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Transnational Political Activities of the Swedish Finn Youth Organization
2017
This article looks at the Swedish Finn Youth Organization’s transnational political activities, and how they have developed. In the beginning, the youth organization modelled itself after its mother organization and joined the Finnish Expatriate Parliament (FEP), which made its participation in transnational practices easy. The case study of the Swedish Finn Youth Organization in Stockholm, Sweden, demonstrates that if the younger generation is given an opportunity to establish and govern their own associations, new forms of organization can be expected. The younger generation has distinguished itself from the older generation’s associations by cooperating with other minorities and taking m…
Global distributions of diazotrophs abundance and biomass - Depth integrated values computed from a collection of source datasets - Contribution to t…
2013
The MAREDAT atlas covers 11 types of plankton, ranging in size from bacteria to jellyfish. Together, these plankton groups determine the health and productivity of the global ocean and play a vital role in the global carbon cycle. Working within a uniform and consistent spatial and depth grid (map) of the global ocean, the researchers compiled thousands and tens of thousands of data points to identify regions of plankton abundance and scarcity as well as areas of data abundance and scarcity. At many of the grid points, the MAREDAT team accomplished the difficult conversion from abundance (numbers of organisms) to biomass (carbon mass of organisms). The MAREDAT atlas provides an unprecedente…
An exploration of isotopic variability in feathers and claws of Lesser Kestrel Falco naumanni chicks from southern Sicily
2016
Stable isotopes are nowadays commonly used in the study of many key features of avian ecology. However, the adequate choice of what isotopic ratio to consider and what tissues to sample for assessing specific questions may be tricky. Here, we explored the variation in a suite of stable isotope ratios (δ13C, δ15N, δ34S, δ2H, δO) in the feathers and claws of chicks of Lesser Kestrels Falco naumannifrom south-eastern Sicily (Italy) sampled throughout colonies of the same population but surrounded by different habitats. Ouraimsare to provide an insight into the isotopic ecology of Lesser Kestrel and to provide methodological indications for futurestudies.Specifically,we tested whether stable is…
Norms matter! The role of international norms in EU policies on asylum and immigration
2014
Abstract This Article investigates how international norms impact on eu asylum and immigration policy. To this end we scrutinize the assumption that the robustness of international norms indicates the quality of eu integration. Drawing on international norms literature we argue that four characters define an international norms’ robustness: specificity in definition, binding force, coherence with domestic law and international law, and concordant understanding among actors. Our analysis covers three eu policy areas, asylum policy, family reunification policy, and labour migration policy. Across the three areas international norms had varying degrees of robustness at the time of eu negotiat…
Circumventing deadlock through venue-shopping: Why there is more than just talk in US immigration politics in times of economic crisis
2016
This article addresses the question of how the financial and economic crisis that hit the US in the late 2000s impacted immigration policies. We find that the crisis has not significantly changed dynamics. Instead, it has highlighted and aggravated persisting trends. Drawing on Kingdon’s multiple streams model and combining it with the notion of two-level games, we find that while the policy stream and the problem stream would call for both restrictive and liberalising changes, the political stream impedes change: The fact that Congress has been divided for a long time over Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR) impedes any restrictive or liberalising changes. With problems resulting from c…
PELLEGRINO ROSSI RAPPORTEUR DU PROJET DE LOI RELATIF A LA CONSTITUTION POLITIQUE DES COLONIES FRANÇAISES
2018
On 12 June 1840, the lawyer and economist Pellegrino Rossi, Peer of France, entered the Commission chaired by Duke Victor de Broglie and in charge of an investigation of issues related to the slavery and the political constitution of the French colonies. This article aims to examine the role played by Pellegrino Rossi in the debate on the abolition of slavery in the French colonies and the project of political constitution of French colonies of which Rossi was the speaker and editor of the same articles.
Ruralidad y políticas locales de integración: Estudio comparativo sobre las provincias de Alicante y Valencia
2013
Pese al asentamiento de un número significativo y creciente de migrantes inter a n cio nales en los municipios rurales de los países de rentas altas, existen pocos estudios sobre las políticas de sus autoridades locales en materia de diversidad cultural. Este trabajo pretende abrir el camino examinando algunos motivos teóricos y em píricos para pensar que los ayuntamientos rurales se diferencian de los urbanos en su pro sión a acomodar las prácticas culturales de los inmigrantes, así como en sus pen principales áreas de intervención. El análisis comparativo de 12 municipios de las provincias españolas de Alicante y Valencia sugiere que las políticas de integr…
Early modern state formation in the margins? A review of early modern popular politics and limited royal power in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth …
2017
The traditional historiography of early modern state-building has usually followed the western European paradigm of historiography, the usual models being France, England, Brandenburg-Prussia and Sweden. Regions that do not follow this paradigm have simply been left out and labeled “backward” or as “lagging behind”. In this literary review, our focus is on two different and rather surprising cases of early modern state formation: the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Spanish colonial empire in Latin America. By following the scholarship on these two large conglomerates, we focus on two scholarly concepts: the idea of early modern realms as composite/conglomerate states, and state forma…
Les quatre vieilles colonies : la dialectique de l'assimilation et du principe de la départementalisation chez Victor Schoelche
1999
International audience; Victor Schoelcher est surtout connu en tant qu'abolitionniste de l'esclavage et malheureusement moins pour ses autres combats. Il désirait participer à la fondation d'une République, démocratique, vertueuse et philanthrope, en métropole comme aux colonies. En effet, il considérait les vieilles colonies comme de véritables départements français. Aussi demanda-t-il en vain l'application de plein droit de la Constitution de 1848 en dénonçant tout régime d'exception. De façon générale, il demanda quasiment à chaque vote de loi, l'application de celle-ci aux colonies, tout au moins aux ‘‘quatre vieilles''. Ainsi, sans jamais faire référence à la Constitution de 1795, Scho…
Victor Schoelcher, un combat contre toutes les formes de servitude
2008
International audience; Victor Schoelcher est un bel exemple de républicain militant car il a lutté contre toutes les formes de servitude, en métropole comme aux colonies. Bon nombre de ses combats restent encore malheureusement actuels : l'esclavage moderne bien sûr, mais aussi les questions comme l'instruction publique, l'accès aux soins médicaux pour les plus démunis ou encore la laïcité, aujourd'hui bien malmenée. Être républicain, c'est combattre pour l'instauration de la République puis, et surtout, être vigilent et avoir cette ténacité, cette intransigeance, pour l'application concrète de la devise Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, ces principes qui ne sont pas condamnés à rester des uto…