Communicating Across Cultures

Communicating Across Cultures
Author: Carmen Valero-Garcés
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0761861556

Communicating Across Cultures: A Coursebook on Interpreting and Translating in Public Services and Institutions is a manual which addresses the complex task of interpreting and translating through reflection and practice. The book originated from discussions with those who perform the work of an intermediary because they “know” the languages and cultures, and with those who would like to do this type of work, but who may require more training. Thus, it is directed at people who, due to their knowledge of two languages, serve as liaisons between immigrant communities, visitors, or foreigners and the societies that receive them. More precisely, it is directed at future professionals in public service translation and interpreting. Communicating Across Cultures will equip future professionals with the necessary knowledge, skills, and tools to act as linguistic, communicative, and cultural liaisons. It will also help improve the communication between the staff of medical, legal, educational, and administrative institutions and their foreign clients.

Inmigración, integración, mediación intercultural y participación ciudadana

Inmigración, integración, mediación intercultural y participación ciudadana
Author: Enrique Conejero Paz
Publisher: Ecu
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2010
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9788499480084

Este Libro que le presentamos al lector es el resultado de las contribuciones presentadas al Curso de verano "Inmigración, integración, mediación intercultural y participación ciudadana", organizado por la Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, celebrado en la Sede de Aspe, los pasados 9 y 10 de Septiembre de 2009. Sin duda, el Curso -y, ahora el Libro- cumplió con los objetivos marcados: ofrecer los conocimientos, habilidades y herramientas necesarias para optimizar su labor en el trabajo de la integración y la mediación con personas inmigrantes; identificar las claves conceptuales necesarias para el análisis de los conflictos en contextos multiculturales; y, crear un espacio de análisis, reflexión y generación de propuestas para dar solución a los problemas cotidianos de integración de la población inmigrante. El crecimiento de la población inmigrante en la Comunitat Valenciana arroja nuevos retos a la sociedad valenciana en general, y a los poderes públicos en particular. La integración de las personas inmigrantes en la sociedad valenciana implica el reconocimiento de una serie de derechos, así como el cumplimiento de unos deberes que parten de los criterios de convivencia y organización característicos de la sociedad española y valenciana. Todo ello dentro del respeto a la identidad cultural y religiosa de los recién llegados. En este sentido, la integración sólo puede hacerse efectiva a través del conocimiento mutuo. Para ello, los poderes públicos deberán promover las medidas necesarias para alcanzar dicho fin. Por otro lado, están apareciendo sugerentes concepciones interculturales en el ámbito de la teoría y la práctica de la mediación. La naturaleza de la mediación como intervención de terceros para apoyar a partes involucradas en conflictos se vuelve más compleja cuando se incorpora la variante cultural a muy distintos niveles: la diversidad étnica, religiosa, lingüística y demás de las partes; la propia cultura del mediador o mediadora; la influencia de los factores culturales en la relación establecida y en el contenido del conflicto, etc.

Un continente en movimiento

Un continente en movimiento
Author: Ingrid Wehr
Publisher:
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Recoge una selección de trabajos que investigan el fenómeno migratorio interno e internacional del continente americano, durante el siglo XX, el cual otrora receptor de inmigrantes se ha transformado en una región expulsora de migrantes.

A World of Babies

A World of Babies
Author: Judy S. DeLoache
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2000-05-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780521664752

'Manuals' for new parents illustrating many models of babyhood, shaped by different values and cultures.

Toward Assimilation and Citizenship

Toward Assimilation and Citizenship
Author: C. Joppke
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2002-12-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230554792

This book surveys a new trend in immigration studies, which one could characterize as a turn away from multicultural and postnational perspectives, toward a renewed emphasis on assimilation and citizenship. Looking both at state policies and migrant practices, the contributions to this volume argue that (1) citizenship has remained the dominant membership principle in liberal nation-states, (2) multiculturalism policies are everywhere in retreat, and (3) contemporary migrants are simultaneously assimilating and transnationalizing.

Teaching Translation from Spanish to English

Teaching Translation from Spanish to English
Author: Allison Beeby Lonsdale
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN: 077660399X

While many professional translators believe the ability to translate is a gift that one either has or does not have, Allison Beeby Lonsdale questions this view. In her innovative book, Beeby Lonsdale demonstrates how teachers can guide their students by showing them how insights from communication theory, discourse analysis, pragmatics, and semiotics can illuminate the translation process. Using Spanish to English translation as her example, she presents the basic principles of translation through 29 teaching units, which are prefaced by objectives, tasks, and commentaries for the teacher, and through 48 task sheets, which show how to present the material to students. Published in English.

The North American Mosaic

The North American Mosaic
Author: Commission for Environmental Cooperation (Montréal, Québec). Secretariat
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

The North American Mosaic has four overarching features. First, it is, to the extent feasible, based on comparable information on the status and trends of major indicators of the state of the environment in Canada,Mexico, and the United States. Second, the report confirms that these three countries together make up an incredibly complex, dynamic, and interconnected ecosystem in which humans play a dominant and decisive role. Third, the report raises important and sometimes disquieting questions concerning the sustainability of some current trends. Finally, the report is a reminder that our economic, social, and physical well-being are utterly dependent on the life-sustaining services provided by nature. This report emphasizes the importance of developing mutually compatible economic, social, and environmental goals and policies across the three-country region.

Interculturalism

Interculturalism
Author: Gérard Bouchard
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1442615842

Written by one of Quebec's leading public intellectuals and the co-chair of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission on reasonable accommodation,Interculturalism is the first clear and comprehensive statement in English of the intercultural approach to managing diversity.

Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods

Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods
Author: Jenny Phillimore
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2021-05-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000390977

Migration-driven diversity means European cities are becoming increasingly superdiverse. Some European neighbourhoods have become places where newcomers arrive from across the world, speaking many different languages, from a range of socio-economic backgrounds and with diverse religious beliefs and practices, while living alongside long-established migrant and white European populations. This book focuses on what this increasing population diversity means for how people and local health and welfare service providers seek to address everyday health concerns – from minor and chronic conditions to acute and urgent problems. Using an innovative mixed-method approach crossing multiple disciplines and drawing together rich qualitative and robust quantitative data, this book offers unique insight into the complex and intricate actions, which often vary over space and time, implemented by both residents and care providers from eight superdiverse localities in four European countries, each with different health and welfare traditions. The book introduces the concept of welfare bricolage, using it as a mechanism to explore the structures and rationales underpinning need and actions, and how resources are connected across welfare regimes and borders and within locales. The book illustrates how, in the face of increasingly marketised, cash-strapped, restrictive and institutionally racist welfare states and healthcare regimes, individuals and service providers strive to address need. By focusing on welfare regimes, migration histories, everyday actions and resources within neighbourhoods, Exploring Welfare Bricolage in Europe’s Superdiverse Neighbourhoods offers a unique insight into what people and providers actually do when faced with health concerns. The book highlights the role of structure and agency and moves beyond conventional approaches that focus on specific groups or sectors to research health and welfare by looking at whole populations and entire welfare ecosystems. The book’s theoretical, methodological and empirical contributions will be of use to scholars, practitioners and policymakers interested in welfare, healthcare, diversity and migration.