“We‘re all Africa,” according to a line from the official song of the 2010 Fifa World Cup held in South Africa, Shakira’s “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)”. And unlike John F. Kennedy’s tenuous claim to Berlinerdom, this statement of global solidarity and unity actually has a very sound scientific foundation. There is now overwhelming evidence and agreement that modern humans originated in Afr...

Objective: Research on intergroup contact and prejudice reduction has dedicated little attention to relations between minority groups. We examined whether interminority extended contact, that is, the knowledge that a member of the minority ingroup has a friend from the minority outgroup, is associated with positive outgroup attitudes. Affective (outgroup empathy and outgroup trust) and cognitiv...

Irredentism conflicts are ravaging human lives across the globe. These co@icts arise not only from the aggressive abrogation of settled boundaries, but from real pressures to accommodate population growth, migration, changes in solidarity patterns, and increased political mobilization. Any intellectually interesting criterion for evaluating claims to territories must be formulated without ascri...

The article provides a critical commentary to current use of the concept "minority" in Russia, particularly in academic and political discourse. The direct borrowing of the concept as it exists in internationallaw or western social sciences is prevented by a number oflimitations inherent to its meaning, the main limitation being that Russia could not be properly characterised as a democracy. Th...

Terms such as transnational social spaces, transnational social Želds or transnationalism usually refer to sustained ties of persons, networks and organizations across the borders across multiple nation-states, ranging from little to highly institutionalized forms. However, there are two large conceptual gaps in the study of transnational social spaces arising out of international migration and...

PURPOSE This article challenges popular conceptions of the nature of ethnicity and religiousness in the gerontological literature. Using the example of older Jewish Americans, the authors argue for more nuanced definitions and usage of terms such as "religion" and "ethnicity" in order to begin to understand the complex interweaving of these two dimensions in the lives of older persons. DESIGN...

The coronavirus pandemic, which first impacted European societies in early 2020, has created a twofold crisis by combining health threat with economic turmoil. While the affected all very significantly, its impact varies across countries, social groups, and societal domains. In an effort to provide overview of effect crisis, this editorial we discuss contributions 58 papers published as part sp...

This research will discuss the process of forming Madurese cultural stereotypes and prejudices Javanese ethnic men or women who married Jaddung villagers before after living in Madura region. Stereotypes are an interesting discussion because they can become obstacles communication so that lead to negative judgments between tribes ethnicities. method is included comparative quantitative research...