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Sociology

Selected Works

Selected Works

2004

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Standing With The Persecuted: Adjudicating Asylum Applications On Account Of Religion After The Enactment Of The International Religious Freedom Act Of 1998 Dec 2003

Standing With The Persecuted: Adjudicating Asylum Applications On Account Of Religion After The Enactment Of The International Religious Freedom Act Of 1998

Craig B. Mousin

No abstract provided.


Mapping Discriminatory Landscapes In A Divided Educational System: The Case Of Cyprus, Nicos Trimikliniotis Dec 2003

Mapping Discriminatory Landscapes In A Divided Educational System: The Case Of Cyprus, Nicos Trimikliniotis

Nicos Trimikliniotis

This paper examines the way in which the Cyprus educational system, primarily concentrating on the Greek-Cypriot side, reproduces discriminatory patterns via an outmoded and ethnically divided educational model, in spite of some efforts to introduce multi-cultural elements of local level. Existing literature and a number of studies and reports on immigrant and minority students illustrate the need for further research on the subject, so that a comprehensive reform of the educational system can take place to move from an ethnocentric model towards a more critically orientated humanistic education based on tolerance and understanding – a matter of urgency if Cyprus …