Hansen - Böcker

In this ground-breaking book, the author draws extensively on archival material and theortical advances in the social science literature. Citizenship and Immigration in Post-war Britain examines the transformation since 1945 of the UK from a homogeneous into a multicultural society. Rejecting a dominant strain of sociological and historical inquiry emphasizing state racism, Hansen argues that politicians and civil servants were overall liberal relative to the public, to which they owed their office, and that they pursued policies that were rational for any liberal democratic politician. He explains the trajectory of British migration and nationality policy - its exceptional liberality in the 1950s, its restrictiveness after then, and its tortured and seemingly racist definition of citizenship. The combined effect of a 1948 imperial definition of citizenship (adopted independently of immigration), and a primary commitment to migration from the Old Dominions, locked British politicians into a series of policy choices resulting in a migration and nationality regime that was not racist in intention, but was racist in effect. In the context of a liberal elite and an illiberal public, Britain's current restrictive migration policies result not from the faling of its policy-makers but from those of its institutions.

Describes the systematic procedure for using process and mechanical design information to select construction materials suitable for a range of chemical and hydrocarbon processing plants. The volume features tables for locating the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) product form specifications for construction materials that have code-allowable design stresses. It analyzes threshold values for degradation phenomena involving thermal damage.

The Chronic är ett tidskriftsnummer i form av en trehundra sidor tjock veckotidning i dagstidningsformat daterad maj 2008 men med utgivningsdag 19 oktober 2011 - en unik upplaga av en fiktiv tidning som gör en tidsresa bakåt i tiden för att återuppfinna nuet. I tidningens format och med tidsmaskinen som metod diskuteras frågor om främlingsfientligt våld, gränser och territorier. Det handlar dels om att ge det förflutna en andra chans, att förse det med ett djup i rapporteringen och en plats för analys som borde erbjudits redan då, dels om att använda det förflutna för att kunna tala om samtiden, och framtiden. Det handlar också om att visa på dagstidningens potential genom att ta dess format på största allvar. Numret är gjort i samarbete med Glänta, den kenyanska tidskriften Kwani och det oberoende nigerianska förlaget Cassava Republic.