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Political party offers of representation for minority voters: advertising in Chinese-language newspapers in New Zealand

For reasons of both electoral competitiveness and democratic legitimacy, political parties in diverse democracies increasingly compete for the votes of immigrant and ethnic minority voters. A ... ethnic minority voters, with consequences for their political inclusion and representation. We examine how these questions have been answered in New Zealand, a country characterised by high rates of inward

Mathematical Modality: An Investigation in Higher-order Logic

An increasing amount of contemporary philosophy of mathematics posits, and theorizes in terms of special kinds of mathematical modality. The goal of this paper is to bring recent work on higher-order ... logic has played a large role in contemporary philosophy of mathematics. Many ideas about mathematical objects, especially sets, have been fruitfully studied using distinctive mathematical modalities

“Far from the Space of Tolerance”: Hungary and the Biopolitical Geotemporality of Postsocialist Homophobia

postsocialist studies of sexual politics to analyze popular, political, and scholarly discourses surrounding sexual politics and homophobia in Hungary. Melding historical debates about Hungarian belonging ... naturalize an imagined West as a space of proper sexual citizenship and tolerance, masking its persistent heteronormativity; they also render Hungary a time-space of complex, ambiguous sexual-political

Hong Kong’s new wave of migration: socio-political factors of individuals’ intention to emigrate

With a recent surge in the outward movement of the population, a new wave of emigration has been suggested to have started in Hong Kong. It is speculated that recent socio-political changes in Hong ... contributed to this phenomenon. Therefore, five socio‑political variables-mobility, sense of place, trust and confidence in the law and the legal system, global citizenship, and perception of inequality-are

Political participation as transformative reactive mobilization: a qualitative study of voter preferences among Turkish origin residents in the Netherlands

 Netherlands Fatih Goksu Arjen Leerkes Introduction A considerable academic literature in migration studies and political science seeks to identify the factors that determine whether persons with a migration ... levels, for example, are seen as evidence that ethnic minorities have acquired a considerable level of knowledge of, and access to, the domestic political system. Furthermore, the overrepresentation of

Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan

diverse socio-economic, socio-political and cultural contexts, histories of inward migration, as well as differently preferred destinations in the migration of refugees from Syria in the 2010s. The ... solidarity (Bracic, 2018; Pawlicka et al., 2019; Pedersen & Thomas, 2013; Verkuyten, 2004) , behavioural intentions (Badea et  al., 2017; Yitmen & Verkuyten, 2018) , political orientation and related

“For a Pole, It all was a Great Abomination”: Grassroots Homonationalism and State Homophobia à la Polonaise—A History Lesson from a Place Between East and West

antecedents and that both can be used as political strategies by nationalist actors that have not previously deployed them. It also seeks to decentre the narrative about homonationalism by averting attention ... individuals who left no accounts that could inform us about their identity choices (Kolker et al., 2020). In contexts related to the current political situation (including identity politics), I use the acronym

Students or internationals? Divergent patterns of governing international student mobility in Germany and the United Kingdom

international students and have experienced similar political trajectories during this period, they have pursued divergent education and immigration policies in regulating ISM. Driven by a mix of educational ... particular have contributed to its spectacular ascent. The first is educational expansion, which can be defined as a political strategy to increase tertiary enrollment across society. Historically, the need to

Multivocality and Sexual Identity of a “Nation” in Zimbabwe: Exploring Twitter Discourse on Queer Sexualities

contemporary political and social struggles and Twitter users frame their responses in ways that show these intersections. ... religion and conservative political and cultural practices among other factors. Understanding the profound influence of religion and culture on sexuality, we utilised the case studies of Somizi and

“My guitar is my rifle”: Mexican migrants mobilising unconventionally through arts

Diasporas can create, transform, and exploit transnational networks to engage in political movements in their homeland and in their hostland, engaging in both electoral and non-electoral politics ... . However, the individual processes of subjectivation and its relationship with arts as a form of political engagement have been under‑ explored especially in contexts of violence and insecurity. This

The majority oppressed? On asymmetrical multiculturalism and majority rights

protecting in ways that it, first, neglects ongoing processes of integration and, second, disregards possibilities for social and political change and emancipation, particularly if triggered by immigrant ... rights. In political philosophy, questions of border control are, in principle, separated from questions of domestic justice (e.g., Fine & Ypi, 2016) . Moreover, it must be noted that within the ethics

American Singles’ Attitudes Toward Future Romantic/Sexual Partners’ COVID-19 Vaccination Status: Evidence for both Vigilance and Indifference in a National Sample

willing to make exceptions for a partner—were most likely to identify as men, younger in age, a political affiliation outside of the two-party political system, a gender or sexual minority, or as a racial ... about their partner’s vaccination status. Political Affiliation There were a number of significant effects for political affiliation. Regarding participants who were likely to make an exception for a

Atypical citizenship regimes: comparing legal and political conceptualizations

on the content of individuals’ rights and their belonging and participation in social and political institutions, this essay shows that official membership categories that are labeled ‘citizenship’ by ... relevant terminological differentiation for political philosophy, but it seems less important from the perspective of legal state membership and its discursive conceptualizations. The disassociation between

Extended Simples, Unextended Complexes

Both extended simples and unextended complexes have been extensively discussed and widely used in metaphysics and philosophy of physics. However, the characterizations of such notions are not ... ; Mereological harmony 1 Introduction Extended simples have been thoroughly discussed in metaphysics1 and philosophy of physics.2 Recently, unextended complexes have been investigated as well.3 Despite the

Negotiated belonging in sub-state nationalist contexts: young adult migrant narratives in Scotland and South Tyrol

This contribution investigates the intersection between macro-level political narratives on diversity and micro-level lived experience of social inclusion and everyday interaction. The case studies ... -state nationalist sentiment? What is the impact of diversity political discourse on young adult migrant arrivals in these settings? How are macro-narratives on diversity in these regions understood and

What Sex Workers Do: Associations Between the Exchange of Sexual Services for Payment and Sexual Activities

Social Sciences, Kristianstad University , Kristianstad , Sweden 1 Department of Philosophy, Contemporary History & Political Science, University of Turku , Turku , Finland 2 Department of Sociology, Lund ... , peer-support, community-building, and political organizing, but also for webcamming and other online erotic performances (such as the exchange of pornographic photo and video material for payment) (Abel

Attitudes Towards Rape and Their Determinants Among Men, Women and Non-Binary People in Poland

those of women and men. In analyzing the results, the authors took into account the current socio-political situation in Poland. The results indicate that attitudes toward sexual aggression are related to ... authoritarian when it is accompanied by the belief that an authority approves of such action or that it will help protect the existing political order. Individuals with high levels of right-wing authoritarianism

Identifying Context-Related Socio-Cultural Predictors of Negative Attitudes Toward Polyamory

variables (i.e., attitudes toward monogamy, religiosity, political orientation, attitudes toward polyamorists’ parental competence, and concern for polyamorous children’s welfare) in predicting negative ... engagement did not differ greatly on age, education level, income, political affiliation, and race/ethnicity. However, two sociodemographic factors emerged. Men were more likely to have previously engaged in

Mare nostrum: the political ethics of migration in the Mediterranean

In the political theory debate about open borders and the ethics of immigration control there has been little discussion of trade-offs and a lack of distinctions between admission claims. This paper ... University Press.Google Scholar Frazer, M. (2016). Utopophobia as a vocation: The professional ethics of ideal and nonideal political theory. Social Philosophy and Policy, 33, 175–192.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

A Sound and Complete Tableaux Calculus for Reichenbach’s Quantum Mechanics Logic

Philosophy and Logic and Philosophy of Science, Universidad de Sevilla , Camilo José Cela St., Sevilla 41018 , Spain 1 Department of Philosophy and Anthropology, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela ... Quantum Mechanics. University of California Press. 20. Reichenbach, H. (1946). Reply to Ernest Nagel’s Criticism of My Views on Quantum Mechanics. The Journal of Philosophy, 43(9), 239–247. 21