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From Stateless To Citizen: Trust, Disclosure, And Collaboration With Guatemalan Refugees As Human Rights Practice, Oscar F. Gil-Garcia
From Stateless To Citizen: Trust, Disclosure, And Collaboration With Guatemalan Refugees As Human Rights Practice, Oscar F. Gil-Garcia
Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights
U.S. immigration enforcement practices have spread to Mexico, resulting in apprehension rates of Central American migrants that rival those of the U.S. In 2015, deportations of migrants from Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador in Mexico exceeded 165,000, more than twice the number of U.S. deportations to this region.
Enforcement-only priorities surrounding immigration policy in Mexico have reinforced discriminatory treatment, poverty, inequality, and exploitation toward the indigenous and migrant populations. These circumstances have particularly impacted indigenous Guatemalan Mayans who sought refuge in Mexico during the 1980s and continue to face obstacles for their legalization by the Mexican state, in violation of …
Poverty And Income Inequality In The Republic Of Macedonia, Remzije Rakipi, Shenaj Hadzimustafa
Poverty And Income Inequality In The Republic Of Macedonia, Remzije Rakipi, Shenaj Hadzimustafa
UBT International Conference
Low economic growth and job creation remain among the most serious problems in the R. Macedonia. Past Governments have failed to resolve these issues despite several interventions. Consequently, the country is still challenged by alarmingly high poverty and inequality in the distribution of income. The aim of this study is therefore to examine trends in poverty and income inequality in the R. Macedonia for the period 2010-2015 using official data from the State Statistical Office based on the Survey on Income and Living Conditions.
Findings show that the at-risk-of-poverty rate in the R. Macedonia has decreased 5.8 p.p. in the …
A Student's Perspective On Poverty And Student Behavior/Responsibility In The Classroom, Wallis B. Johnson
A Student's Perspective On Poverty And Student Behavior/Responsibility In The Classroom, Wallis B. Johnson
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
Participants will be able to describe poverty, poverty in education, poverty in the classroom and have first hand knowledge of a student’s perspective on life in the school building. Many research studies have focused on school success in relationship with gender, ethnicity, race and culture, however, “poverty may be the most important of all student differences…” (Burney et al., 2008, p. 295).
Target audience: administrators, educators, boards of education