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  • Genetic Stigma in Law and Literature

    Orphanhood, Adoption, and the Right to Reunion

    by Alice Diver ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book critically analyses the way in which traditional sociocultural and legal biases might be perpetuated against those with unknown – or unknowable – genetic ancestries. It looks to law and works of literature across differing eras and genres focussing upon such concepts as inherited stigma, illegitimacy, orphanisation, adoption, othering, reunion, and the ‘right’ to access truths that ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Employability via Higher Education: Sustainability as Scholarship

    Edited by Alice Diver ...
    This book discusses the topic of graduate employability from the premise that in this era of ‘massification,’ economic austerity, and political uncertainties, higher education (HE) no longer guarantees a clear ‘work place advantage.’ Divided into three sections, the book offers theoretical and philosophical discourses on the ‘HE quandary,’ whilst taking into account – and critiquing - political, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • A Law of Blood-ties - The 'Right' to Access Genetic Ancestry

    by Alice Diver ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This text collates and examines the jurisprudence that currently exists in respect of blood-tied genetic connection, arguing that the right to identity often rests upon the ability to identify biological ancestors, which in turn requires an absence of adult-centric veto norms. It looks firstly to the nature and purpose of the blood-tie as a unique item of birthright heritage, whose socio-cultural ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Justiciability of Human Rights Law in Domestic Jurisdictions

    Edited by Alice Diver, Jacinta Miller ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This collection of 16 essays by 19 contributors calls into question the notion of domestic justiciability across a wide range of human rights issues, such as health, human dignity, criminal justice, property and transitional democracy. The authors offer critical analyses of a number of rights frameworks, focusing in considerable detail upon specific countries (e.g. Libya, Colombia, Ireland, the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Being, Becoming, Belonging

    Edited by R. Traustadóttir, B. Ytterhus, S. Egilson, B. Berg ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection provides a comprehensive insight into disabled children and youth in Nordic countries. It seeks to understand the experiences of children from their own perspectives and takes a multidisciplinary approach grounded in the new social studies of childhood and the Nordic relational approach to disability. ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Children’s Online Behaviour and Safety

    Policy and Rights Challenges

    by Andy Phippen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the use of technology in young people’s social lives against a backdrop of “online safety measures” put in place by the UK government to ensure safe and risk free engagement with online services. The UK landscape is used as a case study to compare the grass roots of digital behaviours with attempts by policy makers to control access and prohibit “bad” behaviours. In conducting ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global

    Edited by R. Ame ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Childhoods at the Intersection of the Local and the Global examines the imposition of the modern Western notion of childhood, which is now deemed as universal, on other cultures and explores how local communities react to these impositions in various ways such as manipulation, outright rejection and acceptance. The book discusses childhoods in different regions of the world and boasts a range of ... Read more

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  • Understanding Narrative Identity Through Lesbian and Gay Youth

    by Edmund Coleman-Fountain ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist stories of sexual being entwine with narratives of normality. ... Read more

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  • Human Rights in Business

    Removal of Barriers to Access to Justice in the European Union

    Edited by Juan José Álvarez Rubio, Katerina Yiannibas ...
    The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human, labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social and economic power that multinational companies wield in the global economy. At the same time, it appears that it is difficult to regulate the activities of multinational companies in such a way that they conform to international human, labour and environmental ... Read more

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  • Treating Child Sexual Abuse in Family, Group and Clinical Settings

    Culturally Intelligent Practice for Caribbean and International Contexts

    by Adele D. Jones, Ena Trotman Jemmott, Hazel Da Breo, Priya Maharaj ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Presenting real-life case studies of child sexual abuse in the Caribbean as a basis for discussing interventions and models of practice that are relevant for a wide range of cultural and social settings, this multi-disciplinary text will be of interest to scholars, professionals and practitioners alike. Contributors to this volume demonstrate how sexual abuse is never just a problem of the ... Read more

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  • Human Rights

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Andrew Clapham ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attention internationally, and must move quickly in order to keep up with a social world that changes so rapidly. This Very Short Introduction, in its second edition, brings the issue of human rights up to date, considering the current controversies ... Read more

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  • Child and Youth Migration

    Mobility-in-Migration in an Era of Globalization

    Edited by A. Veale, G. Donà ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This edited collection captures the intersection between migration, mobility and childhood studies. Contributors explore under-researched child and youth short-term and micro movements within major migration fluxes that occur in response to migration and global change. ... Read more

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