Language and Knowledge Tests for Permanent Residence Rights: Help or Hindrance for Integration?

Language and Knowledge Tests for Permanent Residence Rights: Help or Hindrance for Integration?

More and more Member States require immigrants from outside the EU to pass language or knowledgeof-society tests in different stages of the immigration and integration process. This article focuses on the application of this requirement as a condition for obtaining a permanent residence permit or the EU long-term resident status. It is based on an international comparative study that included s...

Globalization and Human Rights: Help or Hindrance

VASUDHAIVA KUTUMBAKAM, this world is one family, is an ancient and core part of Indian philosophy. Strange, that globalization is often portrayed as a recent western imposition on India and the world. Goods and people have moved across the globe for centuries, infact, far more easily than now. Neither passports nor visas were required, and traders, pilgrims and adventurers moved around without ...

Computer Support for Creativity: Help or Hindrance?

Structural & Social Integration : Help or Hindrance to Bottom - up Innovation ?

Using a Pidgin Language in Formal Education: Help or Hindrance?

Pidgin and Creole languages are rarely used informal education because of three arguments (1) they are degenerate languages, (2) it is a waste of time to use a pidgin or creole when the standard language is the key to success in education and employment, and (3) theuseofapidginor creole will interfere with students' subsequent acquisition of the standard language Linguists can easily refute the...