Riset dan pengembangan material untuk aplikasi MRI dan implan tulang perlu dilakukan di Indonesia dalam rangka meningkatkan penguasaan teknologi manufaktur kedua alkes tersebut secara bertahap hingga menyeluruh. Dengan penguasaan teknologi tersebut diharapkan muncul berbagai inovasi yang dapat meningkatkan daya saing industri manufaktur komponen dan alkes dalam negeri serta mengurangi ketergant…
This book about Balinese traditional medicinal plants serves as an effort to disseminate information about various types of medicinal plants collected by Bali Botanical Gardens along with the information on their uses by the people of Bali. The Balinese people have created these recipes for generations and are a leading example for the rest of the world to follow. Written through collaboration …
Daerah perkotaan identik dengan kemajuan teknologi, industri, dan ekonomi. Bertolak belakang dengan hal tersebut, penduduk miskin masih menjadi permasalahan yang kerap ditemukan di daerah perkotaan. Sebagian besar penduduk miskin tersebut berasal dari kaum migran yang bekerja di sektor informal. Kaum ini sangat rentan mengalami proses marginalisasi yang berdampak pada rendahnya ketahanan sosial…
Tumbuhan tidak hanya sebatas penghasil bahan pangan, papan, sandang, dan penghias taman, tetapi juga dimanfaatkan sebagai obat untuk menyembuhkan berbagai macam penyakit. Kearifan nenek moyang kita dalam menggunakan tumbuhan sebagai penawar sakit harus terus dilestarikan, di tengah semakin maraknya penggunaan obat-obatan berbahan kimiawi. Penggunaan obat-obatan tradisional warisan nenek moyang …
What do undocumented migrants experience when they try to access healthcare? How do they navigate the (often contradictory) challenges presented by bureaucratic systems, financial pressures, attitudes to migrants, and their own healthcare needs? This urgent study uses a grounded theory approach to explore the ways in which undocumented migrants are included in or excluded from healthcare in …
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a mass exodus of India’s migrant workers from the cities back to the villages. This book explores the social conditions and concerns around health, labour, migration, and gender that were thrown up as a result of this forced migration. The book examines the failings of the public health systems and the state response to address the humanitarian crisis which u…
Adult Language Education and Migration: Challenging Agendas in Policy and Practice provides a lively and critical examination of policy and practice in language education for adult migrants around the world, showing how opportunities for learning the language of a new country both shape and are shaped by policy moves. Language policies for migrants are often controversial and hotly contested, b…
The air is an important but largely unrecognized source of contaminant fate in the environment, including transport of pesticides and contaminants to nontarget areas and exposures for people and wildlife. This book summarizes and places in perspective the potential transport, transformation, and health implications of pesticides and contaminants in air, including the air we breathe. It delves i…
Pencemaran yang terjadi di laut semakin mengancam bumi karena semakin banyak aktivitas kita yang berdampak pada lautan, seperti pembuangan sampah dan kotoran, pelepasan zatzat beracun, serta pencemaran bahan organik, baik terlarut maupun tidak terlarut. Buku Panduan Analisis Pencemaran Kimia Organik di Laut ini menyampaikan informasi mengenai pencemaran kimia organik yang biasa terjadi di …
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales an…
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales an…
This book focuses on the political participation and grassroots mobilization of immigrants and racialized communities in the European context. Based on extensive data collected in Italy, it explores the role that alliances among pro-immigrant groups play in shaping political participation, asking why and how immigrant activists mobilize in hostile environments, why and how they create alliances…
Debates on immigrant integration are often caught up in what academics and politicians like to call 'national models of integration'. Researchers and policymakers long for common ground. In the Netherlands, their symbiosis is fed by multiculturalism, something for which Dutch society has long been seen as exemplary. Still, the incorporation of migrants remains one of the country's most pressing…
Through biographical narratives, Claiming Home traces how queer migrant women living in Switzerland navigate often contradictory perspectives on sexuality, gender, and nation. Situated between heteronormative and racialized stereotypes of migrant women on the one hand, and the implicitly white figure of the lesbian on the other, queer migrant women are often rendered ›impossible subjects.‹ …
Ants are tiny creatures that are often overlooked in our everyday lives. Yet, there are more than 15.000 species of ants on Earth, and their total biomass is higher than that of all humans combined. They invented agriculture more than 50 million years ago, turn more soil than earthworms, can lift 5,000 times their body weight, and can form supercolonies that span across continents. With the thi…
An exploration of social movement media practices in an increasingly complex media ecology, through richly detailed cases of immigrant rights activism.For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media—newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue that social media power social movements, from the Egyptian revolution to Occupy Wall Street. Yet, as Sash…
Immigration Justice is the culmination of over seven years of work that began in the fall of 2005, when I wrote a short paper examining the global egalitarian potential of “open borders.” Judging that paper to be inadequate by itself for defending the central thought underlying my views on the justice of states’ immigrant admissions policies, I resolved to continu…
By adopting a rights-based approach, this open access book sheds light on the different legal and policy instruments that have been adopted to implement circular migration policies in the EU and their consequences for the rights of migrant workers. It contributes to the understanding of the meaning of this concept in general, in the EU, as well as more specifically with regard to its Eastern ne…
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales an…
This open access book contributes new theoretical and comparative insights on migrant agency, undocumentedness and informality in non-Western, non-democratic migration regimes. The book is conceived as a critical reflection on the contemporary migration regime scholarship, and, more generally, on comparative migration studies, which primarily focus on migrants’ experiences and immigration pol…