Human trafficking and the UK Modern Slavery Bill

This article provides a commentary on growing awareness of human trafficking to and within the United Kingdom and government responses to it

The UK’s modern slavery legislation: An early assessment of progress

In 2015, the Westminster UK government introduced a Modern Slavery Act described by its proponents as ‘world-leading’. This description was challenged at the time both inside and outside the UK. Two years on, it is possible to make a preliminary assessment of progress with the Act and its two counterparts in Scotland and Northern Ireland.1 This article reviews the origins of discussions about modern slavery in the UK, describes the process leading to the passage of the Modern Slavery Act(s) and attempts an early evaluation of their effectiveness. It concludes that much remains to be done to ensure that they achieve their goal of abolishing modern slavery in the UK

Pile- Exhibition curated by Craig Fisher

This enquiry extends previous investigations exploring the relation between pattern, decoration and formalist abstraction, addressing painting’s capacity to establish a ‘visual pulse’, enabling a re-interpretation of both a previous painting and a body of new paintings/drawings. The work was selected for a comprehensive sculpture exhibition that questions the conventions of group exhibitions. Ways in which painting’s autonomy is examined through display and proximity to the work of others are explored. Mother in Law’s Tongue, a three-panelled painting on domestic door blanks, connected floor and wall – both siting and object/image address the boundary between painting and sculpture. The hierarchy of fine art over decorative arts is challenged: the painting used as a device on which to hang the work of another artist, risking that the work might be seen as a decorative prop. Previous research using repetition and difference as a means to invoke a visual pulse in painting was re-visited in a new body of paintings on paper, continuing investigations of relations between internal mark-making, in relation to frame, size and scale, and parameters of substrate. The project restricts colour to its constitute subtractive primaries (magenta, yellow, and cyan), which then enables the exploration of a set of permutations and combinations. The resulting paintings are constructed through a repetitive process, engaging the viewer in the rhythm and craft of production, producing a hypnotic quality, making the work seem more ‘alive’ than the methodical nature of production might suggest. The slippage between systematic abstraction and pattern suggests an in-between space, uncertain and open to interpretation. Earlier stages of this research include: a group exhibition Trick of Light, Primo Alonso Gallery, London, 2010, curated by Juan Bolivar; and two chapbooks in the series Transmission Hospitality (London: Artwords, 2010, 2011) – from the second, a visual and textual dialogue with the artist Jane Harris, the saturated works above developed

Same-Sex Couples and Immigration in the United States

This report uses Census Bureau data to provide a portrait of same-sex couples affected by United States immigration policy. Using data from the American Community Survey (ACS) it presents demographic profiles of three different types of same-sex couples: binational couples in which one partner is a U.S. citizen and one is not; dual non-citizen couples; and couples that include a naturalized U.S. citizen. Binational couples and non-citizen couples in which only one partner is a permanent resident would gain protections and rights if U.S. immigration law were changed to treat same-sex couples as their different-sex counterparts are treated. As of 2010, nearly 79,200 same-sex couples living in the United States include at least one partner who is currently not a U.S citizen or was naturalized as a citizen. Of the nearly 650,000 same-sex couples in the US: 4.4% or 28,574 are binational couples (one partner is a U.S. citizen and one is not)1.8% or 11,442 are dual non-citizen couples6.1% or 39,176 are dual citizen couples with at least one naturalized partne

Addressing ethnicity in social care research

This article surveys recent developments in relation to the dimensions of ethnicity and ethnicdisadvantage in social policy research and practice, with a focus on social care. While therehas been limited increase in attention to ethnicity within general policy discussion andincreasing sophistication within specialist debates, advances in theory and methodology havelargely failed to penetrate the research mainstream, let alone policy or practice. This is along-standing problem. We advocate more focussed consideration of ethnicity and ethnicdisadvantage at all levels. Failure to do so creates the risk of social policy research being leftbehind in understanding rapid changes in ethnic minority demographics and patterns of migration, with increasing disadvantage to minorities

HOPE Longitudinal Study: Year 2 Results

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Understanding European Union international message telephone services demand

This study provides a contemporary understanding of demand relations in European Union (EU) international message telephone service (IMTS) markets prior to full liberalization at January 1 1998. Point-to-point demand equations that relate IMTS demand to prices, income, population and distance are estimated on bilateral market data for ten EU countries from 1990 to 1995. Model estimates suggest price elasticities of outgoing and incoming demand between 20.175 and 20.456, and 20.215 and 20.674, respectively. These elasticity estimates provide an empirical base from which to calculate welfare gains from the full deregulation of EU IMTS markets after 1998.Elasticity; European Union; International telephone demand

Combining diverse data sources for CEDSS, an agent-based model of domestic energy demand

CEDSS (Community Energy Demand Social Simulator) is an empirical agent-based model designed and built as part of a multi-method social science project investigating the determinants of domestic energy demand. Ideally, empirical modellers, within and beyond social simulation, would prefer to work from an integrated dataset, gatheredfor the purposes of developing the model. In practice, many have to work with less than ideal data, often including processed data from multiple sources external to the project. Moreover, what data will be required may not be clear at the start of the project. This paper describes the approach to dealing with these factors taken in developing CEDSS, and presents the completed model together with an outline of the calibration and validation procedure used. The discussion section draws together the most distinctive features of empirical data collection, processing and use for and in CEDSS, and argues that the approach taken is sufficiently robust to underpin the model’s purpose – to generate scenarios of domestic energy demand to 2049

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