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This book is dedicated to the study of the Mexican nation, providing an overview of its two-hundred-year evolution, and particularly analyzing its contemporary profile, which is characterized by unprecedented social reco...

The era that we live in is at once enraged and vapid in its view of the U.S.-Mexico border. Here is a welcome respite and a breath of fresh air: Graciela Silva Rodríguez and Manuel de Jesús Hernández-G.'s substantive,...

La presente obra constituye la culminación de uno de los objetivos principales del Centro de Excelencia Jean Monnet “Inmigración y Derechos Humanos en las Fronteras Exteriores Europeas / Migration and Human Rights in...

«Migration is a good instance of what anthropologists used to call a “total social fact.” Politics and society, culture and economy, law and aesthetics are all traversed by the challenge of migration. Therefore, a p...

Migrants are present in every region of the world. The call to accompany and serve them is a responsibility given to the entire body of the Society, and it must resonate with everywhere we are present. Case studies of cr...

The article revolves around Polish-Czechoslovak tourism relations between 1919 and 1939. The author analysed the legislation establishing solutions aimed to facilitate tourism on both sides of the border. The Tourism Con...

Is the world today facing the clash of civilizations (S. Huntington), the end of history (F. Fukuyama) or rather the global-scale clash between secular and religious nationalism within the borders of particular nation st...

The paper discusses the role of Czech (Czechoslovakian) intellectuals in the life of Roman Dyboski (1885–1945), professor of English philology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. Dyboski was one of just a few Po...

"Relates story of Jesuit ouster from Spain and Paraguay beginning with state demands for indigenous soldiers in 1734, moving through Jesuit resistance to the border treaties between Spain and Portugal and the growing ant...

The paper sets out the hypothesis that historical language materials have considerable potential for use in the study of the Baltic-Slavic borderlands. It briefly outlines preliminary results of research on language cont...

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