved without taking a gender perspective into account. The challenges relate to, for instance, altered living conditions caused by global changes, stagnated or negative economic de…
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- 9789289342674
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- 194 p.; 22 cm
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- 306.0948 FAB p
State of the young child in India
This Report is one of the first comprehensive studies on young children in India. It focuses on children under 6 years of age and presents key aspects of their well-being and development. It introduces two young child indices aggregating selected indicators to separately track child outcomes and child circumstances and provides an account of the current situation of the young child in terms of …
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- 9781003026488
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- 332 p.; 22 cm.
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- 305.230954 STA s
Child’s play multi-sensory histories of children and childhood in Japan
Few things make Japanese adults feel quite as anxious today as the phenomenon called the “child crisis.” Various media teem with intense debates about bullying in schools, child poverty, child suicides, violent crimes committed by children, the rise of socially withdrawn youngsters, and forceful moves by the government to introduce a more conservative educational curriculum. These issues ha…
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- 9780520968844
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- 314 p.; 22 cm.
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- 305.230952 CHI c
Fabricating modern societies : education, bodies, and minds in the age of steel
Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel, edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman, offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on the history of industrialization and societal transformation in early twentieth-century Luxembourg. The individual chapters focus on how industrialists addressed a large array of challenges related to industrial…
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- 9789004410510
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- xviii, 246p. : ill.
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- 338.94935009041 FAB f
The civilising offensive : social and educational reform in 19th-century Belgium
"This volume offers a multifaceted selection of studies on 19th-century Belgian reformers and initiatives they instigated to solve the ‘social question’ by ‘civilising’ and moralising the lower classes. Around 1850 Belgium was continental Europe’s most heavily industrialised state. From the mid-century until the Belle Époque many international social reform associations were based in…
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- 9783110581546
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- VI, 238 p.
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- New Perspectives on the History of Liberalism and Freethought, 1
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- 306.09493 CIV c
Childlessness in Europe : contexts, causes, and consequences
This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe. It offers a collection of papers written by leading demographers and sociologists that examine contexts, causes, and consequences of childlessness in countries throughout the region. The book features data from all over Europe. It specifically highlights patterns of childlessness in Germany, France, the United Ki…
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- 9783319446677
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- xi, 370p. : ill.
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- 306.85094 CHI c
How generations remember: conflicting histories and shared memories in post-w…
This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memories are utterly intertwined, and how memories across the generations are reimagined and ‘rewritten’ following great socio-political change. Focus…
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- 9781137450630
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- 1 electronic resource (xvii, 254 pages )
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- Global diversities
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- 301 PAL h
Women who stay behind
Women Who Stay Behind examines the social, educational, and cultural resources rural Mexican women employ to creatively survive the conditions created by the migration of loved ones. Using narrative, research, and theory, Ruth Trinidad Galván presents a hopeful picture of what is traditionally viewed as the abject circumstances of poor and working-class people in Mexico who are forced to migra…
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- 9780816531455
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- xv, 173 p.; 22 cm.
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- 305.40972 TRI w
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