Poverty and prejudice. A study of Irish immigrants in York 1840–1875

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to critical scrutiny through sampling the criminal and poor-law records of the city. Finally, an assessment is made of the extent to which the Irish were assimilated into the local community. The choice of York for such an extended analysis has not turned out to be particularly fruitful since successive fresh waves of immigrants replaced those who had moved on, and very few Irish remained in th...

Hives of sickness: public health and epidemics in New York City

became stigmatized by particular disease associations born more of cultural prejudice than epidemiological fact, and how they adapted to the prejudice and poverty of the new world often by creating their own health institutions, based on American models but imbued with elements native to their indigenous traditions. Second, it analyses the institutional responses of native-born Americans to imm...

Investigating the Factors Affecting Multidimensional Poverty Using Linear Mixed Beta Regression Model

Multidimensional poverty is a complex issue that is affected by various factors. Therefore, accurate knowledge and its comprehensive definition are great important. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of economic, social and institutional factors on multidimensional poverty based on a comprehensive measurement framework and using the beta linear mixed regression model, which is ...

Conceptual Links between Three Theories of Information Behavior

Background and Aim: There seems to be a conceptual link between some theories of human information behavior. These links exist because some of these theories have been derived from same theories in similar fields or have a same approach in theorizing. Method: In this paper 3 theories of information behavior (information poverty, information overload and social capital) have been discussed and c...

[Cambridge University Press Prize for Best Student Paper] When There's More than One Norm-Enforcement Mechanism: Accommodation and Shift among Irish Immigrants to New York City