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The President of the gold diggers: Sources of power in a gold mine in Burkina Faso
2003
The article provides an example of how 'formal' and 'informal' modes of power and legitimacy, as well as material and symbolic leadership resources, may intersect and interrelate. It analyses the sources of power that a Big Man in West Africa mobilised in order to appropriate mining rights and to establish leadership in a gold mining camp. As an entrepreneur in an economic field directly regulated by state laws and authorities, he has to operate within these structures while at the same time subverting them by creating a 'system of personal power' that resembles Sahlins' classic model of the Big Man in Melanesia. Although he is elected to represent the gold diggers, his leadership position …
Efficacy, Efficiency … and Stability of Intergenerational Programs?
2011
Aging Societies and Intergenerational Solidarity
2010
Due to an increased life expectancy—more people over 65 years old and never before seen numbers of older adults above 85—all countries around the world are nowadays facing rapid demographic changes...
Family Reciprocity and Caring Relationships in Ageing Societies
2010
Custodial Grandparents: The State of the Art and the Many Faces of this Contribution
2009
The number of grandparent-headed households has been growing steadily since the early seventies, and an even larger increase has been experienced by the number of children reared by their grandpare...
Editorial and Introduction
2010
The steady decline in total fertility rates for all European Union (EU) countries since the 1970s combined with a steady increase in longevity has resulted in the maturing of European populations (...
Grandparents and Their Adolescent Grandchildren: Generational Stake or Generational Complaint? A Study with Dyads in Spain
2010
The majority of research on grandparenting has been carried out either from the perspective of the grandparent or from the perspective of the grandchild. The present study compares the perceptions of grandparents and their adolescent grandchildren on four relationship variables: frequency of contact, shared leisure activities, closeness, and grandparenting styles. A sample of 80 couples answered a series of parallel questionnaires. The results suggest that grandparents perceive a greater level of change in the relationships as grandchildren age. The discrepancies between members of the dyad seem not to follow the intergenerational stake hypothesis, which predicts that older generations will…
Liberalización de los servicios transfronterizos en el Derecho de la Unión Europea
2020
SummaryI. Liberalization of services. II. Case of Matteo Peralta 1. Applicable Legislation 2. Situation of domestic law 3. Freedom of services 4. Flag discrimination. 5. Restrictions on services 6. Freedom of establishment. 7. Measures of equivalent effect 8. Free competition. III. Case of Alpine Investments. 1. Scope of services. 2. Restriction of origin 3. Jurisprudence Keck and Mithouard 4. Justification of the restriction 5. Need for the measure IV. Conclusions. Bibliography.AbstractThe study addresses the methodology conceptual system and argumentative structure used by the European Union Court in the analysis of the liberalization or free provision of cross-border services between …
Human capital and life satisfaction among circular migrants: an analysis of extended mobility in Europe
2019
This article extends understandings of circular migration among young migrants (aged 16–35) by focusing on the two key concepts of human capital and life satisfaction. Drawing on a large-scale quan...
Back to Brit: retired British migrants returning from Spain
2015
ABSTRACTSince the seminal research of O'Reilly, Karen [2000. The British on the Costa del Sol. London: Routledge] and King, Russell, Anthony Warnes, Allan Williams [2000. Sunset Lives: British Retirement Migration to the Mediterranean. New York: Berg Publishers] about British citizens on the Costa del Sol there has been a surge in the publication of lifestyle migration papers, books and research. Nonetheless, there is a part of the lifestyle migration process that has been rarely explored: a return move to the country of origin following retirement migration. Research has indicated a broad increase in the number of older British returnees, yet there has been no substantive research on the t…