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Introduction: from railway juncture to portal of globalization: making globalization work in African and South Asian railway towns Ghent University

Geert Castryck
Die Beiträge in diesem Heft erörtern die Herstellung und Gestaltung globaler Verbundenheit in fünf Eisenbahnstädten in Afrika und Südasien. Sie zeigen, wie lokale Akteure die jeweiligen historischen Umstände vor Ort mit dem von der Eisenbahn bereitgestellten Potential zusammenbringen, und wie sie damit die lokale Organisation von Raum und die globale Einbindung des jeweiligen Ortes neu bestimmen. Damit können die Autorinnen und Autoren zum einen ...

Does Globalization Broaden The Mind? The impact of Globalization on attitudes towards immigrant-rights of young adolescents in 35 regions Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Dimokritos Kavadias, Patrick Stouthuysen, Britt Dehertogh, Eva Franck
Globalization extends the areas of interaction between people of different origins. According to Allport’s contact theory (1958), intergroup contacts can reduce prejudices and negative attitudes towards foreign- ers. In this paper we focus on the impact of globalization (Dreher’s Index, 2007) on the openness to- wards immigrants, using multilevel models on the ICCS 2009 data (35 countries). There is a negative re- lation between globalization ...

Does globalization broaden the mind? The impact of globalization on attitudes towards immigrant-rights of young adolescents in 35 regions University of Antwerp

Dimokritos Kavadias, Patrick Stouthuysen, Britt Dehertogh, Eva Franck
Globalization extends the areas of interaction between people of different origins. According to Allports contact theory (1958), intergroup contacts can reduce prejudices and negative attitudes towards foreigners. In this paper we focus on the impact of globalization (Drehers Index, 2007) on the openness towards immigrants, using multilevel models on the ICCS 2009 data (35 countries). There is a negative relation between globalization and the ...