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What's the difference between a refugee, an asylum seeker and an economic migrant?
Society, Politics & Law

What's the difference between a refugee, an asylum seeker and an economic migrant?

...become an asylum applicant and be recognised as a refugee in Britain, migrants need to be on UK territory. However, the UK – like most countries in Europe that have signed the 1951 Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees the key legal document in defining who is a refugee according to the UN – is making it increasingly difficult for asylum seekers to...
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The dilemma of tourism and the Irish language, 1983
OpenLearn Ireland

The dilemma of tourism and the Irish language, 1983

...becoming eroded through the development of tourists. Now of course it’s a catch 22 question: are you going to leave this into a sort of an Indian reservation and have no development at all or are you going to risk the language or the culture by having development? I came down heavily on the side of the latter because I claimed that if you didn’t have development you...
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Ceres: Is it an asteroid? Is it a comet? Erm...
Science, Maths & Technology

Ceres: Is it an asteroid? Is it a comet? Erm...

...becoming more clear than ever that strict division between comets and asteroids is no longer realistic, and that they represent a spectrum of objects of varying activity and orbit. Just one last word about the surface of Ceres. I might not be much of a farmer – but I’m fairly certain that magnesium salts and nitrogen-bearing clays are important ingredients in a good,...
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The Problem with Pink
History & The Arts

The Problem with Pink

...become a colour widely worn by women in everyday life, however. A wonderful example of this fashion is Thomas Gainsborough’s 1764 portrait of Countess Howe walking through a romantically stormy landscape wearing a rose pink silk dress. [Portrait of Mary Countess Howe by Thomas Gainsborough c.1760 ] Portrait of Mary Countess Howe by Thomas Gainsborough c.1764 So do the...
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The importance of alternative household arrangements
Society, Politics & Law

The importance of alternative household arrangements

...become close due to shared emotional and community (rather than biological) bonds. I personally prefer the term used by Armistead Maupin's wonderful character, Anna Madrigal. She referred to the group who rented rooms at her house in San Francisco as her 'logical family'. As Jacqui Gabb's own research has suggested, we may also need to expand out 'family' to encompass our...
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Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Should human conditions be classed as illnesses?

...becoming medicalised and seen as a new market for pharmaceuticals (for example, the books The Loss of Sadness: How Psychiatry Transformed Normal Sorrow into Depressive Disorder by Horwitz and Wakefield, and Shyness: How Normal Behavior Became a Sickness by Lane). Similarly in England, where there was a 22% increase in prescriptions of anti-depressants from 2010 to 2011,...
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Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency
Nature & Environment

Retrofitting older buildings to help mitigate the climate emergency

...become a historian/archaeologist. However, as part of my degree with The Open University, I did modules on the challenges of climate change and the need to take action in all sectors, including for buildings. I, therefore, decided that I wanted to do a PhD on a topic that had direct practical relevance to the climate crisis, in the hope that I could make a useful...
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Systems in action: Pea canning case study
Money & Business

Systems in action: Pea canning case study

...becoming connected with each other in a way that was leading up to irreversible general change. Their first reaction was to make a Herculean effort to defend the traditional product, then the board split on wither or not to make an entry into the cheaper unbranded market in a supplier role. Group HQ now felt they had no option but to step in, and many upheavals and...
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