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2025 Dissertation Workshop on Migration and Citizenship | Deadline: April 27, 2025

Political Science Now

Immigrant integration and refugee resettlement policies and their implementation, including immigrant and refugee civic engagement, political incorporation, and citizen-making. Border and security studies as well as studies on intranational, regional, transnational, and international cooperation on the management and control of migration.

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a vital window into collective human projects and organizations. Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations.

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Civics U: Natural Rights

Civics U

And what are natural rights? Natural rights are rights that are considered to be universal human rights that are granted by nature or God, not granted by society or government and thus not to be revoked by society or government. Her response generated some pointed discussion and garnered some coverage in the press.

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Apply Now for 2025 APSA Dissertation Workshops | Deadline: April 27, 2025

Political Science Now

Immigrant integration and refugee resettlement policies and their implementation, including immigrant and refugee civic engagement, political incorporation, and citizen-making. Border and security studies as well as studies on intranational, regional, transnational, and international cooperation on the management and control of migration.

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OPINION: College chemistry class finds clarity in Flint water crisis

The Hechinger Report

How refreshing it was to encounter a student’s civic-mindedness in chemistry class! And he’s right. The availability of safe drinking water — a basic human right — is likely to be called into question again and again in communities across the country.

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Civics U: What Form is Best, and What’s the Difference? Part 2 – Comparing Countries

Civics U

These systems will be reviewed by generally applying the rubrics of government power and elections; property and economics; and human rights. The United States Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor 2020 report on Russia’s human rights practices identifies a number of “significant human rights issues”.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

First, Sinovuyo described Launch’s distinct approach to life orientation (LO), a compulsory subject added to the national curriculum during the transition from apartheid that focuses on the study of self and society through lessons on personal and social development, civics and human rights, health, and career readiness.