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    Across the sea ... and beyond
    (Policy Press, 2018) Crawley, Heaven; Jones, Katharine; McMahon, Simon; Sigona, Nando; N/A; Duvell, Franck; Other; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); N/A; N/A
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    Authority, modernity and gender-relevant legislation in Iran
    (Routledge, 2011) N/A; N/A; Halper, Louise; Other; Law School; N/A
    A widely accepted view, both in scholarly and more general writing, is that Muslim women benefit from a regime of secular law and suffer under religious law. Thus, we are accustomed to conflating the situation of women in countries as diverse as Iran and Afghanistan and thinking that the status of women in both is dreadful. In fact, however, indicators of women’s advancement in Iran1 are quite comparable to those of women in Turkey, which has had a secular tradition since 1924. In contrast, the situation of women in Afghanistan continues to be abysmal. At a glance, then, it appears that the presence or absence of shari’a as the law of the state is, at the least, non-determinative, whatever influence it may have. It is in fact my hypothesis that the situation of women is impacted less by the nature of the legal regime than by their political status; that is to say, the salience of women to the political process and their active involvement in it. Iran is my key example of this hypothesis, and modifications in the law of marriage and divorce there since the Islamic Revolution of 1978 to 1979 constitute my data. Let me first set out some actual data. With respect to literacy, illiterates as a percentage of Iranian women aged 15 to 24 declined from over one-third in 1980 to under 10 percent in 2000.2 Over the same period, the illiteracy rate for the entire population of adult women was cut in half, from about 60 percent to about 30 percent.3 As for education, the number of women in secondary school as a percentage of the eligible age group more than doubled from about 30 percent to almost 80 percent.4 As of 1999, for every 100 boys in primary school, 96 girls were enrolled, indicating that boys and girls were almost equally likely to be learning basic literacy and numeracy skills.5 In 2000, one-half of all Iranian university students were women,6 as were 60 percent of entering students,7 who were selected on the basis of a difficult nationwide exam. Twenty-seven percent of working-age women were in the labor force as of 2000, up from 20 percent in 1980.8 In terms of health, life expectancy went up by 11 years between 1980 and 2000 for both Iranian men and women.9 With respect to family planning, “levels of childbearing have declined faster than in any other country,” falling from an average of 5.6 births per woman in 1985 to only 2.0 births in 2000,10 a drop accomplished by a voluntary, but government-sponsored, birth control program.11
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    Beyond social mobility: Biographies, habitus and responses to changing 'Conditions of Existence' among university scholarship students
    (Sage, 2021) N/A; N/A; Nimer, Maissam; Researcher; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); N/A; N/A; 355744
    Wider access to higher education at a global level has been accompanied by growing literature on experiences of social mobility often using the concept of habitus as a theoretical tool to frame responses to changes in 'conditions of existence'. Drawing on the case study of a scholarship programme within an elite university in Lebanon, through in-depth interviews with students and university faculty and staff, this article elaborates on the typologies in responses that emerged as students position themselves in a new environment. These typologies, in contrast to the literature which presents them as a result of alterations in the habitus, appear to be related to each other and occur simultaneously within one person's trajectory. As such, instead of viewing these responses as degrees of incorporation of each set of schemes of perceptions from both fields, the context of origin and the new social context appear to be multi-faceted, and the interaction between them is complex. I argue, along the lines of Lahire's dispositional perspective, that the situation of contradictory experiences is not exceptional but characterizes all individuals to a certain extent, especially in the Lebanese context which is distinguished by its diversity in terms of regional and religious affiliations and in which class intersects with other types of identifications.
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    Do south african managers cope differently from American managers? a cross-cultural investigation
    (Elsevier, 2001) Bhagat, RS; Ford, DL; O'Driscoll, MP; Frey, L; Mahanyele, M; N/A; Babakuş, Emin; Faculty Member; College of Administrative Sciences and Economics; N/A
    Coping with organizational stress can reduce the experience of psychological strain on the job. While the literature on coping with stress is growing in its importance, there are hardly any empirical studies on the significance of coping styles or their relative efficacies in dissimilar cultural contexts. The present study was undertaken to examine: (1) the relative efficacies of two distinct types of coping styles (Lazarus st Folkman. (1984). Stress appraisal and coping. New York: Springer), and (2) the efficacy of decision latitude in the US and South African contexts, The results reveal important cultural influences on coping styles and decision latitude in ameliorating the experience of psychological strain, Implications of this study for future research on coping are discussed. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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    Education and religious minorities in Turkey: the story behind the introduction of compulsory religion courses
    (De Gruyter, 2015) N/A; N/A; Yalçın, Ayşe Seda Müftügil; Researcher; Koç Üniversitesi Sosyal Etki Forumu (KUSIF); N/A; N/A
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    Fear of small numbers: an essay on the geography anger
    (Cambridge Univ Press, 2008) N/A; N/A; Kaya, Laura Pearl; PhD Student; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A
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    Intercultural engagement and relatedness: examining mediation effects
    (Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, 2017) N/A; Department of Psychology; Department of Psychology; N/A; Kağıtçıbaşı, Çiğdem; Sakarya, Yasemin Kisbu; Aydoğdu, Ezgi; Faculty Member; Faculty Member; Master Student; Department of Psychology; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; Graduate School of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/A; 219275; N/A
    Most research on student sojourners has studied students coming from the Majority World to Western countries, especially the United States, for undergraduate and graduate education. Though increasing greatly in numbers, shorter sojourn has not been the focus of attention. With regard to the adjustment of sojourners, research has tended to stress situational factors rather than personality. This study is different in terms of focusing on short term educational sojourn of Western students in a Majority World country and examining the effect of personal characteristics and cultural evaluation of the sojourners on their experience. Relatedness and country of origin were found to influence the cultural experience of exchange students through their cultural evaluation at baseline. Students with higher relatedness orientation had more positive cultural evaluations at baseline which then led to a more positive cultural experience in the receiving country
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    Moving on
    (Policy Press, 2018) Crawley, Heaven; Jones, Katharine; McMahon, Simon; Sigona, Nando; N/A; Duvell, Franck; Other; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); N/A; N/A
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    Navigating borders and danger: the use of smugglers
    (Policy Press, 2018) Crawley, Heaven; Jones, Katharine; McMahon, Simon; Sigona, Nando; N/A; Duvell, Franck; Other; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); N/A; N/A
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    Not one route but many: unpacking migration to Europe
    (Policy Press, 2018) Crawley, Heaven; Jones, Katharine; McMahon, Simon; Sigona, Nando; N/A; Duvell, Franck; Other; Migration Research Program at Koç University (MIReKoç) / Göç Araştırmaları Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi (MIReKoç); N/A; N/A
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