The Republican party, and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell in particular, do not come off well – always obstructionist and setting short-term political gain from posturing above the long term good of the country. Time will show if they thereby dug their own grave. Recommended. Ratings and...
Huguenot refugees and their descendants. It had a relatively substantial middle class, people with the means to purchaseconsumer durablesthat required skills such as high-quality ceramics, musical instruments, watches, and fancy toys. In the century before the Industrial Revolution that middle-class ...
a rather negative score was obtained for questions 5 and 6, asking participants to indicate if they would advise a family person to join a protest against a political situation and if they would leave their country when at war. The remaining questions...
Equation (3) is based on the Keynesian model, which explains how government expenditure stimulates economic growth through aggregate demand. According to the Keynesian model, government expenditure determines the output level, employment, and inflation (Wray,2007). This is the reason for including gove...
She spoke about the humiliation and pain of being gang-raped in front of an adult son and how that gave her the strength to flee her country. She said: “Back home there was violence between parties just before the elections and I was at home with my big son and they just came into...
and the United States in conditions of extreme misery suffering from malnutrition and disease. Many died soon after arrival. Some refugees were tailors, shoemakers, and farmers- small and large- not all were unskilled, illiterate, panic stricken refugees although their appearance gave that impression...
Nicknamed “national slavery”, most Eritrean refugees cite indefinite conscription into the national service as the main reason for fleeing the country [25]. The Eritrean national service proclamation was declared in 1994. In the beginning, every eligible citizen between the ages of 18 to 40 was...
Social contracts and state fragility represent two sides of one coin. The former concept highlights that governments need to deliver three “Ps”—protection, provision, and political participation—to be acceptable for societies, whereas the latter argu
Refugees, who are forced to flee their native land and are relocated to a Western country encounter foreign cultural value systems that may differ greatly from the cultural values of their past. Researchers have documented the struggles that refugees may face when attempting to reconcile these differ...
Jan. 16, 2025 - TikTok “Refugees” Flock to RedNote With a potential ban looming, many American users flee to the Chinese TikTok alternative RedNote, increasing the app’s users by more than 700,000 in January and catapulting it to first place in Apple’s app store. CBS News reports ...