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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “laura merla”
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  • Belonging and Belongings

    Children’s Sense of Home in Shared Custody Arrangements

    by Laura Merla, Bérengère Nobels ...
    Series series Sociology of Children and Families
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Based on in-depth fieldwork with Belgian children aged 10 to 16, this book examines how children in shared physical custody define and negotiate their place within the household of each parent.The authors analyse how family practices within and between each dwelling shape children’s sense home, and the strategies and skills children develop ... Read more

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  • Making Multicultural Families in Europe

    Gender and Intergenerational Relations

    Edited by Isabella Crespi, Stefania Giada Meda, Laura Merla ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection explores family relations in two types of 'migrant families' in Europe: mixed families and transnational families. Based on in-depth qualitative fieldwork and large surveys, the contributors analyse gender and intergenerational relations from a variety of standpoints and migratory flows. In their examination of family life in a migratory context, the authors develop ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Excluding Diversity Through Intersectional Borderings

    Politics, Policies and Daily Lives

    Edited by Laura Merla, Sarah Murru, Giacomo Orsini, Tanja Vuckovic Juros ...
    Series series IMISCOE Research Series
    This open access book critically examines how discourses and policies target and exclude migrants and their families in Europe and North America along racial, gender and sexuality lines, and how these exclusions are experienced and resisted. Building on the influential notion of intersectional borderings, it delves deep into how these discourses converge and diverge, highlighting the underlying ... Read more

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  • Transnational Families, Migration and the Circulation of Care

    Understanding Mobility and Absence in Family Life

    Edited by Loretta Baldassar, Laura Merla ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Transnationalism
    Without denying the difficulties that confront migrants and their distant kin, this volume highlights the agency of family members in transnational processes of care, in an effort to acknowledge the transnational family as an increasingly common family form and to question the predominantly negative conceptualisations of this type of family. It re-conceptualises transnational care as a set of ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Parental Leave and Beyond

    Recent International Developments, Current Issues and Future Directions

    by Sophie Mathieu, Lindsey McKay, Andrea Doucet, Bernard Fusulier, Fred Deven, Laura Merla, Sonja Blum, Ivana Dobrotic, Maria Letizia Bosoni, Luca Pesenti, Sara Mazzucchelli0, Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay1, Elin Kvande2, Berit Brandth3, Tine Rostgaard4, Johanna Lammi- Taskula5, Ingolfur Gislason6, Guðný Björk Eydal7, Ann-Zofie Duvander8, Isabel Valarino0, Gayle Kaufman1, Anna Escobedo2, Wen-Jui Han3, Shirley Gatenio Gabel4, Hideki Nakazato5, Nadav Perez-Vaisvidovsky6, Margaret O'Brien7, Anna Kurowska8, Jesus Rogero Garcia9, Gerardo Meil Landwerlin0 ...
    This volume brings together contributors from 18 countries to provide international perspectives on the politics of parental leave policies in different parts of the world. Initially looking at the politics of care leave policies in eight countries across Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia, the book moves on to consider a variety of key issues in depth, including gender equality, flexibility ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

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    The Role of Non-State Actors in the EU, Africa, Asia and Middle East

    Edited by David Armstrong, Valeria Bello ...
    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.Structures and processes occurring within and between states are no longer the only – or even the most ... Read more

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  • Market Civilizations

    Neoliberals East and South

    by Aditya Balasubramanian, Antina von Schnitzler, Quinn Slobodian, Dieter Plehwe, Esra Elif Nartok, Tobias Rupprecht, Isabella M. Weber, Jeremy Walker, Paulo Chamon0, Karin Fischer1, Mila Jonjic2, Nenad Pantelic3, Lars Mjøset4, Reto Hofmann5, Jimmy Casas Klausen6 ...
    Series Book 5 - Near Futures
    A deep investigation of neoliberalism's proselytizers in Eastern Europe and the Global SouthWhere does free market ideology come from? Recent work on the neoliberal intellectual movement around the Mont Pelerin Society has allowed for closer study of the relationship between ideas, interests, and institutions. Yet even as this literature brought neoliberalism down to earth, it tended to reproduce ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • Masculinities and Queer Perspectives in Transitional Justice

    Edited by Philipp Schulz, Brandon Hamber, Heleen Touquet ...
    This book addresses the theory and practice of transitional justice through the lens of masculinities and queer perspectives.What and where are the intersections between masculinities and queer theories and frameworks for better understanding lived experiences of violence, justice, and transitions? How can masculinities and queer perspectives enhance and "complexify" our understandings of the ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism

    Edited by Yifat Gutman, Jenny Wüstenberg ...
    Series series Routledge History Handbooks
    This Handbook is the first systematic effort to map the fast-growing phenomenon of memory activism and to delineate a new field of research that lies at the intersection of memory and social movement studies.From Charlottesville to Cape Town, from Santiago to Sydney, we have recently witnessed protesters demanding that symbols of racist or colonial pasts be dismantled and that we talk about ... Read more

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  • Worlds of Journalism

    Journalistic Cultures Around the Globe

    Edited by Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, Arnold de Beer ...
    Series series Reuters Institute Global Journalism Series
    How do journalists around the world view their roles and responsibilities in society? Based on a landmark study that has collected data from more than 27,500 journalists in 67 countries, Worlds of Journalism offers a groundbreaking analysis of the different ways journalists perceive their duties, their relationship to society and government, and the nature and meaning of their work.Challenging ... Read more

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  • Post-Truth Politics, Migration and Border Security

    Analysing Political Discourses in the EU

    Edited by Karolina Czerska-Shaw, Maciej Stępka ...
    Series series Current Debates in European Integration
    This book argues that post-truth discourses are deeply influencing political debates on migration and border security, blurring the line between fact-based debates and post-truth storylines.Offering a nuanced analysis of discourse within parliamentary debates on migration across multiple EU countries and the European Parliament, the book challenges conventional assumptions about the drivers of ... Read more

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  • Internationalizing Media Studies

    Edited by Daya Kishan Thussu ...
    Series series Internationalizing Media Studies
    The explosion of transnational information flows, made possible by new technologies and institutional changes (economic, political and legal) has profoundly affected the study of global media. At the same time, the globalization of media combined with the globalization of higher education means that the research and teaching of the subject faces immediate and profound challenges, not only as the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD