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Why Swiss-Germans dislike Germans On negative attitudes towards a culturally and socially similar group

This paper proposes to question two common assumptions and consistent empirical findings in the literature on xenophobia, namely that xenophobic attitudes can mainly be found among badly educated people of the host society and mostly concern immigrants from low social classes and from geographically and culturally far countries. These arguments will be discussed in the context of German migrati...

Germans ' tourist behaviour in Sweden

Introduction Tourism literature tends to convey the impression that tourists are exceedingly active during their holidays (Thornton, Williams & Shaw, 1997; Shaw & Williams, 2002; Walmsley, 2004). This is the case especially when non-academic studies are considered (see for example F.U.R., 2007; Nutek, 2007). However, this assumption might be influenced by the methodologies employed and the case...

VolkaufdemWeg:Transnational Migrationof theRussian-Germans from1763 to thePresentDay

This article traces the migration patterns of the Russian-Germans across international borders from their initial settlement in the Russian Empire starting in 1763 up to the present day. In particular it analyses the reasons behind these migration flows. Both push and pull factors motivated the immigration of ethnic Germans to the Russian Empire in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. ...

Comparative analysis of design/build and design/bid/build project delivery systems in Lebanon

Design/bid/build and design/build are two principal project delivery systems used worldwide. The performance of each project may differ with the type of procurement system used. This study has two aims: firstly, to assess and compare the performance of design/bid/build and design/build projects in Lebanon; secondly, to compare the results with the performance of equivalent systems in the Far Ea...