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Free Download Elif Keskiner, "Revisiting Migrant Networks: Migrants and their Descendants in Labour Markets "
English | ISBN: 3030949710 | 2022 | 244 pages | EPUB | 1496 KB
This open access book provides new conceptualisations on the networks of migrants and their descendants in accessing the labour market. Although references to social networks are common in discussions of migration, simplified ideas of co-ethnic networks often obscure the reality, for example confounding ties with co-ethnics and 'strong ties'. This open access book addresses key questions about the role of networks in migration contexts, particularly in relation to how migrants and their descendants, access the labour market and develop their employment trajectories over time. Rather than adopting a narrow essentializing ethnic lens, the research presented in this book explores intersectional identities of class, generation and gender. By focusing on the kinds of capital circulating between ties, including the dark side of social capital, the book offers insights into power dynamics and the potentially exclusionary dimension of networks. Taking a long term view, acrossgenerations, the research in this book shows how migrants and their descendants mobilize resources to tackle discrimination and enhance their position within particular labour markets. Drawing on robust quantitative and rich qualitative data, this book provides a primary source to students, scholars and policy-makers focusing on issues of migration, social networks, social mobility as well as labour market inequalities.

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Free Download Reviews And Advances In Fintech I
English | 2025 | ISBN: 9819806747 | 184 Pages | PDF (True) | 6.4 MB
Reviews and Advances in Fintech I is an essential guide for forward-thinking leaders navigating the complex and rapidly evolving Fintech and blockchain landscapes. This edited volume, based on World Scientific's Annual Review of Fintech Journal, presents five original journal articles, complemented by current commentaries and new contributions from industry experts. Rather than offering step-by-step instructions, the book provides a thought-provoking analysis of the human, business and technological factors that shape Fintech and blockchain innovations. By highlighting key trends and potential pitfalls, this book equips readers with the insights needed to make informed, strategic decisions in the fast-paced world of Fintech.

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Free Download Jungwon Yeo, "Return Migration and Crises in Non-Western Countries "
English | ISBN: 3031535618 | 2024 | 254 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This edited book focuses on the intersection of return migration and crises in non-Western countries. The book explores a wide range of theoretical and methodological perspectives while offering practical insights to address the intricate issues surrounding return migration and crises. The topics covered within this volume include return migration trends, the pivotal roles and contributions of return migrants, the social, psychological, and policy challenges faced by returnees, emerging issues stemming from return migration in their home countries, and the public and formal responses to return migration and the reintegration of returnees, and the roles of crises in these areas.

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Free Download Gábor Almási, "Rethinking the Work Ethic in Premodern Europe"
English | ISBN: 3031380916 | 2023 | 346 pages | EPUB | 1512 KB
This book investigates how work ethics in Europe were conceptualised from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century. Through analysis of a range of discourses, it focuses on the roles played by intellectuals in formulating, communicating, and contesting ideas about work and its ethical value. The book moves away from the idea of a singular Weberian work ethic as fundamental to modern notions of work and instead emphasises how different languages of work were harnessed for a variety of social, intellectual, religious, economic, political, and ideological objectives. Rather than a singular work ethic that left a decisive mark on the development of Western culture and economy, the volume stresses plurality. The essays draw on approaches from intellectual, social, and cultural history. They explore how, why, and in what contexts labour became an important and openly promoted value; who promoted or opposed hard work and for what reasons; and whether there was an early modern break with ancient and medieval discourses on work. These historicized visions of work ethics help enrich our understanding of present-day changing attitudes to work.

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Free Download Stefan Berger, "Rethinking Revolutions from 1905 to 1934: Democracy, Social Justice and National Liberation around the World "
English | ISBN: 3031044649 | 2023 | 392 pages | EPUB | 756 KB
This edited collection offers a timely and original perspective on the many upheavals and revolutions that broke out across the world during the earlytwentieth century. With previous research tending to confine revolutions within national borders, this book sets out to place them within a broader global sphere of thought and action. The authors explore the time phase between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Asturian Revolution of 1934, including cases from South Africa, Australia, China, the Middle East and Latin America. Providing insights from leading scholars in the field, this collection highlights the interconnectedness and transnationalism of upheavals and revolutions, offering a new approach which integrates political, social and cultural history.

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Free Download Jeni Ruth Hunniecutt, "Rethinking Reintegration and Veteran Identity: A New Consciousness"
English | ISBN: 3030937534 | 2022 | 230 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book analyzes and discusses the U.S. Military Veteran identity. Throughout seven chapters spanning narrative, literature, theory and analysis, the book combines the author's own personal story of joining, serving in, and separating from the U.S. military with corresponding research about military transitions, reintegration, Veteran suicides, and psychosocial adjustment challenges. The purpose of the book is to help readers understand Veteran identity in a way that centers the social implications of belonging to and serving in the military institution. In the final chapters of the book, existing theories and models related to military transitions are dissected before a new Model of Veteran Identity Hierarchy as well as a reconceptualization of Veteran identity are presented.

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Free Download Rupsa Banerjee, "Rethinking Place through Literary Form "
English | ISBN: 3030964930 | 2022 | 305 pages | EPUB | 687 KB
Rethinking Place Through Literary Form regards the relationship between place and linguistic form as challenging real and perceived configurations of place and renegotiating geopolitically determined categories of the 'centre' and 'periphery'. The volume argues that the rise of scattered communities, displaced physically and psychologically by urban and alienated geographies, necessitates linguistic negotiations of one's locatedness in place as the chief means of uncovering and re-building identity. By looking at narrative re-imaginings of forgotten and interrupted intimacies between habitation and place from diverse parts of the world, the twelve chapters address the growing need to expand and alter approaches to literary representations of modernity and modes of self-location.

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Free Download Bal Kama, "Rethinking Judicial Power in Papua New Guinea: A Mandate for Activism in a Transformative Constitution"
English | ISBN: 9819729459 | 2024 | 227 pages | EPUB | 452 KB
This book examines the role and nature of the judiciary in Papua New Guinea (PNG), the first comprehensive study since the country's independence in 1975. It challenges the traditional view of the judiciary as solely a legal entity, arguing for its broader social and political functions. Critiquing assumptions inherited from British and Australian colonial thinking, it discusses how decolonisation has redefined judicial power, enabling courts to have a more transformative role. Introducing transformative constitutionalism into Australian-Pacific legal thinking, the book argues that PNG has a transformative constitution defined by its intent for reform, extensive Charter of Rights, and a liberal judiciary―features not found in other Pacific constitutions. Given the region's challenges such as corruption, political instability, and climate change, the book advocates for a more proactive role for the judiciary. It proposes a re-evaluation of the classical tripartite doctrine of separation of powers, advocating for a quadripartite model in PNG where the judiciary has a broader reformative function and the independent constitutional institutions constitute a fourth arm of government. This work makes important contributions to understandings of judicial power and constitutional law as well as other fields including comparative constitutional studies, legal history and decolonial scholarship.

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Free Download Haruhito Takeda, "Rethinking Japanese Economic Policy at the Turn of the 21st Century "
English | ISBN: 9819755115 | 2024 | 270 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
This book, focusing on the Japanese economy mainly from the 1990s to the 2010s, examines the Japanese industrial and fiscal-monetary policies and evaluates its achievements and limits from a historical perspective. Although the period that was also referred to as the "lost decade (or two, three decades)" was marked by various policy discussions, there are still few studies that summarize them as a history. Another unique feature of this publication is that it includes the contributions not only from researchers, but also from those who are/were in a position close to the policy makers. By rethinking this era, many Japanese not just researchers and policy makers will be motivated to move toward a new era. Many of the chapters in the book are based on the primary sources not found elsewhere, including the interviews with policymakers and collection of policy documents, in addition to the authors' own analysis, views, and findings. They attempt to describe policymakers' struggles to exit from the long-term recession after the collapse of the bubble economy, seeking to get back on the trajectory for economic growth. The readers will gain new factual perceptions and discoveries from these historical contexts. The issues presented in this book will also contribute to the international understanding of policy efforts in Japan, which is facing a frontier with high uncertainty. Japan's experience and its challenges are common in many aspects to developed countries now and in the future.

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Free Download Roy Y. Chan, "Rethinking Hybrid and Remote Work in Higher Education: Global Perspectives, Policies, and Practices after COVID-19"
English | ISBN: 303136631X | 2023 | 381 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This timely volume explores the current and future state of hybrid and remote work in higher education from national, regional, and global perspectives. Today, colleges and universities worldwide must ensure that they have adequate information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure, equipment, and systems to adapt to the "new normal" post-COVID-19. Hybrid and remote work can be a source of boosting productivity and advancing institutional change in higher education. Common within the management and leadership literature, hybrid and remote work is an understudied phenomenon in higher education administration. This book investigates the rapid rise of remote and hybrid work during and after the global pandemic and what it means for the future of higher education in the United States and abroad. By developing a comprehensive, research-based knowledge and framework this book seeks to equip and empower teacher-scholars and practitioners to operate safely, securely, and efficiently in a remote or hybrid environment.

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