On Saturday, September 2nd 2023, Christopher Towler and Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien hosted an online meet-the-editors session for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (JREP) during this year’s American Political Science Association conference.…
On January 27, 2017, one week after his inauguration, President Trump signed the “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” executive order which indefinitely suspends the resettlement of Syrian refugees, temporarily bans people from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the U.S.…
The hashtag #primariessowhite has been trending in reference to the all-white, mostly male candidate pool for the Democratic presidential nomination. Little discussed is the fact that the demographics of the potential candidates is the result of institutional processes and procedures that artificially inflate the importance of white, middle class voters and suppress the political influence of racial and ethnic minorities by making harder for candidates of color to secure nominations and win offices.…
Among the many narratives about political ramifications of racial and ethnic demographic change in the United States over the last several decades, the potential of Latinx population growth to shift the nature of politics in the states, and even the calculus of Presidential campaigns, gained prominence as Latinx population growth seemed concentrated in what were long considered Republican strongholds.…
The accidental shooting of Kathryn Steinle in 2015 by Jose Inez Garcia Zarate, an undocumented immigrant, in San Francisco ignited a long-dormant debate on sanctuary cities.…
Are immigrants in the U.S. politically active? Do they vote, engage in political campaigns, and participate in protests as frequently as the native-born population?…
Central American migration is not a new phenomenon. While the contexts causing people to leave the region, primarily the Northern Triangle, have changed over time, they remain interconnected in that the historical “push factors” for migration out of Central America laid the foundations for the migratory flows we are seeing now.…
The October edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features a short blog by Motswana visual artist, Sedireng Mothibatsela, who writes about a crucial moment in her artistic development which coincides with her parent’s separation. It is a moving piece about how visual arts intersects with trauma and healing. I can recall the afternoon that changed how I create. I was 12 years old and in my last year of primary school and the looming high school years ahead presented many questions about how I wanted to proceed with my art. I had painted a watercolour still life and I was bored with it. Although my art received praise from my family and peers, my handling of watercolour was juvenile at best. I needed more; technically and conceptually. It was then that I began to question the art making process. Like most young artists in primary school we were simply taught that “good art is pretty art.”
I sat on a Zoom call with a psychologist from Edinburgh. My mental state, not my autistic son's, was in question.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ values and behaviours, Courage, Innovation, Respect, Collaboration, Learning and Excellence combine into the CIRCLE acronym. In the list under Excellence, a link takes you to core values for psychiatrists. One of those is humility.
The Akan people of Ghana, like many other collectivist cultures, have deeply engrained concepts of interdependence and support for each other. These concepts have been passed on for generations in the Adinkra symbols. Each symbol possesses an intrinsic meaning and represents virtues, values or beliefs critical to the Akan experience of life.
The July edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International –features a short interview with Nora Awolowo, a Nigerian film director whose documentary film Baby Blues: Trials of Childbirth is a 74-minute-long exposé about maternal mental health in Nigeria.…
The July 2023 edition of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International – features an article by Dr Olasunkanmi Onifade, Oral Medicine Consultant, Nigeria.
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…
At the end of the Greek Bronze Age, between c.1400-1200 BCE, the Mycenaean palaces of Crete and mainland Greece used small clay tablets to keep their accounting documents.
As Douwe Truijens and Marcel Hanegraaff have recently remarked (Truijens and Hanegraaff 2023), interest groups can play a very large role at the implementation stage of the policy cycle, potentially even reversing decisions made earlier in the cycle.…
With 2023 on the horizon, and the landscape of academic publishing in flux, Cambridge University Press spoke to the Editors of the SAA’s journals to find out what topics and questions are currently front of mind – for archaeologists, researchers and publishers alike.…
When a "nightmare dressed like a daydream" meets "mad, bad, and dangerous to know..."
Today is the 200th anniversary of Byron's death, the original tortured poet, and the release of @taylorswift13's new album.
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Congratulations to Michael Byers, Aaron Boley and Ignacio Cofone who have been shortlisted for the 2023 Donner Prize.
The award, for the best public policy book by a Canadian, will be announced in May.
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'We are aware that infusion fluids can both save and hurt patients'.
Find out about modern Fluid Therapy in this week's featured author blog by Professor Robert Hahn
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