“Samira Doesn’t Live Here Any More”: <i>Somali-Swedes’ mobility as transnational practice</i>

“We Don’t Live Outside, We Live in Here”: Neighborhood and Residential Mobility Decisions Among Low-Income Families†

Over 20 years of scholarship suggests that living in America’s poorest and most dangerous communities diminishes the life course development of children and adults. In the 1990s, the dire conditions of some of these neighborhoods, especially those with large public housing developments, prompted significant policy responses. In addition to the demolition and redevelopment of some of the project...

Is Transnational Terrorism Becoming More Threatening?

Multiple ‘homes’, dwelling & hyper-mobility & emergent transnational second home ownership

Starting from current concerns in Ireland, this paper develops a perspective on the changing nature of second home ownership. The growth of housing wealth and extended spatial mobility in rich EU countries, as in other wealthy regions, has spawned explosive growth in the ownership of ‘second’ and more ‘homes’ across the EU and beyond. This paper explores aspects of the growth of transnational m...

Is ostension any more than attention?

According to natural pedagogy theory, infants are sensitive to particular ostensive cues that communicate to them that they are being addressed and that they can expect to learn referential information. We demonstrate that 6-month-old infants follow others' gaze direction in situations that are highly attention-grabbing. This occurs irrespective of whether these situations include communicative...

When size is not important any more

Wireless phone companies, especially with number portability, sell a product that is less and less different, that is to say, a commodity. That is the reason scale economies play a very important role in this market. Given that it is not possible to make a large margin on the service that they offer, companies must focus their strategies on saving costs. Moreover, the more clients a company has...