01.04.2020 , in ((Social Cohesion Beyond Nation State))
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Katrin Sontag
This blog post looks at activists and projects that support homeless refugees as an example of social cohesion through solidarity that takes place in local or transnational networks. In political and media discourse, there is sometimes a fear of insufficient social cohesion referring to nation states – e.g., the cohesion
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24.03.2020 , in ((Social Cohesion Beyond Nation State))
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Islam Borinca e Juan M. Falomir-Pichastor
Intergroup prosocial behaviors, such as immigrants helping nationals, contribute to improving intergroup relations and strengthening social cohesion. However, people might not attribute genuine prosocial motives to a potential helper when negative intergroup perceptions and expectations shape these relations. The present blog describes research investigating factors that influence help-recipients’ understanding of intergroup
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17.03.2020 , in ((COVID-19 + Mobility, Politica, Practices))
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Lorenzo Piccoli e Joelle Moret
Between February and March 2020, many people accustomed to being highly mobile witnessed a massive curtailing of their right to travel both across and within countries. Among these measures were suppression of flights, closure of borders, banning of international student exchanges, halting of public transportation, lock-down of entire cities, freezing
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05.03.2020 , in ((Social Cohesion Beyond Nation State))
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Juan M. Falomir-Pichastor, Eva Green e Anita Manatschal
Increasing global migration streams challenge social cohesion. The present blog contribution describes several lines of research examining how social norms shape the ways both national majorities in destination countries and immigrants react to increased diversity and its consequences. Overall, this research shows how social norms operating at the national and
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18.02.2020 , in ((Esperienze, Politica, Practices))
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Lisa Marie Borrelli, Christina Mittmasser, Io Chaviara, Michalis Kastanidis e Anne-Claire Adet
Imagine living in a confined space, without a feeling of being “home” and being controlled by institutional actors. With this in mind, two filmmakers tackled the theme of encampment. They joined our recent discussion after the first “On the Mov(i)e” event, sharing their reflections on the conceptualization of encampment and
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