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Article telling facts about the Bulgarian history, some known, other not so well.
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The development of a field of studies such as our own, Kurdish studies, depends to a large extent on the existence of an institutional infrastructure of specialised academic departments, libraries, journals, etc. Only very few academic institutions in the world have a well-established tradition of Kurdish studies, and not surprisingly they are found in those countries that have had an imperial interest in Kurdistan: Russia, Great Britain and France. The general marginalisation of area studies in academia in favour of the more strictly discipline-oriented organisation of academic research has affected these established institutions too. The best specialised libraries in Europe are not in universities but in private Kurdish institutes in Paris, Stockholm, Berlin and Vienna, and they were established and funded by members of the Kurdish diaspora with incidental governmental support.
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The idea of this issue of Folklore: EJF emerged from the panel we organised on behalf of the Working Group on the The Ritual Year at the 12th Congress of the Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF) held in Zagreb, Croatia, in June 2015. We concentrated on the calendric and life cycle usage of the traditional garments and their parts, and we also followed, as much as possible, the new development trends and even the expansion of authentic clothes. Folk costumes are amongst the most topical and discussed issues in historical and contemporary folklore studies, ethnology, and cultural anthropology, and remain important for many people in many countries. The bibliography on costumes is vast, and it includes huge academic volumes, albums, and articles. Moreover, academic, popular, political, and commercial interest in the garments and their accessories continues to grow. The old pieces of traditional clothes and their replicas are being sought by museums and private collections, for cultural performances, and occasionally they are sold in flea markets, as we saw in Zagreb.
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Naturalisations do not happen automatically – unlike the acquisition of nationality at birth – but must be brought about deliberately. The varying ways naturalisations are organized in any society therefore offer an opportunity to gain clues as to which criteria are assumed to be relevant for the respective definition of national belonging. This introduction argues that most research on naturalisation still focusses on Western states, and that theories of naturalisation are largely derived from Western cases. It describes the ethnocentric bias of much of the universalizing comparative research on naturalisations, and outlines the main reasons for the lack of research beyond the West. It then presents the articles on naturalisation policies in the Global South brought together in this special issue. The contributions analyse ethnically exclusive nationality laws in Liberia and Israel; selective two-tier regimes of immigrant incorporation in Hong Kong and Singapore; investor citizenship schemes which are much more common in the Global South than in the North, exemplified by the case of Mauritius; and Mexico, whose norms assign naturalised Mexicans the status of “second-class citizens”.
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Scholarship on the Kurdish diaspora is a relatively new but rapidly expanding field, with approaches from such disciplines as migration and minority studies, transnationalism, social psychology and education, multiculturalism, social movement studies as well as comparative diaspora studies. We are pleased to present a special issue dedicated to this youngest branch of Kurdish studies, after an earlier special issue last year (Vol. 2 No. 2) dedicated to what is probably the oldest branch, Kurdish linguistics. Our guest editors, Bahar Başer, Ann-Catrin Emanuelsson and Mari Toivanen, have already made their mark with pioneering studies of the Kurdish diaspora, and we thank them for their efforts in preparing this issue.
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Kurdish Studies as a journal and a scholarly community has grown significantly in recent years. We pride ourselves on being able to create a venue for scholarly exchange for those interested in the field. Our dedicated editorial team works tirelessly with the collective aim of publishing high quality research and scholarship. Behind the scenes we offer constructive academic support to both new and established researchers in the field through a meticulous peer review and feedback process. Without ignoring the dilemmas, the pros and cons of academic indexes, we are also generating some interest from well-known indexing and abstracting services. Besides RePEc, Kurdish Studies is now indexed and abstracted by EBSCO. For this we would like to thank both the authors and the anonymous reviewers for their contributions to the journal thus far. As always, we welcome contributions from researchers in Kurdish Studies and also proposals for special Journal issues.
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In this special issue, we consider it essential to understand the potential of “democratic transformation”, fostered by civil society, not as a transition to democracy but as a way of deepening democracy. In our understanding democratic transformation is based on the power of organized civil society actors to challenge the institutional order rather than an achievement measured against the main characteristics of representative democracy. The seven papers which constitute this special issue all deal with different aspects of immigration, civil society and democratic transformations. Together they offer insight into different national cases by describing and analyzing immigrant mobilization in Denmark (Jørgensen), France (Suárez-Krabbe), Italy (Ambrosini), Portugal (Abrantes), Spain (García; Suárez-Krabbe), Sweden (Ålund et al.), the Netherlands (Suárez-Krabbe), and United Kingdom (Suárez-Krabbe).
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Japan and the United States, the world’s largest economies for most of the past half century, have very different immigration policies. Japan is the G7 economy most closed to immigrants, while the United States is the large economy most open to immigrants. Both Japan and the United States are debating how immigrants are and can con-tribute to the competitiveness of their economies in the 21st centuries. The papers in this special issue review the employment of and impacts of immigrants in some of the key sectors of the Japanese and US economies, including agriculture, health care, science and engineering, and construction and manufacturing. For example, in Japanese agriculture migrant trainees are a fixed cost to farmers during the three years they are in Japan, while US farmers who hire mostly unauthorized migrants hire and lay off workers as needed, making labour a variable cost.
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In Western Europe and North America today, environmental problems are among the most pressing items on the political and public agenda. Despite all the woeful tidings, much has been achieved over the past forty years in the effort to ‘save the planet’, make economic growth sustainable and halt the depletion of natural energy resources and the decline in biodiversity. Essential to these changes have been states with the resources and administrative capacity to design and implement the necessary policies, and an electorate ready to accept, if not quite demand, the prioritization of environmental issues.
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The idea of preparing a thematic issue on Hungary goes back one and a half years. The initiative started in February 2014 – shortly before the end of Viktor Orbán’s second four-year parliamentary cycle, precisely two months before theelections. Almost four years of government should be sufficient to evaluate the main goals, achievements, instruments, costs, and consequences of this period. We were fully aware of the fact that the analyses in this volume would – at least partly – address the situation and developments after the parliamentary elections of 2014 as well.
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Migrant remittances are an important source of external finance for developing countries. The current financial crisis is believed to have influenced migrant remittance flows as well as volume and patterns of use of remittances. In this special issue, a collection of cases from around the world is presented to understand the immediately felt effects of the crisis. Potential influences due to the crisis impact on migration patterns are yet to be seen and studied.
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Her yazıda orijinal birşey yazmak kaygı ve düşüncesi olmaksızın Türklük-Türkçülük- Turancılık ülküleri çerçevesi içinde düşüncelerimi dile getireceğim. Bu arada bazı tekrarlarım da olacak. Kimi tekrarlarım/yinelemelerim zaten misyonum, yani kendime ulusal amaç saydığım konuların pekiştirilmesi yönünde olacak. Artık yayınlanamayan – evet Türkçü-Turancı kesimin yeteri desteği olmadığından ekonomik olarak ölüme mahkûm olan – Orkun dergisindeki hemen hemen her yazımda, başlığını koyduğum yazıyı işlerken daima belirli ve kesin olduğuna inandığım düşüncelerimi okurlara empoze etmeğe çalıştım. Bunlar benim yılların oluşturduğu kanılarım, kanaatlerimdi. Kanılarım/kanaatlerim hep bilgilenerek ulaştığım sunuçlardı ve diyalektik süreçte değişe değişe olgunluk yoluna gelmişlerdi, yani tam olgun değildiler ve de zaten sosyal yaşamda devamlı bir olgunlaşma süreci vardı, sürecekti ve sürüyordu. Değişmez kural, değişimin devamlılığı idi... Benim küçük düşün dünyamın felsefesi budur...
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Saatesõna Eesti sõjaajaloo aastaraamatu II numbrile. Foreword by the editor-in-chief Toomas Hiio to the second volume of Estonian Yearbook of Military History.
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This is a memorial for Professor Małgorzta Kitowska-Łysiak, an eminent art historian and the most outstanding expert on Bruno Schulz’s achievement in the visual arts. The author, Jerzy Jarzębski, writes: “There are people, just like Schulz, who balance their physical meagerness, sometimes combined with a disease and suffering, with some unusual inner tension, a spiritual quality of the highest measure. They are radiant and uniquely good. In such individuals the spirit, which seems to be imprisoned in the cage of the feeble body once and for all, manages to overcome its conditioning and resist bitterness, sustaining the need to give, an affirmation of the world and existence.”
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Continuous cooperation of Schulz experts may result in several joint projects. Such a collective effort is now necessary, first of all to take another critical look at the surviving literary and artistic Schulz archive to put it in order and at last publish his Collected Works. Schulz’s biography is also still full of secrets. It is not only the work of the Book’s author, but also his life that is still a challenge and a task. The third field of interest for the Schulz/Forum should be this strange and hybrid construct which is called Schulz studies. It seems that our discipline should also take a critical look at itself, start putting in order its domain, and introduce some procedures of testing and validating discourses about Schulz, which keep disseminating like the weeds he so often described in his fiction.
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