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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

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 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

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

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

Establishing an Informed Consent Model for Gender Confirmation Surgery in Minors

, depending on the controlling political party and its underlying philosophy. Issues of fundamental bodily autonomy and individual control over one’s own medical care should not be left exclusively to the ... surgeries. Doing so strikes the proper balance between the rights of minors and their protection while preventing overly permissive or restrictive rules based on the political currents of the moment. II

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

Exploring the ideational explanation for pro-immigrant sentiment: evidence from a South Korean survey

attitudes. We selected two majors for each  field of study: History and Philosophy for humanities, and Political Science and Sociology for social science. The universities selected are Seoul National ... graduation. Field-based attitudinal differences are also observed in environmental and moral issues. Political science students are more supportive of state intervention in environmental issues than students

The End of the Line: Abolishing New Jersey’s Antidemocratic Primary Ballot Design

the candidates running for that office underneath or beside it.2 In New Jersey, however, primary ballots are designed differently. Chairs from county branches of both major political parties decide the ... of the state’s population.14 This disproportionate representation is attributable to the political party chairs—overwhelmingly white and male—who determine the candidate endorsements for the county

The Impact of New Jersey’s County Line Primary Ballots on Election Outcomes, Politics, and Policy

article examines New Jersey's unique county line primary ballots; specifically, how the county line ballots affect primary election outcomes, and how that, in turn, impacts the state's political system ... election outcomes, I analyzed the results of congressional and senatorial primary election contests held between 2002 and 2022 in which political parties in different counties endorsed different primary

Should they stay or should they go? A case study on international students in Germany

International students are conceived as essential contributors to the development of their countries of origin after they finished their studies abroad. Political decision-makers of the countries of ... ) , political (Rother, 2017) , social (Krannich, 2017) or cultural processes (Zhou & Lee, 2015) in their home countries. Sometimes they might do that even more effectively than they would have stayed at

Bureaucratic configuration and discretion in asylum case processing: the case of the EUAA in Greece

how migration is managed. The motivation behind these ‘creative strategies’ differs from case to case. Some frontline staff may have a political agenda (Ioannidis et al., 2021) , try to resolve ... the top (ibid). Agency-oriented debates surrounding impartiality, subordination and political nonalignment are central to both historical and contemporary discussions on bureaucrats in many public

Three Tests for Bias Arising From the Design of Primary Election Ballots in New Jersey

old mechanisms might be considered innocuous so long as their effects are incidental. It is essential to avoid conflating the consequences of ballot design with those of endorsement by the political ... of either candidate quality or the support they are otherwise provided by political parties. Further, using the tools of cognitive and statistical science, we propose a multi-part test to distinguish

Contested skills and constrained mobilities: migrant carework skill regimes in Taiwan and Japan

-produce the skill regime of care migration, including the following dimensions: migrant skills as a political language and structure of governance, care work skills as social and cultural constructions, the ... measured and converted into labor market rewards and opportunities. And yet, the skilled/unskilled binary is also a dubious boundary subject to cultural variations and political intervention. The nature of

Suppressing transnationalism: bringing constraints into the study of transnational political action

Studies of transnationalism typically account for homeland-oriented transnational political action (TPA) as the product of varying political opportunities. Yet, the opportunity-driven perspective ... ) weak origin-country governance; and 4) exclusionary receiving-country contexts. By demonstrating how these socio-political forces suppress TPA, we contribute a new theoretical approach that emphasizes

Does Ballot Format Help Determine Whether Independent Candidates Get Elected to State Legislatures?

designations; accompanying instructions”) (providing that “In the columns at the extreme left shall be printed the name of each of the political parties.”); see also Ballot Data, supra note 2. 17 See generally ... , not write-in winners. An “independent” candidate is defined as a candidate without the nomination of any organized political party. Some minor party nominees for legislature have been elected in the