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Romanians in Western Europe

Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections

By: Remus Gabriel Anghel

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Romanians in Western Europe

Migration, Status Dilemmas, and Transnational Connections

By: Remus Gabriel Anghel

In recent years, Romanians have become the second largest migrant group in Western Europe. Following the liberalization of border controls and the massive economic and political changes in Eastern Europe, human mobility has increased and is becoming a permanent feature of post-Cold War Europe. The arrival of many Eastern Europeans, with Romanians being the largest migrant group, has produced public concerns on immigration in some West European countries. This is particularly the case in Italy, where Romanian irregular migrants are often stigmatized as poor troublemakers by authorities and the mass media. This book challenges such commonly-held assumptions that artificially divide migrants into categories of wished and unwished immigrants—winners and losers of international migration. This book compares two migrant groups. The first is composed of ethnic Germans who migrated legally from Timisoara, Romania, to Nuremberg, Germany. The second is made up of those who migrated irregularly from Borsa, Romania, to Milan, Italy. The analysis highlights a paradoxical situation. Irregular Romanian migrants in Milan had fewer rights and opportunities, yet through migration they gained prestige and came to enjoy a sense of success. Alternately, the Germans who had migrated to Nuremberg, who received more rights and opportunities, perceived that they had suffered a loss of social prestige. The focus on migrants’ social status employed in the book seeks to clarify this puzzle and provide an analytical framework for researching the linkages between the migration and incorporation of Romanians—who are today European citizens—and European states’ migration policies and migrant transnationalism.

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Lexington Books

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073917889X

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9780739178898

Infrastructure Monitoring with Spaceborne SAR Sensors

By: ANDREI ANGHEL,GABRIEL VASILE,REMUS CACOVEANU

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Infrastructure Monitoring with Spaceborne SAR Sensors

By: ANDREI ANGHEL,GABRIEL VASILE,REMUS CACOVEANU

This book presents a novel non-intrusive infrastructure monitoring technique based on the detection and tracking of scattering centers in spaceborne SAR images. The methodology essentially consists of refocusing each available SAR image on an imposed 3D point cloud associated to the envisaged infrastructure element and identifying the reliable scatterers to be monitored by means of four dimensional (4D) tomography. The methodology described in this book provides a new perspective on infrastructure monitoring with spaceborne SAR images, is based on a standalone processing chain, and brings innovative technical aspects relative to conventional approaches. The book is intended primarily for professionals and researchers working in the area of critical infrastructure monitoring by radar remote sensing.

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Springer

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9811032173

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Public-private Relations in Totalitarian States

By: Gabriel Barhaim

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Public-private Relations in Totalitarian States

By: Gabriel Barhaim

This book argues that the transition by Western society to late modernity has weakened the social order, creating a quasi-anomic state that favors those conditions that place culture in a position of prominence. The preponderance of culture over social, with its affinity for profane and its immanent nature, is posited by the author to have a major impact on the fabric of social life and its implications especially on social solidarity. Gabriel A. Barhaim employs a number of ideas and concepts to illuminate the central theme of a feeble social order. Such concepts are, among others, crisis of reference, desacralization of the social order, the predominance of individual networks as a new form of social solidarity, overpowering of the public sphere, and the reduction in authority of collective representations. The persistent crisis of the social order-strongly visible in the disappearance of major ideologies on the one hand, and in the disintegration of the state and its institutions on the other hand-has been the impetus to cultural phenomena whose prevailing themes encode the fate of individuals, both symbolically and expressively. Barhaim regards the social order as the inspiring scene of action, while culture, with its diverse modes of expressions, provides guiding commentaries. In grappling with these topics in each chapter, the analysis reveals the many facets of culture and the many symbolic forms it takes. All of this provides the necessary commentaries needed to make sense of a bewildered social life, in the context of late modernity. These commentaries should be viewed mostly as a path to understanding the pressing social arrangements, interactions, practices, of contemporary life. Three out of the eight chapters are concerned with the East-Central European experience.

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Routledge

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1351495518

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Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century

Understanding Borders

By: Gabriel Popescu

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Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century

Understanding Borders

By: Gabriel Popescu

This timely book introduces readers to the central question of borders in the twenty-first century. After familiarizing readers with border thinking and making from antiquity to the present, Gabriel Popescu turns a critical eye on current border-making concepts, processes, and contexts. Throughout, he offers a balanced understanding of borders, explaining why and how interstate borders have emerged, whose interest they serve, who is involved in border making, and how border-making practices affect societies. Assessing the latest theoretical approaches to border studies, the author deftly incorporates a range of disciplinary perspectives, including geography, international relations, sociology, history, security studies, and anthropology. Popescu exploresrecent world events, discussing how current issues such as migration, terrorism, global warming, pandemics, the human rights regime, outsourcing, the economic crisis, supranational integration, regionalization, and digital technology relate to borders andinfluence our lives. Written with a clear eye and voice, this book makes a complex subject accessible to a wide readership.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742556212

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9780742556218

Soft Tales from a Refugee Camp

By: Gabriel Watermiller

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Soft Tales from a Refugee Camp

By: Gabriel Watermiller

In the 1980s a Romanian family, accompanied by their dog defects to Greece where they are accommodated in a refugee camp. Exhilarating, absurd or saddening surprises meet them at every turn when, during their wait for Canadian immigrant visas, they mingle with refugees from the communist bloc, Afghanistan and Turkey. Not everyone has the same reason for being there, but camp-mates of the same mind gather around drinks and there is talk of hope and love, hatred and betrayal, heroism and sacrifi ces. These cathartic tales unfold against the background of one of the cruelest periods of history.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1453558128

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9781453558126

Spear's Surgery of the Breast

Principles and Art

By: Allen Gabriel,Maurice Y. Nahabedian,G. Patrick Maxwell,Toni Storm

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Spear's Surgery of the Breast

Principles and Art

By: Allen Gabriel,Maurice Y. Nahabedian,G. Patrick Maxwell,Toni Storm

Definitive, detailed, and multidisciplinary in scope, Surgery of the Breast: Principles and Art, Fourth Edition, remains the most comprehensive “how-to” reference on today’s breast surgery. The text and its content have been thoroughly updated and carefully consolidated into one volume, to describe and demonstrates the most advanced and successful techniques for all types of oncological, reconstructive, and aesthetic breast surgeries—covering oncologic management of breast disease, breast reconstruction, reduction mammoplasty and mastopexy, augmentation mammoplasty, and more. Ideal for both plastic surgeons and general surgeons who perform a high volume of breast surgery, this classic text has been significantly revised to bring you fully up to date.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496397029

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Declaratie de iubire (editie 2015)

By: Gabriel Liiceanu

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Declaratie de iubire (editie 2015)

By: Gabriel Liiceanu

„Paginile acestei cărţi s-au născut dintr-o idee simplă: fiecare om îşi alcătuieşte de-a lungul vieţii un edificiu afectiv. Măsura în care el este e dată de consistenţa acestui edificiu, de mâna aceea de oameni – ei nu pot fi mulţi – pe care i-a preluat în el şi pe care i-a iubit fără rest, fără umbră, şi împotriva cărora spiritul lui critic, chiar dacă a fost prezent, a rămas neputincios. Aceşti oameni puţini care ne fac pe fiecare în parte să nu regretăm că suntem reprezintă, chit că o ştim sau nu, stratul de protecţie care ne ajută să trecem prin viaţă. Fiecare om face faţă la ce i se întâmplă pentru că este protejat în felul acesta. Fără acest zid de fiinţe iubite care ne înconjoară (indiferent că ele sunt sau nu în viaţă), noi nu am fi buni de nimic. Ne-am destrăma precum într-o atmosferă în care frecarea este prea mare. Sau ne-am pierde, ne-am rătăci pur şi simplu în viaţă. Dacă ura celorlalţi – covârşitoare uneori! –, invidia lor, mârşăvia lor sunt neputincioase este pentru că există câţiva oameni pe care îi iubim până la capăt. Despre asemenea oameni este vorba în această carte. Ei poartă numele de Monica şi Virgil Ierunca, Noica sau Creţia, Sebastian sau Dragomir, Henri Wald, Andrei Pleşu sau Horia Bernea. Cu excepţia lui Mihail Sebastian, pe toţi ceilalţi i-am întâlnit în carne şi oase şi ei sunt cei care mi-au construit sau mi-au influenţat destinul.“ (Gabriel LIICEANU)

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Humanitas SA

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973504787X

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9789735047870

The P?ltini? Diary

A Paideic Model in Humanist Culture

By: Gabriel Liiceanu

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The P?ltini? Diary

A Paideic Model in Humanist Culture

By: Gabriel Liiceanu

The intellectual resistance to totalitarian regimes can take many forms. This remarkable volume portrays one such story of resistance in Romania during the reign of Ceausescu: that of Constantin Noica, one of the country's foremost intellectuals. The Paltinis Diary is a wonderful homage to an intellectual master and to the power of intellect and freedom. The book will be of interest to philosophers, non-philosophers alike, and to anyone who seeks to grasp the true meaning of survival under totalitarian conditions.

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Central European University Press

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9639116890

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9789639116894

Borel Liftings of Borel Sets: Some Decidable and Undecidable Statements

Some Decidable and Undecidable Statements

By: Gabriel Debs,Jean Saint Raymond

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Borel Liftings of Borel Sets: Some Decidable and Undecidable Statements

Some Decidable and Undecidable Statements

By: Gabriel Debs,Jean Saint Raymond

One of the aims of this work is to investigate some natural properties of Borel sets which are undecidable in $ZFC$. The authors' starting point is the following elementary, though non-trivial result: Consider $X \subset 2omega\times2omega$, set $Y=\pi(X)$, where $\pi$ denotes the canonical projection of $2omega\times2omega$ onto the first factor, and suppose that $(\star)$: Any compact subset of $Y$ is the projection of some compact subset of $X$. If moreover $X$ is $\mathbf{\Pi 0 2$ then $(\star\star)$: The restriction of $\pi$ to some relatively closed subset of $X$ is perfect onto $Y$ it follows that in the present case $Y$ is also $\mathbf{\Pi 0 2$. Notice that the reverse implication $(\star\star)\Rightarrow(\star)$ holds trivially for any $X$ and $Y$. But the implication $(\star)\Rightarrow (\star\star)$ for an arbitrary Borel set $X \subset 2omega\times2omega$ is equivalent to the statement $\forall \alpha\in \omegaomega, \, \aleph 1$ is inaccessible in $L(\alpha)$. More precisely The authors prove that the validity of $(\star)\Rightarrow(\star\star)$ for all $X \in \varSigma0 {1+\xi+1 $, is equivalent to $\aleph \xi \aleph 1$. $ZFC$, derive from $(\star)$ the weaker conclusion that $Y$ is also Borel and of the same Baire class as $X$. This last result solves an old problem about compact covering mappings. In fact these results are closely related to the following general boundedness principle Lift$(X, Y)$: If any compact subset of $Y$ admits a continuous lifting in $X$, then $Y$ admits a continuous lifting in $X$, where by a lifting of $Z\subset \pi(X)$ in $X$ we mean a mapping on $Z$ whose graph is contained in $X$. The main result of this work will give the exact set theoretical strength of this principle depending on the descriptive complexity of $X$ and $Y$. The authors also prove a similar result for a variation of Lift$(X, Y)$ in which continuous liftings are replaced by Borel liftings, and which answers a question of H. Friedman. Among other applications the authors obtain a complete solution to a problem which goes back to Lusin concerning the existence of $\mathbf{\Pi 1 1$ sets with all constituents in some given class $\mathbf{\Gamma $ of Borel sets, improving earlier results by J. Stern and R. Sami. Borel sets (in $ZFC$) of a new type, involving a large amount of abstract algebra. This representation was initially developed for the purposes of this proof, but has several other applications.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821839713

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9780821839713

Infrastructure Monitoring with Spaceborne SAR Sensors

By: ANDREI ANGHEL,GABRIEL VASILE,REMUS CACOVEANU

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Infrastructure Monitoring with Spaceborne SAR Sensors

By: ANDREI ANGHEL,GABRIEL VASILE,REMUS CACOVEANU

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Romanians in Western Europe

Romanians in Western Europe

Infrastructure Monitoring with Spaceborne SAR Sensors

Infrastructure Monitoring with Spaceborne SAR Sensors

Public-private Relations in Totalitarian States

Public-private Relations in Totalitarian States

Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century

Bordering and Ordering the Twenty-first Century

Soft Tales from a Refugee Camp

Soft Tales from a Refugee Camp

Spear's Surgery of the Breast

Spear's Surgery of the Breast

Declaratie de iubire (editie 2015)

Declaratie de iubire (editie 2015)

The P?ltini? Diary

The P?ltini? Diary

Borel Liftings of Borel Sets: Some Decidable and Undecidable Statements

Borel Liftings of Borel Sets: Some Decidable and Undecidable Statements

Infrastructure Monitoring with Spaceborne SAR Sensors

Infrastructure Monitoring with Spaceborne SAR Sensors

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