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Asylum Seekers Crisis in Europe 2015: Debating Spaces of Fear and Security in Latvia

2015

Abstract In this paper we analyse emerging discourses of fear on the one hand and safety and security on the other. In the context of rupture - sudden, unprecedented asylum flows as well as the historical context of the fear and experience of losing the state’s freedom, we pose the following research question: Where do insecurities and fear come from and how are spaces of security and safety carved out through public discourses? We argue that, instead of singling out political discourses in Eastern European as filled with hatred towards other ethnicities and races or an inability to show solidarity with human suffering, we have to open up a far more deep reaching debate on the interplay of …

2018

In the aftermath of the First World War, constitutions of European states were widely democratized and parliamentarized, and similar turns were expected in international relations as a consequence of the creation of the League of Nations. This comparative analysis of Swedish and Finnish parliamentary debates on the League membership focusing on conceptualizations of the national versus international demonstrates how democratization and internationalization merged discursively. This happened to a greater extent than in the British parliament or the First Assembly of the League. Such entanglements followed from the interconnectedness of constitutional and foreign policy questions during prece…

Portugal’s Estado Novo Regime and Apartheid South Africa: two dictatorships and their diplomatic exchanges

2019

This paper intends to analyze the foreign policies and diplomatic exchanges of Portugal’s Estado Novo Regime and Apartheid South Africa. In order to fully research these subjects, a search was made in the Portuguese National Records (Torre do Tombo) and the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After a careful selection of the most important documents that served the purposes of this study, we performed a literature review of the subjects at hand, mainly in (Portuguese) history and international relations. The most important reasons for the proximity of these two foreign policies after World War II are extensively debated, whether militarily, economically and politically. The time-span of…

Computer assisted language learning and the internationalisation of the Portuguese language in higher education contexts

2015

The internationalisation of the Portuguese language has become a priority for academic institutions of different Portuguese-speaking countries which are trying to adapt to the current context of globalisation and ubiquitous communications through digital media. In order to achieve it, several challenges should be faced, namely providing international students with resources aimed at helping them improve their Portuguese while fostering its use in academic and scientific contexts. This can be done by identifying, creating and editing high-quality teaching materials which bear in mind the sociocultural, political, economic and linguistic contexts; using the Information and Communication Techn…

Attractiveness of Countries for Foreign Direct Investments from the Macro-Economic Perspective

Attractiveness and value adding characteristics of countries for Foreign Direct Investments usually are linked to new customers, upcoming demands, unsatisfied needs, competitive situations, etc. But they are also closely connected to macro-economic factors, which build the focus of this research praper. To make it more differentiable, those factors have been separated into five major dimensions: Political/Legal, Economic, Social, Technological and Intercultural Factors. Each of those factors consists of minimum five sub-factors which have been analyzed and taken into consideration. The aim is to find out, which factors influence the decisions for FDIs. If knowing that, stecific decisions ca…

The Value of Local Externalities in Country-of-Origin Clusters: Evidence from China

2019

Business cooperation and the exchange of information and knowledge are actions and decisions that firms can build in order to compete more effectively in globalized markets. These options are even more relevant for SMEs to access and expand in new international markets and through more commitment entry modes as foreign direct investment (FDI). While studies on the role of local externalities are well established in the Economic Geography literature, its international dimension is still unexplored in deep. This is surprising when the survival and growth of the subsidiaries depends on the efficient adjustment with its context. The objective of this paper is to analyse the perceptions of the r…

The Study of the Impact of Erasmus+ Mobility Projects on Participants. Data Analysis at “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu

2020

The aim of the Erasmus+ programme is to develop the sense of belonging to “European values” through mobility projects, and therefore, it focuses on a range of steps, in order to achieve its goal, such as the improvement of a foreign language, the development of personal and professional skills, the acquirement of knowledge and competences, so that the beneficiaries are prepared for on a global labour market, and have access to higher technology. The following data presentation and analysis have the purpose to bring forward the main impact of Erasmus+ mobility projects on LBUS’ students and LBUS alumni. The purpose is also to highlight the achievements declared by the beneficiaries and deter…

La Directiva de Retorno y la tutela judicial efectiva

2015

Después de cierto tiempo de aplicación, la Directiva de Retorno 2008/115 contiene elementos que suscitan un especial interés por afectar a los derechos procesales fundamentales de los extranjeros nacionales de terceros Estados en situación de retorno. Pero, además, su proyección afecta a la configuración de una nueva política migratoria de la Unión Europea que supone sin temor a la exageración el verdadero reto para el siglo XXI. Una política que debe respetar los derechos básicos de los extranjeros y permitir la integración en un espacio de libertad, justicia y seguridad. El presente trabajo señala luces y sombras en el camino desarrollado por la Directiva de retorno, su transposición por …

Los emprendedores surgidos de las empresas multinacionales de inversión extranjera directa: un estudio exploratorio en Costa Rica

2014

El presente trabajo busca evaluar la creación de empresas por parte de ex empleados de empresas multinacionales de inversión extranjera directa. En concreto, se busca dimensionar el fenómeno, caracterizarlo, así como valorar el desempeño de las empresas creadas. El estudio se hizo mediante un muestreo aleatorio simple con margen de error del 7% y nivel de confianza del 95%, sobre una base de datos de 11.120 ex empleados de empresas multinacionales en Costa Rica (n = 175). Además se utilizó un grupo control ad hoc. Los resultados muestran cómo son estos emprendedores, el proceso creador experimentado, las características y el desempeño de las nuevas empresas. The aim of this investigation wa…

Nominal Agreement in L2 Speakers of Italian: Suggestions for a Teaching Plan

2021

International audience; This paper addresses the topic of adult acquisition of nominal agreement in Italian, a crucial issue in teaching Italian as Second/Foreign Language. Building on a corpus containing spontaneous and semi-spontaneous production data from two advanced L2-speakers of Italian, I show that nominal agreement can be problematic even in the last stages of the acquisition process. The discussion of the instances of missing agreement in the corpus suggests that these are not due to a missing knowledge of the agreement rules in Italian, but instead on processing and production. In particular, some contexts prove to be more difficult than others: gender agreement (i.e., agreement …