Conference Papers

“Zora Neale Hurston and Afro-Caribbean Religion: Scholarly Curiosity or Spiritual Identity?” Dr. Betty L. Hart, Professor, University of Southern Indiana Dr. Cheryl Anne Nelson, Assistant Professor, Community College of Philadelphi

Aurora Smart Cities Youth Summit

Mayor Richard Irvin has set the! goal to make the City of Aurora a regional technology hub. Poised to become a sandbox for innovation, Aurora\u27s 605 Innovation District is partnering with world-class companies and investing in smart city infrastructure to become a leading-edge urban development hub for the State of Illinois and beyond. What is a Smart City | As defined by the United Nations “a smart sustainable city is an innovative city that uses information a11d communications technology and other means to improve quality of life, efficie11cy of urban operations and services and competitiveness while ensuring that it meets the needs of present and future generations with respect to economic, social and environmental aspects.\u27\u27 Think-a-than | A gathering of people from a variety of perspectives and expertise, coming together to think, talk and push each of us out of our boxes to find rich and radical new approaches to tough problems. IMSA and 605 Innovation District invite Aurora youth, parents, and educators to facilitate discussions about the impact, and possibilities of a Smart City. We agree, today\u27s youth are the Smart City citizens of tomorrow. Views of our youth are especially important when designing concepts for future urban areas and digital economies. If cities fail to address the needs and suggestions of youth, they risk economic and cultural impacts

STEM Pathways for the Future of Work

How do we educate our students to take their place in the Future Workforce if we cannot anticipate what it will look like

Health related quality of life in patients with type I diabetes mellitus:generic & disease-specific measurement

Background & objectives: An ideal instrument for the assessment of health related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with diabetes mellitus type I (T1DM) should incorporate the benefits of both generic and disease-specific instruments. The objective of this study was to investigate the responsiveness and the ability to provide information about diabetes-specific associations with HRQOL, of two generic instruments, in comparison with two diabetes-specific instruments, in patients with T1DM. Methods: In a Dutch cohort of 234 patients with T1DM we longitudinally assessed HRQOL using both generic and diabetes-specific instruments. We investigated the responsiveness, the associations with diabetes-specific variables and the Identification of specific patients by the Instruments used. Results: The generic RAND-36 was able to detect statistically significant and clinically relevant changes in HRQOL over time. Moreover, the RAND-36 was associated with (changes In) diabetes. specific variables. The generic and diabetes-specific Instruments partly Identified different patients with lowest HRQOL. Interpretation & conclusion: The RAND-36 was highly responsive to changes in HRQOL in patients with T1DM and revealed diabetes-specific associations with HRQOL. A low correlation between the generic and diabetes-specific instruments and partly different identification of patients with lower HRQOL support the complementary use of these instruments In patients with T1DM

‘Doomed to Fail’:Dutch and West German Consulates Warning Against Mixed Marriages, 1950s–70s

This article demonstrates how official discourses in Western Europe warning against mixed marriages were built on colonial continuities as part of shared European heritage, as well as the importance of race and gender ideologies in those discourses. It addresses the exchange across borders of approaches to regulating ‘mixed’ marriages among Dutch and German consular officials, strongly advising European White women not to emigrate and not to marry Muslim men. Based on research in the archives of theMinistries of Foreign Affairs as well as newspaper archives in the Netherlands and West Germany, this article demonstrates the central role that consulates of both countries played in developing these official discourses. This study contributes to literature on female (e)migration as well as literature on present-day restrictive migration control practices by demonstrating the historical and colonial roots that still serve to justify state practices of regulating mixed intimacies in surveilling women’s partner choice

Divided families and devalued citizens: Money matters in mixed-status families in the Netherlands

Undocumented immigrants are affected by citizenship boundaries, complicating their everyday lives. Precarious working conditions, social welfare, and security thoroughly impede their opportunities. However, understudied is the family context in which precarious immigrants live. Even though immigration and citizenship laws are directed towards individuals, they often affect the intimate domains of the family. The commonly held belief that criminalizing immigration would protect citizens while punishing immigrants denies the tight links that exists between these groups in practice. This chapter presents ‘spillover effects’ that the weaker legal status of the undocumented partner may have on the stronger legal status of the citizen or permanent resident partner in the European context. From a legal perspective, the effects of restrictions play out along several domains: access and treatment by welfare and social security, housing, and family law. Studying legal anomalies may serve as a lens to grasp the financial consequences of the distinctions between citizens and noncitizens

"The daily grunt": middle class bias and vested interests in the 'Getting in Early' and 'Why Can't They Read?' reports.

It is a long-standing and commonly held belief in the UK and elsewhere that the use of elite forms of language reflects superior intellect and education. Expert opinion from sociolinguistics, however, contends that such a view is the result of middle-class bias and cannot be scientifically justified. In the 1960s and 1970s,such luminaries as Labov (1969) and Trudgill (1975) were at pains to point out to educationalists, with some success, that this 'deficit 'view of working-class children's communicative competence is not a helpful one. However, a close reading of recent think-tank reports and policy papers on language and literacy teaching in schools reveals that the linguistic deficit hypothesis has resurfaced and is likely to influence present-day educational policy and practice. In this paper I examine in detail the findings, claims and recommendations of the reports and I argue that they are biased, poorly researched and reflect the vested interests of certain specialist groups, such as speech and language therapists and companies who sell literacy materials to schools. I further argue that we need to, once again, inject the debate with the social dimensions of educational failure, and we need to move away from the pathologisation of working-class children's language patterns

De betekenis van VN-Vrouwenverdrag en Istanbul-verdrag voor Nederland:[Gender en non-discriminatie in regulier migratierecht]

Het reguliere Nederlandse migratierecht benadeelt vrouwen en staat daarmee op gespannen voet met de verplichtingen van het VN-Vrouwenverdrag en het Istanbul-verdrag, waarvan het HvJ EU afgelopen januari besliste dat ze onderdeel zijn van EU-recht. Dat concluderen Betty de Hart en Petra Snelders op grond van hun analyse van de verplichtingen die voor staten voortvloeien uit beide verdragen. Zij behandelen vier thema’s van regulier migratierecht: afhankelijk verblijfsrecht, ongedocumenteerde vrouwen, middelenvereiste en inburgering. Veel van deze maatregelen zijn gebaseerd op stereotypen over vrouwen als huwelijksmigranten, als opvoedsters en als referenten. Tevens wordt te weinig rekening gehouden met factoren die de positie van specifieke groepen vrouwen kunnen beïnvloeden