Women from North Move to South: Turkey's Female Movers from the Former Soviet Union Countries

Author(s): Oksana Koshulko / Language(s): English

Oksana Koshulko in "Women from North Move to South: Contemporary Migration from the Former Soviet Union countries to Turkey" tells us about migration of women from the Former Soviet Union countries to Turkey. The book draws on a pioneering research in this area discussing the results from a field research carried out in Turkey. Koshulko interviewed women from the Former Soviet Union countries to understand their motives, difficulties and struggles they go through in their lives in Turkey. She explores their common problems in Turkey, their education, opportunities and restrictions. The discussions are contextualised with reference to broader economic and political circumstances in sending countries contrasted with the Turkish case.

Overeducated and Over Here: Skilled EU Migrants in Britain

Author(s): Bradley Saunders / Language(s): English

The UK’s offer of immediate free access to A8 workers resulted in a larger-than-expected influx of A8 migrants to the UK, which caused a public backlash and heated debates over the benefits and costs of large-scale immigration. Much has been written about the political and economic impact of this influx. This book focuses instead on the complex interweaving factors affecting the work and non-work lives of skilled migrant workers in the UK working in jobs which are not commensurate with their work experience, skills and interests. The focus on the European context addresses the need for a better understanding of contemporary labour mobility within the EU. The important, though often neglected, perspective of individuals who take on work below their level forms the focus of this book. In-depth interviews analyse the lived experiences of migrant workers in the UK working in jobs which are not commensurate with their qualifications and experience."Having spent approximately half my life away from my home country, it is perhaps not surprising that I chose to examine the lives of others who made similar decisions. A culture of migration runs in the family. I have met many others who also left their home country’s shores. Whether these were academics from London or labourers from Lahore, my conversations with them made me reflect on and question our life choices and experiences. Why had we decided to leave one country and move to another? Was there something different about us compared to our peers who did not make such a move?" CONTENT Acknowledgements About the author Introduction Chapter 1: Clarifying the terminology Chapter 2: Reasons for migrating Chapter 3: The Migrants Chapter 4: Factors influencing the migrant workers’ decision to come to the UK to take up or seek work Chapter 5: Barriers in finding work commensurate with qualifications and experience Chapter 6: Coping with the skill- and status- underemployment Chapter 7: Impact of nonwork and family factors on adjustment to living and working in the UK Conclusions Appendix 1: Interview guide References Index

Złe miasta

Author(s): Waldemar Kuligowski / Language(s): Polish

Zbiór tekstów antropologa, podróżnika i redaktora „Czasu Kultury”, poświęcony przygodom kultury w globalnym świecie. Wraz z autorem odbywamy podróż do Koniakowa, gdzie polskie koronczarki produkowały słynne stringi, by przez osiedla Czefurów w Lublanie trafić do Palestyny i przyjrzeć się korzeniom arabskiego hip-hopu. Jest to również antropologiczna podróż po obszarach tradycji – Waldemar Kuligowski bierze na warsztat nie tylko polską kulturę ludową, ale także romskie małżeństwa nieletnich czy jugosłowiański patriarchalizm.

NARRATING »THE PEOPLE« AND »DISCIPLINING« THE FOLK The Constitution of the Hungarian Ethnographic Discipline and the Touristic Movements (1870–1900)

Author(s): Levente T. Szabó / Language(s): English

Preparadigmatic and early paradigmatic ethnographic imagination and practice played a crucial role in mid- and late 19th-century Hungarian nationbuilding. Different versions of national identity competed within the new discipline called ethnography. They used, translated, transformed, and remade the emerging discipline. In order to map these transformations, I will focus both on the ideological transfers and on the internal cleavages to simultaneously see the sources, and the reception of texts and phenomena that are used in the crossings and interactions of this disciplinary formation. At the same time, this train of thought is also a broad history of the early (preparadigmatic and early disciplinary) phases of Hungarian ethnography. As such, it will try to follow the history of the professionalization and „disciplinarization“ of ethnography along several shifts: from the mainly textual interest of Hungarian ethnography of the 1840s-1860s to the „visual turn“ and exhibition of folk objects of the 1870s, and to the complex interaction of the phenomena of tourism and ethnography in the last two decades of the 19th century. In following these shifts, it will attempt to understand and analyze how the emergence of this new discipline coincided with the rise of the nation-building process of modernity, and what were the consequences of their complex and multi-layered relationship.

PRZESTRZEŃ PUBLICZNA A PRZEMIANY MIASTA

Author(s): Małgorzata Dymnicka / Language(s): Polish

Przestrzeń publiczna, której rodowód sięga czasów starożytności, należy do tych obszarów miejskiej struktury, o których można powiedzieć, że pozwalają na doświadczanie obecności Innych. Dzięki takich cechom, jak otwartość, dostępność, czytelność, można się w niej znaleźć z osobistym bagażem biografii, niebędącym przeszkodą dla pozostałych jej użytkowników. W ostatnich latach sporo miejsca w dyskursie publicznym zajmuje kwestia zaniku, upadku, ale też odrodzenia przestrzeni publicznej. Dynamika kapitalizmu i związana z nim globalizacja, zawrotne tempo przemian w dziedzinie technologii informacyjnej i komunikacji powodują, że dawny porządek oparty na sztywnych podziałach prywatne–publiczne traci powoli na znaczeniu. Odrzucając dwa skrajne stanowiska: z jednej strony apokaliptyczną wizję upadku przestrzeni publicznej, z drugiej zaś – bezkrytyczne jej odrodzenie, w książce podjęto próbę pokazania, że każda z tych perspektyw rodzi różne konceptualizacje, transformacje i rekonstrukcje o charakterze przestrzennym, społecznym i kulturowym, wpisując się w szerszy projekt kształtowania współczesnych tożsamości miasta.

PROBLEMY OCHRONY PRAW CZŁOWIEKA W AFRYCE

Author(s): Grażyna Michałowska / Language(s): Polish

Za jedno z największych osiągnięć społecznych drugiej połowy XX wieku uznać można instytucjonalizację systemu ochrony praw człowieka i nadanie im wyróżnionej roli w stosunkach międzynarodowych.W Polsce stan badań nad prawami człowieka w krajach pozaeuropejskich prezentuje się dość skromnie ze względu na kłopoty z dostępem do materiałów źródłowych, egzotykę niektórych zjawisk i związane z nią ryzyko niewłaściwego rozpoznania istoty problemów. Książka ta jest unikatową, pionierską pracą w tej dziedzinie. Omówiono w niej całościowo funkcjonowanie praw człowieka w Afryce, odnosząc się do najważniejszych ich aspektów: od standardów wypracowanych w ramach ONZ i Unii Afrykańskiej, do dyskusji oryginalnych rozwiązań sądownictwa afrykańskiego. Sporo uwagi poświęca Autorka sytuacji kobiet na kontynencie.Grażyna Michałowska przedstawia w klarowny i uporządkowany sposób poszczególne zagadnienia w układzie problemowym, ujmując kontynent całościowo, ale nie ignorując jego wewnętrznego zróżnicowania. Analiza stanu przestrzegania praw człowieka w Afryce uwzględnia specyficzną perspektywę kulturową, bez której nie sposób pojąć procesów zachodzących w tej dziedzinie. Dzięki rozważaniom zawartym w tej książce łatwiej zrozumieć trudne i budzące protest obrońców praw człowieka afrykańskie praktyki dotyczące kary śmierci, stosowania kar cielesnych czy stosunku do kobiet. Wielkim jej atutem są bogate i aktualne materiały źródłowe.

Timp şi spaţiu în Bucureşti

Author(s): Irina Caretu,Amalia Balescu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Arhitectura şi contextul urbanistic ilustrează sau conturează intr-o masură importantă caracteristica esenţială a poporului ce îi dă viaţă, ce îi dă vibraţie şi o defineşte. Aşadar arhitectura veche si nouă, dar şi constructele de urbanism sunt cu atât mai interesant de urmărit cu cât ele dezvăluie parcursul istoric al unui popor şi ne lasă să intuim proprietăţile interacţiunii sociale ale acestuia. Această lucrare işi propune să analizeze evoluţia tumultoasă a Bucureştiului din perspectiva urbanistico-arhitecturală, să parcurgă toate etapele dezvoltării pentru o mai bună inţelegere a mediului construit variat si deosebit de interesant al acestui oraş, dar în acelaşi timp îşi propune să analizeze încercarea dinamică, reuşită sau nereuişită, a “oraşului” în demersul de a deveni un organism compus atât estetic cât şi funcţional. Pentru început vom incerca sa stabilim un scurt istoric al traseului pe care arhitectura si urbanismul l-au urmat în Bucureşti. Astfel vom parcurge punctual perioadele care si-au exercitat amprenta asupra orasului, urmărind influentele aduse de fiecare si integrarea acestora în structura ansamblului citadin de astăzi. Prima etapă de dezvoltare analizată este cea medievală, predominant caracterizată de construcţia mânăstirilor şi dezvoltarea aşezărilor domneşti, dar şi prin curente şi influenţe importante precum stilul brâncovenesc, neoclasicismul sau stilul eclectic. Următoarea etapă definitorie, caracterizată de un mediu economic prosper şi de un puternic motor de dezvoltare citadină, este perioada interbelică. Ea va fi urmată de perioada comunistă, o etapă lungă care a modificat radical întreaga structură urbanistico-arhitecturală a oraşului. Nu doar prin distrugerea în masă a clădirilor cu importanţă istorică semnificativă, ci şi prin stilul funcţional şi rece al construcţiilor comuniste care le-au înlocuit, majoritatea lipsite de valoare estetică sau arhitecturală. Un alt moment important adus în discuţie este cutremurul din anul 1977. Atunci o bună parte din oraş a fost distrusă datorita seismului, însă pe de altă parte conducerea comunistă, a folosit dezastrul ca pretext pentru multe demolări şi restructurări forţate, acestea făcând obiectul unei alte părţi importante ale lucrării. Capitolul ultim al lucrării prezintă modele de referinţă din diferite oraşe importante ale Europei, acestea ilustrând punctual rezolvări reuşite ale combinării constructelor arhitecturale actuale cu cele “moştenite” şi conturând direcţii demne de urmărit şi de documentat.

Consideraţii urbanistice cu privire la creşterea confortului şi siguranţei deplasărilor pietonale, în oraşele româneşti

Author(s): Mihaela Hermina NEGULESCU / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The unconditional and undifferentiated adaptation of Romanian cities to the functional and spatial requirements of a growing automobility lead to the conversion of the majority of public spaces into a road framework for traffic and parking, drained of their communitarian substance and landscape attributes. The (re)allocation and the (re)design of urban space as well as the regulations for their use, for the travels they contain, was often done in a discriminatory manner, resulting in deterioration of the functional and environmental quality of the pedestrians’ infrastructure and of the accessibility for people with reduced mobility - topics of current concern within the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, strategic planning studies recommended by the European Commission. The pedestrian oriented reshape of urban zones relies on a contextualized planning of an appropriate balance between the two main vocations of the public realm: a. infrastructure for travels and b. places with social and aesthetical substance that (should) provide a safe and healthy environment for urban living. Starting from this prerequisite, the paper deals with two categories of inter-related themes, in an urban planning perspective: 1. sets of measures to encourage and boost safe and comfortable walking, on different tiers - road network (hierarchy, classification, connectivity, configuration), morphology of urban space (sharing of land resources, configuration-design), use of urban space (traffic corridors, priorities, speed); 2. criteria and models of (re)organization of public spaces with priority to pedestrians: pedestrian areas or shared-space schemes. The study outlines a theoretical framework for a spatial planning and design, integrated to a related (re)shape of mobility, more attentive to pedestrians’ needs, with a main focus on travel safety concerns. The paper partially presents results of the author’s research undertaken within the project SAFENET - Research on estimation and enhancement of intrinsic safety performances for urban traffic networks, PN-II-PT-PCC A-2011-3.2-1439 conducted through the “Partnership in priority areas” program - PNII, PCCA Tip 2, implemented with the support of ANCSI CNDI – UEFISCDI, between 2012-2016.

Planificare integrată şi cercetare interdisciplinară pentru dezvoltarea urbană durabilă şi competitivă a României

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Romanian

Lucrarea reuneşte consideraţii teoretice şi exemple practice legate de planificarea integrată şi cercetarea interdisciplinară din domeniile urbanismului şi amenajării teritoriului pornind de la experienţa cercetătorilor români din ţară şi diasporă.

Срби у Темишвару

Author(s): Mirjana Pavlović / Language(s): Serbian

This book is dedicated to the customs, culture and way of life of Serbs in Timisoara. The emphasis is on the strategies of constructing and achieving community and layered identities (national/ethnic, dual, regional, local) within a historic discourse. The data presented in this book has been gathered through various means. Aside from archival material and statistical data on the life of the community, as well as relevant theoretical approaches in the study of ethnicity, the most important data was acquired through fieldwork. The research began in 2002, and took place over a series of short-term visits to the city in 2002, 2003 and 2005. The method of participant observation was applied to many everyday as well as festive situations in the family and social lives of Serbs in Timisoara. I have attended numerous liturgies, weddings, christenings, choir and folklore association rehearsals and performances, family and social celebrations and sporting events. Interviews, surveys and informal conversations were conducted with members of the community encompassing both sexes, all ages and varying social status, political and religious affiliations. Among my informants there were people whose connections to the church weren’t strong, as well as people from mixed marriages. Aside from this, I had tried to gather data on the lives of Serbs between the World wars or earlier indirectly – through the narratives of their descendants.

Conferinţa de cercetare în construcţii, economia construcţiilor, urbanism şi amenajarea teritoriului. Rezumate ale lucrărilor

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Romanian,French

Includes abstracts of the papers presented in the research conference on constructions, economy of constructions, architecture, urbanism and territorial development.

Lucrările conferinţei de cercetare în construcţii, economia construcţiilor, urbanism şi amenajarea teritoriului

Author(s): / Language(s): English,Romanian,French

Includes full papers presented in the research conference on constructions, economy of constructions, architecture, urbanism and territorial development.

Analysis of the Relationship of Productivity between the Public Sector and the INTERSTAT

Author(s): Marcela Mitrita,Ovidiu Buzoianu,Amelia Diaconu,Ionut Victor Ratezanu / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

Scientific progress embodies and depends on open communication, a common discourse that has roots in rationality, collaboration, as well as an easy and regular flow and efficient information exchange. These ideals can be considered hypocritical by elite power and can be displayed or emphasized in many other ways, but they are even involved in the idea of science, but they are based on the phenomenon called globalization and its practical outcomes. Business, banking and commerce depend on the flow of information and are facilitated by new communication technologies. The hardware of these technologies tends to be systemic and integrated - computerized, televised, cable, satellite, laser, optical fiber and microchip technology combining to create a vast network of communications and interactive information that can potentiate any people on earth have access to any other person, and each time they make each byte the availability of information for each set of eyes in search.

Migrants Unbound

Author(s): Paolo Ruspini / Language(s): English

This book includes a selection of papers written in the last ten years (2009-2019) in affiliation to Swiss academic institutions. They have been updated and edited for this publication. The idea behind the present collection is to make full value of comparative research carried out both from a theoretical or empirical perspective on different categories of migrants from the elderly to second generation and from low to highly skilled, originating from a variety of regions and geographical contexts. They come from the Sub-Saharan African region as well as Western and Eastern Europe presently living on the European continent. Paolo Ruspini is a political scientist who has been researching issues of international and European migration and integration since 1997 with a comparative approach and by drawing on mixed methods. His current research deals with transnational migration from a theoretical and empirical perspective.

POLSKIE POGRANICZA W PROCESIE PRZEMIAN. tom V

Author(s): Zbigniew Kurcz / Language(s): Polish

W ideologicznych założeniach polskie pogranicza powinny przekształcać się w transgranicza. Jednak obrazy rzeczywistości, przedstawiane także w tym tomie, zakłócają sielankowe wizje formułowane na gruncie europeizmu. Szereg wydarzeń, poczynając od 1997 r., kiedy to Polska w ramach procesów przystosowawczych przed włączeniem do Unii Europejskiej zaczęła osłabiać relacje ze wschodnimi sąsiadami, stawia pod znakiem zapytania, to znów wspiera euromyślenie o pograniczach. Należy też pamiętać, że na procesy społeczno-gospodarcze na pograniczach istotny wpływ miało pełne włączenie Polski do strefy Schengen w 2007 r., a później uruchamianie i zawieszanie umów o małym ruchu granicznym z ograniczaniem versus poszerzaniem grupy beneficjentów. Z WprowadzeniaZbigniew KurczProblematyka tomu koncentruje się m.in. wokół następujących zagadnień: • Co wniosły badania i refleksje z ostatnich lat do wiedzy o transgraniczach, efekcie pogranicza, człowieku pogranicza?• Jak postrzegać pogranicza: kiedy jako modelowe transgranicza, a kiedy jako obszary rywalizacji o państwowo-narodowych barwach?• Jaki jest zakres i jakie konsekwencje kontaktu kultur na pograniczach?• Jak wzmocnić szeroko rozumiane bezpieczeństwo na pograniczach – fizyczne, społeczne i ekonomiczne?• Jakie nowe procesy i zjawiska dały o sobie znać w ostatnim okresie na polskich pograniczach?W tomie publikują: Dawid Błaszczak, Leszek Buller, Marcin Dębicki, Leszek Gołdyka, Zbigniew Kurcz, Bogusław Kuźniar, Irena Machaj, Elżbieta Opiłowska, Wiesław Tadeusz Popławski, Wiesław Romanowicz, Andrzej Sakson, Dorota Szaban, Irena Szlachcicowa, Beata Trzop.

Un secol lung de geografie la Academia de Studii Economice din București. Masteratul de Geopolitică

Author(s): Marius-Cristian Neacșu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Gdzie dom styka się ze światem. Cztery punkty uważności życia

Author(s): Aleksandra Kunce / Language(s): Polish

A small thing: four oikological essays, preceded by an introductory word, on our entanglement in the “home-world.” If we were to take the title as the question, “Where does the home meet the world?”, the answer would be: “In the points that require our attentiveness of life.” Attentiveness requires discipline and precision, and it is not only about precision in actions and observations, but about our being at home and in the world, in the changing rhythms of being rooted and wandering. Being mindful guides us towards a place, and concern extends over time to finally lead us home. Home is a peculiar time(lessness); it is a dynamically understood and open place that allows us to direct our desire to what is distant, inconceivable, and unimaginable. When we say ‘home,’ we do not mean a familiar and closed stronghold but a home rooted in the idea of the cosmos. It corresponds also to the idea of Heimat. The four points of contact between home and the world are found through (1) the humanities, (2) man, (3) friendship with the place, and (4) the university. The four oikological essays look into the entanglements, overlaps, but also the truest lack of the indeterminate at the boundary of home, around the threshold that symbolically not only testifies to the boundary in rituals, but delineates the space of attentiveness. At these points where home meets the world, our entanglement in the "home-world" is brought out.

Tradice a kulturní hodnoty území v péči UNESCO : Možností účelové obnovy tradičního hospodaření

Author(s): Libor Lněnička,Jaromír Kolejka,Mária Kozová,Jozef Bašary,Martin Boltižiar,Petr Čupa,Lenka Dvořáková,Eva Pauditšová,František Petrovič,František Synek,Pavol Šrankota,Jan Vybíral / Language(s): Slovak,Czech

This monography provides a description of traditional natural and cultural values in the protection and preservation of UNESCO heritage. The case study in territory are on the Slovak side Vlkolínec (for 25 years in UNESCO) and on the Czech side the Slavonic fortified settlement in Mikulčice, which is a potential candidate for registration on the UNESCO heritage list. In particular, practical options for using existing tools for the protection of monuments, such as land use plans, management plans or monument protection zones, are mentioned. The publication is the outcome of the project NKP3040D001: UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the Life of Municipalities, Cities and Regions.

THE DESIGN OF A CYCLING ROUTE IN THE MODEL TERRITORY OF LEVICE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS

Author(s): Tomáš Kováč,Martin Boltižiar / Language(s): English Publication Year: 0

The importance of bicycle touring is currently getting more attention, mainly in other countries of the European Union, but recently also here in Slovakia. In the article, we focus on the impact of bicycle touring on tourism in Slovakia with its legislative provisions and on the design of new cycling routes. We pay special attention to the particular importance of bicycle touring in the town of Levice and the surrounding area. After analyzing and evaluating of the existing routes, we decide to propose two new ones, which could have a positive impact on the development of the territory. We designed the first route outside of the town of Levice (Levice-Dolná Seč-Vyšné nad Hronom-Žemliare-Jur nad Hronom-Starý Hrádok-Mýtne Ludany časť Dobogov - Levice) 29 km in length. We situated the second route in the built-up area of the town of Levice; its length is 6.9 km. Both proposed routes have “rekrea” difficulty, i.e., they are designed for families with children or cyclists with a lower fitness level.

PROMĚNA TERITORIALITY VE ZKUŠENOSTI OSOB PO ZTRÁTĚ ZAMĚSTNÁNÍ

Author(s): Robert Osman,Ondřej Šerý / Language(s): Czech Publication Year: 0

The paper focuses on the lived territorial experience of people after job loss and aims to answer the research question "How was transformed the territoriality of people just after losing their jobs?" Losing a job can manifest by a sense of a reduction of social status, a decline in economic security or lack of regular daily routine, which is then reflected in the territorial behaviour of people after job loss. The text is based on a series of semi-structured interviews conducted in the first half of 2016 with the communication partners who have left their jobs in the past six months. The subsequent analysis of the interviews revealed the loss of one of the major anchor points in the form of the workplace and the creation of new activity spaces (possibly increasing their importance). The newly formed action space has changed its form from the network a few lines to the territory with a central point in the home and among other things is influenced by gender, voluntary/involuntary abandonment of previous employment, respectively eventual financial distress or assumption of troubled/trouble free finding a new job.