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  • Youth Studies in Transition: Culture, Generation and New Learning Processes

    by Thomas Johansson, Marcus Herz ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book provides an updated and fresh introduction to recent theoretical developments in youth studies. It expands upon these developments and introduces new discussions and perspectives. It presents three central theoretical traditions in youth studies, and explores the possibilities of redefining some of the central concepts, but also of combining different theoretical perspectives. After ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Social Work, Young Migrants and the Act of Listening

    Becoming an Unaccompanied Child

    by Marcus Herz, Philip Lalander ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Social Work
    This book is about 20 young unaccompanied refugees who have sought refuge in Europe and how they experience and try to navigate their new situations, including their contacts with social workers, friends and family members left behind.The book contains stories of powerlessness and frustration from being held under suspicion, from meeting authorities and abstract people of power from "the system," ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Conundrum of Masculinity

    Hegemony, Homosociality, Homophobia and Heteronormativity

    by Chris Haywood, Thomas Johansson, Nils Hammarén, Marcus Herz, Andreas Ottemo ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Gender and Society
    Popular culture is awash with discussions about the difficulties associated with being a man. Television talk shows, media articles and government press releases discuss not simply the problem of men, but have more recently focused on the problems of being a man.The Conundrum of Masculinity challenges highly advertised beliefs that men are in crisis and struggling to hold onto traditional ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Hope and Asylum

    Everyday Life, Precarity and Social Change

    by Torun Elsrud, Philip Lalander, Jesper Andreasson, Marcus Herz ...
    Series series Studies in Migration and Diaspora
    This book applies perspectives of hope to understand the precariousness, suffering, and agency of people seeking asylum. With attention to the restrictions and austerity politics that have characterised public policy following the significant rise in asylum applications in 2015, it draws on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in the Swedish asylum context, together with data collected in other ... Read more

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  • New Social Mobility

    Second Generation Pioneers in Europe

    Edited by Jens Schneider, Maurice Crul, Andreas Pott ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researchers ... Read more

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  • Community as Urban Practice

    by Talja Blokland ...
    Series series Urban Futures
    Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme.Blokland argues that there has been too much focus on community as a stable construct, formed by durable relationships with kin, friends, social ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice

    An Introduction to Applied Sociolinguistics

    by Ingrid Piller ...
    Understanding and addressing linguistic disadvantage must be a central facet of the social justice agenda of our time. This book explores the ways in which linguistic diversity mediates social justice in liberal democracies undergoing rapid change due to high levels of migration and economic globalization. Focusing on the linguistic dimensions of economic inequality, cultural domination and ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Transforming Identities in Contemporary Europe

    Critical Essays on Knowledge, Inequality and Belonging

    Edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen, Mia Liinason ...
    Interdisciplinary in perspective, this book explores contemporary struggles around ‘identity politics’ in Europe, offering a unique glimpse into contemporary tensions and paradoxes surrounding identities, belonging, exclusions and their deep-seated gendered, colonial and racist legacies. With a particular focus on the Nordic region, it provides insights into the ways in which people who find ... Read more

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  • Refugees and Knowledge Production

    Europe's Past and Present

    Edited by Magdalena Kmak, Heta Björklund ...
    Building on research within the fields of exile studies and critical migration studies and drawing links between historical and contemporary ‘refugee scholarship’, this volume challenges the bias of methodological nationalism and Eurocentrism in discussing the multifaceted forms of knowledge emerging in the context of migration and mobility. With critical attention to the meaning, production and ... Read more

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  • Forging Diasporic Citizenship

    Narratives from German-Born Turkish Ausländer

    by Gül Çalışkan ...
    Around the world, a new kind of diasporic citizenship is appearing, especially among diasporic people such as German-born Berliners of Turkish origin. Drawing on interviews conducted over a fifteen-year period, Forging Diasporic Citizenship explores the dynamics of everyday life for these Ausländer (or “outsiders”). These people are obliged to define themselves by their Otherness, but it is their ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Social and Community Development

    An Introduction

    by John Eversley ...
    Social and Community Development is an essential introduction to the subject for students, potential practitioners, and activists interested in community action and emancipatory social change. It reflects on the underlying principles of development: what development is, why it is promoted and the implications for practice, indicating potential strategies and goals. ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • Young People as Agents of Sustainable Society

    Reclaiming the Future

    Edited by Päivi Honkatukia, Tiina Rättilä ...
    This book analyses young people’s societal participation as a central dimension of their well-being and as vitally important to secure the sustainable future of humankind and the whole eco-social system.It develops a theoretical framework for analysing youth participation holistically, embedded in its everyday context, and as a relational phenomenon, underpinned by universal human needs. It ... Read more

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