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1	"La Generación Ni Ni" and the Exodus of Spanish Youth: National Crisis or Functioning European Union Market? Lester, Stephanie E. 20 April 2012 (has links) More than 300,000 Spaniards have left Spain since 2008, the majority being the well-educated youth. The exodus of youth represents an unusual and concerning phenomenon for Spain. This thesis explains the factors contributing to the emigration of Spanish well-educated youth, and from there extrapolates on implications for the nature of an integrated market in the European Union. It concludes that push-pull economic factors and an affiliation with the European Union internal market encourage intra-European migration. Additionally, political disillusionment within Spain erodes the sense of national loyalty among youth to further promote emigration. The Spanish case demonstrates that within a community as integrated as the European Union, tensions between international markets and national sovereignty are bound to permeate the community. This tension is demonstrated by the validity of both terms "national crisis" and "functioning European Union market" to describe the emigration. Youth Emigration European Union Internal Market Spain Political Disillusionment National Crisis International Relations
2	Hizbullah's Construction of National Identity : "We are in principle not like Others" Bergh, Viveka January 2015 (has links) The purpose of this paper is to understand how national identity is discursively constructed by Hizbullah at a time of national crisis, and to shed light on its potential effects on the social world. The critical discourse analysis focuses on how difference and otherness are constructed on Hizbullah’s television channel Al-Manar. It illuminates Hizbullah’s discursive construal of a national in-group and an ‘enemy’ out-group, and identifies the main discourses that Hizbullah draws upon. The backdrop is the violent events in the Lebanese town of Arsal, erupting in early August 2014 and soon amounting to a national crisis. How Hizbullah, one of the main political actors in Lebanon and the region, constructs the world discursively does arguably have impact on the social world. The analysis identifies an order of discourse that on the one hand is permeated by pluralism and inclusion and on the other hand influenced by an exclusionary discourse connecting the out-group to terrorism. The author suggests that the Western discourse of ‘war on terrorism’ has been recontextualised by Hizbullah, and argues that there are reasons to pay close attention to the potentially harmful socially constructive effects of this discourse. Nevertheless, a cross-confessional national unity is simultaneously highlighted in Hizbullah’s discourse. Critical Discourse Analysis Hizbullah Al-Manar Discourse Media Nationalism Identity construction National Crisis Recontextualisation Terrorism Lebanon Kritisk diskursanalys Hizbullah Al-Manar Diskurs Media Nationalism Identitet Nationell kris Rekontextualisering Terrorism Libanon

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"La Generación Ni Ni" and the Exodus of Spanish Youth: National Crisis or Functioning European Union Market?

Hizbullah's Construction of National Identity : "We are in principle not like Others"