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  1. Broken Narrative : The Politics of Contemporary Art in Albania
    Author: Mazzi, Marco; Lulaj, Armando
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  punctum books, Brooklyn, NY

    Broken Narrative provides an extensive reflection on history, politics, and contemporary art, revolving around the cornerstones of the artistic practice of Albanian artist Armando Lulaj. The core of the book is formed by and extended interview of... more

     

    Broken Narrative provides an extensive reflection on history, politics, and contemporary art, revolving around the cornerstones of the artistic practice of Albanian artist Armando Lulaj. The core of the book is formed by and extended interview of Lulaj by Italian artist and writer Marco Mazzi. This inquiry starts in the year 1997, a year of social and political upheaval in Albania, of anarchy, controversies and emigration, of toxic seeds of neoliberalism sprouting in an already wounded country, and continues to the present day, where politics, hidden behind art forms, has practically destroyed (again) every different and possible future of the country. This book also sketches out a connection between the recent Albanian political context and contemporary art by considering the realities of Albania as essential for an understanding of the dynamics of international power in contemporary art and architecture, and the role of politics therein.

     

    Broken Narrative comes in a bilingual English–Japanese edition, in part as homage to the subtle esthetics of Japanese poetry, which has inspired many of the Lulaj’s works, while equally evoking the subversive films of the Red Army, active in Japan at the turn of the 1960s and ’70s. Broken Narrative contains a double preface in English by Albanian scholar Jonida Gashi and in Japanese by photographer Osamu Kanemura.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781685710583
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    Subjects: Albania; Art & design styles: Conceptual art; Individual artists, art monographs
    Other subjects: Albania;esthetics;political art;post-communism;public space;resistance;state capture
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (364 p.)
  2. The long way round: lessons from EU-CEE for improving integration and development in the Western Balkans
    Author: Weiss, Stefani; Jovanović, Branimir; Ghodsi, Mahdi; Grieveson, Richard; Hanzl-Weiss, Doris; Holzner, Mario; Zavarska, Zuzana
    Published: [2022]
    Publisher:  Bertelsmann Stiftung, Gütersloh

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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Subjects: EU integration; regional integration; Western Balkans; trade; FDI; growth; Albania; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bulgaria; Croatia; Czechia; Estonia; EU-CEE; Hungary; Kosovo; Latvia; Lithuania; Montenegro; North Macedonia; Poland; Romania; SEE; Serbia; Slovakia; Slovenia
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 54 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. The (big) role of family constellations in return migration and transnationalism
    Author: Kopliku Dema, Bresena; Drishti, Elvisa
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    Purpose: The Albanian migration has always reflected a family character, be that before 1945 when Albania was not yet completely isolated, as well as after 1990 when borders were reopened. This feature characterized all types of movement, internal or... more

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    Purpose: The Albanian migration has always reflected a family character, be that before 1945 when Albania was not yet completely isolated, as well as after 1990 when borders were reopened. This feature characterized all types of movement, internal or international, permanent or seasonal migration, return migration or transnational movements, and remigration. The role of the family has been very important in making decisions regarding migration and answering questions from why to how to migrate, from when to where, whom to ask for help or how to invest remittances. Design/methodology/approach: Based on the case study of a rural area in Northern Albania, The Administrative Unit of Dajç, this article explores in detail the roles of family and kinship on decisions regarding return migration, the re-adjustment process, remigration or transnational life. Findings: By exploring the role of the family context in remigration and vice-versa the article reflects that the family biography - including the lifestyle, plans for the future or expectations - has changed due to previous migration experiences or challenges and difficulties when returning to the home country. Originality/value: It demonstrates how individual decisions to migrate or to 'return home' are negotiated and supported within families making transnational life a family project. The article adopts a new approach in the Albanian Migration Studies which may be implied on broader areas for further research in the future.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 1139
    Subjects: Albania; family; migration; return; transnationalism
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 30 Seiten)
  4. The Berlin Process in the Western Balkans
    big ideas, difficult implementation
    Author: Vulović, Marina
    Published: [December 2022]
    Publisher:  SWP, Berlin

    The Western Balkans should join the European Union (EU) "as soon as possible", according to statements by the Chancellor of Germany at the Berlin Process summit in early November 2022. The Berlin Process consists of a series of events and meetings... more

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    The Western Balkans should join the European Union (EU) "as soon as possible", according to statements by the Chancellor of Germany at the Berlin Process summit in early November 2022. The Berlin Process consists of a series of events and meetings that have taken place annually since 2014 between individual EU member states and the countries of the Western Balkans. It differs from other EU initiatives in that international financial and EU institutions are involved alongside individual EU states, such as Germany as the format's initiator, and it primarily addresses issues of economic and regional cooperation. Although the Berlin Process has already produced many ambitious ideas, such as the common regional market, the implementation of the agreements by the Western Balkan states has often stalled. In the future, Germany and the EU should insist more emphatically on the implementation of adopted agreements, because the Berlin Process has the potential to restore the decliningress towards disarmament is good news. For Germany’s National Security Strategy (NSS), it means that greater concessions to advocates of the TPNW are not necessary to protect the NPT.

     
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  5. Life satisfaction and job insecurity
    evidence from Albania
    Author: Drishti, Elvisa; Carmichael, Fiona
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    Fear of the threat of job loss is likely to elicit negative thoughts that have adverse consequences for not only job satisfaction, but also, all-round happiness and satisfaction with life. Using nationally representative cross-sectional data, this... more

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    Fear of the threat of job loss is likely to elicit negative thoughts that have adverse consequences for not only job satisfaction, but also, all-round happiness and satisfaction with life. Using nationally representative cross-sectional data, this study provides evidence of the negative effect of perceived job insecurity on life satisfaction in post-communist Albania, an under-research context. This adverse effect is found to be more pronounced for women and for blue-collar workers: being in a blue-collar job is associated with lower overall life satisfaction, but if this job is perceived as insecure, the negative effect on life satisfaction is magnified. In contrast, workers in well-paying jobs are more satisfied with their lives and, relatedly, higher education also has a positive impact, more so for males. Evidence of the quality of life effects of job insecurity can be used to inform workplace policy initiatives and practices, particularly as measures of life satisfaction, well-being and happiness are increasingly considered appropriate indicators of social progress and the ultimate goal of public policy.

     
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    Language: English
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    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 1072
    Subjects: job insecurity; life satisfaction; Albania; well-being; post-communist
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  6. Son targeting fertility behavior in Albania
    Author: Robitaille, Marie-Claire; Milla, Joniada
    Published: February 2022
    Publisher:  IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Bonn, Germany

    The collapse of communism led to highly skewed sex-ratios in Albania, which had a long patriarchal tradition before the advent of communism. While the use of sex-selective abortions in the region is well-known, little is known about other forms taken... more

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    The collapse of communism led to highly skewed sex-ratios in Albania, which had a long patriarchal tradition before the advent of communism. While the use of sex-selective abortions in the region is well-known, little is known about other forms taken by revealed son preference, such as differential stopping behavior and birth spacing. Using data from the Demographic Health Surveys in 2008-2009 and 2017-2018, we find evidence of a higher proportion of boys being born at the last parity, indicating that parents practice differential stopping behaviour. Using Cox Proportional Hazard model and logit; we also show that in son-less households parents shorten the birth intervals significantly, endangering mothers' and children's health. We conclude that differential stopping behaviour and short birth spacing are prevalent in all regions and across the socio-economic spectrum.

     
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    Series: Discussion paper series / IZA ; no. 15122
    Subjects: Albania; birth spacing; differential stopping behaviour; fertility behaviours; son preference
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  7. Dead-end jobs or steppingstones?
    precarious work in Albania
    Author: Drishti, Elvisa; Carmichael, Fiona
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    Purpose: This study asks whether lower quality forms of employment lead to career transitions into higher quality forms of employment acting as steppingstones, or bridges or, whether instead they lead to dead-ends, or traps, in which workers move... more

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    Purpose: This study asks whether lower quality forms of employment lead to career transitions into higher quality forms of employment acting as steppingstones, or bridges or, whether instead they lead to dead-ends, or traps, in which workers move between unstable jobs with low prospects for upward mobility and unemployment. Design/methodology/approach: This study uses a unique dataset recording retrospective monthly employment states over 3 years for 373 individuals in the Albanian city of Shkoder. The analysis uses sequence and regression analysis to investigate whether people employed in lower quality, more precarious jobs remain in these kinds of jobs or instead are able to transition into higher quality, permanent and füll-time employment. Findings: In line with previous evidence for the region and Europe, the analysis confirms the precarization of many working lives particularly for women, young people and those with lower educational attainment. This evidence is more supportive of the dead-end hypothesis than the idea that a lower quality job can be a steppingstone into a better job. Originality: This study contributes to the limited knowledge of labour market functioning in developing post-socialist Western Balkans countries. Recent flexicurity policies have generated an increased prevalence of more precarious employment arrangements in Albania. This investigation addresses previous research limitations regarding point-in-time transitions and unobserved heterogeneity using retrospective recall data and controlling for personality traits.

     
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    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 1011
    Subjects: precarious work; job quality; Albania; sequence analysis; career transitions
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  8. Active political engagement, political patronage, and local labour markets - the example of Shkoder
    Author: Drishti, Elvisa; Kopliku, Bresena Dema; Imami, Drini
    Published: 2022
    Publisher:  Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen

    Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to understanding of the effects of active political engagement in port-of-entry jobs and employment pathways for graduate students. The data are derived from a structured survey of a small local labour market... more

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    Purpose: This paper aims to contribute to understanding of the effects of active political engagement in port-of-entry jobs and employment pathways for graduate students. The data are derived from a structured survey of a small local labour market where political clientelism is pronounced due to the strong network ties. Controlling for both demand and supply factors we identify a profile for those who are more prone to engage politically in exchange for public sector jobs, which are in turn vulnerable to regime changes. Design/methodology/approach: We use data from a sample of 191 participants that records month-tomonth employment states for three consecutive years (2012-2014). The method attempts to replicate an experimental design with repeated measures before and after the June 2013 government elections. The data is analysed using sequence analysis with optimal matching and difference-in-difference methods. Note: This is the final submitted version of the manuscript accepted for publication by the International Journal of Manpower, on the 5th of February 2022. Findings: The analysis provides evidence of links between political engagement and selection onto different employment pathways. The pathways themselves are also shown to be differentially impacted by the 2013 election (positively or negatively). Together, these results are supportive of claims that jobs in Albania, particularly those in the public sector, are linked to the short-term presence of vote-buying and the political business cycle. This is shown to be the case even for this sample of educated members of the labour force (i.e. university graduates). The analysis also finds evidence of accumulative disadvantages over time, in relation to subjective perceptions of life satisfaction, migration intentions, employability and success in life, as a result of active political engagement. Originality: The study uses a unique data set and a novel methodology, sequence analysis. Occupational history calendars were used to capture quantitative information recording detailed work histories. To the best of our knowledge, this innovative method has not been used before to measure the temporal effects of political engagement on employment pathways.

     
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    hdl: 10419/249776
    Series: GLO discussion paper ; no. 1053
    Subjects: political clientelism; Albania; higher education; sequence analysis; employment pathways
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 34 Seiten), Illustrationen