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This paper is based on an understanding of the global immigration control regime as one of legal violence. It analyses the specialist literature that reveals the existence of an economy of deportability, understood as the unequal distribution of the forms of state power in the lives and freedoms of non-nationals, with gender playing a preponderant role. Taking a gender perspective, a selection of texts from the past two decades are reviewed that analyse the deportation and anti-trafficking apparatus in Europe, the United States and South America. The literature corroborates the existence of a gendered economy of deportability that generates social suffering that, in different ways and to differing degrees, shapes the (im)migrant presence in the national order. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the repercussions on journalistic activity of the regulatory measures adopted by the United States and Europe to protect privacy in the use of drones. Similarities and differences between the adopted regulations are evaluated. It is observed that in the United States recommendations are generally chosen, in which drone userÂ's willingness prevails over third partiesÂ' right to privacy. However, there are exceptions, such as the cases of the states of Texas and California, where the use of drones without proper authorization is considered a violation of the right to privacy. In Europe, the regulations are applicable to all member countries, and the system provides more guarantees, considering the principles of necessity and transparency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article provides a descriptive comparative study on jihadist terrorism in United States and Western Europe on a sample of 114 incidents between 11 September 2001 and December 2013. At the same time, the article inquires about the decreasing lethality of terrorist actions in Europe and U.S. territory since the London bombings in July 2005. This is explained by the U.S and EU counter-terrorist response and the change in the political agenda of some terrorist groups. At the same time, another key factor, which acts as an intervening variable, is the strength or weakness of large terror organizations that articulate part of the jihadist membership in the United States and Western Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In recent years, Europe's migration policy reforms have been characterized by their opening towards immigration and mobility. Conversely, The United States of America has decided to create and establish migratory policies that endeavor free mobility reduction and the detention of migrant workers recruitment. Although, the immigration flows increase towards the European continent, as a result of political instability, human rights crisis and a series of humanitarian emergencies that plague the North African region, has led to a tightening in the control, repression and selective immigration policy in the European Union. In United States the severe and notorious legislative initiatives and Anti-Immigrant State Laws, which have been passed or discussed, have created an opposition and support atmosphere towards the pro-immigrant policies. This paper is a preliminary analysis on a change of perspective in the U.S. and Europe towards the migration policies, inspired by social and political events which affect these regions due to the political and humanitarian crisis in Europe and the anti-migrants legislative reforms in the U.S. This paper is based mainly on journalistic information gathering as a second research source and aims to be a starting point towards the current public migratory policies analysis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The commentaries in Europe about Religious Liberty in the United States are principally jurisprudential and legislative studies. Now, it's necessary to offer an analysis of the work realized by the American Administration. This year 2007 represents an excellent opportunity to do it. In effect, the United States Department of Justice (USDOJ) commemorates the 50th Anniversary of its Civil Rights Division and the Attorney General Gonzales announced --on February 20, 2007-- a new Department of Justice initiative to protect religious liberty: The First Freedom Project. This Department is charged with enforcing a wide range of civil rights statutes designed to protect religious liberty: laws in education, employment, housing, credit, public facilities, public accommodations, zoning laws, religious rights of persons in state institutions, and federal crime suffered by a person or a place of worship based on religion. To protect religious liberty, the USDOJ has taken several initiatives: for the first time this Department established a Special Counsel for Religious Discrimination in 2002; the USDOJ provides a number of publications about religious liberty; and a new project is beginning in this year. In conclusion, the USDOJ seems firmly decided to protect this first freedom in the United States. These domestic efforts authorize the international fight in defense of the religious liberty by the United States Department of State. The second part of this study will analyze this question. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article will examine the way in which a set of cultural characteristics put down their roots and finally defined the US as a nation during the interwar period. The wish to be different from the European cultural models was seen in the explicit differences and in the construction of their own distinct culture, with clear effects in all areas: political, social and intellectual. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text revises some of the main studies carried out in Europe and the United States on what are called "second generations". It exposes their theoretical positions and how they construct the "object" of study. The text pays special attention to the understanding and use of the term "second generations". It also proposes a relatively new idea in the study of these "second generations": ethnogenesis processes emerged from social and cultural projects that assume the hybrid character of ethnic identity. This reflection is established by using the example of the Beur movement in France. Finally, the text proposes some questions to include in the agenda of sociological and anthropological research about immigrant descendants. The text proposes five aspects to avoid the fact that those who are designated as "immigrants", experience certain forms of uncertainty, uprooting and exclusion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author provides an overview about the field of international political economy (IPE) along metatheoretical lines. The IPE communities in the United States and Western Europe exhibit more differences than commonalities in their ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions. While the U.S. perspective is solidly based on a materialist ontology, methodological individualism, and neo-positivism as its epistemological foundation, the European IPE community is considerably more heterogeneous in its theoretical, epistemological and methodological approaches. The article ends with a view towards the future introducing three possible scenarios for the IPE sub-discipline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]