scholarly journals Immigration Governance for the Twenty-First Century

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Ellen Wasem
Keyword(s):  
Current System ◽  
First Century ◽  
Immigration Law ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Current State ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Chain Of Command ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Administrative Structures

The governance of immigration has a checkered past, and policy makers’ efforts at reform rarely meet expectations. Critiques have echoed over the years and across the political spectrum. The current system of immigration governance is scattered around the federal government, with no clear chain of command. No single government department or agency captures the breadth of the Immigration and Nationality Act's reach. At the crux of understanding immigration governance is acknowledging that immigration is not a program to be administered; rather, it is a phenomenon to be managed. The abundance of commissions that have studied the issues and the various administrative structures over time offers some wisdom on ingredients for successful governance. Based upon this research, options for effective immigration governance emerge. This paper studies the administration of immigration law and policy with an eye trained on immigration governance for the future. It opens with a historical overview that provides the backdrop for the current state of affairs. It then breaks down the missions and functions of the Immigration and Nationality Act by the lead agencies tasked with these responsibilities. The paper concludes with an analysis of options for improving immigration governance. Each of these options poses unique challenges as well as political obstacles.

Climate Change and Renewable Energy from the Ocean and Tides: Calming the Sea of Regulatory Uncertainty

2009 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 617-651 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Leary ◽  
Miguel Esteban
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
International Law ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Ocean Energy ◽  
Commercial Development ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Current State ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Wide Scale ◽  
United Nations Convention

AbstractWe examine the state of ocean energy in 2009 and consider its potential as a source of renewable energy. We provide a background on the current state of technology and commercial development, and examine the implications for law and policy of the re-emergence of ocean energy as a source of renewable energy in 2009. In the 1970s much of the academic and policy literature highlighted jurisdictional uncertainty surrounding ocean energy under international law. This is not the case today. Although some questions remain with respect to navigation rights, most questions surrounding the nature and extent of coastal State jurisdiction in relation to ocean energy have been resolved by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Instead we argue that one of the biggest challenges faced by ocean energy today is the uncertain state of regulation under domestic legal systems. We highlight issues requiring attention by policy-makers and legislators, including managing hazards to navigation, providing further financial incentives for wide-scale commercialisation of this technology (such as increased research and development funding and feed-in tariffs) and managing ocean energy's relatively benign environmental impacts.

Tenure and academic freedom: Prospects and constraints

2006 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 586-592
Author(s):  
Stephen J. Ceci ◽  
Wendy M. Williams ◽  
Katrin Mueller-Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Academic Freedom ◽  
Current System ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Current State ◽  
Target Article ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The One

In our target article, we took the position that tenure conveys many important benefits but that its original justification – fostering academic freedom – is not one of them. Here we respond to various criticisms of our study as well as to proposals to remedy the current state of affairs. Undoubtedly, more research is needed to confirm and extend our findings, but the most reasonable conclusion remains the one we offered – that the original rationale for tenure is poorly served by the current system as practiced at top-ranked colleges and universities.

scholarly journals Rethinking French identity through literature : the case of four 21st century novels.

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Virginie Bleneau
Keyword(s):  
Identity Crisis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Second Generation Immigrants ◽  
Current State ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
Group Identities ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Watching Tv ◽  
Second World

Reading French newspapers or watching TV broadcasts in the mid-teens of the twenty-first century, it is hard to deny or to ignore that France is currently (or still) undergoing an identity crisis. This crisis is of course not exactly a new phenomenon; many would indeed argue that the malaise originates from the waves of immigration that followed the Second World War and the dismantling of the colonial empire, leading second-generation immigrants to demonstrate, sometimes violently, against the unjust social realities of France in the 1980's and 1990's. In this dissertation, I argue that immigration has become the scapegoat for an identity crisis that is, in fact, Franco-French. I analyze four novels - JMG Le Clezio's Revolutions (2003), Alexis Jenni's L'Art francais de la guerre (2011), Azouz Begag's Le Marteau piquecoeur (2004), and Eliette Abecassis's Sepharade (2009) - that show that the current state of affairs stems from France's post-Revolutionary interpretation of the ideal of equality, rather than immigration alone. It is France's very notion of equality as sameness that prevents its citizens from adapting to the changes brought by the dissolution of the colonial empire. My postcolonial reading of these texts will reveal the complicated interaction between the individual and the forces that participate in the construction of individual and group identities.

scholarly journals The prospects of wooden building construction in Malaysia: Current state of affairs

BioResources ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 9840-9852
Author(s):  
Hazirah Ab Latib ◽  
Lum Wai Cheong ◽  
Rasmina Halis ◽  
Mohamad Roslan Mohamad Kasim ◽  
Lee Yan Yi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Construction Industry ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Laminated Veneer Lumber ◽  
Current State ◽  
Timber Products ◽  
Industry Policy ◽  
State Of Affairs

The objective of this study was to evaluate the extent to which the practicing architects in Malaysia were familiar with timber products as a construction material. The materials consumption data was extracted from the Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) database and was used to conduct a survey among 189 respondent architects. The results indicated that the architects were familiar with common timber products such as plywood, fiberboard, particleboard, and laminated veneer lumber. Correlation analysis of awareness and knowledge against the rate of utilization of these timber products was significant. Furthermore, the most important deterrent factors for the use of timber products in building construction in Malaysia were the high cost, poor durability, restrictive building codes and by-laws, as well as the low fire resistance. More aggressive promotion of timber products as a potential construction material is advisable to be undertaken when the goal is to boost the material’s use in the construction industry. Policy makers may also consider providing financial incentives to increase timber products utilization in building construction in Malaysia.

Environmental refugees: a review

1996 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajendra Ramlogan
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Simple Task ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
Environmental Refugees ◽  
Environmental Refugee ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Insight Into

SummaryThe purpose of this paper is to explore the phenomenon of ‘environmental refugees’. The emergence of refugees within the framework of international law and policy is examined briefly so as to provide insight into the juridical difficulties environmental refugees can expect to confront. The literature on environmental refugees is steadily growing and the very definition of who qualifies as an environmental refugee has undergone great changes. The evolving nature of the definition and its increasing complexity is reviewed; the result being that environmental refugees can now be placed into several well-defined groupings, each with its own idiosyncratic characteristics. These increasingly distinctive groups of refugees can have as debilitating consequences as other types for receiving societies. The nature of this threat must be looked at fully in order to emphasize the urgent need to arrive at appropriate solutions. Finding solutions to a new crisis is not a simple task as many people fiercely oppose recognition of environmental refugees. Yet, failure to act may prove detrimental to human well-being as the emerging evidence points to a state of affairs that may haunt humankind in the twenty-first century.

scholarly journals Estimation of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects from Randomized Experiments, with Application to the Optimal Planning of the Get-Out-the-Vote Campaign

2011 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kosuke Imai ◽  
Aaron Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Effects ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Randomized Experiments ◽  
Heterogeneous Treatment Effects ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Current State ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Get Out The Vote

Although a growing number of political scientists are conducting randomized experiments, many of them only report the average treatment effects and do not systematically explore the variation in treatment effects across subpopulations. This is unfortunate from a scientific point of view because heterogeneous treatment effects can provide additional substantive insights. This current state of affairs is also problematic from a policy makers' perspective since such studies do not identify subgroups for which treatments are effective. In this paper, we propose a formal two-step framework that first identifies heterogeneous treatment effects from a randomized experiment and then uses this information to derive an optimal policy about which treatment should be given to whom. Our proposed method avoids the risk of false discoveries that are likely in post hoc subgroup analysis routinely conducted in the discipline. We discuss our methodology in the context of get-out-the-vote randomized field experiments and show how the proposed two-step framework can be applied in real-world settings.

scholarly journals Foreword

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudha N. Setty
Keyword(s):  
Educational Opportunity ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Legal Reforms ◽  
Current State ◽  
Law And Policy ◽  
The Law

Published: Sudha Setty, Foreword, 41 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 1 (2019).In this Article, the Author reflects on legal education and the role of law reviews. Law reviews not only serve as an educational opportunity, but offer potential legal reforms to help legal scholars, practitioners, and the public understand possible shortcomings of the current state of the law and help law and policy makers contemplate potential improvements.

POST-COSMISM AND POST-HUMANISM: TWO STRATEGIES IN THE MOD-ERN PHILOSOPHY OF THE HUMAN

Chelovek RU ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 217-220
Author(s):  
Natalia Rostova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Exceptionalism ◽  
Current State ◽  
Human World ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Post Humanism

The article analyzes the current state of affairs in philosophy in relation to the question «What is hu-man?». In this regard, the author identifies two strategies – post-humanism and post-cosmism. The strat-egy of post-humanism is to deny the idea of human exceptionalism. Humanity becomes something that can be thought of out of touch with human and understood as a right that extends to the non-human world. Post-cosmism, on the contrary, advocated the idea of ontological otherness of the human. Re-sponding to the challenges of anthropological catastrophe, its representatives propose a number of new anthropological projects.

The Russian Language at the Turn of the Century: Semantic Capability and Development Prospects

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 150-169
Author(s):  
Svetlana N. Perevolochanskaya
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Language Evolution ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
First Century ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Current State ◽  
Linguistic Sign ◽  
Development Prospects ◽  
The Russian Language

The article considers the current state of the Russian language. Information technologies in the twenty first century present diverse forms of linguistic knowledge and modalities of knowledge quantisation in a linguistic sign. The Russian language develops from a standard, direct expression of thoughts to a nonstandard, psychologically complex, associative deep statement of thoughts. In the early nineteenth century, during the democratisation of the Russian language, a national genius, Alexander Pushkin, emerged. Thanks to him, the unique informational, cultural, and artistic evolution of the language took place. Nowadays, while democratisation and globalisation, processes which resemble the language evolution 200 years ago, are occurring. These processes suggest some patterns: overcoming stylistic disparity, changes in linguistic sign boundaries and semantic extension.

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