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José Antonio Moldes and the Impossibility of Political Dissidence in Rio de la Plata: 1816-1820

take up the position because another congressman with different political views had filed an accusation against him. A legal case was brought against him, he was dismissed from his post and subsequently ... subsequently imprisoned. This article seeks to examine how political differences were resolved within the revolutionary bloc in the United Provinces of Rio de la Plata between 1816 and 1820. To this end, we will

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

Farroupilha in the historical formation of Rio Grande do Sul: The case of Moysés Vellinho (1945-1964)

how the source is linked to the historiography of its time on the one hand and how it links historiography to political and identity issues on the other, using Michel de Certeau’s historiographic ... observe that the source/work analyzed was the object of both a political struggle and a writing of history in which Farroupilha represented the pinnacle of Brazilian identity among Rio Grande do Sul

Cardenist Mexico, a Political Model for the French Left?

The following paper focuses on analysing how Lazaro Cárdenas politics were a model to the French left. Suffering negatives clichés of being a violent and “Bolshevik” country, Mexico also provoked admiration and interest among the French. Cardenist Mexico seemed to cause a hope for left parties which were on the verge of governing France. Segments insisted in Mexico antifascist...

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

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

“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 Dialogical Device. What can be Said in Memorial Disputes in Argentina

In Argentina, various voices of relatives of the military convicted of crimes against humanity and the right-wing political spectrum are currently coalescing around criticism of the reports on state ... rights organizations. In this context of acute political polarization, the memorial device of dialogue, with its increasing international circulation, was presented within the scenario of disputes over

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

Unionism and Anti-Fascism in the Central American Democratic Union Political-Intellectual Project (1943-1946)

This article explores the link between the concepts of unionism and antifascism based on the political action project founded in Mexico on the initiative of the Costa Rican writer Vicente Sáenz in ... Political-Intellectual Project (1943-1946) Ernesto Josué Mendoza Pérez1  ** http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1226-9766 1The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), Estados Unidos

The Baltimore Exile, of Moreno, Agrelo and Pazos Silva in 1817: Political Networks, Discourses, and Personal Redefinitions

Manuel Moreno, Pedro José Agrelo and Vicente Pazos Silva were three lawyers with active legal and political participation in the Río de la Plata. As part of their actions, they suffered exile to the ... relied, in what allowed the changes that they suffered, how their discourses mutated depending on the new political contexts and how the three figures redefined themselves in their trajectories through

Same Formula, Different Circumstances. The Laws to Guarantee Law and Order in El Salvador: 1952 and 1977

persecution of opponents. In this article, I analyze and compare the political contexts in which the 1952 and 1977 laws were passed, the response of dissidents, and the consequences of their enactment. The ... repression as a formula for silencing the demands of civil society, even though times had changed. Keywords: authoritarianism; violent persecution; anti-communism; political opposition; laws to guarantee law

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

A Departmental Caudillo: The Political Leader in Córdoba, Argentina (1912-1930)

This paper will analyze the workings of the political leaderships in the province of Córdoba during the juncture that started with the implementation at a provincial level of the Sáenz Peña Act and

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

The Founding of the United States and the Decline of Classical Political Thought

This article analyzes the way the expansion of trade and manufacturing affected classical political thinking during the last stage of the Thirteen Colonies and the early years of the United States of ... theory, the author observes the changes caused by commercial society in key aspects of classical political thought, such as representation, property, freedom, and the meaning of history. Its main

Organize to Civilize. The Mexican State and the Peasant in the Twentieth Century

liberation prevailed. Then came the social and political organization of the ejidatario as a guideline of public policies, to become in the eighties the emancipation of the rural worker and his full insertion

Populist Waves and Mass Communication Technologies: The Cases of Spain and Mexico in the Digital Age

This article is part of the studies which, in recent years, have analyzed the current crisis of democracy, precipitated by the emergence, in various parts of the world, of populist political ... political movements. We understand populism as a set of discourses and we focus on the media that will permit the dissemination of dichotomous, sensationalist stories among the population. The article makes a