Keywords: Kosovo; Isa Mustafa; NATO; KFOR;Kosovo Serbs;
Visit of Kosovo prime minister to inauguration ceremony sours relations between KFOR and Kosovo Serbs.
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Keywords: Russia; cyberattack; banks; FSB; Ukraine; BlazingFast;
As tensions between Russia and the West grow, each side prepares for cyberattacks and foreign spy games.
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Keywords: UNESCO; heritage; intangible; pilaf; Nowruz;Central Asia;
UN cultural agency adds 16 cultural practices to its Intangible Heritage List.
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Keywords: Russia; Georgia; war; trial; text message; treason;espionage;
Latest trial ended with conviction on espionage and treason charges for text message about Russian military transport.
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Keywords: Belarus; Eurovision; national selection; finalists;
Even after multiple failures, and questionable performances, Belarus keeps hoping to steal the show at the upcoming Eurovision song contest.
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Keywords: omania; Facebook; Trump; fake news; Russia;propaganda;
A news startup stirred up more buzz on social media during U.S. election season than well-funded major media.
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Keywords: Ukraine; Russia; conflict; talks; Minsk; Donbas; deadlock;
After 18 months, Kyiv and Moscow again fail to find a sliver of common ground, leaving France and Germany gritting their teeth in frustration
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Keywords: Russia; cyberattack; banks; FSB; Ukraine;BlazingFast;
Foreign hackers could spread disinformation to muddy the political waters as electioneering picks up ahead of crucial elections.
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Keywords: Armenia; Russia; military; task force; base; attack;Caucasus;
Agreement marks latest Kremlin move to boost its military presence in the restive South Caucasus.
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Keywords: Kazakhstan; Bokaev; Ayan;Human Rights;
The predictable conviction of the two activists highlights Astana’s disregard for rights to peaceful assembly.
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Keywords: Russia; China; internet;censorship;
Moscow increasingly turning to China for help with policing the internet.
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Keywords: Social transformation; migration; development; brain circulation
Migration has become a very sensitive issue for the society not in Albania, but in Europe and beyond it last twenty years. The development through migration seems to be a political issue, therefore it’s still regarded a social problem which needs to be controlled. Migration has played a big role within the social order, bounding societies with high cultural differences and beliefs.The case of Albania and Greece, after 1991, helps me to claim that migration has not only influenced the development of both countries, but it has also transformed the social life. This paper aims to take into account two important issue; social transformation and human mobility and its relationship with migration and development, observing the case of Albania and Greece 1991 -2013. The paper will answer the question about the social integration and benefits of both social groups involved; migrants and hosting communities. Globalization (especially after the collapse of the communistregime in Albania), represents an important development in social, economical and political life in both countries, Albania and Greece. The migration of Albanians denied for more than forty years by the communist regime, was reflected with the wave of migration after 1991 initially in Italy and Greece. Within two years, more than 300,000 Albanians emigrated, seeking for a better life, while after 20 years more than 1 million Albanians are living abroad.Albanians are by far the largest groups of foreign workers in Greece, estimated at 650,000 to 800,000. With the economical crises in Greece the situation has changed and many of migrants have decided to return home. What they bring home is not only their money and experience, but they bring most the social transformation. Focusing on the social transformation and human mobility, this research brings into the attention not only benefits of economical developments,but also the social transformation, through exchanging skills and attitude, brain circulation from which benefits both countries..
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Keywords: European Union; free movement of persons; economic migration; right of residence; European citizenship
The present article explores the Europeans’ change of status, from economic migrants to European citizens. In the beginning, Europeans were mainly seen as economic migrants empowered by law to freely move and reside within the territory of the European Community. The subsequent advancements within the European project and the European political context have consolidated the status of European migrants and have acknowledged them as members of a political community. Whereas this process can be seen as a sign of constitutionalism emerging within the European system (Simon, 2000), we can still wonder if the European citizenship is a real issue or merely a tool used by the adepts of the political union to build their arguments (Labayle, 1992). Whatever the answer, the European citizenship has been chosen as the appropriate argument to strengthen the sense of belonging to the European Union and, at the same time, to reinforce its legitimacy. The European citizenship replaces the political dimension associated with the notion of citizenship (as stated by the classical theory) with an economic dimension; this breaks the foundation of our identity, as defined by the Nation State (Deloye, 2004). If the European perspective goes beyond the traditional approach which states that identities are organized around the State, the question is what type of new identification the European Union puts in place and how could the European citizenship become a status that allows for the separation between civil belonging and other forms of social affiliation (Leca, 1996). This article describes the gradual conversion of a heterogeneous community of European economic migrants into a more-or-less homogeneous community of European citizens. It claims that, despite the consecration of the concept of European citizenship, the social ties that should underpin it and transform it into a reality are slow to emerge. The paper also presents some possible approaches that could push forward the debate and, why not, lead to a bottom-up transformation carried by those European migrants who need or want to see themselves first and foremost as European citizens. Keywords
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Keywords: immigration; integration; young generation; education; Italy
In the last years Italy saw its immigrant population growing up to more than 4 millions. Among them, the increased number of children touched deeply the educational system, where nowadays 9 pupils out of 100 are foreigners. To face this rapid change the government developed the Italian way to integration, based on intercultural exchange and dialogue. However, the Peninsula school system proved till now unable to deal properly with foreigner pupils, both at human and bureaucratic level. An analysis of the current trends and a comparison between the Ministry of Education guidelines with their concrete implementation at the local level shows us the deficiencies of the system and indicates where efforts should be concentrated more. Furthermore, the Italian case suggests us to reflect on the bilateral aspect of integration, where commitment and dialogue play a determinant role. Xenophobic feelings are unfortunately still widespread in the Union and the task of integration policies should rather underline how migration and a multicultural environment are important in contemporary world. Immigrants could not only be source of wealth for European societies, but would eventually provide a unique opportunity for the development of human being. And what better starting point than education?
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Keywords: language integration; belonging; misrecognition; frame analysis; critical discourse analysis; migrants; identity; the Netherlands; Dutch
The linguistic integration policy in the Netherlands is following a trend of toughening immigration stances along economic - neo-liberal and cultural dimensions. The paper tries to identify and track its discursive effects on migrants’ subjective feeling of belonging, as it is mediated and further propagated by the Dutch society. In doing so, it follows the framing and problemsetting of the policy focusing on language, the media through critical discourse analysis, and migrants’ insights through semi-structured interviews. Following this triangulation of methods, the paper will show how the immigration discourse gives rise to power issues and what migrants’ coping strategies are.
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Keywords: brain drain; Romania; push factors; pull factors; medical sector
Brain drain in the medical sector is not a new phenomenon, Romania facing this issue since the fall of the communism. Before the integration in the European Union, the warning of an acceleration of the phenomenon was raised, but, until today, no measures were adopted in order to diminish the exodus. Between 2007 and 2010, 8131 medical doctors leaved the country. With some of the poorest health indicators among EU countries, Romania cannot afford to lose more physicians. The first step in the attempt of stemming the emigration of medical doctors is the identification of the reasons behind it. This study aims to identify the main determinants of the decision to emigrate. The research design includes literature review and a questionnaire which was distributed among Romanian physicians with an international work experience. The conclusions confirm one more time that the gap in levels of payment between Romania and destination countries is not the most important cause of migration. Although this gap is significant, a policy measure proposing the increase of the physicians’ salaries would not solve the emigration issue. The main reasons behind the decision to emigrate are the working conditions and the availability of facilities. Opportunities for career development and continuing education instigate Romanian physicians to emigrate. Economic and political stability or personal factors have a lesser influence. The major preoccupation among policy makers in the health system should gravitate around the implementation of a set of adequate measures to stem the emigration.
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Keywords: Banks; Hospitals; Migrants; Police; Social exclusion
This paper applies the social exclusion concept to understanding the experiences of Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg, South Africa. It argues that the experiences of Zimbabwean migrants are shaped by certain institutional, individual and social mechanisms of exclusion. The main institutions responsible for migrant exclusion are: the police; hospitals, banks and employers. The paper further argues that migrant social networks mainly used to deal with exclusion have unwittingly made it difficult for migrants to be integrated properly within the South African society. This is because migrant networks emphasise values of exclusivity and difference. The paper proffers a pragmatic view of understanding migrants as citizens of a global world. It maintains that the social exclusion of migrants must be understood from a cosmopolitan and global perspective.
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Keywords: child trafficking; recovery; multidisciplinarity; victims
Child trafficking is a crime with very serious consequences on the side of the victims. The instruments developed in order to recover the victims of child trafficking developed much during the past decade, but the essence of the multidisciplinary interventions performed by the teams of specialists remains. This paper shows the evidence collected during the case studies performed from 2004 to 2006 within the regional Transit Centres for the unaccompanied children who were victims of human trafficking, operating in Romania. Given the complexity and particularities arising from the approach of each individual situation, the recovery of the children who were victims of human trafficking needs the development and operation of a distinct approach, specific to these social groups, within the multidisciplinary interventions.
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Keywords: Immigration; integration regimes; latent class analysis
This paper aims to explore immigration related policies implemented by the European Union countries in order to identify common patterns which can be interpreted as integration regimes. We build our analysis on data from 2010 Migration Integration Policy Index. Latent class analysis is used for obtaining number and structure of European integration regimes. Profiles of the regimes are given by the combination of scores obtained by countries with respect to seven different policy areas: labour market mobility, family reunion, education, political participation, long term residence, access to nationality and anti-discrimination. Our results point to the existence of three immigration integration regimes at the level of EU countries.
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Keywords: normative method; incomes; consumption; decent and subsistence minimum living standard
The article gives us a true picture of the purchasing power of goods and services from the market. The incomes of many types of customers such as: persons, families, households are a good indicator to measure the poverty in our country, in dynamics, between 1990 and 2013. In the Research Institute for the Quality of Life we used to measure the poverty, using the normative method, which is based on consumption. We calculated two consumer baskets: the consumer basket related to the decent minimum standard of living and the subsistence level consumer basket. We monitored the different types of families in urban and rural areas: active persons and the pensioners. We used equivalence scales in order to calculate the expenditure per household member. The consumer basket is a tool to measure the wealth of poverty of the people from urban and rural areas. Many households have resources below the minimum requirement for a decent living standard as well as below the minimum subsistence standard established by the normative method.
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