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The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions
Society, Politics & Law

The hostile environment for immigrants is drawn from a well of taken-for-granted assumptions

...motivated more by political prejudice than a cost-benefit analysis. In November 2016 the New Statesman reported that the cost of reducing migration to Government targets could be as much as £6 billion per year. A lack of accountability [22nd June 1948, Some of the first Immigrants from the Caribbean island of Jamaica arrive at Tilbury, London, on board the ' Empire...
Signposts for Work
Health, Sports & Psychology

Signposts for Work

...motivate others, have a positive mindset, take the initiative, make decisions, and accept responsibility). Furthermore, the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) (2019) CBI/Pearson Education and Skills Survey Report, which includes 190,000 employers, places strong emphasis on how essential and interconnected character, knowledge and skills are, in enabling people to be...
Workplace Survivor Syndrome
Health, Sports & Psychology

Workplace Survivor Syndrome

...motivation to work hard and do good work This disengagement is one of the greatest consequences of layoffs and leads to a workforce of, what has been described as, the ‘living dead’. Workers in overdrive This is also a time when you have the employee who sees redundancies as positive for advancing their career, and be driven by success and accomplishing goals:...
The Industrial Revolution and Time
History & The Arts

The Industrial Revolution and Time

...motive power derived either from an unwinding spring or falling weights and whose ‘escapements’ might be regulated in some way. From the late seventeenth century the accuracy of the mechanisms gradually improved, especially to the benefit of astronomers and other scientists. But for most people in an overwhelmingly agricultural economy the natural rhythms of the days...
Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women
Society, Politics & Law

Embodied Intersectionality and British South Asian Muslim Women

...motivated hate crime. What my research also discusses is the way embodied intersectionality impacts on the way BSA Muslim women are seen and the ways in which they see themselves. References Ahmed, L. (2020) ‘About-face: politicians switch from vilifying burqas to mandating masks’ The Conversation. Available at:
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...et al., 2012). The first fire started on the 27 June 2007 and the final fire was extinguished in early September 2007. The fires burnt through dry forests and vegetation, often moving quickly through the landscape (Athanaiou and Xanthopoulos, 2010). [Described image] Figure 2: A wildfire threatening the village of Podstrana, near the Adriatic coastal town of Split,...
How Trump tweets
Society, Politics & Law

How Trump tweets

...et cetera. I think it helped me win all of these races where they’re spending much more money than I spent. On Twitter, Trump is behaving like the celebrity he is – cutting out the troublesome middleman to promote himself and his policies without the inconvenience of long-form explanation. The limit of 140 characters is perfect for communicating emotion rather than...
Mugabexit: an opportunity for Zimbabwe to build resilient systems from resilient people
Society, Politics & Law

Mugabexit: an opportunity for Zimbabwe to build resilient systems from resilient people

...et al. (2016) argue that resilience is much more complex and that its determinants could include a range of biological, psychological, social and cultural factors. An interplay of these different factors certainly goes a long way in explaining how Zimbabweans respond to stressful situations. The country’s consistently high literacy rate over the years, underpinned by a...