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Showing 1 to 20 of 174 for “"foreigners"”.
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Locals versus Foreigners: The Simmering Discontent of Employment of Foreigners in Tanzania
… from the general public on employment of foreigners. Regulatory bodies are prone to these complaints. It is claimed that amid the growing gap of unemployment among the locals, foreigners are seen undertaking jobs that can be manned by the locals. The legal framework on its side sets two …
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Locals versus Foreigners: The Simmering Discontent of Employment of Foreigners in Tanzania
… from the general public on employment of foreigners. Regulatory bodies are prone to these complaints. It is claimed that amid the growing gap of unemployment among the locals, foreigners are seen undertaking jobs that can be manned by the locals. The legal framework on its side sets two …
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Foreigners in the Priestly Corpus
… is evident: the treatment and attitude towards foreigners. While certain scholarly models concerning this subject have arisen (for example, cultic integration of foreigners in the Holiness Code, “H,” influence of the conquest motif in Numbers, and inclusive monotheism in the Priestly …
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Exploring Strange, New Worlds: Travellers and Foreigners in Medieval Iberian Literature
… within their own communities. By setting up foreigners as models of inspiration, the writers were able to advocate for Christian unity and improved moral behavior by admonishing and encouraging their Christian readers without criticizing them outright. Two early-fourteenth-century Castilian …
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Foreigners and the Bio-Political State: Case Studies of Hungarian and Bosnian Refugees in Switzerland
In modern societies foreigners are implicated in the resolution of the problem of state sovereignty. This paper clarifies how foreign groups can be used by the state to reconstitute the nation in such a way that vulnerabilities are mended. Michel Foucault's racism and bio-politics are used as …
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The Fragile "Bonds of Whiteness": Relationships Between Native White Southerners and Foreigners in Porter, Mccullers, and O'Connor
<p>This thesis will focus on Katherine Anne Porter's 'Noon Wine,' Carson McCullers' The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, and Flannery O'Connor's 'The Displaced Person.' In each work, the author constructs dynamics between the native, white Southerner and the white foreigner (of Swedish, Grecian, and …
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"Nothing to Fear from the Influence of Foreigners:" The Patriotism of Richmond's German-Americans during the Civil War
Before and during the Civil War, Richmond's German-Americans were divided by their diverse politics, economic interests, cultures, and religions. Some exhibited Confederate sentiments and others Unionist. At the start of the war, scores of Richmond's German-born men volunteered for Confederate …
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Fear, dislike and hate : what constitutes xenophobia? : (an analysis of violence against foreigners in De Doorns, South Africa November, 2009)
… leading to xenophobic action in a 'hatred' of foreigners may be mistaken as xenophobia can (and does) occur in areas with low levels of prejudice towards foreigners. It does so because dissatisfaction with the government sometimes results in a new form of protest that is, to all appearances, …
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The role of the Department of Social Development in enabling social cohesion between foreigners and South Africans in Hammasdale, KwaZulu Natal
… social cohesion between South African based foreigners and South Africans. Significant research on issues of social cohesion against xenophobic tension has been reported, focusing on the networks and activities of local civil societies of migrants. Addressing South Africa's social cohesion …
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Strangers, foreigners, and fellow citizens: Case studies of English missions to the Indians in colonial New England and the Middle Colonies, 1642-1755
"Over the course of America's colonial history, a number of English missionaries sought to convert the Native Americans to Christianity. Many efforts were made in New England and the Middle Colonies, where Puritans, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and Quakers worked to save native …
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Associative activism : organizing support for foreign workers in contemporary Japan
Japan is a country known for its suspicion of foreigners, but Japanese citizens have established non-government organizations to support illegal foreign migrants. The problems and conditions of illegal foreign workers are rooted in Japanese government policies. The 1990 Immigration Control Law …
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Opportunities and obstacles for US investors in Moscow : office market comparative return study
… in the Moscow office market. What attracted foreigners then was the scarcity of suitable space for many foreign companies looking for offices in Moscow and the changes taking place in Russian law concerning ownership of land and real property. With the advent of the 1998 crisis the interest …
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The Easterner at the Drinking Party: The Role of the Other in the Ancient Greek Symposion
… of these depictions include images of Eastern foreigners alongside Athenian symposiasts, identified by clothing associated with ethnic groups from ancient Mesopotamia and regions around the Black Sea. Traditionally, scholars have accepted these images as literal depictions of Eastern foreigners …
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AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF FOREIGN INVESTORS IN EMERGING MARKETS
… evidence of informed trading, suggesting that, foreigners have no particular advantage in terms of domestic information in the ISE. Employing daily trading data from five emerging stock markets, namely the Jakarta Stock Exchange, Korea Stock Exchange (KOSPI), Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET), …
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Building the border: The treatment of immigrants in France, 1884-1914
… 1884 and 1914, several hundred thousand male foreigners, chiefly Italian, entered unskilled occupations in France's ""dual labor market."" In French Lorraine, Italians formed an industrial labor underclass in mining and construction. This work analyzes the French response to this proletarian …
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Glancing the city : a story of six refugees in Cape Town.
… This claiming and 'invading' of local spaces by foreigners leads to changes for both foreigners and locals. A spatial lens is used to dissect the nuanced community and spatially mediated identities of refugees in Cape Town. Using space allows one to explain xenophobia more broadly. This thesis …
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Mapping Immigrant Communities through Their Tombstones in Archaic and Classical Athens
… reconstruct where in the city and alongside whom foreigners were buried. </p><p>My dissertation has two main objectives. The first is to show that foreigners were among the few individuals in the mid-5th century whose burials were marked by permanent tombstones. Second, I argue that immigrant …
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Defining the line between center and periphery: the foreign criminal as symbol of sovereignty in contemporary China
… I examine the Chinese government's treatment of foreigners within its borders, contrasting the high-profile case of British national Akmal Shaikh with the on-the-ground situation, where foreigners generally receive lenient treatment from the police. I argue that this dichotomy parallels the …
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Reworking the city of workers : a new housing paradigm for the immigrant city
… but because the US is the very model founded on foreigners trying to make lives for themselves. In evidence now is a disdain and distrust of foreigners that could eventually affect all people in the US, resulting in an atmosphere of suspicion and negativity toward anyone who is perceived as …
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