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Perspectives on youth issue 3

Volume 3 of the series Perspectives on youth focuses on “Healthy Europe”, not just in the narrow sense, but in the broader sense of what it is like to be young in a Europe faced with conflict and austerity, and...

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Perspectives on youth, issue 2

The theme of this issue of Perspectives on youth is “Connections and disconnections”. Our authors have contributed articles on migration, employment mobility, new familial relations, the Internet and new media, young people’s social and political engagement, their connections with their...

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Perspectives on youth, issue 4

Volume 3 of the series focuses on “Healthy Europe”, not just in the narrow sense, but in the broader sense of what it is like to be young in a Europe faced with conflict and austerity, and what it feels...

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Preparing teachers for diversity

Even though the diversity found in European societies is not a new phenomenon, its nature is rapidly changing. Europe is becoming increasingly diverse due to intra-European mobility, international migration and globalisation. These societal changes affect the educational landscape and organisation...

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Education

Preparing teachers for diversity

Even though the diversity found in European societies is not a new phenomenon, its nature is rapidly changing. Europe is becoming increasingly diverse due to intra-European mobility, international migration and globalization. These societal changes affect the educational landscape and organization...

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Cities

Reconsidering the Place of Religions in Europe

In secularized European societies, religion is making a comeback as a marker of identity, entailing a conflict of values in politics as well as in the courts. In order to guarantee the openness of social space, the universality of human...

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Media

Refugee cinema and the representation of the Mediterranean

Films about refugees have been embraced by accented cinema. Indeed, exilic filmmakers continue to test the boundaries of cinema, and specifically its strong bonds with nation and land. But not all exiles are refugees. This article offers that for Arab...

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Refugees and Social Integration in Europe

A theoretical framework that has been used frequently when understanding immigrants’ adaptation to the new society is Berry’s (1997) conceptual framework of immigrants’ acculturation to the host society and it includes four strategies: assimilation - when individuals do not wish...