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Replication Data for: Refugees to the Rescue: Motivating Pro-Refugee Public Engagement during the COVID-19 Pandemic
No full textMigrants are often scapegoated during public health crises. Can such crises create opportunities for migrant inclusion instead? As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, many refugee organizations have stepped up their outreach with stories of refugees helping out in the crisis. We have partnered with the country’s leading refugee advocate organizations to test whether solidarity narratives increase public engagement with refugee advocates. We employ a Facebook experimental design to evaluate the effectiveness of refugee narratives. We test whether (1) migrant narratives framed in the context of COVID-19, (2) COVID-19 migrant narratives targeted to more or less local communities, and (3) COVID-19 migrant narratives labeled as refugee vs. immigrant efforts, enhance public engagement with refugee organizations. Our results indicate that migrant narratives framed in the context of COVID-19 do not motivate greater engagement than those that make no mention of the pandemic. Our results provide suggestive evidence that locally-targeted efforts motivate greater engagement.
Finally, we find no difference between the ``refugee'' and ``immigrant'' label, but we show that both labels can motivate greater engagement than ads that include neither. Importantly, this is true even in the context of COVID-19, an uncertain environment where worries of backlash might be warranted. These results suggest promising strategies for migrant policy organizations to promote engagement during and possibly after the pandemic
Replication Data for: Family Matters: How Immigrant Histories Can Promote Inclusion
No full textReplication files for "Family Matters". Abstract: Immigration is a highly polarized issue in the United States, and negative attitudes toward immigrants are common. Yet, almost all Americans are descended from people who originated outside the country, a narrative often evoked by the media and taught in school curricula. Can this narrative increase inclusionary attitudes toward migrants? We draw from scholarship showing that perspective-taking decreases prejudice toward outgroups to investigate whether reminding Americans about their own immigration history increases support for immigrants and immigration. We propose that priming family experiences can indirectly stimulate perspective-taking and induce empathy toward the outgroup, which we test with three separate survey experiments conducted over two years. Our findings show that priming family history generates small but consistent inclusionary effects. These effects occur even among partisan subgroups and Americans who approve of President Trump. We provide evidence that increased empathy for immigrants constitutes one mechanism driving these effects
Replication Data for: Family Matters: How immigrant histories can promote inclusion
No full textImmigration is a highly polarized issue in the United States, and negative attitudes toward immigrants are common. Yet, almost all Americans are descended from people who originated outside the country, a narrative often evoked by the media and taught in school curricula. Can this narrative increase inclusionary attitudes toward migrants? We draw from scholarship showing that perspective-taking decreases prejudice toward outgroups to investigate whether reminding Americans about their own immigration history increases support for immigrants and immigration. We propose that priming family experiences can indirectly stimulate perspective-taking and induce empathy toward the outgroup, which we test with three separate survey experiments conducted over two years. Our findings show that priming family history generates small but consistent inclusionary effects. These effects occur even among partisan subgroups and Americans who approve of President Trump. We provide evidence that increased empathy for immigrants constitutes one mechanism driving these effects
Refugees to the rescue? Motivating pro-refugee public engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textMigrants are often scapegoated during public health crises. Can such crises create opportunities for migrant inclusion instead? As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, many refugee organizations have stepped up their outreach with stories of refugees helping out in the crisis. We have partnered with the country’s leading refugee advocate organizations to test whether solidarity narratives increase public engagement with refugee advocates. We employ a Facebook experimental design to evaluate the effectiveness of refugee narratives. We test whether (1) migrant narratives framed in the context of COVID-19, (2) COVID-19 migrant narratives targeted to more or less local communities, and (3) COVID-19 migrant narratives labeled as refugee vs. immigrant efforts enhance public engagement with refugee organizations. Our results indicate that migrant narratives framed in the context of COVID-19 do not motivate greater engagement than those that make no mention of the pandemic. Our results provide suggestive evidence that locally targeted efforts motivate greater engagement. Finally, we find no difference between the “refugee” and “immigrant” label, but we show that both labels can motivate greater engagement than ads that include neither. Importantly, this is true even in the context of COVID-19, an uncertain environment where worries of backlash might be warranted. These results suggest promising strategies for migrant policy organizations to promote engagement during and possibly after the pandemic
Family matters: how immigrant histories can promote inclusion
No full textImmigration is a highly polarized issue in the United States, and negative attitudes toward immigrants are common. Yet, almost all Americans are descended from people who originated outside the country, a narrative often evoked by the media and taught in school curricula. Can this narrative increase inclusionary attitudes toward migrants? We draw from scholarship showing that perspective-taking decreases prejudice toward out-groups to investigate whether reminding Americans about their own immigration history increases support for immigrants and immigration. We propose that priming family experiences can indirectly stimulate perspective-taking and induce empathy toward the out-group, which we test with three separate survey experiments conducted over two years. Our findings show that priming family history generates small but consistent inclusionary effects. These effects occur even among partisan subgroups and Americans who approve of President Trump. We provide evidence that increased empathy for immigrants constitutes one mechanism driving these effects
Las rutas del saber: España en el siglo XII
No full textFil: Rucquoi, Adeline. Universidad de la Sorbona; FranciaFil: Rucquoi, Adeline. Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas; FranciaUna tradición tenaz hace de los franceses, cluniacenses en particular, los iniciadores de una apertura de España a Europa y los proveedores de una cultura que florecería luego tanto en la épica como en el movimiento de traducciones de Toledo. Este artículo muestra que los "franceses" -generalmente oriundos de Aquitania, y por lo tanto de las Galias y no de Francia- no fueron los extranjeros más numerosos o más activos en la Península Ibérica a lo largo del siglo XII. Y que, lejos de aportar a España una cultura ultrapirenaica, los ingleses, italianos o franceses buscaban en ella la "ciencia de los árabes", o sea las materias propias del quadrivium, que no encontraban en sus patrias. Se constituyeron así unas "rutas" del saber que llevaban a París a los interesados en el trivium, a Boloña a los que querían estudiar derecho, a Salerno y Montpellier a los futuros médicos y a España a los que buscaban la matemática, la geometría y la ciencia de las estrellas
Las rutas del saber: España en el siglo XII
No full textFil: Rucquoi, Adeline. Universidad de la Sorbona; FranciaFil: Rucquoi, Adeline. Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas; FranciaUna tradición tenaz hace de los franceses, cluniacenses en particular, los iniciadores de una apertura de España a Europa y los proveedores de una cultura que florecería luego tanto en la épica como en el movimiento de traducciones de Toledo. Este artículo muestra que los "franceses" -generalmente oriundos de Aquitania, y por lo tanto de las Galias y no de Francia- no fueron los extranjeros más numerosos o más activos en la Península Ibérica a lo largo del siglo XII. Y que, lejos de aportar a España una cultura ultrapirenaica, los ingleses, italianos o franceses buscaban en ella la "ciencia de los árabes", o sea las materias propias del quadrivium, que no encontraban en sus patrias. Se constituyeron así unas "rutas" del saber que llevaban a París a los interesados en el trivium, a Boloña a los que querían estudiar derecho, a Salerno y Montpellier a los futuros médicos y a España a los que buscaban la matemática, la geometría y la ciencia de las estrellas
Global years of life lost to COVID-19
No full textUnderstanding the mortality impact of COVID-19 requires not only counting the dead, but analyzing how premature the deaths are. We calculate years of life lost (YLL) across 81 countries due to COVID-19 attributable deaths, and also conduct an analysis based on estimated excess deaths. We find that over 20.5 million years of life have been lost to COVID-19 globally. As of January 6, 2021, YLL in heavily affected countries are 2–9 times the average seasonal influenza; three quarters of the YLL result from deaths in ages below 75 and almost a third from deaths below 55; and men have lost 45% more life years than women. The results confirm the large mortality impact of COVID-19 among the elderly. They also call for heightened awareness in devising policies that protect vulnerable demographics losing the largest number of life-years
Inventing Malayaness: Race, Education and Englishness in Colonial Malaya
No full text<p>Koh, Adeline. Inventing Malayanness: Race, Education and Englishness in Colonial Malaya. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a degree of Doctor of Philosophy (Comparative Literature). University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2008. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.754578</p>
<p>Description: This dissertation focuses on late nineteenth and twentieth century Orientalized representations of British Malaya in the work of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham and Anthony Burgess. It argues that racial logics reflected within this Anglophone expatriate literature influenced colonial and postcolonial politics in Malaysia and Singapore.</p>
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Factors affecting compliance rate towards oral nutritional supplements intake among geriatric patients in Hospital Kuala Lumpur
No full textCompliance rate towards consumption of oral nutritional supplement (ONS) is low among geriatric patients. Thus, this study aimed to examine factors affecting low compliance of ONS intake among a sample of geriatric patients. A cross-sectional survey was carried out involving 30 geriatric patients being prescribed with ONS during their stay in Hospital Kuala Lumpur. Information on compliance rate and influencing factors were collected through interview and observation. Nutritional status was assessed using anthropometry and Patient Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA). 50.0% subjects were underweight and 70.0% and 30.0% were moderate and severely malnourished, respectively. A total of 43.3% were categorised as low, 53.4% medium and 3.3% high compliance towards consumption of ONS. Most of the subjects with low compliance agreed expressed that they need more nursing support (53.8%). Less than half perceived they had been given the needed nursing support (44.4%), and with respect to ONS: knowledgeable (38.5%), timely given (37.5%), understood the importance (35.7%), were able to finish it (35.0%), well-aware of the reasons of prescription (33.3%), satisfied with its taste (33.3%), received suitable volume (33.3%), satisfied with the texture (31.6%), and received suitable frequency (28.6%). In conclusion, approximately 40% of subjects had low compliance towards ONS. Awareness and nursing support were important factors associated with low compliance. There is a need to ensure adequate nursing support and education been given to patients prescribed with ONS in order to increase the compliance rate
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