Given that migration studies mostly focus on rural-urban migration, the explanatory power of theoretic models is questioned for rural immigration. This paper aims at presenting results from a series of qualitative interviews with international migrants in the small rural town of Zittau and its...

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Teaching and learning in the networked society -- Network learning culture and the emerging paradigm -- The metaverse: 3D digital virtual worlds -- Avatar: building a "digital virtual self" -- Immersion, telepresence, and digital virtual presence in metaverses -- Interaction and interactivity in...

The family business: Special features, stages of development, familiness and enterpriseness, succession, socialisation context FU -- Theory section: systems theory, symbolic interactionism, role theory, excursus: merging the theories -- The family business from a systems theory perspective:...