Back Home? Refugees' Experiences of their First Visit back to their Country of Origin

This paper argues that the first visit ‘back home’is important for refugees because it acts as a catalyst forrenewed engagements with host country and country of origin.The study shows that conditions in both countries impact ondecision-making and ultimately that integration and return cancoexist. The first re-connection with ‘home’ isdescribed as a memorable event in and of itself. Marked by anawareness of the passing of time, it provides both an end towaiting and worrying and a measure of one's progress (or lackof) in life, thus enabling participants to move on. Establishmentof safety nets in both host and home countries as a conditionfor permanent return distinguishes the predicament of theserefugees from that of other migrants. As the meeting betweenimagination and reality, the first visit contributes to there-examination of the refugee cycle, the myth of return andthe meaning of home in a context where return encompasses onediscrete experience, the visit, and subsequent events. Overall,the paper provides a link between the literature on return asimagined while in exile and accounts of the reality of post-return.     

Negotiated Third Party Access—An Industrial Organisation Perspective

In the course of the liberalization of European energy markets, the German government opted—diverging from all other European countries—for Negotiated Third-Party Access. In this article we analyze if, theoretically, this institutional regime can be superior to regulation. We review empirically whether certain aspects of the actual implementation, in particular publication of the network access charges for each network supplier, facilitated or inhibited competition. In the first place we reconsider previous research, showing that NTPA can—under certain conditions—be economically effective. Our empirical analysis shows that the duty of publishing access charges supported market transparency and imposed a regulatory threat, particularly to suppliers with significantly above-average charges. On the other hand observable price adjustments over time serve as an indicator of tacit collusion. Although the expensive suppliers cut their prices, the cheaper ones raised theirs.We thank Maik Heinemann, Joachim Wagner and two anonymous referees for helpful comments and the Lower Saxonian Ministry of Science and Culture for financial support.JEL Classification: D42, L43, L94     

台湾经济“四化”问题与两岸经济合作

新世纪初期,在全球化、区域化大发展背景下,在两岸经济合作日趋紧密而政治对立不见缓和的矛盾纠结中,台湾对外经济层面凸现出"出口导向产品单一化"、"新产业空洞化"、"经济边缘化"、"发展战略泛政治化"等问题.文章对上述"四化"问题的现象和成因加以探讨,重点分析大陆经济成长对其产生的客观影响,进而阐明深化两岸经济合作对解决台湾经济"四化"问题的重要性.     

整体性治理与农民工子女的社会融入

农民工随迁子女实际上是城市第二代移民,他们能否融入城市社会是公共管理的重大议题,但当前政府应对这一问题的举措过于碎片化。本文系统地分析了农民工子女融入城市社会的主要障碍,并基于整体性治理的思路,提出具有可操作性的政策建议:首先,必须建立跨部门合作的机制和平台;其次,帮助农民工子女克服升学和就业瓶颈;再次,要积极鼓励社会组织参与合作治理,为农民工子女提供教育和社会服务;第四,少先队、共青团组织应当加强对农民工子女的关怀和吸纳;最后,以社区和学校为主要平台促进农民工子女社会融合。     

政府信息化系统群集成化建设模式研究

本文从我国政府信息化分散建设的实际情况出发,为解决不同单位间关联业务数据不共享、协同应用与业务整合的关联松散等实际问题,建立了政府信息化系统群集成化建设的框架模型,综合运用集合空间思想、群判别法知识和集成管理理论,提出了政府信息化系统群集成的判断依据,并对政府信息化系统群集成化建设管理机制进行了充分探索,为促进政府信息化系统群建设管理机制的改进提供借鉴,一定程度上推动了我国政府信息化系统的建设模式创新。     

对公安院校警务实战训练一体化改革可持续发展的研究

基于我国公安院校由学历教育向警察职业教育培训转型(学制两年)这一特殊层次的训练需要,新警的培训要求我们必须寻求一种"短、平、快"的训练方法。如何有效利用有限的课时有针对性地引导学员进行应用能力训练,突出职业能力的培训是警务实战训练一体化着重解决的问题。为实现警务实战训练一体化教学改革的可持续发展,文中在总结改革初期取得的宝贵经验的基础上,科学理性的分析制约改革发展进程的诸多不利因素,并研究制定解决问题的具体方法,使教学改革能够向纵深推进。     

新时期我国文化体制改革的特点及趋势分析

我国新时期的文化体制改革已历经30多年,纵观我国文化体制改革历程,"分离"与"融合"是我国文化体制改革的鲜明特点,双重分离是文化体制改革的基础和关键,多要素融合是文化体制改革的主要内容和实现途径。在这一过程中,"分离"与"融合"相互渗透,相辅相成,"融合发展"将成为未来文化体制改革的必然趋势。     

甘肃城乡一体化：现状与未来

城乡一体化作为我国一项新的发展战略,对城乡二元结构突出、基础条件偏弱、经济总量偏小、人均水平偏低的甘肃来说,既是难得的大好机遇,但也充满挑战。通过构建甘肃省城乡一体化的综合评价指标体系评价反映出甘肃省的城乡一体化有一定程度的发展,但也存在发展动力挖掘不够、产业结构单一、农村贫困率高、社会力量动员不足等问题。区域发展是嵌入在特定的社会文化背景之中的,进行文化上的足够动员、培育区域文化软实力是甘肃推进城乡一体化的关键所在。     

Introduction

This introductory paper seeks to provide an overview of the key themes that run through the papers in this special issue. Taking their cue from some ongoing current debates about the meanings of citizenship, multiculturalism and identity in the contemporary environment, Schuster and Solomos begin by exploring some of the most significant ideas in current political and academic controversies about these issues. In doing so they touch upon some of the main policy dilemmas faced both by nation-states and by migrant and minority communities. They then move on to engage with the question of what policies need to be developed to deal with citizenship and belonging in societies that are increasingly ethnically and culturally diverse. They conclude by analysing the direction of current research and policy priorities, and provide an overview of the key arguments to be found in each of the substantive papers that make up this issue.     

东洋与西洋的统合——明治哲学家们的追求

日本哲学的形成是通过西周这一人物导入西方哲学才得以成立的,但是与此同时,日本也出现了与之对抗的现象,即井上哲次郎、三宅雪岭站在儒教的立场,井上圆了、清泽满之站在佛教的立场,展开了与西方哲学的对抗。但是,他们的目的并不是为了否定西方哲学,而是形成了一条将西方与东方融合起来的道路,从而为西田几多郎的"场所的逻辑"奠定了基础。