Social Issues & Processes

An important component of economic statecraft, investment climate statements provide U.S. firms with country-specific information and assessments p...

This book is the second volume of a qualitative study of social mobility over three generations in post-war Hong Kong. The family histories and wor...

This book is the first volume of a qualitative study of social mobility over three generations in post-war Hong Kong. The family histories and work...

When we speak of assault , we move our discussion from that of violence in its varied injurious forms toward the needs of the victim, prevention o...

The compelling story of Hungarian children living with Belgian families during the interwar periodChildren who migrated without their families were...

In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the Kindertransport, this effort has lo...

This book examines the importance of social media and other information technologies in connecting people to job opportunities. Not surprisingly, d...

Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York Citys Lower East Sidethe Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the...

U.S. employers in various industries argue that they need to hire foreign workers to perform lower-skilled jobs, while others maintain that many of...

In recent years, there has been a blossoming use of advanced technologies across a wide range of applications in the general area of health care an...

Over the years, Congress has authorised and the federal government has administered programs to provide food to the hungry and to other vulnerable ...

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has long been concerned about alcohol-impaired driving, which accounts for approximately one-third ...

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are charted by Congress as government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) to provide liquidity in the mortgage market and promo...

Approximately 4 million to 5.5 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. entered the country legally on a temporary basis but then overstayed the...

States and localities have not invested adequate resources, planning, or training to meet architectural and physical access compliance standards re...

This series addresses new developments, issues and U.S. relations with countries around the world. Topics discussed in this compilation include The...

Racism and racial prejudice, considered a relic of obsolete and outdated social systems, is re-emerging in the depths of ultra-modern Western socie...