Around the Bloc: Croatia Improperly Processing Migrants, EU Says
Brussels takes legal action against Croatia for not registering migrants, Hungary in cross-hairs over asylum laws.
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Brussels takes legal action against Croatia for not registering migrants, Hungary in cross-hairs over asylum laws.
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But recreational growers and sellers in the small Balkan nation still face long prison terms if caught.
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New EU member states losing hundreds, even thousands, of workers to countries with higher wages struggle to combat the toll.
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The population of Lithuania fell faster than that of any other EU country last year.
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The Serbian government steps up its efforts to secure its borders with Bulgaria and Macedonia against migrants and smugglers.
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This article presents a creative and destabilising function of art created in urban public space. This public space is here seen according to the view of belgian philosopher Chantal Mouffe as agon — battleground and confrontation of hegemonic projects. Public art is one approach to take the floor in a public debate this is why it has a political character. Krzysztof Wodiczko is a creator of this type of art who postulates creation through democratic public space art and promotes public domain. This article particularly shows his concept contained in “The Abolition of War” publication.
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Open public spaces (including streets, squares and parks) are common property of residents. They are, however, within the scope of city councils which, by means of laws, decide who and how can use them. The main user of this space is the city, that is the city council, which either organizes or co-organizes most mass events. Their main features (the article only discusses ludic events) are: regularity, organization, predictability and order. These enents are “proper” in every respect. On the other hand, some groups of city dwellers, particularly young people (secondary school pupils, students, and “skaters”) want to entertain themselves in public urban spaces according to their preferances. Their activities are most frequently chaotic, improvised and even anarchist. They are anything but “proper”. This breeds conflicts between these goals and the authorities represented by city wardens and the police. The conflict: city authorities versus tourists and locals, participating in wild and often obscene “displays” in the public spaces of Krakow, is even more drastic. On the one hand, the conflicts described in the article allow us to show the forms and ways of dramatization of urban space. On the other hand, they are an obvious proof of unrelenting fight of the antagonists: city authorities, who consider themselves monopolists — sole proprietors of public space, and different groups of residents, as well as tourists overtly expressing their conviction that this space belongs to everybody and that any usurpations are civil rights violations. Whichever approach we take, it has to be said that the conflict is both structural (it arises from different aims and convictions of the participating groups) and permanent (it escalates and wanes, but always exists).
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This paper focuses on an African street experienced as profoundly contradictory. It departs from Adeline Masquelier`s observation that this landscape is an object of both fascination and terror, and a space of both fear and desire. The street offers jobs, goods and economic opportunities, but it can also lead to isolation, marginalization and fatalities. The paper is based on field research undertook in Omdurman in 2013 and granted by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
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The paper is a voice in the current of research on ludic behaviour realized within the social and cultural space of the contemporary city. The object of study is a phenomenon known on the Internet as shoefiti. The article approaches the practice of throwing shoes tied together with shoe strings onto electric or telephone cables as a category of ludic behaviour. I present the results of existing studies and indicate further research possibilities.
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This article is concerned with the importance for urban studies of the role of the sonic environment in making the dwelling space familiar, developing a sense of belonging and building a community. We analyze three selected interviews with Wroclaw residents conducted within a project on the audiosphere and the soundscape of Wroclaw. The analysis attempts at determining what sounds our respondents described as specific for their place of residence, and what emotions, meanings and values were connected with this soundscape. Our study reveals an active role played by acoustic phenomena in the process of domesticating. R.M. Schafer’s conception of soundscape and B. Latour’s actor-network theory are the theoretical background for our analysis.
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On the territory of Poland, one can find numerous buildings, which became desolate as a result of the political transformation in 1989. Many have already been demolished to make room for new housing estates. Nevertheless, some still exist, and they are only visited by people specializing in their exploration. This article concerns these explorers, whose main goal is remembering the vanishing world. This world is vanishing for good right before our eyes. The article focuses on the similarities and differences between explorers. It also presents main ideas and principles of the movement, as well as the results of a recent stage of quantitative research.
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All of the European countries have been affected by a demographic crisis: European societies are “graying” while not enough children are born. The European labour markets, pension systems, sectors of health care and social services are strained. Most of the European countries have already experienced increased migratory flows – either as in- or as out-migration. Most of in-migration comes to Europe from sub-Saharan Africa and Middle East. The annual ratio of migration to Europe is already higher than the one registered for the United States. Europe is irrevocably turning into a continent of migrants. So far, different European states and societies have reacted differently to the experience of the demographic crisis and migration. Some of the reactions involved stricter policing and social violence. The extreme right has earned some political capital playing the card of anti-immigrant protest. It is clear that institutional and social problems related to the demographic and migratory phenomena are likely to be aggravated in the future if no common European policies are designed and adopted. Taking into account the fact that internal borders between EU member-states are progressively lifted, the demographicmigration issues are bound to spill over from one European country to another. The currently existing differentiation in the sphere of citizenship, welfare and labour market will reinforce the spill-over trends. On the other hand, in a foreseeable future Europe will need more and more migrants to make up for the demographic implosion it faces. Therefore, a common migration policy is necessary from this point of view as well. Moreover, the migration policy must be complemented with a new policy of migrant integration since migrants that Europe needs should rather be perceived as its permanent citizens rather than temporary guest-workers. The construction of such common policies is difficult. To be effective, they need to be based upon both a broad political consensus among elites and on a broad social contract undersigned by the European public opinion and migrants as well.
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Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie, na ile starzenie się ludności może być szansą dla rozwoju sektora ekonomii społecznej w Polsce. Zarysowano tutaj możliwości działania w obszarze usług opiekuńczych, ale też innych usług, które mogą być oferowane osobom starszym. Starsze osoby (zarówno pracownicy, jak i wolontariusze) mogą być istotnym zasobem dla podmiotów ekonomii społecznej, ale też trzeba mieć na uwadze pewne ograniczenia i problemy w działaniu organizacji z ich udziałem. Na końcu artykułu zamieszczono rekomendację, aby w systemie monitorowania podmiotów ekonomii społecznej uwzględniać dane o wieku osób, które w nich pracują (pracownikach), jak i o wolontariuszach. Podmioty ekonomii społecznej mogą dostosować swoją działalność do zmian demograficznych, ale ich oferta musi uwzględniać zmieniające się potrzeby odbiorców ich usług. Podmioty ekonomii społecznej mogą być ważnymi aktorami w tworzeniu polityk na rzecz osób starszych na szczeblu lokalnym.
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The article deals with Arleta Galant’s book "The Provinces of Literature. Polish Women’s Prose after 1956", which is the culmination of a research project focused on both the previously insufficiently analyzed creative output of Polish women writers between 1956 and 1989 and the category of space, to which the concept of the province belongs. This concept is used as a methodological frame for interpreting selected works, and provides a multilayered conceptual category for describing literary and historical processes in various contexts. The author situates literature from the PRL period by Zyta Oryszyn, Britta Wuttke, Ewa Maria Slaska, Krystyna Kofta, Renata Zwoźniakowa, Małgorzata Szejnert, and Krystyna Sakowicz within literary theory, reflecting on the concepts of the provinces, narrative, gender, and the history of literature, and proposing a formula for understanding women’s writing over a span of four decades.
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The article presents the interconnectedness between the issues of the good of the child, the child as constituting the good in himself or herself, and the common good of society. It juxtaposes the perspective of personalism and individualism, rights versus duties, goods, and commitments, while linking the issues of freedom and love as fulfilment of freedom. The paper discusses these issues by examples of tendencies towards growing individualism noticed by some authors in changes of American divorce laws, the so-called collaborative reproduction, and in the possibilities of genetic engineering. Arguments quoted or discussed are taken from John Paul II, Helen M. Alvare, Michele M. Schumacher, Mary Ann Glendon, Michael J. Sandel, and Jurgen Habermas. The article calls for the social recognition of the child (and every person) as the common good and points to the social attractiveness of the perspective of giftedness of human nature and social relations exemplified especially in the relation between the mother and the child, which needs to be recognized by various institutions of society.
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The issue of image-making on social media is receiving considerable attention these days due to the advent of the do-it-yourself PR2.0 and PR3.0. The purpose of this paper is to raise readers’ awareness of the benefits and the downsides of social media as the ubiquitous space for self-expression and influencing audiences. Addressed are the stages of social media marketing plan and the steps to be taken to avoid significant imagemaking faux pas online.
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Activities in landscape architecture are directly related to the application of altruistic concepts for the improvement of public welfare. Experts, working in this profession, perform functions related to management of various complex projects for improving the living conditions of the community. Through their work they exert significant effects on the economic, social and environmental development. Professional social responsibility of the landscape architect is an integral part of ethical behavior not only within the profession but to society and is a factor for sustainable development of urban green systems.
More...Między pragnieniem wymarcia a nadzieją na nieśmiertelność
In response to growth in the human population, resulting in devastation to the planet and a rising catastrophic sentiment in the West, two radically different narratives about the end of the human species have emerged. One opts for voluntary extinction as a form of ecologically motivated altruism; the second is techno-euthanasia, which hypothesizes a quantum leap forward to a post-human era and the hope of radical life extension. However, between the desire for extinction and hope for immortality, a slowly but steadily growing number of people are choosing a third way: remaining childfree for the sake of their own lifestyle preferences. A such conceived renouncement of parenting should not be confused with childlessness and its associated lack, but should be seen rather as a sign of the times, an individual choice to enjoy the pleasures in life, which are treated as a value in themselves, without the need for the biological extension of life itself.
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