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Law Training in Continental Europe: Its Principles and Public Function

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Eric F. Schweinburg
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129 pages

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This booklet discusses the principles and public function of law training in Europe. It covers Austria, France, Germany, and the Soviet Union. Topics include the curriculum, teaching methods, the law faculty, and apprenticeship training.

ERIC F. SCHWEINBURG worked in the Department of Studies in the Professions at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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Training Schools for Prison Officers

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Hastings H. Hart
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70 pages

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This booklet covers the development in the United States of schools for the training of guards and other prison officers modeled on one in England. Topics include the U.S. Training School at 427 West Street in New York City, the Keepers’ Training School on New York’s Welfare Island (now Roosevelt Island), and the British Training School in Wakefield, England. The booklet also contains forms relating to candidates for prison service in England and Wales.

HASTINGS H. HART was a consultant in delinquency and penology at the Russell Sage Foundation.

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The Near East Relief, 1915–1930

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James L. Barton
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28 pages

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This pamphlet is the second of a projected series of papers intended to offer those interested in planning relief abroad a digest of pertinent material prepared by organizations other than the Russell Sage Foundation. It covers needs to be met in the Near East; racial, religious, political, and other problems; forms of assistance; and achievements.

JAMES L. BARTON, an American Protestant missionary, established educational institutions in the Near East.

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The Near East Relief, 1915–1930

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James L. Barton
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28 pages

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This pamphlet is the second of a projected series of papers intended to offer those interested in planning relief abroad a digest of pertinent material prepared by organizations other than the Russell Sage Foundation. It covers needs to be met in the Near East; racial, religious, political, and other problems; forms of assistance, and achievements.

JAMES L. BARTON, an American Protestant missionary, established educational institutions in the Near East.

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Directory of Charity Organization Societies of the United States and Canada

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Russell Sage Foundation
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16 pages

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This booklet, printed but not published by RSF, provides a list of charity organizations in the United States and Canada along with a selected list of foreign societies and US consuls.

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Directory of Charity Organization Societies of the United States and Canada.

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Russell Sage Foundation
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16 pages

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This booklet, printed but not published by RSF, provides a list of charity organizations in the United States and Canada along with a selected list of foreign societies and US consuls.

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The Returned

Former U.S. Migrants’ Lives in Mexico City
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Claudia Masferrer
Erin R. Hamilton
Nicole Denier
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6 in. × 9 in. 228 pages
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978-0-87154-913-6

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In the first two decades of the 21st century, more than two million Mexican migrants returned to Mexico from the United States. Between 2010 and 2020, the number of people who returned to Mexico was so large that, for the first time in at least fifty years, more people entered Mexico from the United States than entered the United States from Mexico. Many of these migrants were destined for urban areas, and we know little about how they fare after they return to cities. In The Returned, sociologists Claudia Masferrer, Erin R. Hamilton, and Nicole Denier examine the experiences of returned migrants in Mexico City, one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world.

Masferrer, Hamilton, and Denier draw on interviews with former U.S. migrants living in Mexico City to better understand the experience of return migration to urban areas. Each of the migrants they spoke with lived in the United States for long periods with noncitizen status during the last four decades. During this time, U.S. immigration policy became increasingly focused on restriction and enforcement, which made it difficult for migrants to safely move back and forth across the border for work or to visit family without documentation. The authors find that upon their return, migrants in Mexico City felt disoriented and lost and had difficulty adapting to a massive urban environment where there is little support for returnees. They struggled to translate their work experience from their time in the U.S. to find quality jobs. Additionally, many found their family lives upended as they reunited with or formed families in the U.S.. Some found themselves separated from family members still in the U.S. with no ability to legally visit them. Others brought their families back to Mexico, some of whom were U.S. citizens and had never been to Mexico before. They, too, struggled to adapt and integrate to life in Mexico City.

The authors use the experiences of return migrants to discuss policies and practices that would improve their lives and ease their reintegration. To help with the disorientation they experience, returnees proposed ongoing psychological support with mental health professionals who have knowledge and training in the social and legal issues that return migrants face. Return migrants also advocated for policies to enhance skill matching, job creation, and entrepreneurship, as many felt the occupational skills they developed in the U.S. were undervalued in Mexico. To address family separation, returnees argued for legal and policy reform to accommodate family reunification.

The Returned is an illuminating account of the difficulties faced by return migrants and their families in Mexico City.

CLAUDIA MASFERRER is an associate professor, Centre for Demographic, Urban, and Environmental Studies, El Colegio de México

ERIN R. HAMILTON is a professor of sociology, University of California, Davis

NICOLE DENIER is an associate professor, Department of Sociology, University of Alberta

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Work Relief in Germany

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Hertha Kraus
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98 pages

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This booklet presents a picture of the aims of those responsible for work-relief programs in Germany. Topics include types of service, wages and hours, the Bureau for Work Relief, personnel practices, planning and selection of projects, special projects, and possibilities and limitations of work relief.

HERTHA KRAUS was director of the Department of Welfare of Cologne, Germany.

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Recent Relief Programs of the American Friends in Spain and France

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John Van Gelder Forbes and the American Friends Service Committee
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15 pages

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This booklet offers a digest of pertinent material for those interested in planning or administering relief abroad. Topics include launching the program, political difficulties, personnel and fiscal policies, and ending the enterprise.

JOHN VAN GELDER FORBES received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1951 and taught at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois.

DONALD S. HOWARD was assistant director of the Charity Organization Department of the Russell Sage Foundation.

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An Ugly Word

Rethinking Race in Italy and the United States
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Ann Morning
Marcello Maneri
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978-0-87154-678-4

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We recently sat down with Ann Morning & Marcello Maneri to understand how everyday people view race in Italy and the United States. You can watch an abridged video of the interview above, or read or listen to the full transcript below.

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Scholars and politicians often assume a significant gap between the ways that Americans and Europeans think about race. According to this template, in the U.S. race is associated with physical characteristics, while in Western Europe race has disappeared, and discrimination is based on insurmountable cultural differences. However, little research has addressed how average Americans and Europeans actually think and talk about race. In An Ugly Word, sociologists Ann Morning and Marcello Maneri examine American and Italian understandings of group difference in order to determine if and how they may differ.

Morning and Maneri interviewed over 150 people across the two countries about differences among what they refer to as “descent-based groups.” Using this concept allowed them to sidestep the language of “race” and “ethnicity,” which can be unnecessarily narrow, poorly defined, or even offensive to some. Drawing on these interviews, the authors find that while ways of speaking about group difference vary considerably across the Atlantic, underlying beliefs about it do not. The similarity in American and Italian understandings of difference was particularly evident when discussing sports. Both groups relied heavily on traditional stereotypes of Black physicality to explain Black athletes’ overrepresentation in sports like U.S. football and their underrepresentation in sports like swimming – contradicting the claims that a biological notion of race is a distinctly American phenomenon.

While American and Italian concepts of difference may overlap extensively, they are not identical. Interviews in Italy were more likely to reveal beliefs about groups’ innate, unchangeable temperaments, such as friendly Senegalese and dishonest Roma. And where physical difference was seen by Italians as superficial and unimportant, cultural difference was perceived as deeply meaningful and consequential. In contrast, U.S. interviewees saw cultural difference as supremely malleable—and often ascribed the same fluidity to racial identity, which they believed stemmed from culture as well as biology. In light of their findings, Morning and Maneri propose a new approach to understanding cross-cultural beliefs about descent-based difference that includes identifying the traits people believe differentiate groups, how they believe those traits are acquired, and whether they believe these traits can change.

An Ugly Word is an illuminating, cross-national examination of the ways in which people around the world make sense of race and difference.

ANN MORNING is professor of sociology at New York University

MARCELLO MANERI is associate professor of sociology at the University of Milan-Bicocca

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