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This work is based on empirical material gained by research in project “Sociological aspects of multiculturality and regionalization and their impact on development of AP Vojvodina and Republic of Serbia” that was done on representative specimen on AP Vojvodina territory in year 2002, at the Department of Sociology, Philosophical faculty in Novi Sad. One of the research aims was questioning the attitude towards refugees, since this territory has recently accepted several thousands of them. Starting form the fact that no society can shelter such a great number of newcomers without problems, and that society in crisis can even hardly do so, author questions social and cultural consequences of mass refuge in Vojvodina. On the other hand, considering the fact that refugees inevitably bring their specific economical, social and identity problems and needs with them in the place of refuge, this work gave special attention to the question if the multiculturality is positively correlated to readiness for acceptance and helping the refugees.
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Australia is tipical country of immigration. Therefore, process of adoptation is great issue in australian society. When the immigrant arrives and stays in a new community, attention will be concentrated upon three aspects of change and their determinants. The first of these aspects concerns what happens to him during the initial period of readjustment and resettlement. When successful this period concludes with the immigratnt experiencing a general state of satisfaction with his new life. Given that he feels more satisfied than dissatisfied the foundation exists for the growth of a new sense of attachment or belonging to his adopted community.
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The paper presents the first, preliminary review of the main characteristics of the migratory processes of the labour in the region of Šarplaninska Gora, the most southern part of Serbia and Kosovo. The inhabitants of the area are the Muslims which roots were Ortodox. The area in which they live by centuries between the peaks of the very high mountains belongs to the underdeveloped regions.
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The aim of the article is to identify ethical tensions between the cognitive function of science, humanitarian reasons for undertaking research work, and its practical goals in research conducted among forced migrants. Differences between researchers and respondents in the dimensions of social, economic, and political status determine the challenges of building ethical relationships, not only as meeting the imperative of “do no harm” by ensuring the safety of the subjects and protecting them from abuse. In a team composed of researchers with an external and internal status towards the studied group, we consider the possibilities of equalizing asymmetrical relationships, creating relationships based on mutual benefits, and the involvement of respondents in the research process. The source of reflection is the analysis of research reports and the experience of own research work carried out among forced migrants by co-authors of this text.
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The main subject of this study is analysis of similarity and differences between various groups of marginals, their relation with dominant culture of the society in which they live, and perspectives for diangeing their position.
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The major migrant crisis, which has been spreading across Europe for the past few years, has also affected Croatia in many ways. A relatively small country in South East Europe that lies on two important transport corridors – Pan-European Corridor Xa and Vb – happened also to be on two big migratory routes: the Western Balkan route and the Mediterranean route. The consequences thereof have been seen in a huge number of migrants who passed over Croatian territory, going towards countries in Western Europe, often found hidden in trucks and trains at the border crossings towards Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, or Hungary. This paper deals with the question of the impact this phenomenon has made on freight transport industry in Croatia (and the entire region of South East Europe), by analysing regional trends in irregular migrations of people in connection to the introduction of new police security measures (on trucks and trains), and the performance of road and rail transport services in these sensitive times.
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This text is an analysis of some of the key research related to ethnic migrations in fomer Yugoslavia, performed by professor Ruža Petrović (1928–1993). These works have been chosen because they represent very important contribution to understanding the dynamics of dissolution of Yugoslavia, while they are also an excellent illustration of scientific approach and method of this author. Ruža Petrović was the professor of demography at Faculty of Philosophy, and later she also became a founder of the Cathedra for Social Demography at the Department of Sociology. Petrović had a rare gift to come to the core of social problems, while using demographic data and analysis, owing to her sociological background.
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The paper deals with the major population challenges of contemporary Serbia. Their consequences are socially farreaching and complex, and due to the demographic inertia, they are not only long term but will have a strong, perceived impact onto future generations, social system and structure, economy and culture. However, this demographic dynamics is neither a new one nor it is specific for Serbia only. But in the case of Serbia it is the combination of the processes, previously created and recent ones, which produce a particular ’de-development’, which on the other hand also characterises other European countries of semiperiphery.
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Information from seventy interviews and secondary evidence was used to investigate the relationship between Ghana Immigration Service’s (GIS) lobbying and the outcomes it produced. The focus of the investigation was on four areas: the strategies and tactics of lobbying employed; intermediate outcomes achieved; final outcome attained; and the effect of GIS’s lobbying on politics-administration relations. The evidence showed that the strategies succeeded in achieving the desired policy reforms. In addition to this final outcome, GIS’s lobbying also succeeded in attaining intermediate outcomes: increased attention; increased knowledge; and persuasion. Among others, the study’s contributions are the following: it has explicated the overlooked conditions under which bureaucratic lobbying or influence is likely to occur; it has shown that lobbying impact should include not only final outcomes but also intermediate effects. Moreover, it has shown that politics-administration relations is a dynamic rather than a static category that is not explained by one best-practice model but rather a best-fit model or a combination of models that is contingent on factors producing changes in the relationship.
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Cet ouvrage constitue le résumé de plusiers chapitres de la thèse d’études de troisième cycle „Lisbonne, siège de l’émigration yougoslave (1941-45)”, soutenue l’année dernière à la Faculté de Philosophie de l’Université de Belgrade. Lorsque le gouvernement yougoslave ouvrit en Février 1941 la Légation à Lisbonne, la capitale portugaise se vit acquérir soudainement une importance particulière, et même dirait-on plus signifiante pour les citoyens yougoslaves que pour l’Etat yougoslave. Après la débâcle française (juin 1940), la capitale portugaise devint un centre d’importance exceptionnelle où affluèrent les nombreux réfugiés fuyant devant les nazis, et en même temps le point de transit d’où commençait l’exode de ceux qui quittaient l’Europe. Lorsque la défaite yougoslave en avril 1941, Lisbonne devint aussi le centre d’afflux des réfugiés yougoslaves, d’où ils quittaient le Vieux continent. Pour les Yougoslaves ce fût le rôle de Lisbonne pendant la majeure partie de la guerre, bien que vague des émigrés faiblit avec le temps. Une colonie yougoslave résidait en permanence à Lisbonne et la Légation était aussi une sorte de lieu d’accueil et le centre d’information où se rassemblaient les nou-velles venant du territoire yougoslave morcelé et de l’Europe. C’est là que déroulait une vie à part, marquée par les souffrances des réfugiés, la confusion de l’émigration et les mouvements politiques liés aux événements sur le champ des batailles et la scène politique. Il s’agit d’un thème dont la dissertation donne jour à un maillon substantiel dans la chaîne des connaissances sur la sort des ressortissants yougoslaves pendant la deuxième guerre. C’est aussi un thème où se croisent l’histoire et le quotidien, la politique, des personnages qui ont eu des rôles médiocres sur la scène diplomatique ou dans les services de renseignements et d’autres nombreux réfugiés de professions diverses. La première partie de l’article met la lumière sur les relations potuguaises-yougoslaves polintant certains liens datant encore du XVI siècle qui débutent avec la fuite des juifs ibériens sur les Balkans, faisant mention sommaire de l’alliance de la Serbie et du Portugal dans la première guerre mondiale. Dans ce contexte sont évoqués le séjour de Ivo .Andric au Portugal (1928), le rapproche¬ment de 1’ image de Andric avec les impressions de Milos Crnjanski lors de son séjour de mai à août 1941 à Sintra et Estoril, pendant qu’il attendait le visa britannique. Dans „La réouverture de la Légation Yougoslave (de février à april 1941), traite des premiers pas de Slavko' Kojic, le premier diplomate à Lisbonne après la fermeture de la Légation pour raisons d’austérité en 1920. Les deux parties suivantes - les réfugiés des pays européens et de la Yougoslavie - présentent détaillément le refuge à Lisbonne des yougoslaves qui pour diverses raisons se trouvèrent au printemps de 1941 dans les différents pays européens (Italie, Al¬banie et France): l’arrivee des réfugiés de Yougoslavie; les problèmes avec les marins yougoslaves dont les navires étaient amarres sur le Tejo (avril et mai 1941). Il est question d'un travail qui met à la lumière, partant de sources differentes souvent très sobres, certaines connaissances sur la vie dans l'exil et les activités des services diplomatiques yougoslaves de l’epoque.
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The article deals with the importance of Finnish language proficiency for nonnative students and staff members in the academic life in Finland. During the last few decades, there has been a lot of discussion on the allegedly deteriorated position of Finnish at the universities and in the society in Finland. Correspondingly, as English seems to become a valid alternative for Finnish in the academic world, it is often assumed that Finnish is no longer needed at the university and the incomers need not learn Finnish. This article takes part in the discussion by representing views of non-native academic people on the matter. Te article is based on a survey data collected in 2015 at the University of Turku. The survey had three major aims: to find out to which extent Finnish is used by the non-native people at the university, to find out whether more Finnish teaching is needed (especially at the highest levels) and to find out what is the importance of Finnish language proficiency in the life of academic people who do not speak Finnish as their first language. Te results of the survey are interpreted against a theoretical background of theories dealing with personal wellbeing, integration and the importance of personal motivation for learning a language. According to the survey, most respondents think it is actually perfectly possible to live in Finland also by using English. However, 74% of the respondents who answered in Finnish thought that it is not possible to live well or to integrate into social and cultural life in Finland to the full without being able to speak Finnish. In addition, most of the respondent expressed a desire to learn more Finnish, as they were not satisfied with their proficiency in Finnish. Especially the staff members desired to have a higher proficiency in Finnish. According to the results, an improved proficiency in Finnish seems to be connected to better personal wellbeing and thus a greater degree of integration. Interestingly, the respondents did not find the difficulty of the Finnish language a major obstacle in learning Finnish, as the biggest obstacles named were the lack of time and suitable language courses. Te results point out the importance of language proficiency for integration also in the academic world and call for additional and more tailored Finnish courses at the universities – also at the highest levels of language proficiency.
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Tout en expliquant que par la notion de participation il entend toute participation a l’activité de m'imparte quel segment de la société soviétique, l’auteur développe son sujet et aboutit à la participation, historiquement «positive« et «négative». La participation «négative» est, selon l’auteur, la part prise pair les Yougoslaves dans l'armée des Puissances de l’Axe dans la guerre contre l’U-R.S.S. Ces faits sont relatés dans les premières pages du présent article. Les Yougoslaves se trouvèrent en U.R.S.S. en diverses occasions: Nombre d'entre eux faisaient partie de l’émigration politique de l’entre-deux-guerres (membres du F.C.Y.); d'autres y étaient restes depuis la Guerre civile en 1918—1921; la majorité fut constituée par les Yougoslaves recrutes pair les autorités allemandes et hongroises et utilisés pour la construction des fortifications sur le front soviéto-adlemand. Ces derniers ne tardaient pas à rallier le camp soviétique et trouver leur place dans la société soviétique. En se fondant sur les sources diverses, l’auteur, décrit la participation des Yougoslaves dans les détachements de partisans de I'Ucraine et de la Biélorussie, l’activité journalistiques et publiciste, la mise sur pied et le développement des unités yougoslaves, formées avec l’aide des autorités soviétiques sur le territoire de l’U.R.S.S.
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By integrating Muslim immigrants coming mainly from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Caucasus, Lithuanian society is inevitably facing cultural differences determined by values and different lifestyles deriving from completely different ethnic origin, religion, education and social status. Gender anthropology concentrates on social interactions affected by peoples’ gender, identity, roles and other aspects that are overseen when looking from the general perspective. By employing anthropological approaches and ethnographical considerations of differences in values and lifestyles, this paper provides an opportunity to take a closer look at the cross-border encounters of asylum as ‘engendered sphere’.
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The article searches for answers to the question whether the mother tongue of Lithuanians who have been in emigration for more than 5 years undergoes attrition. Test C performances by 61 emigrants and 61 non-emigrants (control group) collected while carrying out the project Language of Emigrants: Proficiency, Use, and Attrition (2015–2017) are analysed. The results of both groups are compared by applying the Student t test and conducting an error analysis. The analysis of C test performances revealed that general results of the emigrants and those of the control group differ – the latter can handle the test easier and, as the test test data analysis shows, the difference among emigrants of all test results is statistically significant.
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Future trends in migration flows and patterns are extremely difficult to predict. This is largely due to the factors influencing migration trends more than the trends themselves. This is largely due to the difficulty of predicting changes in the motivating causes of migration, including political unrest, conflict, and economic change. The EU hotspot and control center approach aims to collect realistic immediate information for the development of correct migration forecasts for anticipated migratory pressures.
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This report shares the Bulgarian experience and good practices for the protection of the personal data of foreigners. The legal framework, the National Strategy and good practices for the protection of personal data in the context of a refugee crisis have presented.
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Migration issues are particularly relevant in recent years, both for the EU as a whole and for individual Member States, Bulgaria in particular. In an attempt to clarify some of the main reasons for the existing migratory processes in Stara Zagora region, we aimed at exploring the current state of migration and outlining the possible future intra- migration trends in the region. The present analysis allows us to conclude that urgent measures should be taken to overcome the unfavorable trends of the internal migration processes in Stara Zagora region.
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The report looks at the major situation in the Global Migration Pact, defining its importance for the future measures to be taken in managing migratory processes and the benefits for individual countries.
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The article, based on qualitative research (interviews, letters) and quantitative research, presents reflections and memories of migrating women about their families, a marriage. Taking a theoretical analysis of these studies the used the theory of the role as a tool to explain the phenomena. This theory has been modified by adding other non-human partners. of the role to which the role of the feminine migrant is constructed and played. Going abroad does not solve the conflict between the family, marriage and professional roles of women, it can only intensify it.
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