Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa
Making and Unmaking Nations: War, Leadership, and Genocide in Modern Africa
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国家的建立和毁灭：现代非洲的战争、领导力和种族灭绝
DOI：
10.1080/09546553.2021.1939533
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
D. Béland
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作者：
D. Béland
移民和融合，以及移民和定居服务的研究生课程。这本书也是这份遗产的一部分。这本书更普遍地反映了大都会项目的优势和局限性。首先，它是应用研究，除了一两个例外，这些论文并不寻求做出理论贡献。这项研究是经验性的，植根于移民自己的经验，移民自己的声音在许多论文中清晰地响起。第二，虽然研究采用了定性和定量方法，但主要的方法是定性的。一些论文利用定量数据，但只有少数采用回归分析，以更深入地挖掘在调查领域的工作关系。这无疑增加了非专业读者对本书的可及性。但这也代表了这本书在多大程度上反映了加拿大移民研究的全方位。与此相关的是，尽管有20个学科的代表，但经济学家的工作几乎没有出现在这些页面上。这可能反映了经济学家明显倾向于在期刊上发表文章，而不是编辑书籍。但这种纪律分歧也渗透到更广泛的移民部门。经济学家对移民政策辩论做出了重要贡献，他们的研究在政府圈子中具有影响力。例如，他们的工作在关于为什么最近移民到加拿大的移民尽管比他们的前辈拥有更强的教育资历，但在劳动力市场上遇到更大困难的辩论中发挥了重要作用。但他们的工作往往在一个单独的学术筒仓中进行。这种学科划分并不是本书所独有的，甚至也不是移民部门所独有的。但很不幸。经济学家和其他社会科学家有很多东西可以互相学习。尽管存在差距，这本书提供了丰富的信息，关于移民在加拿大的生活经验和政策的后果设计，太经常，在封闭的房间在遥远的首都。学者和实践者都会发现这里有很多有用的阅读。
Migration and Integration, and graduate programmes in immigration and settlement services. This book is now part of that legacy as well. The book reflects the strengths and limitations of the Metropolis project more generally. First, it is applied research and, with one or two exceptions, the papers do not seek to make theoretical contributions. The research is empirical, rooted in the experience of immigrants themselves, and immigrants’ own voices ring out clearly in many of the papers. Second, while the research draws on both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, the predominant approach is qualitative. A number of papers draw on quantitative data, but only a handful employ regression analysis to dig more deeply into the relationships at work in the area under investigation. This undoubtedly increases the accessibility of the book to non-specialist readers. But it also represents a gap in the extent to which the book reflects the full range of immigration research in Canada. Relatedly, despite the representation of 20 academic disciplines, work by economists is virtually absent from these pages. This may reflect the marked preference among economists for publishing in journals rather than edited books. But this disciplinary divide also permeates the immigration sector more generally. Economists have made important contributions to immigration policy debates, and their research has been influential in government circles. For example, their work has been important in the debate about why recent cohorts of immigrants to Canada have experienced greater difficulty in the labour market despite having stronger educational credentials than their predecessors. But their work has tended to proceed in a separate academic silo. This disciplinary divide is hardly unique to this volume, or even to the immigration sector. But it is unfortunate. Economists and other social scientists have much to learn from each other. Despite the gaps, this book provides a wealth of information about the lived experience of immigrants in Canada and the consequences of policies designed, too often, in closed rooms in distant capitals. Scholars and practitioners alike will find much useful reading here.