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From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK
Society, Politics & Law

From insecurity to insecurity: Black and Ethnic Minority Europeans in the UK

...refugee crisis and our connected histories of colonialism and empire. Eurostat (2016). Statistics Explained: Acquisition of Citizenship Statistics. “Fair and Controlled Immigration” (2017). In Change Britain. Gutiérrez Rodríguez, E.; Boatca, M. and S. Costa. 2010. "Introduction: Decolonizing European Sociology: Different paths towards a pending project." In...
London inside out
Society, Politics & Law

London inside out

...asylum had been prominent. Nor were these sentiments without a basis on the streets. Surveys show Londoners consistently valuing the city's cultural and ethnic mix and seeing that as central to London's identity. The Guardian, on the 21st of January that year, had published a special supplement: 'London: the world in one city: a special celebration of the most...
Managing virtual project teams
Money & Business

Managing virtual project teams

...seeker Requests more information to help in making decisions Opinion giver Provides opinions, values and feelings Opinion seeker Requests the opinions of others in making decisions Coordinator Shows relationships of ideas to organise the discussion Energiser Stimulates the group to continue working Evaluator/critic Questions the group’s ideas and procedures Social...
Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...asylum and refugees, there is an even stronger reason for saying we must know about these things because they’re to do with the way we live, they’re to do with how and where we live. And of course every day, in the case of asylum and refugees, every day this is an issue in a kind of public discourse in the way that people speak and the way that the government...
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Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...refugee schools in Kenya: meaningful and active pupil engagement inclusive and respectful learning environment differentiated instruction constructive classroom discourse varied comprehension checks and assessments conceptual learning and critical thinking relevant curriculum and language(s) of instruction. No classroom will evidence all these descriptors all the time....
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...refugee who blew himself up on Sunday in Ansbach, Germany had spent time in a psychiatric hospital. Are people who are mentally vulnerable a target for Islamic State group recruiters? Dr. Samuel Leistedt: In Europe, Daesh [an alternative name for the Islamic Sate group] recruits from a fertile ground of people who are disenfranchised professionally, socially and who also...
Mashing up the Union Jack
Society, Politics & Law

Mashing up the Union Jack

...refugees – a place where they can preform their identity… In fact, the flag aims to subvert a hegemonic institution [i.e. national flags], and I would like to see it, in the words of Jacques Rancière, as an object of dissensus.” It’s therefore not surprising that Gil’s creative provocation has travelled to both high profile events (e.g. the 2016 Turner...
The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable
Nature & Environment

The animals are rebelling because they are dying. And we should too. Lessons from a modern-day fable

...refugees, immigrants fleeing from disaster and heading into a hostile world that does not understand them nor want them. The likely outcome is that that the bears will be driven away, relocated or killed. Such hostility to the plight of animals at risk of starvation in some ways mirrors the well-studied tendency of how many people perceive human migrants. Regardless of...