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Perceived threat and prejudice towards immigrants in Finland : A study among early, middle, and late Finnish adolescents

2017

Using integrated threat theory, this study examined how perceived threat, or fear of immigrants, manifests among early, middle, and late Finnish adolescents, and the relationship between perceived threat and prejudice among early, middle, and late adolescents. The sample consisted of 795 Finnish adolescents between 11 and 19 years of age. Realistic and symbolic threats were the most perceived threats and were more prevalent among late adolescents. There was a positive relationship between prejudice and realistic threat, and between prejudice and symbolic threat, but a negative relationship between prejudice and negative stereotyping, and this relationship remained relatively stable from ear…

Immigrant threat, Prejudice, and the Growing Refugee Crisis

2017

Mobilizing against the Other : cyberhate, refugee crisis and proximization

2017

Drawing on the insights from Media Proximization Approach (MPA), the present chapter explores the dynamics of the online construction of the Other in the context of current refugee crisis and the phenomenon of hate speech within cyberspace. While content- and theme-wise, it takes under scrutiny online refugee-related discourses, on the theoretical and methodological level it presents a new approach to mediated construction of social reality based on the notion of distance and Self/Other or Us/Them dichotomy. Coached within (Cognitive) Critical Discourse Analysis, such an approach calls for an integration of corpus linguistics methods and tools. The chapter addresses the following questions:…

Solidarities in the Arctic Border

2017

Starptautiskās aizsardzības saņēmēju integrācija Baltijas valstīs

2020

Maģistra darba “Starptautiskās aizsardzības saņēmēju integrācija Baltijas valstīs” ietvaros tiek analizēts starptautiskās aizsardzības saņēmēju jeb bēgļa un alternatīvā statusa turētāju integrācijas process un mehānismi Baltijas valstīs, izmantojot modificētu trīs dimensiju imigrantu integrācijas analīzes modeli, ko oriģināli ir izstrādājuši Rinuss Penninkss (Rinus Penninx) un Blanka Garsesa-Maskarenjasa (Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas). Dimensijas, kas iekļautas analīzes modelī, ir: legāli-politiskā, sociālekonomiskā, kultūras-reliģiskā. Darba mērķis ir sniegt pārskatu par šī brīža situāciju starptautiskās aizsardzības saņēmēju integrācijas jomā, esošajiem atbalsta mehānismiem un būtiskākajām pr…

Hotspot System in Italy: Politics of Refusal against the Economic Migrants and their Effects

2018

The purpose of this paper is to describe the aporias in the institutional discourse regarding the strategies of reception-refoulement of asylum seekers in Italy. First, it will analyze the evolution of the institutional discourse on security in recent years through a reflection on some aspects of the Schengen Treaty and the Dublin Convention of 1985 (Dublion I, II and III) and “Regimes of Mobility” (Glick Schiller & Salazar, 2013). Secondly, we will try to show that economic migrants, who are rejects according to “Hotspot system” and now to the decree “Minniti”, are often found them in severe distress conditions and in absolute inability to return to their countries. Refugees that circumven…

EARTH FOR SOCIAL HOUSING IN PALESTINE: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR A SUSTAINABLE REFURBISHMENT OF BUILDINGS’ ENVELOPES

2015

The suitable climates in the cities of Jericho and Gaza boosted the emergence of new attempts to revive earthen architecture on organizational and individual levels. These attempts produced a number of earthen buildings in the last few years following the crucial need to find alternative low cost material instead of natural stone, which is used in a large scale in Palestine. Similar attempts had a certain response to the social needs and economic situation there. This paper focuses on the possibility of using earth as an alternative material to refurbish the envelopes of existing housing units including two categories; firstly, refurbishing envelopes of housing units those were partially de…

Reinforcement learning in a multi-agent framework for pedestrian simulation

2014

El objetivo de la tesis consiste en la utilización de Aprendizaje por refuerzo (Reinforcement Learning) para generar simulaciones plausibles de peatones en diferentes entornos. Metodología Se ha desarrollado un marco de trabajo multi-agente donde cada agente virtual que aprende un comportamiento de navegación por interacción con el mundo virtual en el que se encuentra junto con el resto de agentes. El mundo virtual es simulado con un motor físico (ODE) que está calibrado con parámetros de peatones humanos extraídos de la bibliografía de la materia. El marco de trabajo es flexible y permite utilizar diferentes algoritmos de aprendizaje (en concreto Q-Learning y Sarsa(lambda) en combinación c…

Conditioned place preference: an animal model of motivational properties of drugs

2016

En el presente trabajo mostramos la técnica del condicionamiento de preferencia de lugar (CPL) como un modelo útil en el estudio de las propiedades motivacionales de las drogas. Se presentan los antecedentes de la técnica y se discuten algunas cuestiones metodológicas que es necesario considerar para diseñar una investigación empleando el modelo de CPL, como los diferentes tipos de aparatos disponibles, las diferentes fases del protocolo y sus posibles variaciones, el tipo de diseño (sesgado vs. no sesgado) o la necesidad de considerar los efectos del tiempo. Posteriormente se discuten algunas cuestiones a tener en cuenta a la hora de interpretar los datos obtenidos, como qué es lo que apre…

Condicionamiento de preferencia de lugar: un modelo animal para evaluar las propiedades motivacionales de las drogas (Conditioned place preference: a…

2016

This article investigated the Conditioned Place Preference (CPP) technique as a useful model for studying the motivational properties of drugs of abuse. The background of the technique is presented. Methodological issues that need to be considered when designing a study using CPP are discussed. These issues include the different types of apparatus available, the different phases of the protocol and its possible variations, the type of design (biased vs unbiased), and the need to consider time effects. We discuss data interpretation issues, such what the animal learns, the presentation of the dependent variable, the influence of novelty, state-dependent learning, latent inhibition, the motor…