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Economic crisis impact on Remittances and Migration level in Albania

Adela Shera, Ardita Shehaj · Faculty of Economy, University of Tirana, Albania
Remittances of international migrants as the second largest flow of incomes contribute to the well-being of their households of origin and also have an impact at macro-economic level. Out-migration is an effective means for low-income households to quickly overcome shortages of income. The sustenanc…
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The necessity of Intercultural Communication for a peaceful world

Katia Scannavini · University “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy
Our times are often referred to as the new world order with its new economy. What this means is that capitalism has been restructured on a global scale, and people of widely different cultural and linguistic backgrounds have been thrown into contact more than ever before. Cultural contact may occur …
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The right of social insurance as constitutional right and as an important right arising from labor relations - An overview of the framework of social insurance in Albania

Mirela Selita · Head of Legal Directorate and Central Appeal Committee …
Social insurance is part of social security which consists as well as of social assistance and services, health services and health care insurance. Everyone has the right for social insurance when retired or in case of incapacity of work under a certain system established by a law. The right of soci…
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Albania: a nation of unique inter-religious tolerance and steadfast aspirations for EU integration

Thomas Melady · President Emeritus, Sacred Heart Uni, Connecticut. The …
Religious freedom has been always considered as a strong indicator democracy and institutional set up in a country. Ex- communist countries in their efforts to set up a state of law and foster democracy, particularly, are more sensible toward indicators such as religious freedom, tolerance and diver…
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Antonio Gramsci’s role in Marxian thought and the contribution made to international relations by those using his ideas

Egni Malo · Metropolitan University, London, UK
Some of the most promising post-Cold War developments in Marxian thought have been stimulated by problems facing Marxists in Western Europe, to that extent they all seem to lay bare, intentionally or otherwise, the lacking of qualities, of Marx’s prediction. The most significant example of the failu…
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For a metaphorical tool to evoke identity: the tomen

Enrico Gandolfi · Kent University, Ohio, USA
In my contribution I want to investigate, from a theoretical point of view but also with methodological and practical consequences, the qualitative role of metaphor in social research. As tool able to improve and facilitate the visualization of complex ideas and states of mind, this rhetorical figur…
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Social sciences, scientific research, higher education and social developments - An Albanian inside of dialectics and structured scientific research, in social sciences

Nada Kallçiu, Edmond Rapti · Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tirana, Alban…
The social sciences have inherited a not so clear relationship with the social politics throughout the history. At the first moment the concept of social sciences came into use in the 19th century the first organizations that were promoting them were not located in the universities. They were locate…