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Understanding Myanmar’S Buddhist Extremists: Some Preliminary Musings, Kumar Ramakrishna
Understanding Myanmar’S Buddhist Extremists: Some Preliminary Musings, Kumar Ramakrishna
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article examines Buddhist extremism in Myanmar. It argues that Buddhist extremism—like other types of religious extremism—is an acute form of fundamentalism. The article begins with a survey of how extremism is usually understood in the theoretical literature, showing that its religious variant is best conceived of as an acute form of fundamentalism. It then fine tunes this understanding, arguing that religious extremism is a fundamentalist belief system that justifies structural violence against relevant out-groups. The article outlines seven core characteristics of the religious extremist culled from the various theoretical approaches to extremism. It employs these seven characteristics to examine …
Seventeen Pieces: Displacement, Misplacement, And Conservation, Yasmin Merali, Kevork Mourad, Manas Ghanem
Seventeen Pieces: Displacement, Misplacement, And Conservation, Yasmin Merali, Kevork Mourad, Manas Ghanem
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article explores the systemic importance of art in the conservation of images, historical reference, and cultural meaning as displaced victims of humanitarian crises make the transition from the land of their birth to a new country with a different history and cultural landscape. In presenting the work of Kevork Mourad, an artist of Armenian descent displaced from Syria, we show the essential, layered interplay of visceral, lived individual experiences and the historic collective memory of real and imagined pasts that survive the destruction of physical artifacts.
How To Track Down Your Lost 401(K), Pension Action Center, University Of Massachusetts Boston
How To Track Down Your Lost 401(K), Pension Action Center, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Pension Action Center Publications
This fact sheet was produced by the Pension Action Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston in conjunction with the COVID-19 Rapid Response Systems Summer Institute, a joint partnership of Justice Catalyst, the People’s Parity Project, and the Systemic Justice Project.
Protect Your 401k When You Leave Your Job, Pension Action Center, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Protect Your 401k When You Leave Your Job, Pension Action Center, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Pension Action Center Publications
This fact sheet was produced by the Pension Action Center at the University of Massachusetts Boston in conjunction with the COVID-19 Rapid Response Systems Summer Institute, a joint partnership of Justice Catalyst, the People’s Parity Project, and the Systemic Justice Project.
Talking About Casino Gambling: Community Voices From Boston Chinatown, Carolyn Wong, Giles Li
Talking About Casino Gambling: Community Voices From Boston Chinatown, Carolyn Wong, Giles Li
Institute for Asian American Studies Publications
This pilot study examined the casino gambling practices of residents and workers in Boston Chinatown. The aim was to learn about the trajectory and life context of individual participants’ gambling activity, including how individual participants describe their motivation, nature and frequency of gambling, and its effects on self and family. The research was conducted by a university based research team in partnership with the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center, and with the assistance of the Massachusetts Council on Compulsive Gambling.
The stories told by participants illustrate multiple and overlapping risk factors for problem gambling. Our conceptual approach took into account the …
Socio-Economic Well-Being Of International F-1 Students Living And Working In The United States, Elena K. Taborda
Socio-Economic Well-Being Of International F-1 Students Living And Working In The United States, Elena K. Taborda
Graduate Doctoral Dissertations
According to United States law, international F-1 students are nonimmigrant aliens residing in the United States temporarily. Yet, they are more than just short-term visitors, as many of them live in the country for years while pursuing their postsecondary studies. Since international students are foreign citizens, their rights and freedoms are bound by the constraints of the country’s immigration policies. This study is concerned with work-related restrictions imposed on F-1 students by the U.S. government, positioning international students’ limited opportunities for employment as being in violation with their basic human right to economic and social development.
This multi-method project drew …
The Strange Case Of The Seven Assessors, Janet Howard, Shaun Rafferty
The Strange Case Of The Seven Assessors, Janet Howard, Shaun Rafferty
New England Journal of Public Policy
New Orleans was, before Katrina, the only parish (county) in Louisiana to have multiple assessors. There were seven. Each of them had his or her own district, and collectively they formed the Board of Assessors. The strange structure was the vestige of times past, with no rhyme or reason in modern times.