This paper uses diversity management as a placeholder for human rights policy. By diversity management, I mean those policy techniques that a society can use to deal with diversity, which include not only decisions to make diversity a subject of active legal and governmental intervention, but also decisions to leave diversity to informal, unregulated choices by individuals or civil society inst...

CONTEXT Research has suggested that the prevalence of young women with eating disorders (EDs) is increasing, but determining the exact prevalence of EDs within the female student-athlete (FS-A) population is difficult. Looking at certain traits may help us to identify their level of susceptibility to developing an ED. OBJECTIVE To determine the susceptibility of FS-As to EDs in relation to se...

At first sight Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco’s Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt belongs solidly in the same tradition as books such as James Agee and Walker Evans’s classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941), which grew out of an assignment in 1936 to produce a magazine article on the conditions sharecropper families in the South lived under during the “Dust Bowl,” as well asWilliam T. Vol...

Joe William Trotter, Jr ’s sweeping yet concise book, Workers on Arrival: Black Labor in the Making of America, presents a compelling, highly readable case that African American workers—far from being burden or threat to body politic—have been assets and contributors global capitalist development, urbanization, community political transformation transatlantic slave trade present millennium [ ]o...

SUMMARY This report is an analysis of forms of male-on-male homicide. It is a follow-up to an earlier study which, consistent with research elsewhere, found that males not only constitute a vast majority of homicide offenders, but further that slightly over half of all homicides involve males taking the lives of other males. The purpose of the present research is to establish, if possible, the ...

The British government is boosting access to genetic services available to patients through its National Health Service but also plans to intervene to stop the growth of a potentially uninsurable genetic underclass in the face of growing concerns about the speed of developments. Last month, a committee of MPs called for a two-year moratorium on the use of further genetic tests by insurers to al...

Young Spaniards embody the nation‘s exuberance and freedoms in their renowned and at times infamous nightlife, and they are a highly educated and diverse workforce that represents the nation‘s future as an integrated European democracy with a market-driven economy. And while Spain does have the youngest population in Europe at the close of the 1990s (Allinson 265), the image of youth as a repre...

Sixty-two years after the much reviled and now repealed Population Registration Act of 1950 was enacted, and 18 years into our new non-racial democracy, it continues to haunt South African public life. The Act classified South Africans into 'race' categories, thus creating the framework for the differentiated allocation of opportunity and privilege, and resulted in severe inequalities between t...

The origins of racial residential segregation in US cities have been a central concern to scholars examining the relationship between race, racism and urban development. Conventional accounts focus on the advent of industrialization, the ‘Great Migration’ of southern blacks to northern cities after the first world war, and white prejudice and racial discrimination in creating racially segregate...

BACKGROUND This paper is a part of the work of the group that carried out the report "The state of the mental health in Europe" (European Commission, DG Health and Consumer Protection, 2004) and deals with the mental health issues related to the migration in Europe. METHODS The paper tries to describe the social, demographical and political context of the emigration in Europe and tries to ind...