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Washington, D.C. 1949
No full textPictorial map designed as partial bird's-eye view.; Oriented with north toward the upper left.; Includes quotation in margin, index to points of interest, color illustrations, and coat of arms.; "Retouched 1949."; "Copyright 1948, Henrietta Lintner."Color
From Offline to Online: How the Covid-19 Lockdown Challenged the Refugee Services in Italy
No full textThe vitreous refugee
No full textTaking the example of smartphones, the article discusses the impact of digital technologies on refugee trajectories considering the ambivalent potential of technologies to generate simultaneously new opportunities for refugees’ agency and new structural constraints regarding their mobility and actions due to control capacities. It therefore aims to offer a deeper discussion of the empowerment-control nexus and promote a better understanding of the various intersections that are developing between digitalization and migration/mobility patterns. The article is based on a qualitative research approach. Linking the individual level (the need of refugees to use smartphones for communication, information and orientation) to the political level is an emerging international market of surveillance and security technologies that has developed in recent years. Technology firms have contributed to develop and to promote the digital turn in surveillance and security-focused practices based not exclusively on the physical body, but on the digital devices as ‘extended bodies’.
 
“If I have to clean, I clean my own shop”: Migrant entrepreneurship as a form of emplacement in times of crisis: The example of Italy
No full textThis article analyses the relation between European economic crisis and immigration. It does so by analysing the establishment of migrants’ entrepreneurship activities in Italy, and by looking at how these activities unravel subjects’ agency in confronting constraining socioeconomic conditions and restrictive immigration laws. In this perspective, entrepreneurship should be understood as a possibility for transforming a person’s own incorporated cultural capital into a resource and, consequently, into an opportunity for self-created work performance. Interpreting entrepreneurship as a personal response of migrants to the economic recession offers a new perspective in the existing literature on migrant entrepreneurship. Crisis, in this paper, is not seen as an abstract and supernatural phenomenon leading and controlling the capacity of individuals to act, but is understood as a constructed set of meanings comprising social interactions and relationships and consolidated within public discourses. This study is based on a qualitative-explorative research approach and was carried out in South Tyrol, Italy. For the data collection, different qualitative methods were used: narrative interviews, informal discussions and semi-structured interviews. Data analysis was based on the coding processes described within the Grounded Theory. As the results show, crisis as such represents, on the one hand, a critical moment of transition or transformation of normality and the constituted ways of acting and thinking and, on the other hand, it is perceived as a new opportunity to change individual behaviour and to initiate innovative counter-strategies that will maintain a person’s capacity to act even in critical personal and structural situations. Nevertheless, showing resilience, which is powerful and leads to change, depends not only on personal motivational forces but also to given opportunity structures.</jats:p
Migrant Entrepreneurship: New Potential Discovered
No full textAbstractThe paper is based on an on-going empirical PhD project and deals with the contribution of migrant entrepreneurship in the South Tyrol of Italy. The potential of migrant entrepreneurship lies on the positive impact in the human rights space in terms of participation, resilience and empowerment. Therefore, entrepreneurship among migrants must be seen as a new arena for social, economic and political action. In order to develop more effective policies on a national as well as on a European level there is a significant need to rethink migrants role in society, economic growth and job creation. In addition, increasing awareness of the positive part that migrants can play as self-employees could contribute to a more sensible public debate on the phenomenon and lead to recognize migrant economies also as an important part of integration policy
An adjusted Lintner-model for the Netherlands
No full textThe informative value given by the announcement of distribution of dividend has already been investigated. One of the leading studies on this matter is Lintner (1956). Lintner found a relation between mutation in dividend, profits in the current financial year and the dividend in the last financial year. This dividend-model is known as the Lintner-model. When the mutation in the dividend differs from what was to be expected by this dividend-model, Lintner finds this to have informative value regarding the amount of profit in the future. In 197 1 I/B/E/S International started a financial data-file, The Institutional Brokers Estimate System (I/B/E/S). This data-file contains the expectations of the analysts regarding profit. Since 1989 I/B/E/S is collecting this data also for Dutch firms. In this article an extra variable is added to the Lintner-model, namely the expectations collected by I/B/E/S mentioned above. The purpose of this article is to find out if there is still informative value regarding the amount of profit in the future when the mutation in the dividend differs from what was to be expected by this adjusted Lintner-model.
Peer social networks in Czech lower-secondary classrooms
No full textThis dataset is based on a study aiming to identify aspects influencing formation of peer social networks with the use of exponential random graph modelling (ERGM). The results from the individual classrooms were pooled in meta-analyses using maximum likelihood estimation, which yielded estimates of the overall effects across the classrooms. The data come from a non-probability sample containing data from 435 ninth grade (ISCED 2A) 14 to 15-year-old students in 21 classrooms in 14 lower-secondary schools in Moravia Region of the Czech Republic, with data collected in November and December of 2017 as a part of a larger project - GA17-03643S. Standardized sociometric questionnaires designed for assessment of likeability between students in classrooms were used in primary data collection. Personal questionnaires were used to assign individual students the variables of SES (socioeconomic status) and gender. SES is represented by parents‘ highest occupational status using a three-class version of the ESeC - European Socio-economic Classification.
This dataset contains:
- adjacency matrices representing directed cross-sectional unweighted likeability and antipathy social networks (CLSxx - Likeability network - Matrix.csv, CLSxx - Antipathy network - Matrix.csv, and CLSxx - Attributes.csv)
- visualizations of the social networks made with Gephi (CLSxx - Likeability/Antipathy network - Visualization.png)
- convergence check plots from statnet (CLSxx - Likeability/Antipathy model A/B - diagnostics.pdf)
- goodness of fit plots from statnet (CLSxx - Likeability/Antipathy model A/B - goodness of fit.pdf)
- results from the meta-analyses (Results.xlsx)
Likeability model A could be fit to all 21 likeability networks. It includes terms for SES and gender popularity (in-degree), SES and gender homophily (nodematch), reciprocity (mutual), transitivity (gwesp), SES and gender expansiveness (out-degree), and overall connectedness (edges).
Likeability model B could be fit to 14 likeability networks only, as 6 of the networks did not converge. It includes all the terms from Likeability model A plus effects of preferential attachment (gwidegree), out-degree distribution (gwodegree), dyad-wise shared partners (gwdsp), and connectedness across two edges (twopath).
Antipathy model A is the most complete specification, which could be to the highest number of antipathy networks - 18. It includes the same terms as Likeability model A.
Antipathy model B could be fit only to 9 networks as 12 of the networks did not converge. Compared to Antipathy model A, it does not include the transitivity term, however, it includes preferential attachment and out-degree distribution terms. Antipathy model B is more complete and has slightly better goodness of fit compared to Antipathy model A; however, it is based on a smaller number of classrooms.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This dataset is based on primary data collected by:
Anna Drexlerová
Jakub Kychler
Jana Navrátilová
Martin Majcí
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