This paper investigates the link between residential context, perceptions and attitudes toward immigrants by linking data from the British Election Study with Census statistics on composition of electoral constituencies in 2001 and 2011. I consider which type of local diversity is most salient for ...
Now, as focus shifts to next season, some have questioned whether Canada has the fleet of aerial water bombers it needs to keep up with longer, more intense wildfire seasons fuelled by climate change. “If we’re not going to have supports for our crews for retention and recruitment i...
Stack (1998) Effect of marital, parental and cohabitation on loneliness, financial satisfaction and reported health 19,652 NR NR France, UK, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Northern Ireland, USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, Norway, Sweden, Iceland World Values Survey...
It is worth noting that the Séguin article cited here has been reprinted multiple times in many volumes and anthologies and that it was initially published in theAction Nationale—an openly separatist magazine that advocates some of the strongest proposals for Quebec’s independence from Canada. Sum...
workers in small communities have an especially challenging task to deliver services because of the lack of available resources and refugees' prolonged involvement in the settlement process Few studies have investigated the settlement experience of immigrants and refugees in small communities across Canada....
当然这个不排除,但是更多逃课的学生几乎都没有听过老师讲课,从第一节逃课直至考试。对于连续性较强的课程来说,逃一节课,可能就需要很久才能跟上。这些情形,都是在学生意料中的,和我们以往认为学生无知才逃课是有区别的。当我们煞有其事、苦口婆心的通过各种方式摆事实、讲道理促使学生回归课堂的...
“Books” shows students’ response to the question “how many books do you have at home?”; the response categories were “none or few books,”“one bookshelf,”“one bookcase,”“two bookcases,” and “three or more bookcases.” We align these answers into categories 1–5 in our ...
many other countries. Between the late 1980s and.:today, the percentage of foreign-born residents in Ireland grew from around 1% to almost 12%. "People choose gaelscoileanna for all kinds of reasons, but realistically it would rarely be the first choice for newly arrived immigrants," says ...
However, many scholars believe that the large portions of German immigrants are excessively exaggerated in the data obtained by United States Census Bureau, because the English ancestry is massively undercounted. Sociologists have seen a dramatic drop in the percentage of self-reported English ancestry ...
An NBA player once said to me, with a bemused chuckle of disbelief, that when playing in Canada--get this--"we have to wait in the same customs line as everybody else." Almost every line can be breached for a price. In several U.S. cities this summer, early arrivers among the ...