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The integration of Vietnamese refugees in London and the UK : fragmentation, complexity, and "in/visibility"

Barber, Tamsin - 2018

, fragmented, and divided according to political ideology, refugee wave, social class, ethnicity, geographical location, and social …

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Multigenerational mobility in India

Kundu, Anustup; Sen, Kunal - 2021

Most studies of intergenerational mobility focus on adjacent generations, and there is limited knowledge about multigenerational mobility-that is, status transmission across three generations. We examine multigenerational educational and occupational mobility in India, using a nationally...

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Identity and multigenerational persistence

Srikanth, Chinmayi; Dey, Shubhasis - 2023

The study aims at bridging gaps in both theoretical and empirical literature pertaining to multigenerational persistence. From a theoretical standpoint, it argues that parental altruism is influenced by social heterogeneity rather than income-based heterogeneity. One's position in the social...

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Conspicuous consumption for social parity

Srikanth, Chinmayi; Dey, Shubhasis - 2023

other identities such as caste and race. By viewing conspicuous consumption within the Stigma-Identity-Threat framework …

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Degrees of disadvantage

Srikanth, Chinmayi - 2023

This study is positioned in two strands of literature-intersectionality and social mobility. It is the first to measure (dis)advantage at the individual level as an outcome of the intersectionality of identities and parental circumstances. By linking circumstances at the parental level with...

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Legal identity and access to the state in South Africa

Nsabimana, Aimable; Pleace, Michelle; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2024

Legal identity is an important aspect of securing access to public services, such as education, healthcare, and social protection services, including child support grants. In the South African context, in the post-apartheid period, many poor South Africans benefited from wellorganized civil...

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Anti-corruption policy-making, discretionary power, and institutional quality : an experimental analysis

Boly, Amadou; Gillanders, Robert - 2016

probability is exogenously set, suggesting that the institutional power to choose detection can itself be corruptive. …

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Elites and institutional persistence

Robinson, James A. - 2010

Particular sets of institutions, once they become established in a society, have a strong tendency to persist. In this paper I argue that understanding how elites form and reproduce is key to understanding the persistence of institutions over time. I illustrate this idea with a simple political...

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Power, institutions, and state-building after war : a controlled comparison of Rwanda and Burundi

McDoom, Omar - 2023

military victory, the coercive balance-of-power at the end of war favourable to the victor enables it to dictate the post …-conflict institutional design and skew power formally in its favour. In a negotiated settlement, formal power is distributed by design among … of informal power in the post-war context whose influence is exercised through private networks of party members and …

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Two for the price of one? : the contribution to development of the new female elites

Wolf, Alison - 2010

This paper describes the very different role played by female elites in contemporary developing countries, as compared to the 'early' industrializing countries of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. It shows that women are far more important in business and politics in today's developing...

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