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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Economic exclusion"”.
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Conflict Resolution : A study of identity, social/economic exclusion, islamophobia and racism
… and the concept of impartiality. Social/economic exclusion is examined within the context of urban regeneration, institutional racism and Islamophobia. Factors related to interpersonal communication and employer perceptions of Muslim `Black and Asian' people as `culturally' dissimilar are …
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Racism in novels : a comparative study of Brazilian and South African cultural history
… in South Africa and its consequences of social, economic and political exclusion as a basis for their stories, while the selected novels of Amado – Seara Vermelha and Jubiabá – explore social, political and economic segregation in Brazil during the authoritarian reign of Getúlio Vargas. On the …
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Discrimination, Social Exclusion and Vulnerability of the Garífuna Women in Guatemala; An Exploratory Study on Underlying Causes
… education, health, employment and security. The exclusion is even more pronounced for Garífuna women. This study was conducted to understand the reasons for the discrimination, socio-economic exclusion and vulnerability of Garífuna women within the Guatemalan society, what is currently being done …
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The city and the slum: an action research on a Moroccan and a Roma Xoraxanè community in Rome.
… evidentiate the dynamics of social inclusion and exclusion through the analysis of both the encampments population and problematics. The long follow up of this research, which begun in 1992, allowed me to conduct an in-depth study and evaluate the policies enacted on behalf of statutory bodies and …
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The load[ing] city: Navigating layers of accumulation, movement and access in Muizenberg, Cape Town
… waters remain as is evident in the continued economic exclusion within the CBD echoed along the southern edge, in Muizenberg. Prior to the naming of the area, Muizenberg was occupied by Khoi communities, particularly, the Gorinaiqua, navigating the lowland areas of Zandvlei and moving through …
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From protection to persecution: exploring the impact of anti-foreigner mobilisation on refugee rights in South Africa
… the study examines the systemic, social and economic impacts of xenophobia on the refugee communities. Many of the rights of refugees, who have legal rights to protection under international conventions, including the 1951 Refugee Convention and domestic laws such as the Refugees Act of 1998, …
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Struggling to become : youth and the search for respectability in Khayelitsha, Cape Town
… predicament of bleak prospects and socio-economic exclusion. Yet this is not a story of despair, but one of aspiration. It is an ethnographic account of what Patrick Chabal refers to as ‘the politics of suffering and smiling’: a delineation of dream and drama (Gondola, 1999) amidst …
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Negotiating freedom: the free black farmers of Jonkershoek, 1697-1710
… disparity by examining hitherto unexplored socio-economic factors that contributed to the rise and fall of free black farmers in Jonkershoek, particularly the patronage network between the free blacks and the Van der Stel dynasty. An extensive perusal of archival sources and secondary literature …
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Environmental and Community Sustainability for Informal Settlement Communities in Namibia and South Africa : a Comparative Social Work Study
… Africa. The findings indicate that social and economic inequalities contribute to a lack of access to urban land, adequate housing, security of tenure, education, employment and basic services and to polluted and degraded environments in informal settlements. The study concludes that the …
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Slippin’: A participatory and psychocultural study of inner city youth, masculinity, race and mental health.
… politically with the structural inequalities and economic exclusion that shape the young subjectivities at its ethnographic heart. In its positionality, the study tests and extends theories of participation in spaces and categories of marginality under-represented in the existing literature. It …
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Politics of belonging and alienation: underprivileged communities' experiences of the False Bay Nature Reserve
… racial discrimination and processes of exclusion. This further marginalises communities already facing spatial, social and economic exclusion in townships. Drawing on a diverse body of literature, this thesis examines concepts of alienation and belonging in human-nature interactions in …
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Democratisation and the radical-Left in Latin America: Toward a post-neoliberal citizenship regime? Lessons from Bolivia and Venezuela
… model of democracy has led to the political and economic exclusion of popular sectors. Its adoption by both Left- and Right-parties has fostered a widening legitimacy crisis for democracy as it exists today. As such, the central concerns of this project are to identify how and why an alternative …
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Social and spatial exclusion in a coastal area of Cape Town: The case of Kalk Bay, St James and Fish Hoek
… have the potential to lead to social and spatial exclusion. The aim of this research is to focus on the coastal areas of Kalk Bay, St James and Fish Hoek situated on the Cape Peninsula as a case study of urban exclusion in a global South context. These areas are relatively economically mixed and, …
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Development planning and integration of migration in the city of uMhlathuze, South Africa
… municipal development planning. Reasons for this exclusion include the negative attitudes and perspectives of stakeholders towards migration. Some stakeholders believed that the management and planning for migration is not the competence of the local government but that of provincial and national …
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Towards the development of an optimal SDN controller placement framework to expedite SDN deployment in emerging markets
… urban and rural areas, resulting in social and economic exclusion. The exclusion of rural areas stifles economic growth. In order to bridge this divide, a more cost effective telecommunication infrastructure is indispensable. This means adopting an architecture that minimizes both network …
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The South African Small Business Programme, 1994- 2001: An Evaluation of the dti Family Institutions
The study focussed on and identified the role of the South African Government's policies in the development and promotion of an SMME strategy that would benefit the majority of the inhabitants of this country. This strategy took into consideration South Africa's entry into the global market and the …
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Prurient Nature: Sex Work and Ethics at the Margins of Finance
… around sex work have become qualifications for economic exclusion by financial institutions and private corporations through the concepts of reputational risk and prurient nature. On the other, sex workers have begun to influence and shape nascent financial tools, such as cryptocurrency, by …
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Labor, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mid-Twentieth Century Texas
… and Chicano/a struggles for racial equality and economic opportunity look different? And what role did ordinary people play in shaping these movements? Using oral history interviews, the Texas Labor Archives, and the papers of dozens of black, brown, and white activists, this dissertation follows …