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15 June 2009
Instead of a conclusion: back to baby-farming? full text
Created page with 'In 1729, the Irish clergyman and satirist Jonathan Swift put forward a novel solution to the economic problems of a society being ravaged by British cob- nialism: the poor should…'
Transnational communities and citizenship full text
Created page with 'Nation-state citizenship was the adequate form for a world of relatively autonomous nation-states. Such citizenship was meant to be singular and exclusive, and naturalization was…'
Significance of transnational communities for national identity full text
Created page with 'Individuals and groups develop transnational linkages because these provide the best ways of dealing with the social situations and opportunity structures they encounter in the c…'
Transnational Comunities and Global Cities full text
Created page with 'The ambiguous character of transnational communities and the ambivalence of their consciousness and identity is particularly evident when it is linked to discourses on global cit…'
Migrant Incorporation Under Conditions of Globalisation full text
Created page with 'As discussed above, globalization leads to major changes in the character of international migration. The context for migrant incorporation has already changed radically and will…'
Modes of Incorporation full text
Created page with 'Each immigration country has its own way ofregulating the situation of new- corners, but — as I have argued elsewhere (Castles, 1995; Castles and Miller, 1 998:244—50) — it…'
Perspectives for Multicultural Societies and Transnational Communities full text
Created page with 'A core feature of the nation-state as it emerged in Western Europe and North America was its claim to manage ethnic difference though border control as well as through processes …'
Types of Migration full text
Created page with 'People have always migrated for a variety ofreasons, However, in the last half- century three types of primary migration have been most common: permanent settlement migration, te…'
Causes of Migration full text
Created page with 'Much migration research has focused on the causes of migration. These debates cannot be summarized here, but clearly are central to any assessment of likely future. However, it s…'
The volume and Significance of migration full text
Created page with 'UN figures show that about 120 million people were resident outside their country ofbirth in 1990, and that the number ofinternational migrants was growing only slightly faster t…'
International migration as a systemic factor in globalisation
Created page with 'The upsurge of interest in migration in recent years obscures the &ct that migrations of various kinds were always key factors in colonialism, industrialization and nation-buildi…'
Migration and community formation under conditions of globalisation/Introduction
Created page with 'This article sets out to rethink the dynamics of the migratory process under conditions of globalization. Two main models of migration and incorporation dominated academic and po…'
Migration and community formation under conditions of globalisation
Created page with '''Migration and Community Formation under Conditions of Globalization'' ==INTRODUCTION== This article discusses the conceptual issues of migration research before focusing on tw…'
Students:Globalisation 2008/2009 Themes
Created page with '__NOTOC__ #The nature of globalisation. Global actors and driving forces #Globalisation Glossary - to be extended! #[[The political aspects of globalisation (a crisis in …'
10 June 2009
List of references - civil society
Created page with 'Bello, Walden (2001). The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance, Food First Books, Oakland, CA. Bello, Walden (2002a). What's Wrong with the OXFAM Trade …'
Summary
Created page with 'Global civil society is defined negatively, described as a sphere outside the state and the market, and related its expansion to the development of the network society, global po…'
Civic society in the Global North and Global South: Organic and Institutionalised civic society
Created page with ''''Geography and the degree of institutionalisation of CS''' are the other classification criteria: more sensitive in terms of diversity and dynamics of the global CS and more us…'
Other disputes
Created page with '==Access to markets and global growth== Numerous NGOs, development agencies and think tanks believe that elimination of trade barriers imposed by developed countries and improve…'
Discords and Conflicts: What Kind of Globalisation?
Created page with 'Civil society is characterised by diversity rather than likeness. There are a number of discords, and even open conflicts, within CS. '''Two paradigms''' can be extracted from t…'
Points of Agreement: Problems, Players, Rules
Created page with 'What most CS organisations agree on is the existence of problems, the key players, and the unfair rules of international economics and trade. There is accord throughout the CS o…'
Question of Legitimacy
Created page with '==NGO-ism and the CS mandate== The Czech political teacup has been stirred up by President Václav Klaus’ statement warning against the menace of ‘post-democracy’, represe…'
Civic society strategies
Created page with ''''Three general types''' of attitudes that CS organisations assume toward governmental and private players are opposition, co-operation, and co-option. '''Opposition''' is a cl…'
The Issue of Westernisation – Russia-Formulated Zapadnisation
Created page with 'Russia’s relation to globalisation is crucial regardless of its military and economic impotence, moral anomie, (breakdown of normative system of values) and cultural degenerati…'
The Issue of the Nature of Globalisation Processes
Created page with 'So, one of the many ideological disputes is deeply rooted in the question whether globalisation is a deliberate, intentional, programmed process, or rather one that would corresp…'
Latin America & Africa
Created page with '== Latin America == Economic problems of Latin America, one might say, are chronic. The public, nonetheless, is most seriously affected by the experience of the crisis of 1998-20…'
The Asian Crisis; China & India
Created page with 'The Asian economic and political crisis due to the implementation of the Washington Consensus in the 1990s swept over many countries, from Thailand to Indonesia. The various asse…'
The Washington Consensus – Implications for Developing Countries
Created page with 'The development in many, if not all national states since the late 1980s (1989 in particular) has been markedly affected by the so-called Washington Consensus; the liberal ‘lef…'
VCSEwiki:"Research" question
Created page with 'In this course, we train ability to start research process. In this stage you have to specify your interest so that you would be able to concentrate your effort from the very beg…'
VCSEwiki:Peer review
Created page with '__NOTOC__ == Review process == For quality criteria, you can enter the Review process of some academic journals: *[http://www.cec-wys.org/prilohy/996055c0/What%20referees%20say.…'
VCSEwiki:Revision of the text
Created page with 'Revise your text so that you improve its quality. Ask following questions: *What works? What doesn't? Then do 3 steps of revision: == 1. Content. == *Have you explained why yo…'
VCSEwiki:Literature review
Created page with 'For writing is necessary to find some very reliable resources - your text should be based on critical and responsible thinking and dialogue with what has been already said. == W…'
VCSEwiki:Annotation
Created page with 'An annotation is a summary and/or evaluation of the resource - description with comments on its value or relevance. It could include: *content of the resource *usefulness and/or…'
VCSEwiki:Prewriting techniques
Created page with 'When you start writing, you can experiment with your theme in the beginning. Use provided "manuals" for prewriting techniques - especially the essay writing assistant. ===Resourc…'
VCSEwiki:Your research topic
Created page with '==Lesson 6== Place for experimenting with the theme. Use '''prewriting techniques''' for brainstorming! ==Literature review (Lesson 7)== Write an '''Introduction of your …'
VCSEwiki:Text analysis
Created page with '__NOTOC__ == Usual text structure (in academic articles) == *Title (abstract) *Introduction (purpose) *Background paragraph *Body paragraphs (in journals) following: **Literature…'
Students:Migration and security problems
Created page with '== Migration an security problems relating to globalisation == === Summary === here should be the summary prepared in Lesson 2 ==== Evaluations of Summary ==== {| border=1 | …'
Global Public Goods Management
Created page with 'Whether public goods management, including nature’s services, is anchored in a purely utilitarian manner or a broader concept transcending utilitarianism is adopted, the '''nee…'
File:Moldan Services.jpg
Created page with 'Ecosystem services and well being'
Global public goods and nature services
Created page with 'Bedřich Moldan __NOTOC__ Introduction - '''history of human domination''' ==Ecosystem Services == Nature has its place in the human world above…'
The Issue of Asserting Particular Interests
Created page with 'It is not one dimension – that of the idyllically uniting world (there is no idyll in the union at any rate) - which is interesting in the globalisation process, but how the t…'
The Issue of the Cultural and Civilisational Dominant
Created page with 'Theme of the universal global civilisation opens up an enormous issue – that of the cultural and civilisational dominant, of the role and function of imitation, of cultural exp…'
The Clash of Ideologies and Civilisations Theories
Created page with 'It is inherent that Fukuyama’s optimism was crushed in polemics immediately afterwards, and the global crushing, in part resulting from misunderstanding, culminated in a positi…'
The End of History Theory
Created page with 'American diplomat and philosopher Francis Fukuyama published his famous article ''The End of History'' in 1989. This was one of perhaps twenty articles, not books, which changed …'
Defining the Sociological Interest in Globalisation
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Global Ambition of Early Sociology
Created page with 'Since the Cartesian Revolution and since gaining autonomy, all social sciences have sought to approximate the ideal of natural sciences, sometimes even to become natural sciences…'
The social dimension and sociological treatment of globalisation
Created page with '__NOTOC__ Author: Miloslav Petrusek, sociology, theoretical sociology, and sociology of contemporary societies at Charles University of Prague Faculty of Social Science *[[Globa…'
Gender and the global labour market
Created page with '=='''Gender and the global labour market'''== '''Bojana Ziberna, University of Maribor''' In this article we look briefly at the impact of globalization in terms of opportuniti…'
Change in Gender Role in Slovenia at the beginning of 21st century
Created page with '== Abstract == In this study we have compared situation in Slovenia and situation in more egalitarian countries on the field of gender roles. We want to show some differences be…'
Globalisation and gender
Created page with '== SUMMARY == A survey of the globalization process, gender scholarships and theorists who study this phenomena and its effect on gender system is presented in this paper. Autho…'
Students:Sports in Nature - Lesson 2
Created page with '== Orienteering == Here should be some summary about the Orienteering === Links === ==== External Links ==== [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orienteering Orienteering] in Wikipe…'