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Immigrants Under Threat

Author : Greg Prieto
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479823929
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Immigrants Under Threat written by Greg Prieto and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday life as an immigrant in a deportation nation is fraught with risk, but everywhere immigrants confront repression and dispossession, they also manifest resistance in ways big and small. Immigrants Under Threat shifts the conversation from what has been done to Mexican immigrants to what they do in response. From private strategies of avoidance, to public displays of protest, immigrant resistance is animated by the massive demographic shifts that started in 1965 and an immigration enforcement regime whose unprecedented scope and intensity has made daily life increasingly perilous. Immigrants Under Threat focuses on the way the material needs of everyday life both enable and constrain participation in immigrant resistance movements.

Under Threat

Author : Robin Stevenson
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459811321
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Under Threat written by Robin Stevenson and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this high-interest novel for teen readers, a girl struggles with the threats that her abortion-providing parents are receiving and the reactions of her girlfriend’s family.

Thought Under Threat

Author : Miguel de Beistegui
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226815560
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Thought Under Threat written by Miguel de Beistegui and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- On stupidity -- On superstition -- On spite -- Conclusion.

Societies Under Threat

Author : Denise Jodelet
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030393151
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Societies Under Threat written by Denise Jodelet and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-04-18 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the importance of threat on the representation of everyday life, from an interdisciplinary perspective. Divided into three parts, the book sets out by addressing the conceptual aspects of threat and by opening views on phenomena and social processes associated with threat. It shows how threat constitutes an analytical category that simultaneously involves social, psychological, religious, historical and political factors, and calls for a sufficiently broad conceptual definition to integrate pluri-disciplinary contributions. The second part focuses on the building of threats, mainly the environmental threats that have reached a tragic dimension today and are a core aspect of world concerns, the contemporary global terrorism, the migrations and the challenges these bring to contemporary societies, as well as the threats associated with the emergence of nationalism and the diverse aspects of excluding the Other. The final part examines the coping strategies, including oblivion, denial and defiance associated with different sources of threats, for instance those arising from epidemic and collective diseases, financial technology, natural disasters and collective traumas.

Under Threat

Author : Martin Jenkins
Publisher : Candlewick Studio
ISBN 13 : 1536205435
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Under Threat written by Martin Jenkins and published by Candlewick Studio. This book was released on 2019-08-19 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel the world in a stunning, informative book about animals under threat of extinction. From the giant panda of China to Fiji’s banded iguana, creatures all over the world are imperiled like never before in human history. Visit all inhabited continents via a series of striking graphic stamps by printmaker Tom Frost, depicting more than thirty species — some familiar, some you may not have known existed — all of which are in danger of not existing for much longer. Fact files from conservation biologist Martin Jenkins introduce readers to some of the threatened fauna around the globe. A timely call to arms for animal lovers young and old, this oversize nonfiction book discusses the reasons that so many species are in danger of dying out and what we can do to help them.

A Mighty Capital under Threat

Author : Bill Luckin
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987449
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book A Mighty Capital under Threat written by Bill Luckin and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere. A Mighty Capital under Threat investigates the environmental history of one of the world’s global cities and the largest city in the United Kingdom. Contributors cover the feeding of London, waste management, movement between the city’s numerous districts, and the making and shaping of the environmental sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

War Reporters Under Threat

Author : Chris Paterson
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745334189
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book War Reporters Under Threat written by Chris Paterson and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War Reporters Under Threat describes the threat of violence facing war reporters from the United States government and some of its closest allies. Chris Paterson argues that what should have been the lesson for the press following the invasion of Iraq – that they will be treated instrumentally by the US government – has been mostly ignored. As a result, even nominally democratic states cannot be counted upon to protect journalists in conflict, and urgent reform of legal protections for journalists is required. War Reporters Under Threat combines critical scholarship with original investigation to assess the impact of the US governments obsession with information control and protection of its own troops. While the press-military relationship has been well researched, this book is the first to elaborate the US government threat to journalists, a threat usually dismissed by the global journalism industry.

Water Under Threat

Author : Larbi Bouguerra
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842777053
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Water Under Threat written by Larbi Bouguerra and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water has been described as 'the oil of the 21st century' with rapid population growth, climate change and pollution conspiring to make it the resource over which wars may be fought in years to come. But does water have a price? Is it a right or a need? Increasingly, water is viewed as a commodity whose function is to generate profits. In this book, Larbi Bouguerra argues that instead we should view it as a common good of humanity. Water has an exceptional cross-cultural symbolic value and its use raises enormous questions about our lifestyle, our ethics and our relationship to nature. Bouguerra makes a powerful case for a society that is more economical with water and manages it openly and democratically, as a global resource.

Living Under the Threat of Nuclear War

Author : Derek C. Maus
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780737721300
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Living Under the Threat of Nuclear War written by Derek C. Maus and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2005 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although opinions vary on how close anyone came to using nuclear weapons during the Cold War, there is little debate that anxiety about the possibility of nuclear war was one of the major cultural issues of the period. This volume examines the political and cultural effects of nuclear weapons, both among their supporters and their detractors.

Kurds Under Threat

Author : Deniz Gumustekin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793643342
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Kurds Under Threat by : Deniz Gumustekin

Download or read book Kurds Under Threat written by Deniz Gumustekin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-08-30 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous researches examine how transnational ethnic ties impact the relationship between host states and diaspora and why states and ethnic minorities in the diaspora may occasionally support violent rebel organizations in the homeland. However, these previous studies do not really consider the relationships among co-ethnic organizations without a homeland government. This book tackles the following important questions: How and when do co-ethnic Kurdish organizations provide open support for each other during conflict-peace cycle events? Moreover, do external threats impact the relationship among co-ethnic organizations? The aim of this research is to identify the causal factors that influence the transnational networks between Kurdish organizations. Research findings reveal that political rationality and external threats seem to be stronger predictors of political behavior than ethnic ties in the Kurdish case. This study helps scholars and policy makers to evaluate the impact of transnational networks between co-ethnic Kurdish organizations in cases of civil war, which may play a crucial role in the escalation and de-escalation of international conflicts. In addition, this research helps to understand the role of co-ethnic organizations in building sustainable peace in areas of conflict.

Coerced

Author : Erin Hatton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520973402
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Coerced written by Erin Hatton and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do prisoner laborers, graduate students, welfare workers, and college athletes have in common? According to sociologist Erin Hatton, they are all part of a growing workforce of coerced laborers. Coerced explores this world of coerced labor through an unexpected and compelling comparison of these four groups of workers, for whom a different definition of "employment" reigns supreme—one where workplace protections do not apply and employers wield expansive punitive power, far beyond the ability to hire and fire. Because such arrangements are common across the economy, Hatton argues that coercion—as well as precarity—is a defining feature of work in America today. Theoretically forceful yet vivid and gripping to read, Coerced compels the reader to reevaluate contemporary dynamics of work, pushing beyond concepts like "career" and "gig work." Through this bold analysis, Hatton offers a trenchant window into this world of work from the perspective of those who toil within it—and who are developing the tools needed to push back against it.

Democracy under Threat

Author : Ursula van Beek
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030077730
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Democracy under Threat written by Ursula van Beek and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses some of the most pressing questions of our time: Is democracy threatened by globalisation? Is there a legitimacy crisis in contemporary democracies? Is the welfare state in individual countries under pressure from global trends? What are the implications of high-level migration and rising populism for democracy? Does authoritarianism pose a challenge? The volume builds on a cross-cultural study of democracy conducted by the Transformation Research Unit (TRU) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa for nearly twenty years. Three of the countries studied – South Africa, Turkey and Poland – receive individual attention as their respective democracies appear to be the most vulnerable at present. Germany, Sweden, Chile, South Korea and Taiwan are assessed in their regional contexts. Further insights are gained by examining the impact on democracy of the global screen culture of Television and the Internet, and by pointing out the lessons democracy should learn from diplomacy to fare better in the future. The book will appeal to both students and practitioners of democracy as well as the general reader.

Four Threats

Author : Suzanne Mettler
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250244439
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Four Threats written by Suzanne Mettler and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent, historically-grounded take on the four major factors that undermine American democracy, and what we can do to address them. While many Americans despair of the current state of U.S. politics, most assume that our system of government and democracy itself are invulnerable to decay. Yet when we examine the past, we find that the United States has undergone repeated crises of democracy, from the earliest days of the republic to the present. In Four Threats, Suzanne Mettler and Robert C. Lieberman explore five moments in history when democracy in the U.S. was under siege: the 1790s, the Civil War, the Gilded Age, the Depression, and Watergate. These episodes risked profound—even fatal—damage to the American democratic experiment. From this history, four distinct characteristics of disruption emerge. Political polarization, racism and nativism, economic inequality, and excessive executive power—alone or in combination—have threatened the survival of the republic, but it has survived—so far. What is unique, and alarming, about the present moment in American politics is that all four conditions exist. This convergence marks the contemporary era as a grave moment for democracy. But history provides a valuable repository from which we can draw lessons about how democracy was eventually strengthened—or weakened—in the past. By revisiting how earlier generations of Americans faced threats to the principles enshrined in the Constitution, we can see the promise and the peril that have led us to today and chart a path toward repairing our civic fabric and renewing democracy.

The Conservative Sensibility

Author : George F. Will
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316480916
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book The Conservative Sensibility written by George F. Will and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist's "astonishing" and "enthralling" New York Times bestseller and Notable Book about how the Founders' belief in natural rights created a great American political tradition (Booklist) -- "easily one of the best books on American Conservatism ever written" (Jonah Goldberg). For more than four decades, George F. Will has attempted to discern the principles of the Western political tradition and apply them to America's civic life. Today, the stakes could hardly be higher. Vital questions about the nature of man, of rights, of equality, of majority rule are bubbling just beneath the surface of daily events in America. The Founders' vision, articulated first in the Declaration of Independence and carried out in the Constitution, gave the new republic a framework for government unique in world history. Their beliefs in natural rights, limited government, religious freedom, and in human virtue and dignity ushered in two centuries of American prosperity. Now, as Will shows, conservatism is under threat -- both from progressives and elements inside the Republican Party. America has become an administrative state, while destructive trends have overtaken family life and higher education. Semi-autonomous executive agencies wield essentially unaccountable power. Congress has failed in its duty to exercise its legislative powers. And the executive branch has slipped the Constitution's leash. In the intellectual battle between the vision of Founding Fathers like James Madison, who advanced the notion of natural rights that pre-exist government, and the progressivism advanced by Woodrow Wilson, the Founders have been losing. It's time to reverse America's political fortunes. Expansive, intellectually thrilling, and written with the erudite wit that has made Will beloved by millions of readers, The Conservative Sensibility is an extraordinary new book from one of America's most celebrated political writers.

Animals Under Threat

Author : Angela Royston
Publisher : Capstone Classroom
ISBN 13 : 9781432924157
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (241 download)

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Download or read book Animals Under Threat written by Angela Royston and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each title in this series focuses on a different global issue, ranging from the pressures of population growth to the impact of dwindling resources on our planet. Through geographical explanation and up-to-date facts, these titles give readers complete answers to difficult questions.

Threat of Dissent

Author : Julia Rose Kraut
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674976061
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Threat of Dissent written by Julia Rose Kraut and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive overview of the intersection of immigration law and the First Amendment, a lawyer and historian traces ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States from the Alien Friends Act of 1798 to the evolving policies of the Trump administration. Beginning with the Alien Friends Act of 1798, the United States passed laws in the name of national security to bar or expel foreigners based on their beliefs and associations—although these laws sometimes conflict with First Amendment protections of freedom of speech and association or contradict America’s self-image as a nation of immigrants. The government has continually used ideological exclusions and deportations of noncitizens to suppress dissent and radicalism throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the War on Anarchy to the Cold War to the War on Terror. In Threat of Dissent—the first social, political, and legal history of ideological exclusion and deportation in the United States—Julia Rose Kraut delves into the intricacies of major court decisions and legislation without losing sight of the people involved. We follow the cases of immigrants and foreign-born visitors, including activists, scholars, and artists such as Emma Goldman, Ernest Mandel, Carlos Fuentes, Charlie Chaplin, and John Lennon. Kraut also highlights lawyers, including Clarence Darrow and Carol Weiss King, as well as organizations, like the ACLU and PEN America, who challenged the constitutionality of ideological exclusions and deportations under the First Amendment. The Supreme Court, however, frequently interpreted restrictions under immigration law and upheld the government’s authority. By reminding us of the legal vulnerability foreigners face on the basis of their beliefs, expressions, and associations, Kraut calls our attention to the ways that ideological exclusion and deportation reflect fears of subversion and serve as tools of political repression in the United States.

Democracy Under Threat

Author : Surendra Munshi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199484805
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Democracy Under Threat written by Surendra Munshi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many current events in the world are increasingly being discussed as pointing towards democracy in crisis. This book contributes in a systematic manner to the discussion on democracy with a close look at democracy in practice in a global perspective, highlighting challenges from within andoutside. Issues such as crisis in democratic leadership, fragile state of democratic institutions, populism, caudillism, and dynasty rule are discussed, along with threats of authoritarianism to the democratic order. In addition, questions have been raised whether the West has failed and whetherleaders such as Gandhi and Havel can help us to leave the era of post-truth behind us in order to create a humane order with reason, conscience, and responsibility. This book includes the contributions of twenty contributors from different parts of the world (viz. Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Egypt, India, Iran, Israel, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, UK, and USA). Though there are no contributors from Russia and China these countries are discussed atlength in more than one paper. Among the contributors are academics, counsellors, diplomats, journalists, political leaders, and other thought leaders. The papers are up to date until the time of the American presidential election.