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In this work Moritz Jesse analyses the legal framework within which inclusion of immigrants into the receiving societies can take place. The inclusion of immigrants cannot be enforced by law. However, legislation must provide the room within which integration can take place legally. By studying residence titles, procedures and other sources in a comparative and critical way, Jesse wants to discover whether the legal potential for integration in the EU and the three Member States is sufficient for the inclusion of immigrants.

This book explores the relationships between sites, people, objects, and images during the early globalization. It investigates interconnections and entanglements on both micro and macro levels, and aims to understand the dynamics of processes of translocal and transcultural intersection.

On Coerced Labor focuses on forms of labor which, unlike chattel slavery, have received little scholarly attention. It provides discussions of legal definitions of unfree labor as well as empirical findings on convict and military labor, indentured labor, debt bondage, and sharecropping.

In Transboundary Offshore Aquifers: A Search for a Governance Regime, Renee Martin-Nagle explains the geologic origins of offshore freshwater aquifers and proposes a governance regime for offshore aquifers that are shared by two or more nations. International law principles for marine resources, offshore hydrocarbons and land-based fresh water are explored.

In The Present State of Old Testament Studies in the Low Countries fifteen leading scholars from Belgium and the Netherlands give an overview of their multifaceted and innovative research.

A brief introduction to the scholarly methodology known as "poststructuralism," with focus on the importance of the materiality of the signifier and how that materiality both plays a part in and disrupts the construction of meaning. Special attention is given to the interests of biblical scholars. Poststructuralism is presented as a methodology that questions and challenges the meanings that readers assign to biblical (and other) texts.

This essay offers an intellectual history of affect theory within biblical studies. Rendered as an ecology of thought, it describes the landscape of biblical studies through some frictions and discontentments with its legacies, as well as some meaningful encounters under its auspices.

Das vorliegende Buch widmet sich den Lebensumständen und der Berufsethik der arabischen Ärzte des Mittelalters. Auf der Grundlage zahlreicher biographischer, protreptischer, deontologischer und isagogischer Schriften untersucht Bürgel verschiedenste Aspekte der medizinischen Ausbildung, der Berufsausübung und der Rolle von Ärzten in der islamischen Gesellschaft.The present book investigates conditions of life and professional ethics of the Arab physicians in the Middle Ages. Based on a multitude of biographical, protreptic, deontological, and isagogic texts, Bürgel analyzes diverse aspects of medical education, professional conduct, and the role of doctors in Islamicate societies.

In Paradiplomacy as a Diplomatic Broker, Manuel Duran presents paradiplomacy, the diplomatic practices of sub-state entities, as a specific site of diplomatic mediation, striking a middle ground between "realist" power play and the humanist need to connect to and engage with others.

This book involves a historiographical study of the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia that defines its relationship with fifth- and fourth-century historical works and its role as a source of Diodorus' Bibliotheke. The study is supported by intertextual comparison, narratological and papyrological investigations.

The problem of the limits of science -- of the "barriers" and the "confines" -- requires a new analysis, which is the task of this book. The issue is considered from the perspective of science as a human activity.

Rafe de Crespigny provides the first account in a Western language of one of the great dynasties of China, which dominated east Asia but collapsed in dramatic fashion at the end of the second century AD.

In Naturopathy in South India - Clinics between Professionalization and Empowerment Eva Jansen offers a rich ethnographic account of current naturopathic thinking and practices, and examines its complex history, multiple interpretations, and antagonisms.

This book, in minute detail, presents a polyphony of voices, perspectives and opinions, from which emerges a diverse but coherent representation of the complex relationship between religion and war in the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome.

In this book, Lorea explores the relationship between Bengali folklore, heterodox religious movements and politics of cultural representation through the contextual study of the eccentric guru Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), his ecstatic songs and their performers.

Korean divorce law still adheres to fault-based divorce. According to a majority of the Supreme Court, the main reason for not admitting a no-fault policy is that the preconditions for systems for financially protecting the spouse and children after divorce have not yet been satisfied in Korea. However, there is not much time left, so we must use this golden time for preparing protective measures for divorced women and their children, through legislative efforts.

Jacques Réda: Being There, Almost studies Réda's influential work since the 1950s--poetry, novels, literary essays, short prose, jazz histories. It particularly examines places explored and how the 'world's energy' becomes the ideal dancing partner, poetry incarnate in one's arms.

Ghost Movies in Southeast Asia and Beyond explores ghost movies, one of the most popular film genres in East and Southeast Asia, by focusing on movie narratives, the cultural contexts of their origins and audience reception.

This volume focuses on coalitions and collaborations formed by refugees from Nazi Germany in their host countries, connecting the NS-exile to other forms of displacement and persecution and locating it within the ruptures of civilization dominant in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Trois décennies après l'émergence du VIH, deux générations de chercheurs dressent le bilan des représentations qu'en a donné la littérature française. À travers diverses approches, ils interrogent l'actualité d'un phénomène aux multiples implications, intimes et politiques, morales et poétiques.Three decades after the emergence of HIV, two generations of researchers take stock of its representations in French literature. Taking various approaches, they question the current relevance of a phenomenon with implications that are personal, political, ethical, and poetic.

In Hebrew Lexical Semantics Kurtis Peters provides a new way to incorporate linguistics in Biblical Hebrew studies, and does so applied to verbal lexemes of cooking.

The volume presents a selection of research projects in Digital Humanities applied to the "Biblical Studies" in the widest sense and context. Taken as a whole, the volume restitutes the merging Digital Culture at the beginning of the 21st century.

Peripheral Visions sheds new light on how today's peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized. Focusing on space, mobility and aesthetics, it argues that peripheries require more visibility, and are invaluable for creating alternative perspectives on the globalizing present.

In Muslim Sanzijing, Roberta Tontini traces the history of Islam and Islamic law in China through a rigorous analysis of popular Chinese Islamic primers from the 18th to the 21st century.

Many challenges hinder the historical study of early modern color. These essays offer a way forward through the category of 'color worlds'--constituted by practices, concepts and objects--and examine the emergence of the languages and objects used to communicate between them.

Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Volume 5, presents additional studies in regional survey, salvage excavation, zooarchaeology, ceramic typology, experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology by members of the Madaba Plains and Tall Jawa Projects.

This book argues that Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles counter the critical trend associating American modernity primarily with urban spaces, and instead locate the nomadic thrust of their times in the (post)colonial history of the American frontier.

Women and Crime in Early Modern Holland is the first account on women's criminality and high female crime rates in Holland in the Early Modern Period.

Innovative and interdisciplinary essays on the increasingly significant British writer J.G. Ballard (1930-2009), exploring the physical, cultural and intertextual landscapes in his key works, especially The Atrocity Exhibition, one of the most challenging works in contemporary fiction.

Late Medieval and Early Modern Fight Books offers insights into the cultural and historical transmission and practices of martial arts, based on interdisciplinary research on the corpus of the Fight Books (Fechtbücher) in 14th- to 17th-century Europe.