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How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility
Society, Politics & Law

How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility

...family and citizenship. When people's lifecourse is in tune with opportunities to migrate, access employment opportunities and combine this with raising families, they can build their cultural, social and economic resources for social mobility matter. Firstly, our analytical framework highlights interconnections across these micro, meso and macro levels. For example,...
The Celtic origins of the Welsh language
Languages

The Celtic origins of the Welsh language

...family, and trace the journeys of the peoples who shaped its evolution. Along the way, we’ll uncover surprising links between ancient migrations, cultural exchange and the words we use today. This map shows where Celtic languages are spoken in Europe. [Map showing where Celtic languages are spoken in Europe including Brittany, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall.]...
The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s
OpenLearn Ireland

The realities of rural life in the 1950s-1980s

...family' FATHER JAMES MCDYER: My ideal was that we would start a whole community family here, everybody working for everybody else, but I was too idealistic in that matter. But the fact remains that by the few or by the many that local cooperation is probably the only way I know how to vitalise an isolated and a low resource community such as ours. Conditions were quite...
Why books are a lifeline for prisoners
Society, Politics & Law

Why books are a lifeline for prisoners

...families, the future, of life outside. Relaxed and emotionally open, it was an unusual conversation for any group of men. In the confines of a prison, it was remarkable and moving. By a quirk of timing, I was visiting two prisons in Northern Ireland to talk about books during the very week when the Justice Minister, Chris Grayling, was explaining to the world that such...
Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK
Education & Development

Parenting as a South Asian parent in the UK

...families to the detriment of the child’s overall development. It is not uncommon to come across such a stereotypical impression about behaviour of South Asian parents. How true is such a view and how much of it is a perception? I am not an academic expert on this issue to answer this conclusively. Apart from parental influence and the importance of parent–child...
The Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN)
Education & Development

The Asian Single Parents Network (ASPN)

...family. According to our research, it is the only support network for both single mums and dads across the UK for the South Asian community. We offer support to all single parents: separated, widowed, divorced, single by choice, those who have gone down the IVF route or living apart can all fit into the category of a single-parent family. No matter how you arrived in your...
The story of infection
Health, Sports & Psychology

The story of infection

...history can be written alongside a history of human infectious disease. Pathogens, or organisms that cause disease, need us in order to reproduce, so they evolve with the species they infect and upon which they depend. Microbial pathogens include bacteria, viruses, fungi and tiny parasitic animals. Although typically very small, pathogens pack a weighty punch in their...
Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making
Society, Politics & Law

Why Michelle Obama's farewell is a masterclass in speech making

...history, but education. Decades from now, this speech may well be remembered as a focal moment at a pivotal point in US and world history. Teachers will use excerpts from this speech in their classrooms for years to come, not just to teach history and politics, but also language and presentation skills. Transcript From a teaching perspective, Obama’s speech was powerful...