Sociology & Social Policy

This title was first published in 2000:  This work has its origins in the 1995 Congress of the International Federation for Housing and Planning, held in Belfast. The theme was "Accommodating Differences". "Differences" were defined in broad terms, and included ethnic and social, economic and politi..

Ethnicity, Identity, and History..

Ethnicity, Identity, and History..

This title was first published in 2000:  An ethnographic inquiry into the socio-cultural dynamics of the Vietnamese asylum seeker detention centres in Hong Kong during the period of 1988-1995. It deals essentially with the British asylum policy towards Vietnamese refugees and its outcome in Hong Kon..

The construction industry as a workplace is commonly seen as problematic for a number of reasons, including its worrying health and safety record, the instability of its workforce, and the poorly regulated nature of the sector. Ethnographic Research in the Construction Industry draws together in one..

A novel approach that explores intentions and moral beliefs concerning elderly care alongside practical care arrangements, Ethnomorality of Care presents a concept of care which recognizes how various factors shape the experience of care, including: national, regional, and local contexts, economic i..

This scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class...

This scholarly and penetrating study of eugenics is a major contribution to our understanding of the complex relation between science, ideology and class...

This title was first published in 2003. This work provides a clearer understanding of the EU's approach towards security in the Mediterranean. After examining the EU's interests and the potential threats to security in the region, it analyzes EU security policy towards the region as a whole, through..

Through a chronological analysis of Korea’s dominant discourses from the late nineteenth century to the present, Kim demonstrates the historical nature of developmentalism and seonjinguk discourse for Korea’s developmental era, tracing their genealogy to gaehwa (enlightenment) and munmyeong (civiliz..

Europe Since 1989 charts the development since the 1989 revolutions. It analyses the emergent European society, the development of the European public sphere, civil society and examines the implications of post communist transition for individual region and for Europe as a whole...

Frist published in 1997, this book aims to answer if European ‘post-national’ citizenship provide a practical opening and a conceptual challenge to cope with the diverse and close-circuiting crises of national European social models?..