The role of migration authorities in handling third-country nationals who constitute a threat to public security in Germany: Study by the German National Contact Point for the European Migration Network (EMN)

Die Studie des Europäischen Migrationsnetzwerks (EMN) thematisiert die Rolle von Migrationsbehörden (Bundesamt für Migration und Flüchtlinge, kurz BAMF, sowie Ausländerbehörden) bei der Prävention, Identifikation und Nachverfolgung von Drittstaatsangehörigen, die eine Gefahr für die öffentliche Sicherheit in Deutschland darstellen. In den letzten Jahren fokussierte die sicherheitspolitische Debatte in der Europäischen Union (EU) sowie in Deutschland insbesondere auf Maßnahmen gegen islamistische Radikalisierung, gewaltbereiten Extremismus und sogenannte Gefährderinnen bzw. Gefährder. Neben den EU-Staatsangehörigen wurden auch Drittstaatsangehörige in den Blick genommen. Hier wurden Maßnahmen getroffen, die aufenthaltsrechtliche Konsequenzen beinhalten und von den Migrationsbehörden umgesetzt werden. Die vorliegende EMN-Studie (Working Paper 86) beschreibt die Zuständigkeiten und Kompetenzen der Migrationsbehörden und geht auf die Verfahrensabläufe und Herausforderungen beim Umgang mit Personen, die eine Gefahr für die öffentliche Sicherheit darstellen, ein.The study of the European Migration Network (EMN) discusses the role of migration authorities (Federal Office for Migration and Refugees as well as the foreigners authorities) with regard to prevention, identification and follow-up of third-country nationals who constitute a threat to public security in Germany. In the past few years the security debate in the European Union (EU) as well as Germany shifted its focus to measures to counter Islamist radicalisation, violent extremism and so-called potential offenders amongst EU citizens and third-country nationals. In Germany, several measures, including consequences for the right of residence, that fall within the remit of the migration authorities were introduced. The EMN study (Working Paper 86) describes the responsibilities and competences of the migration authorities as well as the procedures and challenges regarding the handling of persons who constitute a threat to public security

Biotech crops in America: Development, adoption, and regulation

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National innovative capacity: An established concept revisited

National innovative capacity, a central driver of countries’ long-term economic growth, has been one of the focal points in innovation research for roughly thirty years. Initially proposed as an index to measure technologic invention over time, this concept has become the widely accepted standard for measuring the performance of (sub) national and sectoral innovation systems toward being an analytic tool attributed to innovation systems theory. Country comparison, knowledge flows, and R&D forecasting are in the center of analysis feeding the concrete practical use of innovation policy optimization. In this regard, a rich body of studies has contributed indispensable knowledge about the determinants of innovative capacity. However, the multi-dimensional interconnections have not been covered in depth. Thus, to gain a holistic understanding of the “DNA” behind national innovative capacity a new “comparative” view of these determinants is necessary. To this end, this dissertation proposes revisiting the focus, unit and parameters of analysis that predominate within current national innovative capacity studies and sets forth three interlinked academic articles that focus on different layers of innovative capacity in countries. Besides furthering academic discourse on the determinants of innovational outcome, this conceptual revision leads to a new approach on national innovation capacity research. Its intention is to make policy makers aware of certain pathways leading to the same outcome. This knowledge will enable them to pursue a dynamic approach of supporting the innovative processes in countries by defining appropriate innovation strategies that consider both the countries’ specific preconditions and the sub-systems perspective.:1. Introduction 2. The purpose of revisiting the NIC concept for innovation policy 3. The scientific contribution of this doctoral thesis 3.1 Article 1: Increasing the national innovative capacity: Identifying the pathways to success using a comparative method 3.2 Article 2: National Health Innovation Systems: Clustering the OECD countries by innovative output in healthcare using a multi-indicator approach 3.3 Article 3: Increasing the innovative capacity of European cities: Making use of proven concepts from the national level 4. Reference

EXPLORING TEACHER PERCEPTIONS ABOUT CULTURAL PRACTICES DURING TRANSITIONS

This dissertation explores teacher perceptions of cultural practices and language that teachers use during transitional times between class-to-class and assignment-to-assignment. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is more to cultural practices than what current literature defines for critical life events and transitions. Artifact analysis from 18 school mission statements, semi structured interviews with eight participants, and rich observations were conducted. The content analysis defined, reviewed, and analyzed teacher perceptions of cultural practices and the language which they produced during their practices. From the exploration of the class-to-class and assignment-to-assignment, specific examples of cultural practices and language for transition were synthesized to recommend a new intervention or praxis for times of transition. Cultural practices can be one of a multitude of interventions within a larger collection of Transitional Practices. Based on the literature and the data in this study, Transitional Practices must focus on the connections and differences between how a teacher and student perceive CLEs. The findings promote that teachers need Transitional Practices for themselves as much as students do. More research is needed on teacher ownership and perceptions from their moment to moment actions which will increase the teacher’s outward practice

Intergenerational social mobility and the Brexit vote: how social origins and destinations divide Britain

To explain political divisions within British society, the current scholarship highlights the importance of the ‘winners’ and ‘left-behind’ of political economic transformations. Yet, the impact of widespread absolute intergenerational social mobility in the past half century, which resulted in socio-economic gains or losses for many, has not been systematically addressed. Our paper assesses how intergenerationally mobile voters’ position in the Brexit referendum differ from their non-mobile counterparts. We differentiate between the effects of social origins, social mobility, and destination position. To do so, we model data from Understanding Society with a Diagonal Reference Model. We show that origins are nearly as important as current socio-economic position for predicting the probability of voting to ‘Leave’ or ‘Remain’ in the Brexit referendum. We find that a first-generation graduate would be up to 10 percentage points less likely to vote ‘Remain’ than a graduate whose parents also went to university

Intergenerational social mobility and Brexit: one’s social origins are nearly as important as current socio-economic positions for predicting the probability of voting Leave or Remain

The political economic transformation of Britain has resulted in many individuals ‘winning’ through social mobility and others ‘missing out’. However, the effect of these gains and losses has not been assessed regarding voters’ position in the Brexit vote. Andrew McNeil and Charlotte Haberstroh show that the Brexit cleavage is influenced by both an individual’s social origin and destination position

The transition from the annular to the slug flow regime in two-phase flow

Experiments were conducted to determine the transition from annular to semiannular flow regimes for two-phase, gas-liquid upflow in vertical tubes. The influencesof liquid flow rate, tube diameter, liquid viscosity, surface tension, and density ratio were tested. The transition location, giving the least gas flow which will support annular flow, is correlated for low liquid flows. The effects of surface tension and liquid viscosity are small for tubes of 0.5" and greater diameter. For large liquid flows the transition occurs at constant quality. Over the range of variables tested, the void fraction at transition lies between 80% and 90%. The criterion of transition is the appearance of liquid plugs which intermittently bridge across the tube. The pressure drop and volume void fraction at transition are reported but not correlated. Recommendations for extension of the experimental results to untested conditions are presented.Sponsored by The Atomic Energy Commission DS