This paper explores the barriers in accessing services for dementia by people from ethnic minority populations. The paper is divided into two main sections: the first part will examine how social, cultural, and religious attitudes within ethnic minority groups in relation to mental health and healthcare in general affect service utilisation and the second section will discuss how extrinsic fact...

Anyone who visits a school in Hannover or Berlin today will immediately notice one aspect that is characterising schools to an ever greater extent: Pupils with widely varying migration backgrounds often dominate the picture. Ethnic and religious plurality is an everyday phenomenon in schools and the question of who is in the majority, or minority, will certainly vary, depending on the neighbour...

Arabic, which is the fifth world language with regard to the number of speakers, geographical spread, and socio-literary prestige (Weber, 1997), similar to all other languages whose orthographical system is not based on Latin symbols has been subject to various types of changes resulted from the language contact with English as the default language used in the computer mediated communication su...

On March 2021, Turkey’s President announced a new Human Rights Action Plan (HRAP), supported by the Council of Europe, to reform judiciary system and strengthen democratic participation. Although rights claims Kurds Alevis have been prominent, HRAP mentions neither name. Instead, it includes articles about improving religious minorities fighting discrimination hate, advance pluralism, revising ...