Epilogue

The Mentelles ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randolph Paul Runyon
Keyword(s):  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Political Persecution

The French did not immigrate to America in massive numbers; the Mentelles were not typical whose who did, fleeing neither religious nor political persecution. Waldemar might be considered to have come in search of economic opportunity, yet that is more apparent than real, for he would probably not have done so had his father not forced him to. Neither would he have willingly left Charlotte behind. She came simply to find him, and not, as she told her students, to escape a Revolutionary mob. Although as her obituary indicates the Mentelles were "from their education incapable of following the usual avocations of life" in the land where they settled, they accomplished much, leaving their mark on an admiring community.

scholarly journals Cascading Crises: Society in the Age of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
pp. 000276422110031
Author(s):  
Laura Robinson ◽  
Jeremy Schulz ◽  
Christopher Ball ◽  
Cara Chiaraluce ◽  
Matías Dodel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Organizational Response ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Adaptive Potential ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Long Tail ◽  
Death Risk ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Communication Practices ◽  
Fear And Anxiety

The tsunami of change triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has transformed society in a series of cascading crises. Unlike disasters that are more temporarily and spatially bounded, the pandemic has continued to expand across time and space for over a year, leaving an unusually broad range of second-order and third-order harms in its wake. Globally, the unusual conditions of the pandemic—unlike other crises—have impacted almost every facet of our lives. The pandemic has deepened existing inequalities and created new vulnerabilities related to social isolation, incarceration, involuntary exclusion from the labor market, diminished economic opportunity, life-and-death risk in the workplace, and a host of emergent digital, emotional, and economic divides. In tandem, many less advantaged individuals and groups have suffered disproportionate hardship related to the pandemic in the form of fear and anxiety, exposure to misinformation, and the effects of the politicization of the crisis. Many of these phenomena will have a long tail that we are only beginning to understand. Nonetheless, the research also offers evidence of resilience on several fronts including nimble organizational response, emergent communication practices, spontaneous solidarity, and the power of hope. While we do not know what the post COVID-19 world will look like, the scholarship here tells us that the virus has not exhausted society’s adaptive potential.

scholarly journals A NOTE ON MIGRATION, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE

1973 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard J. Cebula ◽  
Richard K. Vedder
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Economic Opportunity

Migration and Economic Mobility: Wealth Accumulation and Occupational Change Among Antebellum Migrants and Persisters

1998 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 927-956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Herscovici
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Blue Collar ◽  
Economic Mobility ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Wealth Accumulation ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Occupational Change ◽  
Nineteenth Century America

Research on nineteenth-century economic and social mobility has concentrated on occupational change among men who remained in the same community for ten or more years, although fewer than half of any community's residents persist that long. This article uses a data set created specifically to compare the experiences of men who migrated from Newburyport, Massachusetts in the mid-nineteenth century with those of men who persisted. It finds that blue-collar migrants were more successful than were their counterparts who did not move. The results suggest that previous studies may have considerably underestimated the extent of economic opportunity in nineteenth-century America.

Identity Politics and the Welfare State

1997 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Wolfe ◽  
Jytte Klausen
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Politics Of Recognition ◽  
Life Chances ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Deep Sense ◽  
The Welfare State

Motivated by a deep sense that injustice and inequality are wrong, liberals and reformers in the Western political tradition have focused their energies on policies and programs which seek inclusion: extending the suffrage to those without property; seeking to treat women the same as men, and blacks the same as whites; trying to ensure that as few as possible are excluded from economic opportunity due to lack of resources. Under current conditions, such demands for inclusion take two primary forms, especially in the United States. One is a commitment to using the state to equalize the life chances of individuals. The other is a call for treating groups which have experienced discrimination with full respect. The former leads to the welfare state, while the latter is produced by, and in turn produces, what is commonly called identity politics, the politics of recognition, or the politics of presence.

scholarly journals DigiPrime: Digital Platform for Circular Economy in Cross-Sectorial Sustainable Value Networks

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Elena Mossali ◽  
Marco Diani ◽  
Marcello Colledani
Keyword(s):  
Circular Economy ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Sustainable Value ◽  
Value Added Products

Circular Economy is the solution for the current environmental crisis, representing a huge economic opportunity to build new sustainable businesses. However, many barriers need to be faced for its implementation at industrial scale—firstly, the lack of data sharing between the different stakeholders of product value-chains. The DigiPrime project is an EU-funded Innovation Action aimed at developing and demonstrating a digital platform with services able to unlock innovative cross-sectorial business models for the remanufacturing and recycling of target value-added products. In this paper, the concept behind the DigiPrime project is reported, with a particular focus on the construction sector.

Ensuring the rights of refugees in case of bringing administrative responsibility as a guarantee of realization of their legal status in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Valeriia Golub
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
The State ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Legal Documents ◽  
Administrative Legislation ◽  
Political Persecution ◽  
Administrative Responsibility

Problem setting. One of the important factors that play a key role in the observance of human rights and freedoms, including such categories of foreign citizens and stateless persons as refugees in case of administrative prosecution - is the functioning of state institutions to guarantee these rights, the use of all. The decisive place in this problem belongs to the activities of the state of Ukraine, which in connection with the formation of social relations related to the stay of refugees on its territory, protection of this category of persons from political persecution , should ensure the adoption of relevant legal acts aimed primarily at the protection of rights and freedoms. administrative penalty. As a result, there are real risks of violating the rights and freedoms of the person to whom these penalties apply. Analysis of recent researches and publications. Problems of protection of rights and freedoms of refugees in case of bringing them to administrative responsibility were devoted to the work of such scientists as: V. Averyanov, O. Bandurka, O. Bezpalova, Yu. Bityak, O. Dzhafarova, A. Komzyuk, V. Komzyuk, D. Lukyanets, O. Muzychuk, D. Priymachenko, O.S. Pronevich ect. The purpose of the article is to investigate and analyze the importance of ensuring the rights of refugees in case of bringing them to administrative responsibility, to consider this issue as one of the guarantees of legal status of refugees in Ukraine. Article’s main body. The article considers the issue of observance of the rights and freedoms of this category of foreign citizens and stateless persons as refugees in case of committing offenses and bringing them to administrative responsibility. The issue of ensuring both international legal acts approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and legal documents on behalf of the state of Ukraine gives grounds to believe that in case of involvement of this category of persons (if they are in Ukraine legally) to administrative responsibility, they have the same rights as citizens of Ukraine. Conclusions. The peculiarities of the relevant provisions of the administrative legislation of Ukraine on the peculiarities of bringing foreign citizens and stateless persons, including refugees to administrative responsibility, are analyzed. The significance of the ratio of observance of the rights and freedoms of refugees in case of bringing to administrative responsibility and necessity of non-alternative fulfillment of requirements of legal norms of the current administrative legislation of Ukraine is determined.

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