This article analyzes how forced migrants have been pushed further down in the hierarchy of social citizenship amid COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on evidence from research six cities north-eastern Italy, we show that their welfare rights stratified due to national immigration policies imply unequal access protection. Local-level forces – including regional institutions, municipal governments, and ...

Abstract Modern sciences were introduced to Japan from Western countries during the Meiji period. In other words, this was process of translating academic languages into Japanese languages. The translation meant reuse existing Chinese characters with similar meanings or create new characters. able rapidly introduce modern science period because it already had comparable science; thus, proceeded...

The Queen Mary conference on “Integrating Genetic and Cultural Evolutionary Approaches to Language,” and the papers in this special issue, clearly illustrate the excitement and potential of trans-disciplinary approaches to language as an evolved biological capacity (phylogeny) and an evolving cultural entity (glossogeny). Excepting the present author, the presenters/authors are mostly young ris...

In just a few years, children achieve a stable state of linguistic competence, making them effectively adults with respect to: understanding novel sentences, discerning relations of paraphrase and entailment, acceptability judgments, etc. One familiar account of the language acquisition process treats it as an induction problem of the sort that arises in any domain where the knowledge achieved ...

The Tea Party (TP), whose candidates made significant gains in the 2010-midterm elections, lacks a place in the comparative party literature and also defies ready classification. Is it solely a movement to reduce the size of government and cut taxes as its name – some refer to it as the Taxed Enough Already party – implies? Or do its supporters share a broader set of conservative positions on s...

This paper examines whether the stand-alone and cross-level interactive effects of individual and contextual predicting variables of anti-immigrant sentiment vary as a function of institutional differences in welfare regimes. Using data from the 2003 ISSP module, several direct and indirect measures tapping welfare state systems were created to assess the disparities in anti-immigrant sentiment...

There has been a revolution in our understanding of infant and toddler cognition that promises to have far-reaching implications for our understanding of communicative and linguistic development. Four empirical findings that helped to prompt this change in theory are analyzed: (a) Intermodal coordination--newborns operate with multimodal information, recognizing equivalences in information acro...

Native plants and animals are a natural heritage threatened by one of the six greatest extinction events in Earth’s history. Humans, through habitat transformation, exploitation, and species introductions, are driving this extinction event. To turn this tide, Speziale et al. (2014) suggest reducing human dependence on non-native species by increasing the use, harvest, planting, and raising of n...

Why does the radical right care so much about animals? In this study, we argue that salience of animal advocacy within can be explained by its compatibility with these parties’ broader ideological framework. By analysing official documents from party Sweden Democrats, find is shaped an core consisting nativism, authoritarianism and populism. The SD argues, for example, immigrants are more viole...