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  • Public Behavioural Responses to Policy Making during the Pandemic

    Comparative Perspectives on Mask-Wearing Policies

    Edited by Noriko Suzuki, Xavier Mellet, Susumu Annaka, Masahisa Endo ...
    Series series Routledge-WIAS Interdisciplinary Studies
    This book provides a comparative study of people's mask-wearing behaviour in response to government policies between European-Northern America and Asian countries.Examining citizens' attitudes towards their state during the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspectives of history, linguistics, politics, economics and sociology, the contributors in this volume explore to what extent people accept the ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

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  • Humanitarian Action and Ethics

    Edited by Ayesha Ahmad, James Smith ...
    From natural disaster areas to conflict zones, humanitarian workers today find themselves operating in diverse and difficult environments. While humanitarian work has always presented unique ethical challenges, such efforts are now further complicated by the impact of globalization, the escalating refugee crisis, and mounting criticisms of established humanitarian practice.Featuring contributions ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Waiting and the Temporalities of Irregular Migration

    Edited by Christine M. Jacobsen, Marry-Anne Karlsen, Shahram Khosravi ...
    This edited volume approaches waiting both as a social phenomenon that proliferates in irregularised forms of migration and as an analytical perspective on migration processes and practices.Waiting as an analytical perspective offers new insights into the complex and shifting nature of processes of bordering, belonging, state power, exclusion and inclusion, and social relations in irregular ... Read more

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  • Capacity-building and Pandemics

    Singapore’s Response to Covid-19

    by Jun Jie Woo ...
    Series Book 19 - Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on the policy capacities, built up since the 2003 SARS crisis, that have contributed to Singapore’s Covid-19 response efforts. In doing so, the book discusses the fiscal, operational, analytical and political capacities that have driven Singapore's policy response to the pandemic, and proposes a broad policy capacity framework that will be applicable to the analysis of other ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Migration Studies

    An Interactive Guide to the Literatures on Migration and Diversity

    Edited by Peter Scholten ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access textbook provides an introduction to theories, concepts and methodological approaches concerning various facets of migration and migration-related diversities. It starts with an introduction to migration studies and continues with an introductory reading of migration drivers, migration infrastructures, migration flows, and several transversal topics such as gender and migration. ... Read more

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  • Singapore after Lee Kuan Yew

    by S. C. Y. Luk, P. W. Preston ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book addresses key questions about how Singapore is likely to develop going forward, what are the key challenges facing the state, and how is the government going to deal with these matters. The book shows how important Lee Kuan Yew and subsequent individual leaders have been in shaping Singapore, and goes on to consider specific new challenges, including rapid population growth, migration ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Spatial Justice and Cohesion

    The Role of Place-Based Action in Community Development

    Edited by Matti Fritsch, Petri Kahila, Sarolta Németh, James W. Scott ...
    Place-based strategies are widely discussed as powerful instruments of economic and community development. In terms of the European debate, the local level – cities, towns and neighbourhoods – has recently come under increased scrutiny as a potentially decisive actor in Cohesion Policy. As understandings of socio-spatial and economic cohesion evolve, the idea that spatial justice requires a ... Read more

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  • Singapore's First Year of COVID-19

    Public Health, Immigration, the Neoliberal State, and Authoritarian Populism

    Edited by Kenneth Paul Tan ...
    This book addresses the question of what Singapore's COVID-19 pandemic response in the first year can tell us about the strengths and weaknesses of the Singapore model and what its prospects might be in an increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous post-pandemic world. As a concise, holistic, and critical documentation of the first year of COVID-19 in Singapore, the multi ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Migration and Integration in a Post-Pandemic World

    Socioeconomic Opportunities and Challenges

    Edited by Lin Lerpold, Örjan Sjöberg, Karl Wennberg ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    As the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, this book explores current migration and integration challenges. Against the background of long-term migration trends, it asks whether the pandemic has changed the patterns observed, transformed the circumstances international migrants face at destination or whether the opportunities and challenges for integration have been altered. Twenty-four ... Read more

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  • EU Cohesion Policy

    Reassessing performance and direction

    Edited by John Bachtler, Peter Berkowitz, Sally Hardy, Tatjana Muravska ...
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315401867, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.This book brings together academics, members of European institutions, and regional and national level policymakers in order to assess the performance and direction of EU Cohesion policy ... Read more

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  • Europe in an Era of Growing Sino-American Competition

    Coping with an Unstable Triangle

    Edited by Sebastian Biba, Reinhard Wolf ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in European Security and Strategy
    This book investigates how Europe should position itself in an era of growing Chinese-American rivalry.The volume explores the contemporary relationship and ongoing dynamics between three of the most powerful players in today’s international relations - the USA, China and Europe. It claims that the intensifying antagonism between Washington and Beijing requires a paradigm shift in European ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Comparing and Contrasting the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the European Union

    by Linda Hantrais, Marie-Thérèse Letablier ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Political Sociology
    Comparing and Contrasting the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the European Union challenges the use of uncontextualised comparisons of COVID-19 cases and deaths in member states during the period when Europe was the epicentre of the pandemic. This timely study looks behind the headlines and the statistics to demonstrate the value for knowledge exchange and policy learning of comparisons that ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD