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  • Welfare Racism

    The Discursive Dimension

    Edited by Fabio Perocco ...
    Series series Critiques and Alternatives to Capitalism
    Welfare racism is a combination of racial discrimination in the welfare system and racist discourses used in the name of the welfare state. Presenting a global overview of discourses of welfare racism across the world by institutional actors, public figures, political parties, and mass media, this book examines the evolution, character, role, and consequences of racialised welfare discourse ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Racism in and for the Welfare State

    Edited by Fabio Perocco ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book presents a global overview of racism against immigrants within and in the name of the welfare state. Rich in documents and historical perspective, it analyses politics, practices, and discourses of welfare racism through the exam of discriminatory laws, measures and speeches by institutional actors, public figures, and organizations.The strength and persistence of this form of racism are ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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    Liberal Europe in Retreat

    by Jan Zielonka ...
    Can open society survive? Is Europe disintegrating? How to overcome the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel secure again? Counter Revolution is a bold attempt to make sense of the extraordinary events taking place in Europe today. It examines the counter-revolution developing in Europe, exploring its roots and implications. The book takes the form of a series of heartfelt letters to the late ... Read more

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  • The Killing Fields of Inequality

    Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world. This book shows that inequality is literally a killing field, with millions of people dying premature deaths because of it. These ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Comparing Media Systems

    Three Models of Media and Politics

    Series series Communication, Society and Politics
    Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables which have shaped their evolution. They go on to identify three major models of media system development (the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist and Liberal models) to explain why ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Relations between Immigration and Integration Policies in Europe

    Challenges, Opportunities and Perspectives in Selected EU Member States

    Written from a pan-European perspective, this book examines the decision-making processes in immigration and integration policies in Europe across decades, focusing on several key moments of Europe’s postwar history.The analysis of factors taken into consideration by states in key moments of immigration policy (re)formulation shows that Europe is moving away from rational, economic arguments ... Read more

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  • Migrants with Irregular Status in Europe

    Evolving Conceptual and Policy Challenges

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book explores the conceptual challenges posed by the presence of migrants with irregular immigration status in Europe and the evolving policy responses at European, national and municipal level. It addresses the conceptual and policy issues raised, post-entry, by this particular section of the migrant population. Drawing on evidence from different parts of Europe, the book takes ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook of the Politics of Migration in Europe provides a rigorous and critical examination of what is exceptional about the European politics of migration and the study of it.Crucially, this book goes beyond the study of the politics of migration in the handful of Western European countries to showcase a European approach to the study of migration politics, inclusive of tendencies ... Read more

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  • The Search for a European Identity

    Values, Policies and Legitimacy of the European Union

    Series series Routledge/GARNET series
    This book examines the link between political identity and legitimacy in the European Union. Stimulated by the crisis of legitimacy and identity suffered by the EU after the referenda on the Constitutional Treaty, the editors have developed a theoretical framework to examine the interplay between these two items in the problematic development of the EU into a fully-fledged political actor.The ... Read more

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  • Understanding European Movements

    New Social Movements, Global Justice Struggles, Anti-Austerity Protest

    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    European social movements have been central to European history, politics, society and culture, and have had a global reach and impact. Yet they have rarely been taken on their own terms in the English-language literature, considered rather as counterpoints to the US experience. This has been exacerbated by the failure of Anglophone social movement theorists to pay attention to the substantial ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World

    Series series Critical Agrarian Studies
    The rise of authoritarian, nationalist forms of populism and the implications for rural actors and settings is one of the most crucial foci for critical agrarian studies today, with many consequences for political action.Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World reflects on the rural origins and consequences of the emergence of authoritarian and populist leaders across the world, as well as on ... Read more

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  • Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language

    Comparative and Transnational Perspectives

    Social policy scholars and practitioners work with concepts such as “welfare state” and “social security” but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? Which are the dominant social policy concepts and how are they contested? What characterises social policy language in specific countries and regions of the world and how do social concepts travel between ... Read more

    $44.99 USD