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Preeti Dagar – British Educational Research Journal, 2024
Most of the world's refugees live in Global South countries, where they struggle to find quality education and opportunities for decent livelihoods. This paper explores the underexamined yet highly relevant interlinkage between sustainable livelihoods and adult learning among urban refugees residing in three major cities in India. It speaks to the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Adult Education, Urban Areas, Foreign Countries
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Kim, Joon K. – Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 2012
During the interwar period, California's labor-intensive agriculture transitioned from reliance on diverse immigrants to preference for Mexicans. Political movements to restrict immigration, the Great Depression, and labor unrest compelled farm employers to search for labor that could be used flexibly and deported easily. To achieve this…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Agriculture, Agricultural Laborers, Foreign Countries
Garton, Jeff – Techniques: Connecting Education and Careers (J1), 2010
Management experts have observed that employment relationship has become contractual, fragile, and short-lived. Downsizings have resulted in some people having far too much work and stress, while increasing numbers have no work at all. As a result, people are taking jobs they do not really want and staying longer in jobs they do not really like.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Holistic Approach, Education Work Relationship, Quality of Working Life
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Trower, Cathy A. – Academe, 2008
Beginning in 1934, representatives of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Association of American Colleges (AAC) met and drafted the definitive statement on academic freedom and tenure. Like the U.S. Constitution, the 1940 "Statement on Principles of Academic Freedom and Tenure" was a commendable, if deficient, product…
Descriptors: Tenure, Academic Freedom, Higher Education, Policy Formation