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Prisoner Voices from Death Row
Death penalty has produced endless discourses not only in the context of prisons, prisoners and punishment but also in various legal aspects concerning the validity of death penalty, the right to life, and torture. Death penalty is embedded in Indian law, however very little is known about the people who are on death row barring a few media reports on them. The main objective of this book is to enquire whether the dignity of prisoners is upheld while they confront the criminal justice system and whilst surviving on death row. Additionally, it explores the lived-experiences and perceptions of prisoners on death row as they create meaning out of their world. With this rationale, 111 prisoners ...
Inside Asylum Bureaucracy: Organizing Refugee Status Determination in Austria
This open access monograph provides sociological insight into governmental action on the administration of asylum in the European context. It offers an in-depth understanding of how decision-making officials encounter and respond to structural contradictions in the asylum procedure produced by diverging legal, political, and administrative objectives. The study focuses on structural aspects on the one hand, such as legal and organisational elements, and aspects of agency on the other hand, examining the social practices and processes going on at the frontside and the backside of the administrative asylum system. Coverage is based on a case study using ethnographic methods, including qualitat...
Index to Proceedings of the General Assembly
Includes special sessions.
Migration und Integration – wissenschaftliche Perspektiven aus Österreich
As a classically interdisciplinary topic, migration and integration is investigated in a range of disciplines. The Yearbook of Migration and Integration Research aims to encourage interdisciplinary exchange by regularly publishing and documenting the main questions and results of Austrian migration and integration research.The entries in this third volume address a broad range of topics, from asylum and legal issues, education and discrimination as well as the various forms migration might take and the impact of migration of society. In doing so, new theoretical and methodological approaches are described and the question of how research result scan be integrated into practice is discussed.
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Women in 20th-century Germany
This study book, written in German for non-native speakers, traces the transformation of women's lives in Germany from the beginnings of the Women's Movement before World War I to the present day. It provides vocabulary and brief comments in English.
Forensic Linguistics
According to international statistics, the world is currently undergoing one of the largest refugee catastrophes in modern history. This humanitarian crisis has stimulated the mobilization of countless private and public rescue and relief efforts. Yet, deep-seated concerns over potential breaches of national security and wide-spread fears over uncontrolled mass immigration have prompted many policy-makers to caution against the unregulated entry of foreigners with little or no identity documentation. In an effort to strike a balance between addressing the needs of these two competing sets of concerns, an increasing number of governments have instituted policies and procedures for identity ve...
Pyrite
An accessible exploration of pyrite's influence on human history, culture, and science, revealing how fool's gold has become a universal symbol for everything overvalued.
A Translation of Arthur Ahlvers' Zahl und Klang Bei Platon/Number and Sound in Plato
Provides considerable help in moving to a more complex and better informed understanding of the links between geometry, music, and Plato's concern for the beautiful and the good, especially in those passages where the author pauses in between passages of close argument and sums up the argument so far or discusses the various other attempts to deal with notoriously obscure parts of Plato's text.
Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung II
Interdisziplinäre Stadtforschung lebt geradezu von komplexen Zugängen, der Vielfalt an Methoden und Techniken und dem daraus resultierenden Pool an (Er-)Forschungsmöglichkeiten. Doch wie arbeiten interdisziplinär Stadtforschende methodisch? Welche unterschiedlichen, grundsätzlichen Zugänge werden verfolgt und welche Herausforderungen und Potenziale ergeben sich daraus? Die Beiträge des Bandes bieten Stadtforschenden und Praktiker*innen wertvolle Erkenntnisse über die Vor- und Nachteile von qualitativen, ethnografischen, quantitativen, Mixed-Methods- sowie partizipativen und künstlerischen Zugängen und Methoden.
