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Replication Data for: Cosmopolitan immigration attitudes in large European cities: Contextual or compositional effects?
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Replication Data for: Cosmopolitan immigration attitudes in large European cities:Contextual or compositional effects?
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Replication Data for: Cosmopolitan immigration attitudes in large European cities:Contextual or compositional effects?
No full textSwiss Household Panel datase
Replication Data for: Cosmopolitan immigration attitudes in large European cities: Contextual or compositional effects?
No full textEuropean Social Survey dat
Replication Code for: Cosmopolitan immigration attitudes in large European cities: Contextual or compositional effects?
No full textCoding for variables and reproducing analyse
Caste Discrimination in the United Kingdom: Identifying Parliamentary Patterns in a Movement to Secure Caste in Equality Legislation
Get PDFIn India, caste-based discrimination is constitutionally prohibited. Among western
nations with large Indian populations, however, not one has implemented a law prohibiting caste discrimination. This thesis examines the reasons that Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom supported, or declined to support, a movement to prohibit caste discrimination in law. When politicians discussed legislation to prohibit caste discrimination in 2012 and 2013, the Indian community was split on the issue; the Hindu lobby rallied fiercely against it, even as low-caste advocacy groups pushed it forward. Language outlawing caste discrimination was provisionally passed in 2013 but not implemented, as of 2017. The central debates on the issue have come to be seen as a landmark case study on caste legislation outside of India. Despite this attention, how average citizens stood on the issue—and why MPs mobilized—remained opaque. This study serves a twofold purpose. The first is to determine the demographic and political factors that influenced Members of Parliament to vocally support caste legislation. I
examine whether the percent of Indians in a constituency, the MP’s ethnicity, or Labour party identification is the strongest predictor of vocal support. Vocal support is advocacy for the caste legislation movement, expressed through signing an Early Day Motion or advocating for legislation through debate. I also examine voting patterns in a 2013 Lords amendment to add caste to the 2010 Equality Act. The second goal of the study is to lay the groundwork for future research into how and if Western nations interpret and legislate against discrimination on the basis of sub-ethnic groups. I find that the percentage of Indian constituents an MP has is the single strongest influence on an MP’s probability of strongly supporting the caste legislation movement. Representing a constituency in the top decile of Indian population increased MPs’ probability of vocal support twofold from the mean.Bachelor of Art
How Italian Elder Care and Immigration Policies Disproportionately Provide Job Security to Female Migrants
Get PDFBetween the years of 2005-2013 foreign-born females living in Italy enjoyed a period of relative job stability despite the fact that the labor market endured a number of external shocks (i.e. the economic crisis, increased migrant flows, low levels of economic growth). In this time period, the unemployment rate of foreign-born females rose seven percentage points, while other vulnerable groups (e.g. foreign-born men, youth) in the Italian labor-market experienced a more dramatic rise in unemployment. This thesis will explain this relative job stability during this time period through an examination of Italy's elder care and immigration policies, and how the concentration of female migrants in the care industry has shielded them from the impacts of the economic crisis. In the end, the stability that foreign-born females have experienced is a positive, but does not eliminate the other vulnerabilities that female migrants face in their day-to-day lives. This thesis will argue that in order for the Italian state to prevent a long-term problem and maintain Italian society's preference for home care it will be necessary for Italy to create legislation that moves care work out of the informal sector. This will facilitate the integration of female migrant care workers into society and make the growing care sector more attractive to other groups within the labor market.Master of Art
Racial equality in France and the United States: media coverage of professional tennis players
Get PDFABSTRACTI engage debates about racial media bias by analysing newspaper coverage of professional tennis players in France and the United States. Tennis is an elite sport that typically does not have many non-white players and may be especially sensitive to racial boundaries. Tennis also offers a new solution to the methodological challenge of establishing that any difference in newspaper coverage across racial groups is due to bias and not actual differences across the groups. I use the professional tennis ranking system, which assigns an objective marker of how good a player is (and therefore the media coverage that s/he should receive) at any point in time. I explore two types of bias (the amount and tone of media coverage) and uncover no systematic racial differences in the relationship between ranking and media coverage. My findings have several implications for our understanding of racial boundaries and the media
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