scholarly journals Polish Migration Policy in the Context of the Migration Crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-108
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Pacek
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
The Social ◽  
Polish Migration ◽  
The Face ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Societal Reaction ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Integration Project ◽  
Political Economic

The migration crisis of 2015 has left its mark on many EU countries. Some, such as Greece or Spain, were countries on the front line. Others, namely Germany, Great Britain, and Sweden became destination countries for many newcomers. Some, like the countries of the Visegrad Group, opposed the actions and decisions of the EU made in the face of the crisis. European solidarity has become a big question mark and we can observe a serious upsetting of the whole integration project which is, of course, up for discussion. This state of affairs consisted of the attitudes towards the crises of such countries as Poland or Hungary, where anti-immigration and populist parties came to power, creating a vision of flexible solidarity on the European political scene. The purpose of this article is to analyse the Polish migration policy, show the direction of the changes in its construction along with the change of government and the societal reaction to strangers, as a direct result of actions taken by the ruling parties. It is important to understand the political, economic and social context of the changes occurring in the social consciousness and to attempt to formulate a forecast for the future.

scholarly journals Social Integration of Refugees in the European Union (based on the Spanish experience)

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-58
Author(s):  
M.G. Galakhtin ◽  
◽  
V.A. Stepanov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Migration Flows ◽  
Migration Crisis

The current situation in the field of social integration of migrants in the countries of the European Union is analyzed on the example of Spain. The phenomena that caused the 2015 migration crisis in Europe and the social consequences of the crisis, as well as measures to overcome it, are considered. The issues and problems of Spanish migration policy related to migration flows and new challenges of social integration and adaptation of migrants are evaluated.

scholarly journals About and Based on the Book by Mikhail Taratuta “Russians and Americans”. Book review: Taratuta M. America and Russia. We are so Different. Moscow: Alpina Publisher; 2019. 318 p

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 577-591
Author(s):  
Natalia I Bubnova
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Social Trends ◽  
The Social ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
State Of Affairs

In her review of Michail Taratuta’s recently published volume “Russians and Americans”, Natalia Bubnova offers a thorough analysis of how the book depicts the troubled state of affairs in the U.S.-Russia relations, the historic and cultural factors that formed the national identities of Americans and Russians and the resulting differences in the mentalities of the two peoples, as well as the state of the current domestic life in the United States and Russia, the particularities of their health care and educations systems, their special features of gender relations, the functioning of local charity organizations, etc. Having lived and worked for many years in America, Taratuta, on a whole number of topics, focuses primarily on the United States. These include the ongoing political schism under the Trump’s Administration, the migration crisis and racial contradictions, the gun control problem, and the rise of both the left- and right-wing radicals. While siding with Taratuta’s assessments on a number of issues, Bubnova offers an alternative viewpoint on others, yet acknowledges the importance of the book’s overall perspective on the United States as a vibrant, resourceful and dynamic society, and not necessarily aggressive or conspiring against Russia. Though proceeding from an assumption that Americans and Russians have few similarities, Taratuta simultaneously believes that it is imperative to overcome the current confrontation, for which he blames both sides. The review points out to the social trends - some of which are reflected in the book - which, despite the political alienation, nevertheless manifest certain signs of cultural rapprochement.

scholarly journals Water as a Weapon of War in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin

2019 ◽  
pp. 319-334
Author(s):  
Adam Krzymowski
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Security Architecture ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Constellation Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Security Structure

The paper aims to present water as a weapon of war in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin, as well as the role and significance of water for a new architecture of global security. The main goal of the study is to find an answer to the research question of whether water the Tigris-Euphrates Basin will be still a tool for fighting or cooperation as an effective tool for facing strategic challenges. The research hypothesis is that the issue of challenges related to water in the Euphrates River basin will, first of all, follow the social and political-economic relations between Turkey, Iraq and Syria and external factors. The research was conducted using a descriptive-analytical method. Moreover, this research is based on the neorealist theory of international relations, and the concept of international constellation analysis, as well as the theory of neo-institutionalism. Future anarchical global security architecture will lead to a hegemonic system of water relations. Therefore, without international coordination and far-reaching strategy in the face of the emerging anarchic global security structure, stable water cooperation in this region cannot be reached.

scholarly journals Compartilhando sonhos: bem-viver, pedagogia Freinet, arte/educação e educação das relações étnico-raciais

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-79
Author(s):  
Alessandra Guerra da Silva Oliveira ◽  
Carolina Laureto Hora ◽  
Gabriela Luchesi Martins
Keyword(s):  
Global Health ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Racial Relations ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Political Economic

Resumo Diante do momento de crise sanitária, ambiental, ética e econômica mundial, ocasionadas pela pandemia do Coronavírus, o presente estudo se propõe a esperançar mudanças no viver em sociedade a partir dos pensadores indígenas. O objetivo deste ensaio é dialogar com reflexões críticas acerca do pensamento colonial, das acomodações e desesperanças de nosso tempo, do contexto social, político, econômico em que estamos vivendo e trazer considerações sobre o conceito de Bem-Viver como possibilidade de mudanças. Ao buscar uma interface com os temas que permeiam as pesquisas das autoras/pesquisadoras deste estudo, pretende-se estabelecer diálogos entre o Bem-Viver e a Pedagogia Freinet, a Arte/Educação e a Educação das Relações Étnico-Raciais enquanto possibilidades de atuação no campo da educação alinhadas com a cosmovisão indígena.Palavras-chave: Bem-Viver. Pedagogia Freinet. Arte/Educação. Educação das Relações Étnico-Raciais. Sharing dreams: Good Living, Freinet Pedagogy, Art/Education and Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations Abstract In the face of a global health, environmental, ethical and economic crisis caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, the present study proposes to hope for changes in living society from indigenous thinkers. The purpose of this essay is to dialogue with critical reflections about colonial thought, the accommodations and hopelessness of our time, the social, political, economic context in which we are living and bring considerations about the concept of Good Living as a possibility for changes. In seeking an interface with the themes that permeate the researches of authors / researchers of this study, it’s intended to establish dialogues between Good Living and Freinet Pedagogy, Art / Education and the Educacion of Ethnic-Racial Relations as possibilities of action in the field of education aligned with the indigenous worldview.Keywords: Good Living. Freinet Pedagogy. Art Education. Education of Ethnic-Racial Relations. Compartiendo sueños: Buen Vivir, Pedagogía Freinet, Arte/Educación y Educación de las Relaciones Étnico-Raciales Resumen Frente a una crisis sanitaria, ambiental, ética y económica mundial causada por la pandemia del coronavirus, este estudio se propone a esperar cambios en la vida en la sociedad desde los pensadores indígenas. El propósito de este ensayo es dialogar con reflexiones críticas sobre el pensamiento colonial, las acomodaciones y desesperanza de nuestro tiempo, el contexto social, político, económico en el que vivimos y plantear reflexiones sobre el concepto de Buen Vivir como posibilidad de cambios. Al buscar una interfaz con los temas que permean las investigaciones de las autoras/investigadoras de este estudio, se pretende establecer diálogos entre Buen Vivir y Pedagogía Freinet, Arte/Educación y Educación de las Relaciones Étnico-Raciales como posibilidades de acción en el campo de la educación alineado con la cosmovisión indígena.Palabras clave: Buen Vivir. Pedagogía Freinet. Arte Educación. Educación de las Relaciones Étnico-Raciales.

scholarly journals A Review on Political Participation

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Deb Proshad Halder ◽  
Sharon Campbell-Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
The State ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Voting System ◽  
Conceptual Paper ◽  
The Government ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Significant Factors

This conceptual paper tends to abridge all the theories on political participation in voting system as well as contributing to the government. Political participation is a mandatory choice needs to be analyzed as it is a choice that the state had imposed on its citizens though it centres round very significant factors. Political participation is a necessary ingredient of every political system. By involving many in the matters of the state, political participation fosters stability and order by reinforcing the legitimacy of political authority. This review article defines the political participation, participants, the necessity of participation, the social, political, economic as well as psychological state of affairs that influence citizens to participate. It also highlights the apathy behind not participating and the types and causes of political participation. Thus the paper tries to present a thorough picture of the issues behind the process of political participation.

Assembling Contexts

Inner Asia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Ellis
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Field ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The People ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

This paper attempts to rethink the relationship between the practice of shamanism and the political-economic ‘context’ it is held to emerge from in contemporary Mongolia. In the face of an extraordinary ‘revival’ in shamanism, anthropologists have sought explanations for the phenomenon that centre around a concern with how to locate it in relation to the social, economic and political structures alongside which it manifests. Authors tend to produce accounts that either reduce shamanism to an expression of more fundamental material realities, or explore the cosmo-ontological parameters of the practice itself, in turn masking its articulation with other processes in the social field. This point will be illustrated with reference to a novel ethnography of the making of the shamanic gown in Ulaanbaatar. Yet more than this, it will be suggested that a more sustained reflection upon the nature of the shamanic gown, and consideration of new information regarding the processes that contribute to its creation, might provide the means to theorise in a rather different fashion. The shamanic gown and the people and things mobilised in its emergence do not simply collect social and theoretical contexts, but rather flow outward. As such, while being both intimately reactiveandirreducible to the adjacent realities, Mongolian shamanism also engages in themakingof these very structures. Shamanism and the making of shamanic gowns do not simply emerge from, or deny, contexts; they assemble them.

Moving Beyond the Exclusionary Politics of Migration: A Response from the Social Sciences

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 544-553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gillian Wylie
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Migration Policy ◽  
Peace Studies ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alternative Approaches ◽  
Alternative Responses ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
European Migration

AbstractThis paper offers a response from the social sciences to the papers in this special edition. Drawing on the disciplines of Peace Studies and International Relations, three key themes emerge from these papers on migration stories in the Bible which resonate with the politics and responses now playing out in the current European ‘migration crisis’. These themes are (1) the exclusionary politics driving much migration policy; (2) the importance of acknowledging the agency of migrants; and (3) hints of what alternative responses to migration might look like. This paper draws out the presence of these themes across the collection and relates them to the current situation. Ultimately, while the papers reveal an interminable tendency to ‘other’ the migrant, they also sew the seeds of ideas about alternative approaches to migration which listen to migrant voices and build diverse communities.

scholarly journals Wishful thinking. The attitude of Polish government towards immigration after 2015

2019 ◽  
pp. 121-140
Author(s):  
Anita Adamczyk
Keyword(s):  
Migration Policy ◽  
Wishful Thinking ◽  
The Political ◽  
Polish Migration ◽  
The Law ◽  
Law And Justice ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
Polish Government

The purpose of this article is to analyze Polish migration policy after 2015. The author would like to show discrepancies between the political declarations and reality. Its purpose is also to show the position of the Law and Justice government regarding the EU’s policy on solving the migration crisis and Poland’s openness to admitting refugees/immigrants. The article proposes the thesis that the Polish government’s migration policy from 2015–2019 was inconsistent.

Reining in the rules for ‘lost profits’ damages in patent law

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 364-391
Author(s):  
Moshood Abdussalam
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Current Model ◽  
Patent Law ◽  
Patent System ◽  
True Nature ◽  
Contemporary State ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Lost Profit

The thesis of this paper is that the prevailing model governing the computation of patent lost profits damages in Commonwealth jurisdictions does not align well with the true nature of the patent system and is therefore apt to derail the social welfare intendments of the system. The article makes this argument based on two principal considerations. The first is that the current model encourages judicial speculation on patentees' compensatory entitlement, thereby creating room for inherent lottery or windfall effects for patentees. The second, which advances the first, is that the prevailing model flies in the face of both the contemporary state of innovation and the social welfare objectives of the patent system. The submission of this paper is that to correct this state of affairs, where patented goods have perfect and imperfect market substitutes, then reasonable royalties alone are sufficient as a monetary remedy. However, where patented goods have ‘zero’ market substitutes (ie where the infringer could not have competed without infringing), only then would it be proper to apply lost profit damages.

Policy Design for Non-anthropocentric Pathways to Protect Biodiversity and Re-generate the Land

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Vocational Education And Training ◽  
African Renaissance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
Sentient Beings ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
And Training

This article is a thinking exercise to re-imagine some of the principles of a transformational vocational education and training (VET) approach underpinned by participatory democracy and governance, and is drawn from a longer work on an ABC of the principles that could be considered when discussing ways to transform VET for South African learners and teachers. The purpose of this article is to scope out the social, cultural, political, economic and environmental context of VET and to suggest some of the possible ingredients to inspire co-created design. Thus the article is just a set of ideas for possible consideration and as such it makes policy suggestions based on many ways of knowing rooted in a respect for self, others (including sentient beings) and the environment on which we depend. The notion of African Renaissance characterises the mission of a VET approach in South Africa that is accountable to this generation of living systems and the next.

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